Change keyboard controls in Far Cry 3?

[milo2445]

Can this be done?

[PCConsoleGamer]

Yes it can;go to your options menu,and the find the keyboard option, then change the keys there.

[milo2445]

I've tried that and can't change any of them??????????

[PCConsoleGamer]

Try it, and if possible, take a screenshot of the keyboard options, and Ill help you.

[Stainless Steel Rat]

yeah the key binds work to a point, but they wont allow my set binds for driving it always pushes me to wasd, even after i set my binds. Pfff and Uplay.

[Vic]

I'm also having problems with changing the controls. No matter what i bind - it all reverses to default values when i press "Back" to exit the key binding menu and go back to Options menu. I sure do press "apply" (even multiple times - it doesn't matter one single bit) before pressing "back" or ESC, but the changes won't save anyway. How can i bloody change it??? A week ago it all worked perfectly on Windows Vista, now as i've upgraded to Windows 8 i'm forced to play with the default controls, which are totally unfitting for me. Any help? Maybe i can chenge them in some .ini file or something?

P.S. same thing happened with my Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon...

[Stainless Steel Rat]

Originally posted by Vic:

I'm also having problems with changing the controls. No matter what i bind - it all reverses to default values when i press "Back" to exit the key binding menu and go back to Options menu. I sure do press "apply" (even multiple times - it doesn't matter one single bit) before pressing "back" or ESC, but the changes won't save anyway. How can i bloody change it??? A week ago it all worked perfectly on Windows Vista, now as i've upgraded to Windows 8 i'm forced to play with the default controls, which are totally unfitting for me. Any help? Maybe i can chenge them in some .ini file or something?

P.S. same thing happened with my Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon...

This is one reason why i gave up on it. I had before steam all i did was activate it through steam hoping the Keybinds would work, but alas they still didn't. So it is basically Rubbish as far as i am concerned.

[Vic]

2ste-plaza: my dad played it through on no-steam (pirated) version on his PC, and i do not recall him having problems with key binds... Does this mean the no-steam version overwhelms the Steam-version? that's stupid. I've only bought it to have no bugs (which many pirated games have) and it worked vice-versa? Meh... =_="

[Stainless Steel Rat]

Originally posted by Vic:

2ste-plaza: my dad played it through on no-steam (pirated) version on his PC, and i do not recall him having problems with key binds... Does this mean the no-steam version overwhelms the Steam-version? that's stupid. I've only bought it to have no bugs (which many pirated games have) and it worked vice-versa? Meh... =_="

All I can tell you is that my legit Insane edition's binds, on driving especially, always reverted back to their default settings even after repeatedly setting the binds, and numerous installs. Even if there was a 3rd party prog that cured the problems, I wouldn't use it.

[Vic]

Well, for me, the driving controls are just fine, but i'd like to change the main controls, (on foot) but i can't. So, if there is a way to bind the keys even from windows, befor launching the game, i'd use that (done that by editing the needed .ini files with windows wordpad.exe to bind console commands to keys in numerous games which use Unreal Engine, Source Engine and many others - even in those games, where is no ingame menu for changing the controls, like "Oni" for example - but here is the different problem, and i think the problem is in either:
- Windows 7 restricitions for the given games to access the User's files
- Uplay / Steam malfunction (maybe it constantly "syncs" the controls, replacing those binded by user with those, saved in the Uplay or Steam cloud)
- "Read Only" flags on some files/folders in which the Far Cry 3 and FC3: Blood Dragon saves their controls

So the way of fixing this is either:
- Messing up with Windows file ownership rules
- disabling Uplay / Steam (or just their synchronisation options) like it is done in pirated "RePack" versions of the game, found on Torrents
or
- manual editing the config files and then setting "Read Only" flags on them and the folders, where they are stored, so the game / Uplay / Steam would be able to only Read the settings from these files, but not able to overwrite them with the default values

But for all of these methods, first of all we must find out in WHICH FILES the controls are stored, and WHERE ARE THOSE FILES situated on our PCs.

Or we can just use fixed Repacks, since we already payed for the game, i think. Still, that won't allow for multiplayer options like statistics, rewards, coop & multiplayer matches and so on, but personally i've bought this game to play it singleplayer, so...
Damn, i already hate all those companies that put crap like Uplay, Origin, GfWL and stuff in their games in addition to Steam - isn't ONE, FINE WORKING DRM system (Steam) enough?
No matter, how many ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ software they'll put in their games - there will always be Cracks, RePacks and other stuff, which lets poor/greedy/etc. people play their games for free, and they are just causing more problems to people who actually BUYs their games - and suffer numerous restrictions because of this pile of useless software, which duplicates it's already existing analogs, while pirates enjoy cracked games with no bugs, delays and aditional unwanted soft... =_=#
I've once gave myself a word that i'll never ever buy a single game with GfWL again - and what do we see today? Yepp. The GfWL is now officially goes down (leaving the games, in which it was used without multiplayer, scoreboards, communication tools, other stuff and tech support, but who cares, when they've already got their money for the sold copies of those games?)
I dream that one day they'll FINALLY understand this but... i know it's most probably just a dream...
-- oh, this is going off-topic, sorry.
So. Gotta google where the FC3 and FC3: BD keeps their settings... =__="

[Vic]

Well, i've just installed Steam in my freshly installed Windows 7 x64, added my old Steam librari in it and tested (only launched the game, went to Options and changed some binds, then went back to main Options screen and opened binds change menu again) - the controls seems to save now... Now changed language to English and going to try to change them while actually playing the game and see, if it works properly now.

[Vic]

Yepp. Everything works fine now. I guess the problem was in that i've applied "Take Ownership" script to some system files in my old Windows. Anyway, i found the config files - they are located in C:\Users\<user_name>\Documents\MyGames\Far Cry 3 folder. (if someone here will need their location)