Please Go Back to WASD Controls. I suck with arrow keys :(

[AHoboWithAStick]

Or at least allow customise key binding.

[Clover Creepy Girl™]

You can customize the controls, you have to use the arrow keys to navigate the menu, its really backward and confusing.

[Rigan]

Yeh WTF happened to controls?

Why would you change to arrows? makes no sense at all.

[*|PEZ|* Merivio]

+1
It's jarring to have to go to keybinds to set movement to WASD. Either both should be enabled, or when starting the game for the first time, the player should be presented with the option to choose.

[Axnor]

This is a non-issue, you can change the controls in the settings.

[elar]

Initially, I was convinced that there was some serious issue with the game itself. My character was stuck on the campaign map, and despite trying all the troubleshooting tricks in the book – resetting settings, even reinstalling the entire game – nothing seemed to make a difference. To add to the frustration, I noticed that the option to change the control settings appeared to be grayed out and unresponsive. No matter how many buttons I pressed or clicks I attempted, I was met with the unyielding message "no controller detected". It was a truly bewildering experience that left me utterly flustered.

However, the clouds of confusion cleared when I came across this community post that shed light on the situation.

*Cue the sound of a resounding facepalm*

I'll admit it – it never even occurred to me to attempt navigation using the arrow keys. I mean, who really relies on arrow keys these days, right?

[Balthazad]

...i came to the discussions to ask how far the E.A. betrayal is offering us to play an unfinished game despite paying for it....now i see this....and now i know again why i don't buy E.A. betrayals... x'D
really hardcore stupid decision!

[peudenpau]

Arrows are fine too, but the fact that u can change is the solution. Maybe they have the improve this, work ok for me

[*|PEZ|* Merivio]

Originally posted by Balthazad:

...i came to the discussions to ask how far the E.A. betrayal is offering us to play an unfinished game despite paying for it....now i see this....and now i know again why i don't buy E.A. betrayals... x'D
really hardcore stupid decision!

There's no betrayal? We're venting our frustrations because something needs improving, and in a lot of cases it probably will be improved thanks to that. Early Access means walking into a game without a lot of polish, we knew that going into it and we're ok with that.

Besides which there are very few games these days that are ready on launch PERIOD. The only difference here is they're acknowledging it and are pricing the game around that fact.

[*|PEZ|* Merivio]

Originally posted by Axnor:

This is a non-issue, you can change the controls in the settings.

Most games these days provide for both WASD & arrow-key players, it's kind of a standard, and with that standard comes an expectation for either to work, as Elar has pointed out.

I'm pretty sure that before their first patch both did in fact work. So I'm assuming this is something they're still working on anyway.

[Crab]

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[Sdaan]

Hi there guys,

Sorry if this felt confusing for you. I don't have all the details for this but basically, in order to have the remapping key feature work as intended, the devs had to change the baseline WASD to the arrow keys.
It's not necessarily intuitive nor convenient, I'll grant you that. However, it shouldn't prove too much of an inconvenience as you can just remap the keys to your liking in the dedicated menu.

Take care!

[*|PEZ|* Merivio]

It's not that inconvenient, but it does present a bit of unprofessionalism and lack of consideration for (possibly most) players. Perhaps they could provide a scene that asks for your preferred movement scheme, and automatically fills in the desired keybinds?

Not an urgent change of course, but something that I personally would expect to see before the game leaves early-access.

[marc477]

A good design would be to have both arrows and wasd work for movement by default and only the wasd appear in the keybind settings, i don't think anyone will ever want to change arrows to something else so they can just always do movement

[Clover Creepy Girl™]

Originally posted by Sdaan:

Hi there guys,

Sorry if this felt confusing for you. I don't have all the details for this but basically, in order to have the remapping key feature work as intended, the devs had to change the baseline WASD to the arrow keys.
It's not necessarily intuitive nor convenient, I'll grant you that. However, it shouldn't prove too much of an inconvenience as you can just remap the keys to your liking in the dedicated menu.

Take care!

Since it is not amazing intuitive for a lot of players, have they considered putting a little ui hint going 'use the arrow keys to navigate this menu'?

[AHoboWithAStick]

Originally posted by Sdaan:

Hi there guys,

Sorry if this felt confusing for you. I don't have all the details for this but basically, in order to have the remapping key feature work as intended, the devs had to change the baseline WASD to the arrow keys.
It's not necessarily intuitive nor convenient, I'll grant you that. However, it shouldn't prove too much of an inconvenience as you can just remap the keys to your liking in the dedicated menu.

Take care!

Thank you for the new update Mr. Developers!! :)
y'all real ones