Check my Earlier ESDF Post might help. Good Luck
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This wouldn't be an issue if say Shroud or XQC wanted to rebind half the keys and favored toggle ADS to hold. Proof is in the pudding when they made a "streamer friendly" toggle to the game to get rid of nude scenes and so they don't get DMCA striked on streams/videos. If you can actively give the game/devs bad press because you have a big audience then you'll most likely get your demands.
Right -- there are lots of issues with the game right now. But that's the same with the launch of any massive title. Pick anything throughout the history of gaming. If we want giant, sweeping games like this, there will be bugs.
But, the control thing, while frustrating, is not a total gamebreaker for most players. I empathize completely with players that have physical conditions that make it overwhelmingly challenging to work around, but that's also not really an inherent problem with the game. It's unfortunate that certain people are affected more drastically by certain issues. Such is fate. We can certainly make the issue known, but we can't start banging the table and pointing fingers because we happen to suffer misfortune. (Look at me -- after the Day 0 patch landed -- I couldn't even play at all! My game crashes immediately upon entering or leaving character creation. I can't even get to the tutorial! Man...I wish I could deal with keybind issues...)
So, like I said. Workarounds are there. If they're just not feasible for some people, or if they're not available, then we can simply make it known and patiently wait. I'm pretty sure that improvements will be made to the controls, but maybe not as a #1 priority. It's still the first day!
Even with my own situation, I am 100% sure the issues will be resolved. Patience is magical.
Well, let me join this topic.. Highly disappointed I cannot play this game now as I'm also a left-handed PC gamer who's been using arrow keys since the early 90's and cannot rebind the keys I need in this game to play properly.. Every now&then a game pops up with issues like this, but I didn't expect to see it in this one.. I could go thru all the trouble of trying to fix things manually changing .cfg files etc, but I really don't feel like it right now.. So i'm gonna leave this game alone for now and hope they fix it soon in some patch or whatever.. Big disappointment for sure..
We are happy being patient and waiting, but as said many a time now, we need the devs to promise us that this will be fixed and that we do actually matter to them, because everything so far shows otherwise. If disabled or a leftie you don't matter. That is literally all that is coming from this. I appreciate that may not be your or CDPR views but from reading everything, and the situation that is the only explanation, especially given people of the effected groups are saying as much. You comment about not game breaking, it is. Read how many of us are saying that. Workarounds may exist but it's still crazy. If the game bugs, crashes, yeah that's not good, but at least we can explore the world. Instead I am stuck either on a menu or basically having a character that I can't use, with many other. This topic wouldn't be 12 pages long nor people so frustrated if wasn't a big issue. The fact my posts are getting likes, and the mods trying to justify something that in 2020 isn't justifiable rather than getting us the answers or at least a dev to settle things down. We aren't asking for much, just to be recognized, given the info needed to calm down and wait for a fix, rather than people on a forum who are saying they aren't CDPR but also talking for them. It's a shit situation for all of us, but to move forward that needs recognizing and fixing
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It's not a bug nor massive title, it was just massive hype for a totally messed up release!
Sorry but i don't know any other dev studio being so incompetent to release a game with hardcoded basic movement keybidings!
We paid for this product while being almost unplayable for many.
Silence from the devs is rude so maybe we need to be rude too!
This is how garbage developers do their job and communicate with their customers.
I understand the calls from some for patience .. but, the context is this .. the game was in development for 7 years.
7 years.
After reading various other comments in this thread and another thread about a person with quite restricting disabilities where they use multiple controller (some virtual) interfaces and equipment to play other games without issue, I've come to this conclusion.
Cyberpunk 2077 was primarily and specifically developed by and for right-handed fully able-bodied persons .. no inclusive or extra-inclusive considerations regarding player and equipment combinations were made during the 7 years of development.
If they were, this thread would not exist.
7 years.
After reading various other comments in this thread and another thread about a person with quite restricting disabilities where they use multiple controller (some virtual) interfaces and equipment to play other games without issue, I've come to this conclusion.
Cyberpunk 2077 was primarily and specifically developed by and for right-handed fully able-bodied persons .. no inclusive or extra-inclusive considerations regarding player and equipment combinations were made during the 7 years of development.
If they were, this thread would not exist.
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Thanks to all who've already noted above; you can remap keys via the UserSettings.json file (in the location specified above as well). Like many; I'm a L handed gamer the locked out arrow (character movement keys) made the game nearly unplayable for me; I was getting my elbow kicked in combat over and over; due to 25 years of muscle memory making me activate the wrong (arrow) keys in combat. Oddly; the game let me remap vehicle movement to the arrow keys with NP?!
MAKE A BACK UP COPY of your UserSettings.json file BEFORE you try editing it!!!!!
I've used MS Notepad to edit the WASD movement keys to my arrow keys, and the jump key to R Shift, sprint to Numberpad 1, and crouch toggle to NP 2.
My game is now playable----so far I've noticed no ill effects by remapping these keys (your experience might be different!).
CDPR was quite responsive and timely, in my opinion, to customer issues with TW3----I'm confident they'll take care of business for us equally well---though it won't be as soon as many of us would like. Be patient, and good luck!
MAKE A BACK UP COPY of your UserSettings.json file BEFORE you try editing it!!!!!
I've used MS Notepad to edit the WASD movement keys to my arrow keys, and the jump key to R Shift, sprint to Numberpad 1, and crouch toggle to NP 2.
My game is now playable----so far I've noticed no ill effects by remapping these keys (your experience might be different!).
CDPR was quite responsive and timely, in my opinion, to customer issues with TW3----I'm confident they'll take care of business for us equally well---though it won't be as soon as many of us would like. Be patient, and good luck!
If it was so possible to find an alternative, I don't think most of us would be here saying that we can't play the game.
Since I am a new user I cant start a thread but the control scheme is unacceptable - it must be possible to remap to the arrow keys - this is supposed to be a AAA title and that makes this unaceeptable!!!!
That's probably because you trained you self to use it on games. WASD didn't exist when I started playing PC games
Same.
Always been Arrows keys since .. well, let's just say the mid 90s for PC gaming.
Close to 25 years.
I was not a Commodore or Atari child.
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So, I can customize my penis in your game, but not my keybindings? Seriously? This is what you've focused on?
The bigger a company gets, the more out of touch they get with their user base.
Also, if, at any point in your game's development, you come to a meeting and begin discussing things like, "We're going to have to limit what keys can be remapped", then GO BACK TO THE ENGINE / GAME DESIGN TABLE! Figure out what you're doing so wrong that you have to limit options and keep people from playing your game the way that they're comfortable playing!
Look, I know that PC's have hundreds of possible video cards, chipsets, CPUs, RAM amounts, OS build versions... BUT A KEYBOARD?! THERE'S ONLY A COUPLE OF OPTIONS OUT THERE and somehow you've decided you're going to nail-down how a user may interact with your game via a HID device? Seriously?
You know, this had to come up dozens, if not hundreds of times, during QA/Game Testing.
Tester: Hey, I can't remap my keys?
QA: No, sorry, you can't.
Tester: Why?
QA: You just can't.... It's... Complicated....
I guess it's time to request that refund. I'm tired of supporting these half-mutant PC release of AAA titles they're targeting console gamers with above all others.
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So, I can customize my penis in your game, but not my keybindings? Seriously? This is what you've focused on?
The bigger a company gets, the more out of touch they get with their user base.
Also, if, at any point in your game's development, you come to a meeting and begin discussing things like, "We're going to have to limit what keys can be remapped", then GO BACK TO THE ENGINE / GAME DESIGN TABLE! Figure out what you're doing so wrong that you have to limit options and keep people from playing your game the way that they're comfortable playing!
Look, I know that PC's have hundreds of possible video cards, chipsets, CPUs, RAM amounts, OS build versions... BUT A KEYBOARD?! THERE'S ONLY A COUPLE OF OPTIONS OUT THERE and somehow you've decided you're going to nail-down how a user may interact with your game via a HID device? Seriously?
You know, this had to come up dozens, if not hundreds of times, during QA/Game Testing.
Tester: Hey, I can't remap my keys?
QA: No, sorry, you can't.
Tester: Why?
QA: You just can't.... It's... Complicated....
I guess it's time to request that refund. I'm tired of supporting these half-mutant PC release of AAA titles they're targeting console gamers with above all others.
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Ahhh yeah.. another lefty here who ALWAYS uses the arrow keys to move. I just played for an hour and had to move my keyboard a foot to the right to do so and it was extremely awkward and unnatural feeling. Please address this as soon as humanly possible as we are all fighting many many many years of muscle memory in the case of this old fart.
Well said - this old fart feels exactly the same
This is definitely an easy attitude to adopt; it's certainly how I feel (since it seems like the game was designed with a controller in mind, not KBM). But according to various sources it's breaking sales records for PC games. I think that PC gamers are much less of a "nuisance" than we might like to think given the apparent treatment; it seems that we're responsible for a huge part of their total sales. That doesn't make the state of the game any easier to understand; in fact, it simply makes everything even more bewildering.
Edit: Just did some cursory googling and it looks like roughly 30% of Witcher 3's sales were PC (which is apparently more than normal for a multiplatform game). 30% is much less than 70% but that's still a shit ton of money.
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As someone who used to work in SQA I agree that would have been the reaction.