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Can I do a FULL Keyboard remap for left-handed?
Or not?

I just read that there are remap keyboard limitations for left-handed players.... this will stop me buying the game.
WatchDogs drove me mad a hundred times as it always refused to save every one of forty re-mapped keys. Its still ruined the game for me. They never ever fixed it.

Left-handed people are always CRIPPLED by INCOMPETENT Coders refusing to allow left-handers to do a full re-map (for Number-Keypad etc).

The discriminators all went backwards in coding ability 15 years ago or so (Half-Life never discriminated). But they do make prettier movable pictures.

OR am I being misled?

Left-hand mouse; right hand number keypad etc...
Last edited by 76561197977267103; Nov 19, 2015 @ 8:12am
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76561197977267103 Nov 19, 2015 @ 8:05am 
Its looking like discrimination.....
Shivala Nov 19, 2015 @ 8:09am 
In short: yes it is a problem.
You cannot remap all keys and if you remap a used key the function is gone :-(
I'm left handed and have never needed to change keybinds up. Just learn to play like 99.9% of all other lefties.
76561197977267103 Nov 19, 2015 @ 8:11am 
Originally posted by Shivala:
In short: yes it is a problem.
You cannot remap all keys and if you remap a used key the function is gone :-(

Thanks for your consideration pointing that out for sure. Quite a few other people appear peeved off about it.

At least good studios like the people that made The Witcher 3 got off their backsides and eventually fixed that re-map issue after complaints at launch: pretty much fixed it all.
Last edited by 76561197977267103; Nov 19, 2015 @ 8:14am
EllisDee Nov 19, 2015 @ 8:13am 
Originally posted by Ehllfhire™:
I'm left handed and have never needed to change keybinds up. Just learn to play like 99.9% of all other lefties.

WASD for movement, R to reload, E/F to use, CTRL/C to crouch, V to melee, Enter to talk, basically every game I have setup

But, I am a right handed player, who grew up to use mouse left handed.
Last edited by EllisDee; Nov 19, 2015 @ 8:13am
Zombinater007 Nov 19, 2015 @ 8:13am 
It does seem like an issue, you probably would not like it, but I would suggest using a controller until there is a mod that can help you remap buttons on a keyboard. I would not know, I am not left-handed, but I am giving the best advice I can.
76561197977267103 Nov 19, 2015 @ 8:18am 
Originally posted by EX Zombinater007:
It does seem like an issue, you probably would not like it, but I would suggest using a controller until there is a mod that can help you remap buttons on a keyboard. I would not know, I am not left-handed, but I am giving the best advice I can.

I find it isn`t really practical or possible to use a controller properly for any game with over 20 commands. Fine for an arcade game... but this is supposed to have depth.

Many thanks otherwise.
76561197977267103 Nov 19, 2015 @ 8:21am 
Originally posted by ZippiT:
Originally posted by Ehllfhire™:
I'm left handed and have never needed to change keybinds up. Just learn to play like 99.9% of all other lefties.

WASD for movement, R to reload, E/F to use, CTRL/C to crouch, V to melee, Enter to talk, basically every game I have setup

But, I am a right handed player, who grew up to use mouse left handed.

Its BS to claim 99.9% of other lefties play right-handed. In fact its a downright lie where there is ZERO Evidence to support it.


NumberKeypad is the way proper left-handed players use the keyboard in such games as this for the past 15 or so years.
Silver Nov 19, 2015 @ 8:24am 
Originally posted by Newtons 3rd Law ¥:
Originally posted by Shivala:
In short: yes it is a problem.
You cannot remap all keys and if you remap a used key the function is gone :-(

Thanks for your consideration pointing that out for sure. Quite a few other people appear peeved off about it.

At least good studios like the people that made The Witcher 3 got off their backsides and eventually fixed that re-map issue after complaints at launch: pretty much fixed it all.
Yeah i want remap keys aswell.
I use arrow keys to walk
its annoying i have to go over to E and other keys over there to do stuff.
And num pad keys are locked which is a damn shame because it would make the game perfect for a leftie like me if i could remap keys around arrow keys.
Really hope Bethesda does something about this?
76561197977267103 Nov 19, 2015 @ 8:28am 
Originally posted by Silver:
Originally posted by Newtons 3rd Law ¥:

Thanks for your consideration pointing that out for sure. Quite a few other people appear peeved off about it.

At least good studios like the people that made The Witcher 3 got off their backsides and eventually fixed that re-map issue after complaints at launch: pretty much fixed it all.
Yeah i want remap keys aswell.
I use arrow keys to walk
its annoying i have to go over to E and other keys over there to do stuff.
And num pad keys are locked which is a damn shame because it would make the game perfect for a leftie like me if i could remap keys around arrow keys.
Really hope Bethesda does something about this?

Thanks for the consideraiton...

For 15 years or more, I have re-mapped NUMBERPAD 8, 4, 5, 6 for WASD and use NumPad_0 for Re-load and NumPad_Enter for Sprint. Forwardslash for Activate, and Plus+ for `kick em in the goolies` etc.
NumPad Star for Torches, and NumPad_7 for Jump and NumPad_9 for crouch.

Right arrow is usually for scope or Stealth.
Home button for Inventory
etc... etc..

Works a treat since Half-Life and five hundred or more Games I bought since then.

Its only recently that coders have got really lazy. WatchDogs, then Dark Souls 2, then The Witcher 3 nerfed such controls; but only The Witcher 3 put out a fix when they heard all the complaints (I had already put out a downloadable Left-handed Mod for the keyboard ini file for that game).

I can only hope the Fallout 4 team wake up and fix that glitch also, or its another game I will avoid like the plague since the blood-curdling rage that WatchDogs causes with its reset everytime the game is started. Around 30 or 40 keys to re-map every freakin time. Never again will I pay to be annoyed like that.
Last edited by 76561197977267103; Nov 19, 2015 @ 8:34am
ΜΣ†ΛĿ Nov 19, 2015 @ 8:39am 
Yes, search for "custom controls guide" in this forum
76561197977267103 Nov 19, 2015 @ 8:45am 
Originally posted by ṂΣ†ДḶ:
Yes, search for "custom controls guide" in this forum

I will take a look; but I found someone who said customising some controls causes all the controls to stop working.
Phlinger Phoo Nov 19, 2015 @ 9:24am 
The link above works if you need it.

I used to play the standard(Right-Handed) way for years, and years and years, until I finally figured out why my gameplay was always off. Swapped to Left-Handed mouse and Keybinds a few years back and my gameplay has improved drastically. I won't go back now, absolutely refuse to play Right-Handed again.

I dropped the extra cash on a Razor Blackwidow Keyboard and Razor Naga(Left-Handed buttons), now, no matter what game comes out, keybinds can piss off, I have the load out saved in Razor Synapse.

Seriously, Lefties, if you are like me, drop the cash on a keyboard that you can save keybinds on, don't wait for a 'fix' for a game when it comes out.
76561197977267103 Nov 19, 2015 @ 2:00pm 
Originally posted by ṂΣ†ДḶ:
Not if you do it the proper way.
Fix is here
http://steamcommunity.com/app/377160/discussions/0/496881136905919193/

Checking that. A TON of THANKS.
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