Keybinds?

[Evelo]

I see a lot of people complain about not being able to set keybinds. Am I missing something? I am able to set a whole host of different keybinds with ease.

If you do have an issue with the keybinds, which ones are missing for you?

All that was important to me was idle villager. Everything else I control with control groups which I rebound since ctrl+number is slightly too wonky for me, especially for those further away numbers like 6-0.

[earendil]

not having hotkeys for select all barracks, archery ranges etc.
for now you can only select all military buildings, but this messes with the ui what unit takes which space on the grid layout, so putting them on control groups is better for now.

also i don't like the grid layout, if you played other games before and then try to rebind the hk's in aoe 4 to be somewhat similar, it's just not possible.

also you can't rebind alt or shift and the mousebuttons

[RaphaniacZX]

My main gripe with hotkeys is more for example the things you cannot set as keybinds, examples are Shift+Something, Alt for anything, the middle mouse button which I like to use for idle villagers or really any extra mouse buttons. The game is not bad and what any competitive player is doing is simply using control groups extensively.

Also, for anybody struggling with hotkeys, here is a friendly reminder someone made a guide to manually circumvent some of those issues, makes the experience nicer: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2640680228

But as it is the base game simply needs both that and a more classic hotkey option (which for the record there's a hidden toggle for classic hotkeys in the keybinds file that does nothing at this time, so I'm under the impression the devs already had this in mind).

[Circassian Exile]

locked alt key and lack of support for extra mouse buttons is almost a deal breaker for me.
If its not competitive RTS I don't care too much about hotkeys but come on this is AoE!

[LighT]

Alt is not locked you can change it.

3rd party mouse software can rebind any key to mouse button.

[RaphaniacZX]

Originally posted by LighT:

Alt is not locked you can change it.

3rd party mouse software can rebind any key to mouse button.

What 3rd party software?

[RaphaniacZX]

Originally posted by Circassian Exile:

locked alt key and lack of support for extra mouse buttons is almost a deal breaker for me.
If its not competitive RTS I don't care too much about hotkeys but come on this is AoE!

Alt is bindable to any key with the guide I sent above your comment.