Keyboard Bindings

[verballyinsane]

Hi!
I'm sure this has come up before but I'm hoping to see customizable keyboard and controller bindings for release.
Thanks!

[CChancey]

@Verbally Insane:

The current keyboard bindings are the most ergonomic we could muster, but we understand players like to have complete control over their... controls. ;)

We will certainly consider making them customizable, thank you for the suggestion!

- Chris, for the Mages of Mystralia Team

[Miznamo]

I would love to be able to change Shift+Left click to Q for example

[Elrohir]

I think the controls are great as they are, but i was also disappointed to see that they arent customizable. I have a gaming mouse with 2 buttons on the side and would prefer to be able to map the space and shift spells to those buttons instead, but the controls do work well as they are.

[CChancey]

We hear you, this has been noted and I'll bring it up at the next team meeting.

Thanks again for the feedback!

- Chris, for the Mages of Mystralia Team

[carildor]

I second the wish of customizable keyboard bindings (I personally prefer the arrow-keys to move around a character instead of WASD...) Please also consider Gamepad support (on PC). BTW: Up to now, great game!

[Kuno_Ushinawa]

Controller support would be great, I've always found wasd and arrow keys really clunky.
Other than that maybe a way to walk? Running has caused me to... run into the water and drown several times when trying to make small adjustments in which direction I'm facing.

[CChancey]

@Carildor & Uzkost: The game fully supports controllers already! Just plug and play! :)

[Marcus]

I, too, would like to add my voice to the requests for customizable keyboard bindings. It would also be nice if you could add 'click to move' support, but I suspect that might be too much to ask for at this point, since it would probably require a lot of changes to the code. I could live with just rebindable keys, if 'click to move' isn't possible.

[Cal]

Originally posted by GameDev Chris:

The current keyboard bindings are the most ergonomic we could muster, but we understand players like to have complete control over their... controls. ;)

We will certainly consider making them customizable, thank you for the suggestion!

Well, they might be the most ergonomic you can muster... for right-handed players. As someone who is not, games with forced WASD movement are functionally unplayable for me.

[Elrohir]

I mean that only encompasses about 10% of the population, so since you are of such a small number you dont really matter *sarcasm intensifies*.

[KrunchyBones]

I'd like to suggest also that there be a way to adjust controller deadzones so we can more easily walk instead of running. Cliffs and watersides are my worst enemy so far

[Ubera_Amans]

Originally posted by Cal:

games with forced WASD movement are functionally unplayable for me.

Im not sure I understand this. Many games or platforms use the right hand for movement, although it is the standard to use your left, it has not always been the case. You get used to the key bundings in a couple hours of game play.
Your dominant hand is irrelivant for controlling the character, would you say typing is more difficult for you because the most commonly used keys are not accessible to your dominant hand?
Would you say driving is more difficult because the controlls on your dominant side are used less than your other sides controlls?
If this game relied on a stylus I would back you 100% because you are then arguing your dexterity is better on your dominant side. But I fail to see the inconvenience of pusing a button with your non dominant hand.
Also... I used a controller to play(which is awesome btw). Do you order special inverse controllers for your gaming platforms?
I do hope you dont take offense but we are not talking about delicate dexterity like handwriting, simply pusing a key. And at that rate, your dominant hand would now be controlling the attacking, which is arguably as important as the walking.

NOTE: I am not arguing that customizeable key mapping is bad... It is infact ALWAYS good to be able to customize your controlls.

[benubird]

I'd add that it would be helpful to have a way to bind other spells to other keys. For instance, I have 4 actus spells set, and trying to toggle through them during battle is really hard. I actually never use the spell change hotkeys, instead hitting tab whenever I want to change active spells. I find it's faster, as I don't accidentally overshoot.

Ideally, I would like to be able to bind spells to arbitrary keys - e.g. set Q = actus 1, E = immedi 3, R = creo 2, etc.

[Elrohir]

Another option, the thing i do if im in a rush in combat and really dont wanna take the time to shuffle through my spells, is opening the spellbook. The game pauses while you do that and you can just go ahead and select the spells you want.

[Cal]

Originally posted by LocksmithArmy:

Im not sure I understand this. Many games or platforms use the right hand for movement, although it is the standard to use your left, it has not always been the case. You get used to the key bundings in a couple hours of game play.

I use a left-handed mouse, and squinching my hands together to use WASD movement with my right hand exacerbates RSI. There are a ton of obnoxious steps I can take in order to play a game with those enforced controls that assume right-handed ergonomics are the only ones that matter, like buying a right-handed mouse or rearranging my desk just for this one game or bla bla bla but these things are, as aforementioned, obnoxious and shouldn't be required.

Thus, unrebindable games are *functionally* unplayable for me.