Can you change the controls?

[ForeignLad]

WASD + mouse on a 2D game is awkward as hell imo

[Mandrake]

Unfortunately, Hotline Miami does not have any way of rebinding the controls. You'll have to download a third-party program, such as AutoHotKey, and run it in the background instead.

[Buffet Time]

Honestly i dont know how the hell you'd find better controls then WASD, space, Shift, and mouse.

[Mandrake]

Originally posted by Buffet Time:

Honestly i dont know how the hell you'd find better controls then WASD, space, Shift, and mouse.

Some people may be left-handed and would rather use IJKL, or maybe they prefer using the directional buttons/number pad. Different people have different preferences.

[Buffet Time]

if you switch to directional pad on most keyboard your hand is too far down to have the further looking and execution button to be comfortable, i can undestarnd ijkl that makes sense. I mean the lack control editing is the least of the issues with dennatons programming and hotline miami in general lol. But ya for real though unless you're left handed or disabled in any way i mean WASD shift space + mouse is by far the best way to play in general. The main reason to have customizable controls is to not have issues with different countries keyboards, different layouts (dvorak vs qwerty vs azerty), being left handed, being disabled etc.That is the reason IMO that no game shouldn't have rebindable controls. I mean i love being able to edit controls to my liking but honestly it should be done with thought of my afformentioned cases more so then just comfort. Because the more people who realize what i said the less we'll see lazy devs hopefully :o

[Buffet Time]

Also

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For custom key binding in any game and windows itself use autohotkey.

Especially if you can't bind keys ingame or if it (like in this case) doesn't work.

http://www.autohotkey.com/

make a empty.txt file and name it whatever.ahk

Now edit it and bind your keys.

Here is mine for example:

left::a
right::d
up::w
down::s

e::space
RControl::RShift

The :: means something like "activate". If I press "left" for the above script it activates "a".

It's freeware and the best tool I use in some many games.

You can even enable and disable it in the background with a key combination.

Example J::suspend.


There's a full explanation of keys on the website http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/KeyList.htm


Have fun editing. :)
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This was an explanation from right after the game came out for rebinding in games that dont support it :P

[Panzer]

Try an controller.

[Buffet Time]

LOL a controller nice joke m8

[Halan]

Ugh this is horrible. Why can't I remap the throw weapon action to another key?