Can someone please provide me a AutoHotKey script to use arrow keys instead of WASD keys

[GameBunny77]

Can someone please provide me a AutoHotKey script to use arrow keys instead of WASD keys? Just started the game before and to my complete disbelief, the game does not allow movement keys to be customised to arrow keys and stuck to WASD keys, and this is a game released in 2024, just wow. Hopefully in coming patch the devs are going to fix this. For now though, Google search suggests that I can get over the problem using AutoHotKey. But looks like I need a script. Can anyone please help out by providing me such a script. TIA
GameBunny

[Sepums]

I assume you want this because you use the mouse with your left hand. Are you able to reassign the other buttons to be accessible when you're using arrows keys for movement? I'll look this up for you but I suggest you try playing with a controller for now.

[GameBunny77]

Thank you in advance. to answer your query, no I use mouse with a right hand too, but I am just used to playing with arrow keys for movement since 1999, Quake III Arena days and now it is damn difficult to change to the WASD keys for movement after 25 odd years roughly.

[Sepums]

That's understandable. I salute you, respectable gaming veteran! I hope you can find other keys to be accessible with that control scheme, because the game uses almost every key surrounding WASD. (R for healing, Q for items, 1-2-3-4-F-T for spells, Z-X-C for stances....)

[Sepums]

#HotIf WinActive("b1")
Up::w
Left::a
Down:s
Right::d

Here's the script. Copy it to notepad and save it with a .ahk extension, then if you have autohotkey installed, double clicking the file should immediately load the script for you.

The first line ensures that this is only active while the game is focused on your screen (the executable file for the game is called "b1") and the other lines are pretty clear. You can add any other keys you want to it using the same syntax, just make sure you reload the script in AHK after saving. You can refer to AHK's help file for the codes for other keys under Usage and Syntax>List of Keys.

Happy monkey gaming

[GameBunny77]

Originally posted by Sepums:

#HotIf WinActive("b1")
Up::w
Left::a
Down:s
Right::d

Here's the script. Copy it to notepad and save it with a .ahk extension, then if you have autohotkey installed, double clicking the file should immediately load the script for you.

The first line ensures that this is only active while the game is focused on your screen (the executable file for the game is called "b1") and the other lines are pretty clear. You can add any other keys you want to it using the same syntax, just make sure you reload the script in AHK after saving. You can refer to AHK's help file for the codes for other keys under Usage and Syntax>List of Keys.

Happy monkey gaming :Hand_Shake:

Thank you very much, Unfortunately it gave me an error message, looks like V2 is playing up with the line
#HotIf WinActive("b1")
But in the meantime after quite a bit of Googling, I was able to get this script working with v1 of Auto Hot Key. I thank you very very much though for your kind effort in trying to help me, it is very much appreciated :)

SetKeyDelay, 0
$up::w
$down::s
$left::a
$right::d
$enter::e
$NumpadIns::Space
$Numpad0::Space
$RCtrl::Space
$Numpad1::LCtrl
$RShift::LShift
$Del::R
$PgUp::L
$Home::MButton
$PgDn::V
$NumpadSub::Q
F1::ExitApp

[Sepums]

Ah, indeed I made that script using v2. Out of pure curiosity, is there a reason why you are sticking to v1?

Other than that, don't mention it, it was my pleasure to help! I'm glad you found the solution and hope you enjoy the game. 😁

[GameBunny77]

I managed to find some script for AHK v2 and all of them failed when it detected I am pressing an arrow key at various point. So I managed to find a script online that actually works which I then modified and posted above, but this script only works with v1. So for now v1 is doing the job, hence I am using it for now. Hopefully in coming patch Game Science allow us full key customisation, so we don't need to monkey around any further.

[ZYL]

see

[Drake]

There is close to 0 chance for a patch. Full keyboard support is a chore, a real big ass one, it's insanely time consuming (you need months to do a proper job). And it only gets more difficult once the UI commands are done.

You would think a 50 years old device would be fully compatible by now, but far from it. Devs still have to manually configure every single key that is not a letter one by one, for every different types of keyboards (because even if you implement qwerty keyboard, it won't work for all other people using other layouts).

I personally blame microsoft, because xinput is pretty much mentadory for pc and xbox gamepad support and they could update the library that virtualize keyboards and make it way easier to implement, but no... it is still like it's 1985...

[GhorX]

Still not patched, so GS devs simply doesn't understand how so complicated thing like keyboard works in games. Which is sad.
Fortunately I have option to remap my kbd directly.

[arni.gamexeon]

Originally posted by GhorX:

Still not patched, so GS devs simply doesn't understand how so complicated thing like keyboard works in games. Which is sad.
Fortunately I have option to remap my kbd directly.

so, today, this game still no full support for remap all movement key in keyboard ?

[V]

Learn to use ChatGPT. It can write you an Autohotkey v2 script in no time. Below should work for version 2.

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#HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe b1-Win64-Shipping.exe")
Up::w
Left::a
Down:s
Right::d

[Engels78]

Originally posted by arni.gamexeon:

Originally posted by GhorX:

Still not patched, so GS devs simply doesn't understand how so complicated thing like keyboard works in games. Which is sad.
Fortunately I have option to remap my kbd directly.

so, today, this game still no full support for remap all movement key in keyboard ?

Just play as game was designed, with PAD. I do not understand why people has problems with playing on PAD on PC? I am hard-core PC gamer, who never has had Console, and I play on PAD games designed for it. Wireless one you can buy for 30$.