Can't use the left mouse button anymore

[Japie]

After years of using the left mouse button, I now can't use it anymore? What nonsense is this??

[Napoléon]

Same for me idk why

[Sasha Mason]

There was an update that removed the ability from Left Mouse Button being rebound.
See: https://www.kineticgames.co.uk/blog/phasmophobia-crimson-eye-v01101

"You can no longer rebind the left mouse click or Xbox A/ PlayStation X button to any keybind, this is to prevent the UI becoming unusable"

[ Dovahbear ]

This is so dumb. I was wondering why my items weren't turning on. I really hated how you couldn't bind using light switches and doors to another key, but now they just completely take away using left click for anything but that. Years of muscle memory that I have to wipe and remap... wonderful.

[Paranormal M.I.T.]

I won't be playing anymore until they rectify this. THEY MADE IT UNPLAYABLE and in the middle of the Halloween event.

[Sasha Mason]

Originally posted by Paranormal M.I.T.:

I won't be playing anymore until they rectify this. THEY MADE IT UNPLAYABLE and in the middle of the Halloween event.

I am very curious, how is it unplayable?

[ Dovahbear ]

Originally posted by Sasha Mason:

Originally posted by Paranormal M.I.T.:

I won't be playing anymore until they rectify this. THEY MADE IT UNPLAYABLE and in the middle of the Halloween event.

I am very curious, how is it unplayable?

Imagine if, in a first person shooter, a dev just randomly rebound the primary fire key to right click for no reason, then made it unchangeable so left click is hardwired for using things and can't be rebound. Obviously not the same kind of game, but imagine the muscle memory and how much that would screw you up.

[Sasha Mason]

I guess I could see that, though as I am exclusively using the default binds, I'm only used to the default binds. Yeah, if the default binds would've changed randomly, I could see that, but that isnt what happened from what I understand. It only affects custom bindings. That is more like if you play a FPS game and decide you want primary fire to be right click, and somehow a lot of people prefer that, and then the dev decided that the fire key is now hard wired to left click (the default bind) instead.

I dunno, I havent played long enough for it to have even crossed my mind that I could bind anything to left click, since left click is already used for things by default, and at least playing with the default binds, nothing seems to be actually broken, which is why I have a hard time understanding how that makes it "unplayable".

It is a weird change nonetheless though since it also didnt seem like that binding more things to left click actually broke anything, so feels like they tried to fix a problem that didnt exist? I dunno, again, not played enough to have noticed anything so what do I know.

[Sukuna]

This is by far the dumbest change that was made imo I hope someone finds a workaround for it

[Poison Ivy]

It isn't unplayable for everyone but it is definitely a stupid change. I don't see any legitimate reason to make this change. They seriously need to bring it back. Using the mouse makes more sense than the original binds.

[Trefqon]

Feels like they couldn't figure out how to fix the LMB bugs (picking things up while in your journal and only being able to stop tier 3 D.O.T.S. when your inventory is full), so they removed the ability to bind it. "Unplayable" might be exaggerating, but this is for sure what's going to stop me from playing. If only they didn't set the defaults to such asinine keys in the first place.

[Nick_Alesia]

Originally posted by Paranormal M.I.T.:

I won't be playing anymore until they rectify this. THEY MADE IT UNPLAYABLE and in the middle of the Halloween event.

just rebound ur settings then its fixed

[Harley_Quinn666]

its so annoying to not use the left mouse button to grab any equipment anymore BUT i might of found a way around it by changing it to the mmb (middle mouse button)on pc, so instead of binding to a completely different keyon the keyboard as its next to eachother. hope this helps other people :)

[Spaceowl]

HOW TO ASSIGN LEFT MOUSE BUTTON LMB TO GRAB THINGS:

I just could not accept that this was disabled by the last patch, so wrote a short script with the scripting language AutoHotkey to bypass this.

My script is simple, I assigned grabbing things to key "k". My script does following, when you click LMB it detects if the current active app is the Phamophobia.exe, and if this is true it sends LMB and k press at the same time, two buttons at the same time. So you can grab, but also click in menus. I tested it and it works great. The AutoHotkey script:

#SingleInstance force
#IfWinActive ahk_exe Phasmophobia.exe
LButton::
SendInput, k
SendInput, {LButton}
return

Thaht's it! "LButton" is the LMB Left Mosue Button.

If you have another letter assigned for grabbing, change the k in the script with your letter. l, o, g or whatever. OR leave the script as it is and change grabbing in Phasmophobia simply to k.

Copy the six script lines from above, open Editor/Notepad. Just open start menu and in search field search for editor or notepad.

Paste the copied code there. Save file, in the file save dialog, select under file types "all files", give your name and at the end file extension .ahk

I.e. myfilename.ahk or Phasmo_LMB.ahk

To run this script while gaming, you need the AutoHotkey Runtime. Go to google, search for AutoHotkey, go to the AutoHotkey Website (first google result), to downloads and then version 1.1. Not version 2, my script is written in 1.1. During install choose custom installation, then 32-bit unicode. May restart Windows.

Run your script with doubleclick, when it's running it should have a tray icon with a huge H. After gaming, you can close it with right click on the tray icon.

Don't forget to assign k for grabbing in Phasmophobia OR change the letter k in the script to your assignment in Phasmophobia.

[Spaceowl]

Originally posted by Harley_Quinn666:

its so annoying to not use the left mouse button to grab any equipment anymore BUT i might of found a way around it by changing it to the mmb (middle mouse button)on pc, so instead of binding to a completely different keyon the keyboard as its next to eachother. hope this helps other people :)

Yes I did that with MMB :D Before I found a solution to use LMB again ^^

[WolfLink0370]

Originally posted by Harley's Lover:

It isn't unplayable for everyone but it is definitely a stupid change. I don't see any legitimate reason to make this change.

It's literally said within the description of the change; it was because people were rebinding things in such a way that made their game menus completely impossible to open/use.

In other words; other players were rebinding LMB in stupid ways, causing their games to brick due to impossible controls.

This change is kind of a lose lose scenario for those who were using the feature properly, but speaking critically... I think the devs made the right call here in prioritizing soft lock prevention. Whether or not this was the correct way to go about this however is debatable.