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Triplesixer has ARK: Survival Evolved

Jun 4, 2015 @ 11:32am

Can't strafe with arrow keys

I see a fix in the patchnotes but I don't understand, arrow keys have always been locked to turn for me, arrow keys to strafe have never worked and still don't.. Ive tried several ways to edit ini's nothing works except AHK but this whould be easily in game by default.

Can anyone strafe with arrow keys left and right ?

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Fanible

Jun 4, 2015 @ 12:10pm

Nope. It does strafe but it turns to the left and right at the same time. This latest patch(s) added additional controls, including the Look Left Right Up and Down, but rebinding these keys doesn't help. The left and right are still hardcoded to turn left and right.

Fanible

Jun 4, 2015 @ 12:11pm

I actually find the latest "fix" more inconvenient. I left up down left and right on WASD, and I could still move forward and back with the arrow keys. I would switch to WASD if I needed to strafe.

However now the up and down arrow keys look up and down, instead of moving forward and back.

Triplesixer has ARK: Survival Evolved

Jun 4, 2015 @ 12:17pm

Originally posted by Fanible:
Nope. It does strafe but it turns to the left and right at the same time. This latest patch(s) added additional controls, including the Look Left Right Up and Down, but rebinding these keys doesn't help. The left and right are still hardcoded to turn left and right.

Yeah I thought it was just me lol, left and right arrow keys now strafe AND turn at the same time lol.

They need to unlock arrow keys to turn for ever and have a bind for turn OR strafe.

I'll use AHK for now thank you.

Fanible

Jun 4, 2015 @ 12:53pm

Presumedly they tried, since they added those extra keybindings for turning left and right, and looking up and down. But left and right arrow keys are still hardcoded to turning for some reason.

Last edited by Fanible; Jun 4, 2015 @ 12:53pm

sanjinSEN

Jun 4, 2015 @ 3:14pm

Same problem here, i'm disappointed cause it totally ruins my expectations about this game... Are we exceptions here ?

Jeremy Drake Stieglitz [developer] Jun 4, 2015 @ 3:16pm

This will be fixed tonight :)

Fanible

Jun 4, 2015 @ 3:34pm

Originally posted by Drake:
This will be fixed tonight :)

Kudos. Keep up the good work. This really has been one of the most impressive early access and alpha games I've played.

Triplesixer has ARK: Survival Evolved

Jun 4, 2015 @ 4:05pm

Originally posted by Drake:
This will be fixed tonight :)

Thats great !

Thanks for the info, while we're here, the numpad keys and ins/del/pgup/pgdown/home/end keys don't seem to be remapable either.

Thx again

Last edited by Triplesixer; Jun 4, 2015 @ 4:06pm

Fanible

Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:10pm

I couldn't map PgUp and PgDn I don't think, but I have no issue mapping and using Del/End/Home/Ins keys.

Flatliner

Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:24pm

I was able to remap to the numpad but like mapping jump to numpad 1 will not jump but using numpad 0 for the use command does allow me to pick things up...so just seems they need to fix the key binds or unhardcode them as well as left and right arrow key...for people who play on the right side of the keyboard its not and enjoyable experience right now

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Saël

Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:56pm

Same here with NumPad0 not being able to run but being able to draw spears. At first I thought running was not implemented yet... Arf what a ride! ^^ Now I can!

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WarLyric

Jun 5, 2015 @ 1:40am

Originally posted by Drake:
This will be fixed tonight :)

Not sure when you say tonight does that mean 24hrs from now? Cause its morning here now I am on EST time and your post was 9hrs ago it is now 4:20am and latest patch still makes me manually go into the ARK/ShooterGame/Saved/Config/WindowsNoEditor/Input.in and change
it I can not post the code on this stupid forum I get a stupid error so I can not even tell others how to fix it here in this thread I have to use paste bin and you can see that thread in a later thread I did Here is the thread about fixing it. http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/615086038662232704/

I do not like having to change them every single update so that I can strafe properly with the arrow keys. Please ether remove the hard coded turnrate keys or add an option to turn it on and off in options.

Also remove the forced mouse smoothing or add an option in options menu where it belongs and not forced another pain in my side after every update is I am forced to change it. I do not like mouse smoothing and I am sure a lot of other people do not like it ether thank you.

Oh btw thanks for the game I know you are working hard and all to get this stuff going good so here is a bit more feedback looking at the obelisk or the huge machine looking thing in the sky drops frames by 15 also the lighting on the ark is eating a lot of fps I jumped from 15 fps to 45fps using this method http://www.reddit.com/r/playark/comments/38g04t/optimized_config_for_midend_cards_boots_fps/ basically it is a forced basically the magic happens when you edit the Engine.ini and change it to "r.simpledynamiclighting=1" entry I mean it does not look good but it jumps 30 frames that should say something about how badly optimized the lighting is in the ARK thanks for listening to me I hope.

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