Help Creating a Workout Macro

[Hale]

I have been playing this game for the past few days and have found the workout mini-game extremely tedious. Having looked around this forum I found several people who created macros to do this automatically which seems like a good workaround. However, not being a programmer or having any experience creating macros I thought I would ask here to see if someone could give me some pointers on how to set one up for myself.

Thank you in advance!

[Implied Facepalm Deadmeat]

If you have a razer mouse you can just set it to do q e at an interval of say 0.2 of a second. I havent done this but to be honest i probably will. its boring as hell pressing q e and its gonna ruin my expensive keyboard!

[Darkfyre]

Here is my macro: Q 35 millisecond delay then E 35 millisecond delay then repeat.
It would be as if you are smashing your keys as fast as humanly possible without tripping up the game. Works like a charm! Running gets maxed in about 0.5 seconds flat and bench pressing moves super fast. You're welcome!

[Gariba]

I've tried using AutoHotkey with no success. The macro per se works just fine, but does nothing ingame. Recently I bought a Razer keyboard and its macro worked. Don't know why sadly =(

If you've any experience with general programming try checking out the AutoHotkey tutorials. The software is also free.

[Hale]

Thank you all for your input it is greatly appreciated! Although the advice on the optimal interval is certainly usefull my question pertained primarily on what software or method I might be able to use to create the macro itself. Since posting this and searching around on my own I have also tried autohotkey and gotten the same result as Gariba, although the program worked fine in a text editor it doesn't do anything while in game :( I guess I will have to look into a razer mouse :/

[Retrolicious]

Isnt that some sort of cheating ? The tension in having to workout and real time passing can be exciting at times :P
I know the workouts are tedious sometimes. The dev could maybe fix this in making them more fun and enjoyable ? Like evolving them in actually fun minigames ...

[Darkfyre]

If you are wondering, I have a microsoft sidewinder X4 keyboard, so it has a macro program that came along with it built in. But the maco I posted should still work for any 3rd party macro programs.

I choose to use a macro because I want to enjoy this game without getting a major hand cramp. Seriously, play this game for a few hours and it will really get annoying.

[Retrolicious]

I did play it for several hours. Besides not every escape plan needs lots of workouts. If you dont like it you might adjust your plan and try a different escape route.
Just look around some even escape in 3 or 4 days. Sure thats maybe hard to accomplish, but still seems possible. Will try that myself eventually.
Thats surely time wasted if you only sit 3 days in workout room and not do an actual escape.

[gekkobear]

Autohotkey worked for me, after a lot of fussing and fighting.

It didn't seem to like Function keys or special keys in game, or ctrl/alt combos, and you have to play with the <key> up and <key> down logic... and some of the trainer scripts for "hold in a key to do something repeatedly).

So I gave up the "Z" key to make it work.

Rather than post that relatively large file (for a comment)
I'll put a spoiler hidden link to my Google Docs file.
Should be shared public to people with the link.


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Ga9VNQY0atNUhfUVdudnFacE0/edit?usp=sharing
Exercise.ahk is my file.

Get Autohotkey, grab that file, run it.
You'll hold in "Z" key to do the Q+E toggle. Just hold it down until you're done. :)
With autohotkey you can right-mouse and "edit script" to see how it runs to check the file before running it.

Seriously, don't run random files people give you on the internet without checking them first. Bad things can happen.

In task manager kill the "Autohotkey" script to get "Z" back for typing afterwards.
Or you'll end up typing qeqe every time you hit "z" :P

And that's running a 10 millisecond pause between each keydown and keyup, so 20 per key... might do a bit better raising it if 35 is optimized, not sure... it's good enough for me. :)

[Hale]

You have my eternal thanks good sir! I tip my hat to you.

[Collateral]

Helping me out 4 years later, thank you!

[Romul]

gekkobear thank You a lot. Playing The Escapists: The Walking Dead in 2021, it has literally the same workout tasks like in original game. This is annoying to spend extra time on just clicking it and destroying the keyboard. Thanks again!