Is there a way to make sprinting only when holding SHIFT?

[Torllay]

Title. I hate toggles. lol

[Skitte94]

Change your keybinds - there is a toggle and a hold button.

[Torllay]

Originally posted by bogdann3l2r0:

Change your keybinds - there is a toggle and a hold button.

I saw it for walk but not sprint, can you send a screenshot?

[The Legendary ~F~]

I could not find a hold to sprint key bind either, it seems to only have toggle on/off for sprint. Which I find odd, given they have a hold for walk and toggle for walk.

It would be nice to have a hold to sprint feature.

[Darren Evans]

Devs implemented Hold for Walk but not for Sprint. So idiotic that the devs deserve ridicule. To further pile on the idiocy, you can't press Shift again to cancel Sprint. You have to take your finger off W and then start moving again.

I sweat they had some console dev with no PC platform game development experience working on controls.

[Torllay]

Originally posted by Darren Evans:

Devs implemented Hold for Walk but not for Sprint. So idiotic that the devs deserve ridicule. To further pile on the idiocy, you can't press Shift again to cancel Sprint. You have to take your finger off W and then start moving again.

I sweat they had some console dev with no PC platform game development experience working on controls.

Gurl, you don't own the game and clearly have no idea what a wonderful PC game port this is compared to the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trash we got this year. lol
Honestly, go bother another thread, I'm sure they'll add it in a patch soon.

[BigBadWolf]

Originally posted by bogdann3l2r0:

Change your keybinds - there is a toggle and a hold button.

No there isn't, stop confusing people with wrong info.

[Mandalore]

ye, its really lame. imagine adding toggle vs hold for rp walk but no hold for sprint.

[wasteland_ghost]

r457 (Jedi Survivor modder from Nexus) just gave me a fix for that problem (because it could take ages for Bioware to do it):

Go to
C:\Users\YOURNAME\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age The Veilguard\settings\
(be careful - YOURNAME is your windows username!)

Open the file named ProfileOptions_profile with Notepad.

Find this line:
GstInput.DylanOption_ToggleSprint 2

Change it to this:
GstInput.DylanOption_ToggleSprint 1

It will give you a proper hold to sprint.

Changing to 0 seems to give a normal toggle instead of the horrible default “push to sprint, go to full stop to stop sprinting”:
GstInput.DylanOption_ToggleSprint 0

[Torllay]

Originally posted by wasteland_ghost:

r457 (Jedi Survivor modder from Nexus) just gave me a fix for that problem (because it could take ages for Bioware to do it):

Go to
C:\Users\YOURNAME\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age The Veilguard\settings\
(be careful - YOURNAME is your windows username!)

Open the file named ProfileOptions_profile with Notepad.

Find this line:
GstInput.DylanOption_ToggleSprint 2

Change it to this:
GstInput.DylanOption_ToggleSprint 1

It will give you a proper hold to sprint.

Changing to 0 seems to give a normal toggle instead of the horrible default “push to sprint, go to full stop to stop sprinting”:
GstInput.DylanOption_ToggleSprint 0

Dude, I literally switched from my work PC to test this immediately and you are f-king right! (!!!!)

Thank you and thank r457!
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Originally posted by Torllay:

Originally posted by bogdann3l2r0:

Change your keybinds - there is a toggle and a hold button.

I saw it for walk but not sprint, can you send a screenshot?

It's an auto toggle for sprint, start sprint, then you can stop press the sprint button, sprint will stop when you stop run. It's default, and a design seen often, much better than a classic toggle, even if I love toggles in general but for sprint an auto toggle is way better.

[wasteland_ghost]

Originally posted by Torllay:

Thank you and thank r457!

I’m just a messenger here, because r457 is busy. All the thanks go to him.

Originally posted by Dacelith:

It's an auto toggle for sprint, start sprint than you can stop press the sprint button, sprint will stop when you stop run. It's default, and a design seen often, much better than a classic toggle, even if I love toggles in general but for sprint an auto toggle is way better.

This “auto toggle” for sprint is the worst possible implementation for keyboard and mouse that gives the players the least control. Imagine: you’re in combat, you’ve got a red attack zone cast over your character and you need to leave the zone quickly while continuing with combat. With hold to sprint you just hold sprint for a moment to speed up and then release when you’re out of the zone. With your “auto toggle” you press shift, leave the zone, then stop fully and only then you will be able to resume your normal movement… that is unless you get hit/killed because you stopped. Do console players attack while standing still? Because this bizarre design appeared recently with the rise of console game ports. Or it works differently with gamepads and you drop out of the sprint by decreasing your left stick amplitude?

Got nothing against consoles in general, but it’s a fact that toggles come from that left stick click - you can’t hold it, it’s not possible. And because nowadays’ devs tend to be lazy, they transfer this pattern to KB&M directly which is gamebreaking multiplied by the fact they also force max speed as default (walk is a joke in most cases because it’s too slow). And they even allow controllers to dictate game design: why do you think we’ve got 4 active skills? A, B, X, Y? On PC we’ve got all sorts of modern gaming keypads even with analogue keys, yes, we can have that analogue movement! While controllers are stuck in the past and instead of improving them, devs give up and cut their gameplay systems to fit… or they themselves come from console generation and are used to those boundaries. Tap action designed for controllers is horrible for keyboards and especially mouse - it kills them. Yet devs continue to advertise their games as having full PC support.

[Rastlaff]

Hold to sprint fix for KB&M users was posted on EA support forums and EA changed the title and removed the name of the author of the fix (yes, it’s a working fix, not a workaround)? Says a lot about their attitude…

and yes, big thanks to r457 once more! not the devs! and it was probably done in no time while devs take ages to produce those

[Miqui]

I found an in-game solution if people don't want to start changing files. In the Settings > Controls > Controller, there is a "Sprint Control" command that toggles from Toggle/Hold/Press. I am not using a controller, nor do I have a controller plugged in, but when I changed this setting it worked for my keyboard and mouse sprinting. Hope this helps.

[wasteland_ghost]

Originally posted by Miqui:

I found an in-game solution if people don't want to start changing files. In the Settings > Controls > Controller, there is a "Sprint Control" command that toggles from Toggle/Hold/Press. I am not using a controller, nor do I have a controller plugged in, but when I changed this setting it worked for my keyboard and mouse sprinting. Hope this helps.

There was none before the solution was posted on EA forums and then they've added the option with the latest patch (and didn't even mention it in the patch notes).

[Putzaroo]

Originally posted by Miqui:

I found an in-game solution if people don't want to start changing files. In the Settings > Controls > Controller, there is a "Sprint Control" command that toggles from Toggle/Hold/Press. I am not using a controller, nor do I have a controller plugged in, but when I changed this setting it worked for my keyboard and mouse sprinting. Hope this helps.

Game instantly better!