Change Key Bindings?

[Vis]

Not being able to change key bindings is stupid. Not everyone plays with WASD. Has anyone figured out how to change the key bindings? I found the game config file but it's just graphics and other settings, no key bind config in it. Between this and all the photo bugs I should just put in for a refund.

[Rymdkatten]

Doesn't seem like it's implemented. I agree, it's such a silly thing to leave out.

[Talyn]

As far as I am aware, binding doesn't yet exist. What do you use? The arrow keys and controllers should work fine and if you like the original Myst click-to-move interface, you can select it in the options.

[SteinDrSolido]

i really hate noob games where you not can change your keys

its so lame , a reason that i dont buy this game

[bonqen]

would be nice to get this implemented, if only for lefties. there will always be people who don't use the "default setting" or who use a keyboard where keys are placed differently.
this is easy to implement, so there's not really an excuse other than "other things have priority right now".
hopefully it gets added within a few weeks.

[bothered]

I agree. Although I have no problem with this control scheme I think ALL PC games should have the option. It's what PC games have always had.

[Paladin]

I agree and really would like to see key bindings added. At a minimum, it would at least be nice to see the arrow keys bound the same as WASD. Left and Right are TURN not STRAFE on the arrow keys, which is quite irritating.

[Rejac]

Totally agree, Paladin - Left and Right being turn left and right is extremely irritating.
I can't understand why they would implement it so? We already have the mouse to turn.

Cyan -- in the next patch please allow the Left and Right arrow keys to be set to strafe left and right, as the A and D keys are. Thank you.

[MagicDN]

I really hope that will be fixed soon, so I can fully enjoy it.

[astranme]

+1 for this. I too wish the arrow keys were bound the same a WASD. It's a bit silly that they are not.

[Nickson666]

If you play on a couch with the keyboard at your left you will see it's better to use arrows than WASD, except if you are comfortable in the crusify position.

[Febert]

http://forums.cyan.com/viewtopic.php?f=131&t=1272

[ScarletDuke]

Originally posted by Febert:

http://forums.cyan.com/viewtopic.php?f=131&t=1272

Apparantly this little guide ain't working. It looks like they altered the game and removed all configuration files, integrating them into the executable. Don't know why. Seems like the most idiotic move they could make. As a result, The game is quite unplayable. Especially since the right shift won't work for running.

Scratch that, apparantly I misread and put the file in the wrong folder. Anyway, it works, but still, that's really annoying. This function should be integrated into the game. As one of the backers who could only now be asked to actually play the game, I demand they fix this!

I've abandoned games that wouldn't allow me to edit key bindings, or even worse, allow me to edit key bindings, but won't allow comma as a valid control key. Why in the name of holy hell not!? Screw you, Mirror's Edge!

[Urthman]

Originally posted by theblackwidower:

I've abandoned games that wouldn't allow me to edit key bindings, or even worse, allow me to edit key bindings, but won't allow comma as a valid control key. Why in the name of holy hell not!? Screw you, Mirror's Edge!

You are absolutely right to expect that a game released in 2016 should have fully rebindable controls; it's a really stupid thing for devs leave out.

But -- if you like to play games with keyboard as your input device, you owe it to yourself to get the freeware utility AutoHotKey, which makes it very easy to fully customize controls in any game. You just make a little text file that lists the rebinds you want for each game, save it as a *.ahk file, and then double click it whenever you want to use those rebinds.

Here's an example I used for a game when I wanted to move the WASD keys so my left hand can be on the home row of the keyboard. Pressing 'e' sends a 'w', 'f' sends a 'd', etc. Pause::Suspend lets you quickly go back and forth between your changes and a regular keyboard in case you need to type or something in game.

e::w
f::d
q::tab
d::s
w::LShift
XButton1::NumLock

Pause::Suspend


Install AutoHotKey. Copy the above into Notepad, make the rebinds whatever you want, and save it as "WASD.ahk" or whatever you want to call it, then doubleclick that file whenever you want to use those rebinds.

[☆ Acacia ☆ - for Tiffany <3]

2019 and I still can't change the arrow keys to behave properly ( like left and right actually moving left and right ). AWSD is also no't an option because my keyboard is french so these keys are all out of place.

What a shame that this is still not implemented....