Remove F1 as a hot key

[skaggerack]

Is there anyway to unbind the F1 key, and make it into a nothing key?

In an "oh god" moment i may need to hit escape....very close to the F1 button. When you hit that it drops me into the damn consoule and the "oh god" moment turns into "im gonna die now" moment.

I personally play max difficulties and start over on death and i've lost a few decent games (including in the last 10 minutes) because of F1. Part of my gameplay is moving a few keys around to minimize possibilities of inadvertently crouch lock when i meant to run, or a few other adjacent contradiction actions.

[Green777]

should be able to alter your key binding to do this

[skaggerack]

It wont let me both in and out of game. Every other bunding except the F# series is available. Not sure if there is a line in a file or mod available.

I cant be the only one that has fallen due to this.

[Seftak]

Just pointig out how funny it is that you play hardcore but are also cheating by quiting the game in dsngerous situation.

You could also alt+f4.

[skaggerack]

Im not using escape to pause or exit the game. You can use escape to exit from a number of screens that might prevent you from moving but are not a game pause. To your point it wouldnt make any sense to play that way.

[skaggerack]

And ill admit that sometimes i panic when im in a fight and taking hits. But i never exit and id guess the zombie would still be there when i came back? I only play single player.

[Vexing Cat]

People like to make assumptions on these forums and they mostly assume the worst of people.

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by Vexing Cat:

People like to make assumptions on these forums and they mostly assume the worst of people.

There are precisely two reasons I can think of to be hitting escape in the middle of an "Oh ♥♥♥♥" moment. One, To exit game and save yourself from death, Two, to try and analyze the situation. Of the two, the first is more common by far, not just among the people of this forum, but in gaming world wide, so yes, it is the common go-to assumption when it comes to this sort of thing.

The time spent reaching for ESC would be better served by doing almost literally anything else to try and save your ass, run away, switch items to heal, try to knock enemies over, try to craft blocks to pillar your way to safety, drink beer, drink coffee, try to swap the shotgun in your inventory onto your bar so you can create some breathing room, etc. :S

To answer Skag's supposition, even in singleplayer, if you exit the zombies poof, afaik.

[Acevy]

Assuming you can't rebind it which I find surprising you can either take the key cap off of your F1 key if you have a mechanical keyboard or use a program like autohotkey to change your F1 key into something else you don't use like ].

Heres a guide on that https://autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Remap.htm

[Vexing Cat]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

Originally posted by Vexing Cat:

People like to make assumptions on these forums and they mostly assume the worst of people.

There are precisely two reasons I can think of to be hitting escape in the middle of an "Oh ♥♥♥♥" moment. One, To exit game and save yourself from death, Two, to try and analyze the situation. Of the two, the first is more common by far, not just among the people of this forum, but in gaming world wide, so yes, it is the common go-to assumption when it comes to this sort of thing.

The time spent reaching for ESC would be better served by doing almost literally anything else to try and save your ass, run away, switch items to heal, try to knock enemies over, try to craft blocks to pillar your way to safety, drink beer, drink coffee, try to swap the shotgun in your inventory onto your bar so you can create some breathing room, etc. :S

To answer Skag's supposition, even in singleplayer, if you exit the zombies poof, afaik.

Maybe you can help me understand something, please.

How does something a person does in the privacy of there own single player game affect us on the outside?

Why should we care how they play in single player?

Why do we have to put on our judgy hat and make them feel small?

Why does anyone feel the need to make another feel small?

I may be to far into the spectrum to ever get this.

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by Shurenai:

Originally posted by Vexing Cat:

People like to make assumptions on these forums and they mostly assume the worst of people.

There are precisely two reasons I can think of to be hitting escape in the middle of an "Oh ♥♥♥♥" moment. One, To exit game and save yourself from death, Two, to try and analyze the situation. Of the two, the first is more common by far, not just among the people of this forum, but in gaming world wide, so yes, it is the common go-to assumption when it comes to this sort of thing.

The time spent reaching for ESC would be better served by doing almost literally anything else to try and save your ass, run away, switch items to heal, try to knock enemies over, try to craft blocks to pillar your way to safety, drink beer, drink coffee, try to swap the shotgun in your inventory onto your bar so you can create some breathing room, etc. :S

To answer Skag's supposition, even in singleplayer, if you exit the zombies poof, afaik.

I think the issue is actually that they are in a menu like inventory, skills, or something similar. Then they notice they are being attacked, and hit Esc to exit the menu and take care of the offender.

Seems like everyone has chosen to assume something else though.

[Vexing Cat]

Oh, I make assumptions, and I step in the steaming pile once in a while. I have to own it though.

[Hooker]

You can't tell me that there are PC players that haven't been attacked while looking at their inventory, skills, quests, whatever and have missed their panic attack on the ESC key and hit F1 by mistake. Then double panic'ed while trying to close the console as their health quickly drains away, especially if that first hit caused a bleed.

Good grief peep's I'd love to find a way to rebind the F1 key, too. And not for cheating reasons but to fix an obviously inconvenient mechanic in the game.

[RobbEJay]

Originally posted by Hooker:

You can't tell me that there are PC players that haven't been attacked while looking at their inventory, skills, quests, whatever and have missed their panic attack on the ESC key and hit F1 by mistake. Then double panic'ed while trying to close the console as their health quickly drains away, especially if that first hit caused a bleed.

Good grief peep's I'd love to find a way to rebind the F1 key, too. And not for cheating reasons but to fix an obviously inconvenient mechanic in the game.

Oh I for one certainly use the esc key to back out of mwnus on a regular basis, but I've yet to hit F1. Though I have however hit tab, or worse yet, the Windows key, so I definitely know how you feel.

I also don't see how it matters why you use the esc key. Sure, exiting the game to effectively reset it is a bit exploitative, which clearly isn't the case here, but wether you pause the game or not either you have the skill to get out of the situation or you don't. Ot it was that much of a problem you'd think the devs would disable the time freeze, wouldn't you?

[skaggerack]

After thinking about my gameplay i also think that it might be happening when i try to switch weapons. Trying to hit the "1" button and hitting the F1. I'm guessing it's happened to me a few ways. Regardless it's frustrating to have such a deadly (and for me an unused) button in the area of such frequently used buttons during high-intensity situation.

A lot of times i'm using the number keys because the mouse wheel doesn't toggle weapons when you are on the run, at least not for me. Maybe i'll look for a way to fix that instead if F1 is hopeless as a minimization approach.

[Green777]

Why not change key binding for 1 if you keep hitting f1 ,99% of players do not have problem with the f1 etc