Horse HOTKEY? (keyboard)

[jdarko2]

Title ^ Personally find it tedious to keep swapping between my flasks and horse summon.

[SubsidedLemon]

There is none. Its intentional.

[peep]

Pressing down once isn't tedious lol..... or just keep it equipped?

[Nareth Erakian]

You can quick-select the first four items by holding down the interact-button and then a direction depending on the item you need. :D

[Zorg]

Originally posted by Nareth Erakian:

You can quick-select the first four items by holding down the interact-button and then a direction depending on the item you need. :D

This. I highly suggest to grab a controller, this game is meant to play with those. Pure XB1 controller will do. Then, your horse switching by interact + dpad down will be convenient

[Casper]

Easier hotkeys or macro's would be nice...it is difficult when under pressure to select what you want.

[Nareth Erakian]

Originally posted by Casper:

Easier hotkeys or macro's would be nice...it is difficult when under pressure to select what you want.

But that is part of pressure-management.
The game is already kind to give that kind of quick-select instead of having to cycle through the list one by one, so it's been made a bit less focus-required and instead uses muscle-memory.

[Syd]

Open the game menu and move the horse whistle to the pouch (first four slots with up, left, right and down buttons). Press the E key and whichever button you assigned it to and Torrent will appear.

[Swamp Fox]

Originally posted by Nareth Erakian:

Originally posted by Casper:

Easier hotkeys or macro's would be nice...it is difficult when under pressure to select what you want.

But that is part of pressure-management.
The game is already kind to give that kind of quick-select instead of having to cycle through the list one by one, so it's been made a bit less focus-required and instead uses muscle-memory.

Clinging to playstation 1 era control tropes pointlessly shouldn't be seen as the default. It's not "kind" to give better control options, it's required to stay competitive within the industry.

[Glorified Toaster With Legs]

Originally posted by JDarko:

Title ^ Personally find it tedious to keep swapping between my flasks and horse summon.

I think there's a way to hold a key to access the quick-pouch slots, but I never found it.
It's usually from holding interact, but I don't think it works right on keyboard.

[Nareth Erakian]

Originally posted by Patrick Swayze's Ghost:

Clinging to playstation 1 era control tropes pointlessly shouldn't be seen as the default. It's not "kind" to give better control options, it's required to stay competitive within the industry.

I mean, there are plenty of succesful new games using older systems/menus fine.
The controls should fit the game, not the other way around.
No need for the newest thing if an older version does it better. :P

[jdarko2]

Originally posted by Nareth Erakian:

Originally posted by Patrick Swayze's Ghost:

Clinging to playstation 1 era control tropes pointlessly shouldn't be seen as the default. It's not "kind" to give better control options, it's required to stay competitive within the industry.

I mean, there are plenty of succesful new games using older systems/menus fine.
The controls should fit the game, not the other way around.
No need for the newest thing if an older version does it better. :P

I don't see how this older mechanic works objectively better than simply having a hotkey. It objectively is more advanced and quicker to simply press one key instead of scrolling through your quick select items and THEN press the assigned ''use item'' key.

But I respect your opinion. :)

[Nareth Erakian]

Originally posted by JDarko:

Originally posted by Nareth Erakian:

I mean, there are plenty of succesful new games using older systems/menus fine.
The controls should fit the game, not the other way around.
No need for the newest thing if an older version does it better. :P

I don't see how this older mechanic works objectively better than simply having a hotkey. It objectively is more advanced and quicker to simply press one key instead of scrolling through your quick select items and THEN press the assigned ''use item'' key.

But I respect your opinion. :)

I mean, there aren't really any more buttons on a controller to put those on. The fact they already linked some out-of-battle functionality onto button-combinations, freeing up some solo-presses up for more useful things already seems quite efficient.

[Sokurah]

Put it to pouch