Still No Key Rebinding?

I figured this argument would have died with the most recent keybinding tweet. (aka the second reply)

 

I simply don't have any accuracy using a mouse with my right hand, and while I can use WASD keys with my right hand, it's impossible to use space to jump or a bunch of other associated keybindings. You're right, the arrow keys are not optimal for gaming, but as a left-handed gamer, I use IJKL and associate the keys around it just like a WASD setup uses. It's perfect for me, and I'm not interested in taking weeks (not a minute amount of time, as you suggest) to build up accuracy using a mouse with my right hand. I'm in my 30s, I've been gaming for YEARS, and this is very, very rarely an issue -- largely because keybinding is rarely missing.

I literally just got the game. I've gone and found the tweet you mentioned. I'm glad it's coming, but keybinding should have been in there before they sold it the way they did on Steam.

 

Hopefully we'll be moving on from this soon enough...

 

For future posters who are worried about kebinding, the LEAD DEVELOPER has recently said in reply to the
following :

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Tiy Lead Developer Starbound Developer replies:

It's not easy to do and we're already working on it. Thank you for you patience and I do appreciate your patience and profound politeness.
I am glad everyone is calm, cool, and collected on this forum. What a wonderful community we have here, don't you think.(paraphrase)
Tiy, Jan 15, 2014

You can see the actual conversation HERE

 

I get that you are upset, but I'm a left handed gamer too and I use the defaults just fine. The game is extremely playable from a control perspective for a lot of people, but it is early access, and obviously, a work in progress. Even better, they listened to the community and keybindings are apparently going to be in next patch, so don't worry!

 

i honestly find ship upgrades need more love then keybinding

even if they did add keybinding chances are im not gonna change it cus we have been used to it for months

 

That is just such a incredibly unhelpful thing to say. It's obviously not extremely playable for these people and it won't be more so just because it is for someone else. Handedness is pretty damn hard wired and it's incredibly difficult to adapt to a different one.

I for one couldn't possibly imagine using the mouse with my left hand and have great difficulties with standard vertical analog stick orientation, I need to have it inverted to feel comfortable with it.

I think it's reasonable to demand a feature that is standard in pretty much every single PC game. Of course, it's advisable to be polite when doing so and be patient when it has been stated that it is being worked on.

Me, I just want key binding so that I can bind the "drop" command to anything but Q.

 

http://community.playstarbound.com/...the-upcoming-patch.64519/page-18#post-1682529
Yup standard to fully released games, we are in phase one of beta....
http://playstarbound.com/how-the-beta-is-going-to-work/

 

I would disagree. Case in point look at vehicles. People are very adaptable and if one's country drives on the right side of the road good luck learning to drive a manual otherwise. I don't know any lefties that swap analog sticks either on controllers, they just play the game but I'm sure there are some out there now that this has gone multi-page.
Are key bindings unreasonable? Of course not.
But, this is one topic of a few that's just been spamming the board lately and will likely be made completely moot in the next patch.
I hope the ones that are screaming for it take the time to say thanks.

 

lol I highly doubt that, like any previous issue people will no longer talk about and not even say thanks.

 

Try reading my entire post next time.

I'm not complaining about it not being in already. I think it should have been in to begin with, but for some reason it wasn't and that's why we're asking for it.

I'm defending asking for a feature that is standard for just about all games, while stating that people need to exercise patience when the developers have clearly stated that yes, it's going to be put in the game. There's no reason to passive aggressively remind me that this is a beta, because believe me, I'm well aware of that.

 

Nah. At this point, we just like hearing ourselves argue. That's really what it is.

 

then what are you arguing about?

 

The right to ask for features that are standard in other games.

With the disclaimer that we are polite when we do so and patient when work is being done to give us what we want.

But you obviously forgot to take notice of that second part and assumed that I was just mindlessly complaining.

 

You know it's beta as you have said, so you know that features are not in game for a reason. So your argument is that you want to argue without getting flack even though you already know that the problem will be fixed....

 

Not really. I just want to counter the knee jerk response of "It's in beta" as an excuse for each and every development oversight or delay.

And again, there was no complaint in my original post. You're just trying to start an argument when there isn't one to be found.

 

But what is there to counter when it's a fact?

 

"It's a beta" is not a valid argument against people asking for a feature. Especially not a feature as basic as this.

Developers either explicitly refusing the feature or stating that they're actively working on the feature is a valid reason to stop asking for it and/or patiently wait for it to be completed.

Now, if you're done being offended on behalf of the developers over imaginary slights, can we get on with our lives and go back to waiting for this feature to make it into the game?

 

It is when it comes to something the devs themselves have said is a planned feature.

 

Are you illiterate?

I didn't ask for the feature in this topic.

I only stated that it's it's not unreasonable to expect and ask for a feature like it.