What the ♥♥♥♥ are these controls?

[UnlivingEnd]

Seriously keyboard controls are insane! Why is j activate?!

[Taklu]

I agree I might just have to refund this game because starting the game there is no indication to how to select New Game or list any control.

Why do arrow keys not work or Enter. The Controls menu does not list anything for the menu. I stumbled into it by key mashing and the key bind did not work to start a new game.

[anon8431]

Yeah, it's the worst control scheme I've ever seen in a game. At a guess, they have the keyboard and controller input go through the same code path, not realising they should be handled differently.

... and by the time they saw the problem, it was way too late to fix (cheaply).

There's a pinned topic about it here:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/606150/discussions/0/3043859512561797915/

That being said, AFAIK most PC players using keyboard seem to refund it. So they're probably getting a bad reputation hit / lost sales due to doubling down instead of fixing it.

[DatFancy]

I only play keyboard. Yes entering the game was wonky. But I simply experimented with keys, looked at the screen for cues *like they show you which keys change menu left and right* and eventually I was able to reprogram my keys.

I use Q for inventory.
F for interact.
LShift for switch weapons.
Mouse for attack and block.

Entering the game is annoying, but it is still possible to play with keyboard.

[IrisNebula]

I have been playing with WASD+IJKL (plus the keys in between for aux functions) for years on various older games with no mouse support (mostly emulated old consoles) and I came up with that control scheme myself because it's actually the best controller mapping for a keyboard. I guess the developers realised that too, independently.

Of course, it is very unintuitive these days with control schemes evolving so their biggest fault is not communicating it better. As a result, by the time you find out how it works, you probably are frustrated already instead of figuring out that it does indeed work great! The game should launch with a big pop-up illustrating the controls when no controller detected, like it does later in the game with game mechanics.

I haven't played like that for some time cause I always use controllers nowadays when supported and it's so much better, but I will double down that this is indeed the best possible control scheme for this game if playing on keyboard.

[Swain]

i refunded it. my controler doenst work.