Key bindings still not a thing in 2022?

[refreshfr]

I'm just tired of games that assume that everyone has a QWERTY keyboard and everyone wants to use WASD.

Any ETA on such a basic feature? Game is basically unplayable in the meantime

[joridiculous]

cant believe keyboards (and drivers) are so dumb in 2022 they cant understand keypressed on the board and not what the letter on the key is.

[Le_Flemard]

Originally posted by joridiculous:

cant believe keyboards (and drivers) are so dumb in 2022 they cant understand keypressed on the board and not what the letter on the key is.

lots of games can auto dsetect the keyboard layout used by the user.
But, EVEN if the game auto switched layout, twould be better to have key binding for people who prefer to use arrow keys, numpad keys, ijkl keys (that one exist but do be weird) or any combination whatsoever.

[Yor]

Thanks for the feedback! Allowing players to remap key bindings is definitely on our radar, but we don't have an exact date for when it will be ready. Comments like this help us prioritize tho, so I'll bump the priority on our tracking sheet.

In the current build, you can also walk with the arrow keys (even though the UI says WASD). It's not a perfect solution, but it might help in the meantime on an AZERTY keyboard.

[DAOWAce]

Controller rebinding should also be on equal priority!

As someone who's been forced to use a controller to play keyboard driven games for the last 5 years (wrist injury + arthritis), not being able to rebind gamepad buttons has been a deal breaker for a number of games.

While we can workaround this by rebinding in software tools, that leads into issues with button identification in the UI, and how it affects people's wildly varying brains. When first playing a game and having inaccurate button prompts on screen, it's really difficult to learn how to play. Moreso if a game for example only supports Xbox prompts and you've only used a Playstation controller all your life (my brain locks up when it tells me to press X and I do.. and I have to remember it's the Xbox's X).

Also, thank you for being one of the uncommon developers supporting Playstation controllers out of the box.

[donat72]

July 2023 and still not a thing ? Maybe a workaround in the game files ?

[Ice Wallowkum]

Originally posted by joridiculous:

cant believe keyboards (and drivers) are so dumb in 2022 they cant understand keypressed on the board and not what the letter on the key is.

It's not the drivers that is dumb but the game's code. When it comes to using keyboard input, you have 2 way to treat it in your code: using the character of the key (local to keyboard) or using key position (universal)

[joridiculous]

Originally posted by Icewa Lawcum:

Originally posted by joridiculous:

cant believe keyboards (and drivers) are so dumb in 2022 they cant understand keypressed on the board and not what the letter on the key is.

It's not the drivers that is dumb but the game's code. When it comes to using keyboard input, you have 2 way to treat it in your code: using the character of the key (local to keyboard) or using key position (universal)

bruh, i used to rebind keyboard keys in text files back in the day. I used the actual key-code. its not much different now but drivers f things up

[William JCM]

Originally posted by donat72:

July 2023 and still not a thing ? Maybe a workaround in the game files ?

At this point, the only way would be to edit the game's code. I tried using dnSpy, but I couldn't find where the basic player bindings were located (I could only find stuff related to other controllable things).

[FelinaLain]

Any news on this feature?

[Angelswar]

Just switch your keyboard to another country language. But yeah, that's a bit of a shame for something so basic

[refreshfr]

Originally posted by Angelswar:

Just switch your keyboard to another country language. But yeah, that's a bit of a shame for something so basic

It still doesn't really cover the fact that some people might not want to use WASD but instead ESDF, IJKL, numpad or whatever for various reasons (preference, left-handedness, handicap, comfort, etc…)