PC Keybinds: when are companies going to LEARN?

[krystallos]

Dear developers...
I really wanted to try your game out. I have been watching a few streamers and youtubers playing and having a great time. I downloaded the demo, completed your survey questions and was just getting ready to start....

Then I found out that ONCE again another company DOES NOT know that many PC gamers WILL NOT play a game that locks out certain keys on their keyboards. I am not sure if there are other keys but I was assigning my movement keys and found that I am unable to change the F key because it is bound to Interact. I ALWAYS use ESDF, for every PC game that I play. Anyone who does any amount of typing on a keyboard knows why... You dont't have to move your hands when typing messages.

If I could go back in time and find the guy who came up with the WASD abomination that we have to endure I would and I might do bad things (at the least I would hide all of his "A, W" keys).

It never ceases to amaze me that STILL, in the year of our lord 2024, some devs CAN NOT understand that PC gamers NEED to be able to rebind ALL of our keys. Until you do I will not give your game a 2nd look and I'm sure there are many others who feel my pain and refuse as well. Sorry for the rant.

[alan0n]

The fact of the matter is... most people play WASD and don't care that much about a vocal minorities preferences.

Which means most devs don't care that much either.

[Myrrdinn]

Originally posted by alan0n:

The fact of the matter is... most people play WASD and don't care that much about a vocal minorities preferences.

Which means most devs don't care that much either.

Your delusional if you think this just saying. And if they dont unlock all these keys they have locked and allow us to set things up how we want then this game has already been shut down.

[Alisto]

It's certainly annoying and far too common. How hard would it be, for example, to create an alternative default layout for left-handed people? Does anyone know of any game that does that?

I'm hoping they at least get controller support working properly for release.

[alan0n]

Originally posted by Myrrdinn:

Your delusional if you think this just saying. And if they dont unlock all these keys they have locked and allow us to set things up how we want then this game has already been shut down.

Im sorry but your delusional if you DONT think this. There's like 9k people playing right now and there's like <20 people complaining about the key binds since it opened.

Very. Vocal. Minority.

[Professor Higglebottom]

Originally posted by alan0n:

Originally posted by Myrrdinn:

Your delusional if you think this just saying. And if they dont unlock all these keys they have locked and allow us to set things up how we want then this game has already been shut down.

Im sorry but your delusional if you DONT think this. There's like 9k people playing right now and there's like <20 people complaining about the key binds since it opened.

Very. Vocal. Minority.

I just did a search on keybindings and F key.

It is not a vocal minority... What feasible reason is it to lock a key, where the functionality for programing that in has been made even easier over the last decade. (And I know this because I HAVE programmed that into other programs before).

[Froggystyle]

It is strange that they lock the key, but there are easy workarounds. If you have a Corsair keyboard, then you can just switch the keys around within the key assignments in iCue, and most every keyboard manufacturer has their own software that does this.

You can complain about it, or just use software to fix it.

[Tomatokek]

https://discord.com/channels/864458335532744716/996604485445111888

[Ruber249]

Im in the same boat, I can't play because I started playing PC games a Long long long time ago, I'm old, And I use ASDF A ( Forward ) S ( Left ) D ( Backwards ) F ( Right ), I usually use E to Interact. But F is locked out to Interacts. Really pisses me off, One game I wont be playing until this is fixed.

[Thumb]

On PC I think key bindings is actually really nice. I disagree that its a pointless thing, but I don't think it should be too high a priority.

Given the steam deck, I think this is likely going to get solved.

I think this game if functional on steam deck might be a very interesting title to play on mobile.

The devs don't need to be mocked though, there's no reason to be insulting. I believe that custom keybinds are a pretty core experience for PC games. I hope they earnestly consider it. Even if some people are really too vocal about it.

[SilvaBlad3]

when are you gonna learn to become a WASD player

[SilvaBlad3]

Originally posted by Ruber249:

Im in the same boat, I can't play because I started playing PC games a Long long long time ago, I'm old, And I use ASDF A ( Forward ) S ( Left ) D ( Backwards ) F ( Right ), I usually use E to Interact. But F is locked out to Interacts. Really pisses me off, One game I wont be playing until this is fixed.

wtf? your brain operated on a ole upside down level haha i guess you're on your own with that weird layout jesus

[[TOG]asmodai]

Originally posted by alan0n:

The fact of the matter is... most people play WASD and don't care that much about a vocal minorities preferences.

Which means most devs don't care that much either.

ESDF touch typists.
Edit: Azerty/Dvorak keyboard users
Left hand players
Players with a handicap

Reminder that "fixing" this is merely a change in the internal coding from "key is hard bound" to "key can be rebound". Probably an ini or config file which would take a few minutes to update for the next patch release.

Which is fine, if they don't want our money, they can just leave it as is. I'm too old to screw around programming my way around a company that doesn't respect me (and coincidentally, have absolute buttloads of disposable income I can take elsewhere...).

And while you're self inflated enough to think that you speak for them, I guess we'll see if they have their head as far up their ass as you, or if the almighty buck lures them in. ;)

[Jim]

Something I never understand about games is locking one particular key even though every other key is configurable.
It actually takes more programming effort to do this then it does to make them all configurable because you have to cater for the edge cases in the programming.
I was on the fence about this game when I saw you can't run private servers but the fact that it locks the interact key to the wrong side of the keyboard is a pass for me. Might give it a revisit when private servers and remapping is fixed.

[kaduUken]

Fully agree, downloaded this game and was excited to try it, only to find out that for me as a lefty, this game is (currently) not playable. Hope that they change it before release so that you can customize the controls using all keyboard keys.

[39HUDSON]

always a topic in too many gmaes these days , but still better here then any starwars game published lately