QWERTY and AZERTY

[KARAFACTORY]

OK, I'm a french player, and we are in 2023, and there are still games where you can't change the keyboard keys used for movement? You can change the purpose of all the keys, but not the essential ones? Is this a joke? You're releasing a game in France where we have AZERTY keyboards and I can't move around in a game adapted to my country? I hope this will only affect the demo, and not the final game. Otherwise it'll be one less customer.
I'm very disappointed by a detail that's as stupid as it is easy to fix.

[Charnel]

You'd think hard locking keys would be recognised as an utterly moronic thing to do but sadly some devs do it..there is absolutely zero reason for it, makes no sense to me

I play left handed always have I use the arrow keys for movement, games that came out in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 90's figured this stuff out but some modern devs just make brain dead choices.
I didn't even start up the play I saw the hard lock and uninstalled...don't have time for such incompetence but on the bright side money saved aye?

[NohakFR]

French player too, i'm agree with you, this make my game uninstall even if i want to play on

[KARAFACTORY]

right after uninstall this demo, I tried the System Chock one. and surprise, you can change the keyboard keys! It's not that complicated after all!
So yes, you can tell me that I can also play with the joystick. I tried and I don't like it, it's not as flexible as with a mouse controlling the camera smoothly. so no, if a developer offers to play on the keyboard, let him do his job well, damn it!

[Tomulus]

Hey, you can play with your AZERTY keyboard. You must add English language in Windows Parameters and select it (You can switch easily between langages). Your keyboard is now in QWERTY and you can play with ZQSD keys.

[KARAFACTORY]

Ah why not? Thanks for the tip!

[Redglyph]

Same problem here.

By the way, DO NOT install an English keyboard in Windows as a work-around, it entirely messes up the language settings, and there are very annoying drawbacks.

Even the MS support couldn't restore my system after I tried that for something else. They finally advised to reinstall Windows entirely (which I didn't do).

[AAgrume]

Same problem, played 3 min, playing the demo could just have convinced me to wait for this game but this is so FRUSTRATING
I wanted to see a more of it but for a hard game based on combat, not having zqsd is impossible

[brambi]

Just set up a second layout and use the alt + shift shortcut to change quickly, not that much of a big deal

[Arokhantos]

This is like one of the first things i hope they patch, not just patch so you can set it up the way you want but also to keep in mind with this and already have it configured in good way while still allowing to change it, not being able to change some keys is really dumb and forces people to go controller rather then keyboard and mouse.

[Amene]

This is like one of the first things i hope they patch

I wouldn't hold my breath (though we might be unexpectedly surprised this way at least). And this is just one of many issues.

[Arokhantos]

Originally posted by Amene:

This is like one of the first things i hope they patch

I wouldn't hold my breath (though we might be unexpectedly surprised this way at least). And this is just one of many issues.

Game breaking issues like this i would expect this to be on top of the list along with other gamebreaking issues, allowing to bind anything the way you want seems like easy fix so should not even be that much of an issue.

[Amene]

would expect this to be on top / should not even be

Looking at past 20+ years there is a galactical gap between common sense theory and actual practice. There are surprising exceptions - e.g. Nioh 1 that launched with 0 kb/m support and then added one of the best ones in a subsequent patch (though still with some issues, and they still improved some stuff in Nioh 2 and Wo Long) - that I can count on one hand (maybe on two if I stretch things and tolerance). And on another hand games that actually have/had proper kb/m (aka relying on kb/m strengths instead of half-assedly patched up nonsensical 1:1 gamepad->kb/m port).

[corbin]

Originally posted by Charnel:

You'd think hard locking keys would be recognised as an utterly moronic thing to do but sadly some devs do it..there is absolutely zero reason for it, makes no sense to me

I play left handed always have I use the arrow keys for movement, games that came out in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 90's figured this stuff out but some modern devs just make brain dead choices.
I didn't even start up the play I saw the hard lock and uninstalled...don't have time for such incompetence but on the bright side money saved aye?

use a controller 🤯