Arrow keys

[Gitgud]

Hi

I always play (when using the keyboard) with the arrow keys but in this game the forward and backward key doesnt work.Is there a reason for this?Lg

[fufightr]

I've never heard of anyone actually using arrow keys to move so I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't work for many games. You can respec your key bindings in the settings though or just adjust to standard pc gaming key board use.

[Gitgud]

Normally every game is working with the arrow keys so i just wondered.Left and right works but not forward or backward.

[Diarrhea Blaster]

Don't use arrow keys.

The only games that's viable in would be games that only use 4 movement keys and the mouse.

Using arrow keys instead of wsad severely limits the amount of surrounding keys, making you less effective.

[Gitgud]

I also give the other keys near the arrow keys.Works very well.I dont want an opinion on this but it should be fixed.Meanwhile i can play with the controller too

[EzRyder]

Originally posted by SharT Magician:

Don't use arrow keys.

this is a common workaround for left handed players, as Christoph stats a lot of games even have them pre set as secondary movement keys for that reason
with todays tech there is no real reson to not be able to customize practically any/all keys
the likely reason for not having them customizable may be for ease of compatability for consoles but then i cant say tbh

[Gitgud]

Originally posted by EzRyder:

Originally posted by SharT Magician:

Don't use arrow keys.

this is a common workaround for left handed players, as Christoph stats a lot of games even have them pre set as secondary movement keys for that reason
with todays tech there is no real reson to not be able to customize practically any/all keys
the likely reason for not having them customizable may be for ease of compatability for consoles but then i cant say tbh

Im right handed

[Raszoar]

i am left handed. i am 49 years old. played quake, counter strike. all PC games put in the arrow keys for left handed players. look at your keyboard, and imagine the WASD all the way to right and then imagine trying to use the keys, now think of it this way if on the right side all you had was back space backward slash colons etc. what would you use to map. anyway my point before console games intergrated with PC arrow keys were used in PC games this is lazziness on programmers and IS related to the console cross over... Christof my best friend is right handed but has shoulder problems he to has to use the arrow keys do to supporting his shoulder with right foerarm. what we use is Autohotkey scipt that maps the arrow keys as WASD. of course you will have to find a get arround not having the use of arrow keys in chat, keep a controller near by for this purpose. hope this helped.

[Gitgud]

I play with the left hand with the arrow keys and the mouse with the right hand.Works very good in any game(only in conan with forward and backward)I place jump for example to shift and inventory etc to the num keys right of the arrow keys.Im right handed and this works very good for me.The problem is(with conan)if I press forward the character doesn't move but i switched the keys in the option menue.

[Qinji]

Originally posted by Christoph:

I play with the left hand with the arrow keys and the mouse with the right hand.Works very good in any game(only in conan with forward and backward)I place jump for example to shift and inventory etc to the num keys right of the arrow keys.Im right handed and this works very good for me.The problem is(with conan)if I press forward the character doesn't move but i switched the keys in the option menue.

I play this exact same way with the numpad. I find it offputting that the three rows of keys (qwe, asd, and zxc) are skewed...offset...as opposed to the arrowkeys/numpad's direct grid layout. This throws off my keypresses and I keep occasionally smash both w and e at the same time (or if my hand is more biased the other way, I smash a and s when I wanna move down.

I hate when people make blanket statements such as "NOBODY uses arrowkeys to move because it's better"

games have been successfully giving players the option to remap keys for a long time now. There's no reason why this isn't a trivial thing for all game developers working on projects as large as Conan.

[cattibria]

Back in the dark ages of computer gaming, the arrow keys used are on the number pad. That gave you 8 directions of movement where WSAD only gives 4. Not sure why that was moved away from since it is similar to movement with a game controler.

[Qinji]

Originally posted by steitsch:

Back in the dark ages of computer gaming, the arrow keys used are on the number pad. That gave you 8 directions of movement where WSAD only gives 4. Not sure why that was moved away from since it is similar to movement with a game controler.

back in the dark ages before mouselook took control of turning it was necessary to have 7 and 9 as rotate and 4 and 6 as strafe...

[Derpentine]

Disable chat in options then it will let you move forward/backward with arrow keys

[Valantine]

Yep, I've been PC gaming for far too long to mention and ALWAYS use arrow keys and have never ahd an issue with no having "enough keys" I can easily hit space bar to jump whilst using arrows to move etc. - however the onylway to use arrows in Conan appears to be to shut the chat window which isn't great when playing on PVP servers - I really hope they can fix this, as it's a bit of a nightmare at the moment. Also, for note - I'm right handed.... so the blanket statements of "lefties" or "everone uses wasd" are quite frankly, bollocks!

[Synthe]

I've used the arrow keys for movement, and the Numpad for hotkeys since 1999 (EverQuest). When games, like Conan Exiles, don't allow me to rebind keys successfully, I create a profile in Razer Synapse. That way, when I launch CE, it picks up the profile I made for CE, and every time I press the down arrow, Razer Synapse sends S instead. It's a workaround, but I hope FunCom fixes this eventually.