Help - Can't even pick up the Rifle.

[battlezoby]

I just started playing (unfortinately past the 2 weeks ) and can't even pickup the first rifle.

What's going on? (See screenshot below)

I redefined a lot of the keys in Setup and Num-9 for that seems like something I would set but it doesn't work. Not with Numlock on, or off. Tried normal "9" and the rest of keyboard.
Is there a "Pickup" key to set in settings?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3298317621

[Lecho]

Have you tried restoring your keyboard to its default settings?

[battlezoby]

I haven't yet found "Pick up" or "F9" in the menus although it's possible I'm missing something.

Unfortinately I'm reluctant to hit "Restore Defaults" because I'm left-handed and having all
keys that I probably redefined changed back to right handed would be close to just as bad as I'm not going to play the game without left-handed controls. I only spent a few minutes within the 2-week/2-hours period and it was probably to make sure most the key worked. I guess I should have been more thorough.

[Lecho]

By default, picking up an item is E. You must hold, not click. Try changing the interaction key to E and see if it works. Then change it to any one and check.
I checked at home, after changing the E key to 9 it works.

The default E key is also responsible for other actions. Interrogating the enemy and changing the scope of the scope.

[battlezoby]

Thanks Lecho. I'm glad I didn't take your advice per-se, (I didn't change my left-handed keybinds) but it turns out that holding Num-PlusSign (not Num9) did it. (I have Interaction bound to Num-PlusSign.) I figured that out because you said it was the "interaction key" and because you said I needed to hold it. I don't think I would have figured it out otherwise!

[battlezoby]

Not sure if I'm going to want to play this thought with it needing so many keys unless there's some point in time that I decide to make it my primary game. Just too darn many keys to keep track of. Already decded that about Sniper-2 with all the drone stuff and I'm leaning that way because of the scope adjustment. But maybe I could deal with just not setting the scope and just going with the lower wind lines.

Really wanted a game that was more fun and less realistic abiet future-tech realistic.

Hold your breath might make a difference in real life (abiet not so much when prone with your weight on your arms) but having to pointless push a button to be "more realistic" isn't a bad uninsightful uninspired game design IMO.

But still, might play it. We'll see. Thanks again.

[Lecho]

Unfortunately, we have no influence on the number of keys needed to play the game, but maybe you will be able to reconcile it somehow. Good luck.

[battlezoby]

Originally posted by Lecho:

Unfortunately, we have no influence on the number of keys needed to play the game, but maybe you will be able to reconcile it somehow. Good luck.

Can you think of any of FPS's that might be more to my liking?

The Borderlands franchise is great (but already played or playing that.)

I loved older versions of Resident Evil and Dead Rising on the Wii where the controller is very intuitive and sometimes even VR-like, but despite "not having too many buttons" I can't deal with the controller - more specifically how look direction on the right hand (my "bad hand') is ovrely sensitive and I always end up lookup at the sky or ground just because I'm trying to turn left or right.

On the Wii the two joysticks are seperate and can into either hand. I really hate that Nintendo just decide to shutdown the network on it and that nothing else will use it's controller. Although it's not great for a PC in that you can't sit too close to the sensor bar for it to work unless games don't rely on that feature.) The sensor bar and real-life IR laser let you litterally point-and-shoot just like a read gun. (But ussually without having to worry about the wind, distance-drop and having to hold your breath.)

BTW... I found the idea of setting the scope for distance to be pretty bizzare. The scope is sci-fi level of intelegent and should be able to just adjust for the distance and wind for you since it senses both and obviously even knows where the target is. (Well, I guess it's the binoculars that do some of that but the two obviously ought to be better intergrated.)

[bourland]

I could not pick up my very first rifle because I was in the look down sights mode...I just right clicked to get out of it and the [E] pick up showed. If you are keeping your rifle and grenades then be careful about where the E key is used