Hardware Dvorak user here who has been using "AOEU" for movement since pre-Quake 1. WASD is not acceptable and will be a blocker to playing for me. Please give us key binding, even if via config script. I'm very excited for this game, but it's unplayable from the first moment like this.
As A TBoI Player I Didn't Find Many Problems With The Control Scheme But It Would Be Helpful To Have Key Mapping.
I agree. I dropped my extremely expensive loot when i accidentally pressed the q button.. This has been my only problem I've encountered, and I'd be over the moon if it could be solved.
Absolutely agree. Key binding is a near-universal feature in PC games and this is a MUST for Starbound. I know this is a beta/early access, but controls are a fundamental component of gameplay, not a matter of extra polish or ancillary features. Thus, even an alpha should have well-designed, fully functional controls, including customization options. Furthermore, the shoulder button options (in addition to hotkeys 1-0) are cute, but also rather puzzling in a game clearly designed primarily for PC mouse/keyboard play, not console/dual analog controller. They are even MORE puzzling when you can't map those "L/R" buttons to Mouse3, Mouse4, or whatever key strikes your fancy. Also, many PC gamers have gaming keypads that are rendered useless without key binding options. On a personal note, I have been playing ESDF, not WASD, for almost 20 years. Why? Because it gives you many more keys within easy reach, PLUS you don't have to shift your hand over awkwardly whenever you want to type chat or quickly hit a hotkey... why make your brain re-learn the muscle memory for hitting keys that you've spent so much time pressing while typing normally?
Even as a lefty I do not find the key binding a pain, but I would like the option to choose my own key bindings.
Hey guys! I'm sorry for the oversight. We do plan to add the ability to reconfigure the key bindings soon. We've got a few lefties on our team (including me!) who all just happen to play video games righty.
Yay! Thank you! As a leftie that plays right handed, I understand kind of, but I rebind everything to hell anyway. xD
I'm right handed but play as a leftie My right shoulder gets stuck if I use the mouse too much with my right hand...
I can't tell you have many times I've thrown my Pickaxe or Flashlight by pressing Q. Also, reaching the i button is a pain. Happy to hear that you guys are on top of this.
Looking forward to being able to rebind the controls. Half my steam list is neck deep in this game, and I want to join in the fun!
Yeah lefty here too, I dislike the wasd layout. A suggestion, as an interim step to key binding, what about a simple checkbox in option for right or left play? right would use wasd as input and left would use the pl;' keys ( not currently used by anything else in game I think)
Glad to see you're looking into it. Even just a config file would make us happy for now. I'm amazed that, with so many other settings being set in easy-to-change text files, why of all things you didn't have key bindings there to begin with...
Since you are probably in the middle of implementing this, I thought it would be a good time to recommend that you make sure toallow the primary and secondary actions, aka the mouse buttons, to be rebound as well. Sometimes games forget this. I have actually injured my hand from too much Starbound over the past few days. All because I have to constantly hold down that left mouse button, and I am only used to having to click it in most other games. Even constant clicking is different from constant holding the button I guess, and my hand was just not ready for such a drastic increase in strength requirement. Either way, for a day my hand had this splitting pain and I had to use my Wacom tablet to continue playing... ya I mean you think that was going to stop me? This could be avoided if I could just bind the main action and secondary actions to keys on the keyboard.
yay \o/ I use a dvorak keyboard layout and usually play with .oeu (ESDF on QWERTY keyboard) instead of WASD, so playing is kinda impossible right now...
Tiy tweeted an in-game picture of a key binding feature. They are working on it. http://i.imgur.com/LgT7Yfv.png Thanks a lot devs ! Such a great team.
