The Keyboard Controls Are Pretty Awful, Any Way to Change Them?

[Akane]

Hey there, I just bought the game yesterday. It seems to be fun, but the controls on the keyboard are horribly laid out, it's almost impossible to preform some of the stunts in the game required to get various treasures. Is there any way to change up the keyboard controls myself so I can enjoy the game without playing twister around the keyboard every time I need to triple jump?

[YTFembSpirit]

Me personally, I love the keyboard controls. Try practicing around your spaceship area so you can better handle the controls.

As for your issue, I don't think the game has any option for binding the keys. It might come at a later update though, who knows. Your best options are to practice or use a controller.

[Akane]

Originally posted by Spideymon77:

Me personally, I love the keyboard controls. Try practicing around your spaceship area so you can better handle the controls.

As for your issue, I don't think the game has any option for binding the keys. It might come at a later update though, who knows. Your best options are to practice or use a controller.

I feel like you may have different keyboard controls if you love them. The fact that I have to use the mouse to properly angle the camera, use the space bar to jump, use the control to do a triple jump and then use the space bar again to make use I don't slide off a platform, while having to use the ASDW keys becuase if I use the arrow keys with the control key it exits out of the game, all while still having to pull off the maneuver in the game, makes me think that we definitely don't have the same keyboard controls.

Either that, or you're a masochist lol

[YTFembSpirit]

Originally posted by Akane:

Originally posted by Spideymon77:

Me personally, I love the keyboard controls. Try practicing around your spaceship area so you can better handle the controls.

As for your issue, I don't think the game has any option for binding the keys. It might come at a later update though, who knows. Your best options are to practice or use a controller.

I feel like you may have different keyboard controls if you love them. The fact that I have to use the mouse to properly angle the camera, use the space bar to jump, use the control to do a triple jump and then use the space bar again to make use I don't slide off a platform, while having to use the ASDW keys becuase if I use the arrow keys with the control key it exits out of the game, all while still having to pull off the maneuver in the game, makes me think that we definitely don't have the same keyboard controls.

Either that, or you're a masochist lol

No, it's the same layout. I have my pinky on the control key, my thumb on the spacebar, and my other three middle fingers on a, w, and d. It's quite simple for me but everyone is different.

[SuperDean]

Originally posted by Akane:

Originally posted by Spideymon77:

Me personally, I love the keyboard controls. Try practicing around your spaceship area so you can better handle the controls.

As for your issue, I don't think the game has any option for binding the keys. It might come at a later update though, who knows. Your best options are to practice or use a controller.

I feel like you may have different keyboard controls if you love them. The fact that I have to use the mouse to properly angle the camera, use the space bar to jump, use the control to do a triple jump and then use the space bar again to make use I don't slide off a platform, while having to use the ASDW keys becuase if I use the arrow keys with the control key it exits out of the game, all while still having to pull off the maneuver in the game, makes me think that we definitely don't have the same keyboard controls.

Either that, or you're a masochist lol

change your camera settings

[Akane]

Originally posted by SuperDean:

Originally posted by Akane:

I feel like you may have different keyboard controls if you love them. The fact that I have to use the mouse to properly angle the camera, use the space bar to jump, use the control to do a triple jump and then use the space bar again to make use I don't slide off a platform, while having to use the ASDW keys becuase if I use the arrow keys with the control key it exits out of the game, all while still having to pull off the maneuver in the game, makes me think that we definitely don't have the same keyboard controls.

Either that, or you're a masochist lol

change your camera settings

That sounds like a good start, thanks

[Ichmag 🔑🌙]

Originally posted by Akane:

Originally posted by Spideymon77:

Me personally, I love the keyboard controls. Try practicing around your spaceship area so you can better handle the controls.

As for your issue, I don't think the game has any option for binding the keys. It might come at a later update though, who knows. Your best options are to practice or use a controller.

I feel like you may have different keyboard controls if you love them. The fact that I have to use the mouse to properly angle the camera, use the space bar to jump, use the control to do a triple jump and then use the space bar again to make use I don't slide off a platform, while having to use the ASDW keys becuase if I use the arrow keys with the control key it exits out of the game, all while still having to pull off the maneuver in the game, makes me think that we definitely don't have the same keyboard controls.

Either that, or you're a masochist lol

But using space, WASD, control, shift and keys like R, F, E while using the mouse is normal for basically every PC game?

[Akane]

Originally posted by Ichmag:

Originally posted by Akane:

I feel like you may have different keyboard controls if you love them. The fact that I have to use the mouse to properly angle the camera, use the space bar to jump, use the control to do a triple jump and then use the space bar again to make use I don't slide off a platform, while having to use the ASDW keys becuase if I use the arrow keys with the control key it exits out of the game, all while still having to pull off the maneuver in the game, makes me think that we definitely don't have the same keyboard controls.

Either that, or you're a masochist lol

But using space, WASD, control, shift and keys like R, F, E while using the mouse is normal for basically every PC game?

Not the ones I've played, but even then a good game will give the player the option to pick controls themselves on a keyboard instead of keeping everything hunched up in random spots along the far left edges of the keys.

[Ichmag 🔑🌙]

Originally posted by Akane:

Originally posted by Ichmag:

But using space, WASD, control, shift and keys like R, F, E while using the mouse is normal for basically every PC game?

Not the ones I've played, but even then a good game will give the player the option to pick controls themselves on a keyboard instead of keeping everything hunched up in random spots along the far left edges of the keys.

The layout is this like for a reason. Any modern PC game utilizing the mouse at least uses WASD. Almost every third or first person game, even side scrollers sometimes, use control and shift. Its the todays standard. The devs just did it like everyone else.

But another PC standard is also rebinding controls. :<
If you really dislike the controls, you can always use third party programs. Something like if you press F, it simulates pressing shift on your keyboard, and ♥♥♥♥ like that.

[Akane]

Originally posted by Ichmag:

Originally posted by Akane:

Not the ones I've played, but even then a good game will give the player the option to pick controls themselves on a keyboard instead of keeping everything hunched up in random spots along the far left edges of the keys.

The layout is this like for a reason. Any modern PC game utilizing the mouse at least uses WASD. Almost every third or first person game, even side scrollers sometimes, use control and shift. Its the todays standard. The devs just did it like everyone else.

But another PC standard is also rebinding controls. :<
If you really dislike the controls, you can always use third party programs. Something like if you press F, it simulates pressing shift on your keyboard, and ♥♥♥♥ like that.

I'd just like the developers to consider implimenting it into a future update.

[YTFembSpirit]

Originally posted by Akane:

Originally posted by Ichmag:

The layout is this like for a reason. Any modern PC game utilizing the mouse at least uses WASD. Almost every third or first person game, even side scrollers sometimes, use control and shift. Its the todays standard. The devs just did it like everyone else.

But another PC standard is also rebinding controls. :<
If you really dislike the controls, you can always use third party programs. Something like if you press F, it simulates pressing shift on your keyboard, and ♥♥♥♥ like that.

I'd just like the developers to consider implimenting it into a future update.

Yeah. The more options, the better.

[YTFembSpirit]

I may have found a solution. While browsing the game's config files, I noticed a folder containing every single gamepad that's supported in A Hat in Time (including keyboard).

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\HatinTime\HatinTimeGame\Config\Gamepads

There, open the keyboard.ini

It's a bit confusing, but I'll explain it the best way I can. Each +Button has a designated number. 1-257. If you want to bind the keys, You have to go to the [binds] category, where you designate each number to what key you want to bind it to. Say, I want to change my attack key to 'x'.

I'd find the designated number for x.

+Button = 88
Name = "X"
Color = "Grey"
Icon = "Keyboard"

Then I would find the attack bind.

+Bind = Hat_Player_Attack
ButtonID = 1

I would then replace the number '1' with '88' to designate my attack button as 'x'.

I hope this is a temporary solution. Make sure to right click the .ini, og to properties, and make it 'Read Only' when you're done. Also make sure to uncheck 'Read Only' when editing the .ini again.

I find it kinda weird. It's like, they have it coded, but they haven't implemented it yet.

[Akane]

Originally posted by Spideymon77:

I may have found a solution. While browsing the game's config files, I noticed a folder containing every single gamepad that's supported in A Hat in Time (including keyboard).

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\HatinTime\HatinTimeGame\Config\Gamepads

There, open the keyboard.ini

It's a bit confusing, but I'll explain it the best way I can. Each +Button has a designated number. 1-257. If you want to bind the keys, You have to go to the [binds] category, where you designate each number to what key you want to bind it to. Say, I want to change my attack key to 'x'.

I'd find the designated number for x.

+Button = 88
Name = "X"
Color = "Grey"
Icon = "Keyboard"

Then I would find the attack bind.

+Bind = Hat_Player_Attack
ButtonID = 1

I would then replace the number '1' with '88' to designate my attack button as 'x'.

I hope this is a temporary solution. Make sure to right click the .ini, og to properties, and make it 'Read Only' when you're done. Also make sure to uncheck 'Read Only' when editing the .ini again.

I find it kinda weird. It's like, they have it coded, but they haven't implemented it yet.

Thanks a ton! I'll try to follow those instructions the best I can and fix the controls to my liking. And yea, I figure if there's some drawn out way a player could change the controls you'd think the developers would be able to put in an easier system on the menu settings. Oh well, hopfully they will in the future so more potential players can enjoy the game!

[XZero]

I find it kinda weird. It's like, they have it coded, but they haven't implemented it yet.

It's in the settings... at least for gamepad controls. (I use a gamepad, so I only paid attention to that.)

But when I tried it a while ago, the setting was bugged and didn't register button presses for assigning. So I had to directly edit the config files anyway. :P
I don't know if that has been fixed.

[Jelly Sandwich]

Git gud. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the keyboar layout and I can complete even the most difficult maps from the steam workshop.

Also learn how to play on ASDW. It will make your life a lot of easier.

[Akane]

Originally posted by Snake of Alaska:

Git gud. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the keyboar layout and I can complete even the most difficult maps from the steam workshop.

Also learn how to play on ASDW. It will make your life a lot of easier.

That is literally the laziest response to this sort of situation. That'd be like if I sold someone a broken house appliance and told them that, rather than saling a quality brand product, they should just learn how to fix it each time it breaks down themselves. Eventually you're going to get people who complain and if you can't come up with a real explanation for why your product is failing to meet the demands of consumers, you're just going to lose business.

So how about you "git gud" and come up with a real response XD