#Allow rebind movement keys!

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open mulch
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Dudes - seriously;

It's 2025, and we don't have basic accessibility features as simple as rebinding movement keys, yet I can boot up any DOS game from 30+ years ago and rebind all of my keys. Not everyone plays with WASD, or has a QWERTY layout keyboard. The easiest fix to this, is to simply allow everyone to rebind any and all keybinds as they wish.

idle axle
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They're going to add this in future

open mulch
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I sure hope so. To many games as of late limit players into the singular WASD layout, and it's really getting tiring having to deal with it on more ergonomic, but non-QWERTY keyboards.

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RIP to all my left-handed gamers who use IJKL and a left-hand mouse.

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Ugh - The invert controls don't invert the zero-g jetpack flight either.

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Inverting flight controls doesn't invert the mouse crosshair, wtf.

ashen wadi
idle axle
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They've said this

ashen wadi
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have they said anything about how long it will take?

old stirrup
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You dont have to play the demo if you don't like it. Your whining is unbecoming.

wild oyster
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Came here to post this feedback as well. Not being able to change all the keybinds is just absolutely dumb. I refuse to play or buy any game that hardcodes keybinds.

old stirrup
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Wah wah my video game. Don't play it and we will miss u not at all.

flint anchor
open mulch
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@old stirrup no need to be edgy here, ya little cunt.

old stirrup
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No need for it but you get it anyways. I hate when people get something for free, and earlier then expected and still find something to whine and complain about. Childish behavior.

wild oyster
old stirrup
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Now we're name calling like big boys?

finite remnant
old stirrup
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Did u just assume my gender?

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Please keep it up guys, I'm almost finished. One or two more comments and I'll pop and go to bed.

river leaf
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yah i literally can't play until this is implemented, my keyboard is not qwerty soo how am i supposed to wasd?

sweet reef
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Just adding another +1 to this suggestion, I don't use wasd so the game is nearly unplayable for me at the moment

glass pagoda
open mulch
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Even John Romero is a lefty player

hollow ocean
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Ok people. Stay civil. This is not an issue worthy of such drama.

We are literally fixing this and will be testing internally tomorrow. Have a little patience ❤️

open mulch
sweet reef
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it feels like in the last ~5-10 years its become a bit of a crapshoot with each new game if they're going to have serious key-rebind issues

hollow ocean
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  1. The notion of being able to patch instantly
  2. Prioritizing other ”larger bugs” (crashes, disconnects etc)
  3. Not enough thorough testing before release.
open mulch
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  1. The loss of "Input Engineers" as a job position in studios that seems to have largely just disappeared after 2005 across the industry.
sweet reef
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well, cheers, from us freaks for working on this, lol. personally since i was a kid I used a monstrous combination of "RMB forward" "M backwards" ",. strafe left/right"

open mulch
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I definitely don't miss when LShift was ADS/Zoom, Space was Use/Interact, and RMB was Jump in the wild-west of control layouts during the mid-late '90s and early '00s

bronze oracle
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We've always had our list of must-have accessibility options, the game will be so accessible in the future.
But we gotta start somewhere and this is just a demo before early access even starts.

But we appreciate the enthusiasm and being hyper clear on what's important to implement early

hollow ocean
open mulch
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Some engines better than others, for sure. Some input systems are just basic templates though; which is why we have keybinding issues in other titles that haven't gotten their green checkmark through testing.

glass pagoda
# hollow ocean The game engines sort this nowadays. No need for such engineers.

I gotta disagree captain so many games have messed up controls, my main point and reference as always Star Wars outlaws vs. gta (any series three and after)…
Star Wars outlaws share controller settings across three different systems for literally no reason. You can’t set controls for walking and piloting to be different and the problem is they should never feel the same. I literally can’t play outlaws for that reason the game is a literal how to get players to divest walking …
now you take gta your driving, your walking, your piloting, and boating they all feel different so it feels like your doing something different the feel of world simulation…
every game should establish a feel of world simulation and players experience that through controls, that’s why bungie works hard for the right shooter experience while having lackluster story (cough destiny)…

hollow ocean
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There's a difference between doing it bad and having a dedicated engineer to only deal with this sort of stuff.
What I'm saying is having a dedicated person only dealing with input is not a good solution.

light sorrel
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ESDF > ALL

open mulch
# light sorrel ESDF > ALL

*EDSF (Us OGs denote Up/Down/Left/Right from arcade and 4th-5th gen home consoles, before WSAD became a thing, and was later referred to as WASD).

Ironically, Half-Life's original release by Sierra was the first game shipped with "WSAD" as a control option, but defaulted to EDSF, as Gabe himself is an EDSF-er.

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W is for use/interact key, with A being for crouch

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I'll also never understand why we switched CAPSLOCK and LCTRL positions