Laptop with no Number Pad ok?

[Professor Von-Wulfen ]

Hello all.
I have had the game on my wishlist for years and am considering giving it a try today.
I have a Razer Blade 17 Pro that does not have a number pad. It does however have the arrow keys.
Will I be able to remap the number keys?
Cheers

[yeah]

I don't have a numpad and play with the laptop keyboard option (vim keys). It works fine. There might be 1 or 2 important things I had to remap, I think wait and auto explore? It's been a while. It'll take some getting used to, it can be unusual if you've never played with vim keys before. You could also remap everything but I really wouldn't want to as a new player.

[Professor Von-Wulfen ]

Originally posted by wormed94:

I don't have a numpad and play with the laptop keyboard option (vim keys). It works fine. There might be 1 or 2 important things I had to remap, I think wait and auto explore? It's been a while. It'll take some getting used to, it can be unusual if you've never played with them before.

Many thanks :)

[I blame Earthshaker]

Alternatively, you could just buy a cheapo full size keyboard that plugs into USB for like $12 (useful to have a backup anyways).

However, having the numpad it isn't really necessary for this game since it essentially has an auto remap option that mostly covers everything. The game even suggests that a player use it right away! But don't rely on just the arrow keys to move, game is designed to have player move like the king in chess, not using diagonals really hurts in the long run...

[alividlife]

+1 on the most absolute cheapest USB keyboard with number pad you can find. I have laptop and use a USB keyboard w number pad specifically for Caves of Qud. Got it for less than $10.

Game is rebindable. You could do a whole thing with i, h, j, k = North, South, East, West. Then make u = NorthWest, o = Northeast. Whatever and however.

More keys = better nonetheless cuz abilities can also be binded to whatever, and depending on build, it is helpful to have.

Also, and I know this sounds insane, but the game is totally doable with controller. Much slower paced, but essentially all the shoulder buttons become modifiers so the game is able to produce all two-hundred and seventy-eight and a half possible commands available (jk Caves of Qud is super ez to control)

[Professor Von-Wulfen ]

Originally posted by I blame Pudge:

Alternatively, you could just buy a cheapo full size keyboard that plugs into USB for like $12 (useful to have a backup anyways).

However, having the numpad it isn't really necessary for this game since it essentially has an auto remap option that mostly covers everything. The game even suggests that a player use it right away! But don't rely on just the arrow keys to move, game is designed to have player move like the king in chess, not using diagonals really hurts in the long run...

Originally posted by alividlife:

+1 on the most absolute cheapest USB keyboard with number pad you can find. I have laptop and use a USB keyboard w number pad specifically for Caves of Qud. Got it for less than $10.

Game is rebindable. You could do a whole thing with i, h, j, k = North, South, East, West. Then make u = NorthWest, o = Northeast. Whatever and however.

More keys = better nonetheless cuz abilities can also be binded to whatever, and depending on build, it is helpful to have.

Also, and I know this sounds insane, but the game is totally doable with controller. Much slower paced, but essentially all the shoulder buttons become modifiers so the game is able to produce all two-hundred and seventy-eight and a half possible commands available (jk Caves of Qud is super ez to control)

Many thanks chaps