Syringes and the Keyboard (Possible Spoilers)

[TheWaxwingSlain]

OK. Enjoying the game, except there's been no information anywhere on how to use crafted syringes (or for that matter, how to craft a plain old health syringe).

So, I'm playing using a keyboard and mouse. I see that there's a "syringe wheel" at the TAB key, and once you unlock the skill for, say, a hunter syringe, you can just click Mouse1 and if you have the ingredients it will craft a hunter syringe.

But now how do I use this hunter syringe? I've tried a bunch of keys and there's some console-centric icon at the bottom of the syringe wheel that seems to switch between a handgun and a syringe, but nowhere is there any indication of how I actually can use that hunter syringe. Can someone please give me a little help?

Also, is it possible to craft a plain old health syringe like the ones I've been buying at the liberated outposts?

Thanks, in advance.

[Woods]

i do it by opening the wheel and just moving over 2 the syringe even if it says 0 charges i think it auto makes them

[TheWaxwingSlain]

No, I have no trouble making them. I can't seem to TAKE them. I've got three hunter syringes in my kit, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to use them.

[Pedro Mandarine]

For me it works well. I open the wheel with q, then I press right mouse button and then i just move the cursor towards the one i want. To craft them I just do the same but click on the left mouse button at the end where it says craft. And health syringes are auto crafted when you pick up 2 green leaves.

[TheWaxwingSlain]

Right-mouse button? Auto-crafted health syringes?

But when I click the right mouse button, at the lower part of the syringe wheel, there is a little icon of a mouse and to the left either a handgun with a green circle around it or a syringe with a green circle around it? The right mouse button just seems to toggle those icons from one to the other. Nothing more.

I wish this was all made a little clearer by the game itself.

[TheWaxwingSlain]

OK, I finally seem to have figured this out. The right mouse button just toggles between the weapon wheel and the syringe wheel. To actually use a crafted syringe, you have to open the syringe wheel, point to the syringe you want to use and then let go.

Really bad interface design for PCs. I understand that this is a console game, but please Ubisoft, give a little bit of thought to people who are playing the game with a keyboard and mouse. After all, the Far Cry series started as a PC-only game.

I'm enjoying this game, but this console-centric control scheme is just a pain for anyone using a keyboard. For example, if I want to map my four guns to keys 1, 2, 3, and 4, how am I supposed to go about that? I can see that I can put them in different points on the "gun wheel" but there is no indication on the wheel for which quadrant of the wheel corresponds to which of the number keys, 1-4.