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Bud

Jan 19, 2014 @ 6:23pm

How do you pick up items while Typing?

I noticed that four maps in, I have yet to grab one of those many, many items I found while playing. How do you grab and take them? I don't see a curser to grab and I honestly until today just assumed that I automatically grabbed them.

So how do you grab the stuff that you see blinking?

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Meowitzer

Jan 19, 2014 @ 8:38pm

If you're typing it's the Tab key, if I remember correctly.

Kituss

Jan 29, 2014 @ 5:38am

The game tells you the first time you see a pickup item that you have to use your TAB key !

csavage13

Mar 8, 2014 @ 7:46am

I was watching my wife play and neither of us saw it. We tried ENTER, SPACE BAR, etc. It would have been nice to just list "special keys" in the controls section for typing games noobs. We didn't know BACKSPACE will cancel your current sentence either.

Bud

Mar 8, 2014 @ 11:46am

Originally posted by csavage13:
I was watching my wife play and neither of us saw it. We tried ENTER, SPACE BAR, etc. It would have been nice to just list "special keys" in the controls section for typing games noobs. We didn't know BACKSPACE will cancel your current sentence either.

What, I beat the game and Backspace will do that? I just flat out accepted the hit from the various objects being thrown and that would solve a bunch of problems, like what you said, they just told us that.

I just kind of thought it was a way to hurry in a word, like a 'finish or get hit' type of thing.

Last edited by Bud; Mar 8, 2014 @ 11:52am

Bud

Mar 8, 2014 @ 11:46am

Originally posted by Kitusss:
The game tells you the first time you see a pickup item that you have to use your TAB key !

If it did I didn't see it or it flat out glossed over it in the action part.

Kituss

Mar 8, 2014 @ 12:46pm

That's weird, I'm not saying you're lying or anything but I'm pretty sure I saw these typs for TAB and BACKSPACE ! Maybe it was really not obviously shown on screen or kinda bugged, but it's a real pity for you since it made the game a bit too much tedious, I guess. :/

Bud

Mar 8, 2014 @ 1:17pm

It is fine. My fiance can find a peach tree while driving and I won't see it until many days later and after remembering what she said. It is the same here. What one person can see often another will not. All I am saying is that they could have done it better is all.

ReBoot

Mar 9, 2014 @ 1:20am

I just hammer Tab all the time while not typing.

Bud

Mar 9, 2014 @ 1:33am

Originally posted by ReBoot:
I just hammer Tab all the time while not typing.

Thats mostly what I do as well. It honestly works far better than waiting to see if you see something as often you might not notice what it is you should grab.

Woudo

Mar 16, 2014 @ 3:02am

It doesn't say 'TAB' it has a symbol of two arrows <- ->, one over the other. I thought it meant to alternate the arrow keys. It wasn't until part way through the first boss fight that something in the back of my head said "Ey you being tarded son, press TAB".

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ReBoot

Mar 16, 2014 @ 3:30am

A lot of tab keys bear this symbol.

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Bud

Mar 16, 2014 @ 11:54am

Originally posted by Woudo:
It doesn't say 'TAB' it has a symbol of two arrows <- ->, one over the other. I thought it meant to alternate the arrow keys. It wasn't until part way through the first boss fight that something in the back of my head said "Ey you being tarded son, press TAB".

Yes, that is what I thought as well. It just never occured to me other than that. And yes, I know that a lot of Tab keys have that symbol but honestly, who really looks expecually if it is more of a "Quick Time Event" like it is in this game?

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