Whats the key for auto-walking?

[City Builder]

Hey,
I was walking around the map and noticed some green overlay on the stone ground and figured it must be some sort of moss stone, and so I walked over it, but I took my finger off my W key and my character kept walking. Then I figured that it must be something with that green covered stone and that I wasn't actually walking but sliding. But walking back over the same area and taking my finger off the W key produced the correct result, my character stopped walking.

So I must have hit some inadvertent key that causes my character to just auto-walk until the W key is pressed again. I tried all I could think of but couldn't get my character to continue walking, looked in the options but nothing stood out to me but there must be a key to do it so what is it?

Thanks

[Spacepiggio]

No key but if you have a gaming keyboard you can set 1 up.

[Eizo]

In singleplayer the green stuff is radioactive waste that hurts you and kills you, in multiplayer it's just green.

[City Builder]

I think it must be different green stuff as I took no damage when standing on it for the longest time trying to figure out what key might let me auto walk.

I suppose it could have simply been a glitch or my keyboard W got stuck somehow. Was just hoping with how big the world can seem that there would be a way to just auto-walk. Maybe it's time for a new keyboard although it's never gotten any keys to stick like that in the past.

[Stiuck007]

My friend was playing dayz and needed to go the toilet but didn't want to stop running so he put his beard comb in the keyboard and his character kept running unattended.

[City Builder]

Originally posted by Sniped4:

My friend was playing dayz and needed to go the toilet but didn't want to stop running so he put his beard comb in the keyboard and his character kept running unattended.

Hmm, similar to the cartoon "The Simpsons" where Homer Simpson uses one of those bobbing birds to press a key on his keyboard every now and then to show that he's still working. LOL

I'll have to figure out if I can't set up some kind of macro on my keyboard or mouse that will force my character to just keep running.

[MAriskaDeville]

A big plus one for an autowalk key until we get some form of transport.

[Tiwaz]

I figured out a way to activate auto-walk.

Press down the W key (or any other key that you want to have on auto)

Then go in and out of the Steam overlay several times (alt+tab), still pressing down the key.

Now release the key while IN the overlay

then exit the overlay.

Now the game thinks the key never was released, and you got yourself autowalk.

PS: This autowalk works on most First person game on Steam.

[Clement]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.