Why, oh why do we have fixed keyboard configuration

sparhawk on 30/6/2010 at 13:07

I'm really pissed off about this, so I have to vent somewhere wheer people are who may understand it. :devil:

So yesterday I installed an RPG game, went into the keyboard configuration and everything is there. I can configure ALL the keys and map them to the functions that I want. ALL? No! Not all of them! As happens quite often, though I really fail to see why this is the case, some games insist that you have to use the left and right mousebuttons for fire buttons. Great! So whats the point of letting remap you all the keys, when they stop short in the middle and suddenly say "Jah, this particular key is SO important that you absolutely have to use it in the way that WE want and not you, HAHA!"

Well, I was really pissed off, because I can't really play with a WASD setup and playing with the cursor keys is quite awkward when you have to use the left hand on the right sided mouse. :grr:

So I thrashed the game (yet another one) and installed the next one just to experience the exact same. :grr: :grr: :grr:

I mean, come on! So the developers go to the trouble of creating code for mapping 99% of the keys, so why is it so hard to get into their stupid brains that they should go all the way and map 100%. The code is there, just use it and don't talk about object oriented programming when you don't do it anyway.

mothra on 30/6/2010 at 13:10

adapt. engage. survive.

sparhawk on 30/6/2010 at 13:12

That's not really an option. Ever since I started to play FPS games (back in the good old days of DOOM 1) I was using the mouse buttons for forward/backward and the CTRL key for firing, and I'm not going to change that. :p

DDL on 30/6/2010 at 13:27

Quote Posted by sparhawk

O_o

Fuck me, I hated the shit out of that system even when it was new.

Have you considered using some sort of program like glovePIE, to reprogram your inputs?

ZylonBane on 30/6/2010 at 14:21

Quote Posted by sparhawk

This system is profoundly retarded.

You need to acknowledge that you have a problem. Only then can you begin to overcome it.

sparhawk on 30/6/2010 at 14:23

Quote Posted by DDL

O_o

Fuck me, I hated the shit out of that system even when it was new.

LOL! I find this to be the fastest configuration, because I have all the motion on my mouse, and all other keys on the left hand to have minimum hand movement while playing.

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Have you considered using some sort of program like glovePIE, to reprogram your inputs?

AH! That sounds like a real life saver! :D I definitely will check this out.

Up till now I only had an emulator from Pinnacle which allows to you program different configurations and play any game with a gamepad controller, but it can only do gamepads to keys/mouse and not the other way around. Hmmm... Maybe it can, I have to check it out as I never had used it for that purpose.
If not glovePIE definitely looks like what I need. Even though I think it is a shame that you have to resort to such tools just for basic input operations. I can understand that game developers can't support all kind of input devices like glovePIE does, but at least keyboard and mouse should NEVER be a problem.

DDL on 30/6/2010 at 15:13

Also, despite frequently not permitting it in the game itself, quite a few games will let you rebind things (including mouse clicks) via .ini settings.

Pretty much anything in any version of the unreal engine should allow this, for example.

Wormrat on 30/6/2010 at 15:27

Quote Posted by sparhawk

I have all the motion on my mouse

How do you strafe? I could get behind "all motion controlled by the mouse" if it weren't for this. Strafe button? No thanks.

Salvage on 30/6/2010 at 15:50

I use Autohotkeys to get around this issue.

lost_soul on 30/6/2010 at 16:46

Wow. This sounds almost as annoying as those developers who disable/hide access to the in-game console by default. Completely pointless and just an annoyance.