A message to Bethesda from the PC community

Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 1:04 pm

Well it was meant to be exaggerated, replying to the other guy. But maybe for the game itself I would compare it to buying a car and having the steering wheel on the wrong side for that country. Yeah I have major gripe with hardcoded keys especially ones that do not adapt to Azerty Keyboards or you can't change them all in menus and ui for example, even for left handers or people that do not want to use Wasd. There are workarounds but it is just plain awkward ... for 2015 AAA title. That had 4 years in the making.

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Tanya Parra
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:26 am

Yeah some like the stearing wheel from this manufactor and others from the other one. Both are expensive.

Car allegories arent always usefull or make sense.

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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 4:46 pm

Personally, I have a problem with the key bindings.

For instance, building things is a pain in the rear for me. I have E bound to "move forward." I know this is weird to some people, and that I might be the only one. However, I've had this binding in virtually every game I've played for over 12 years now and it hasn't been a problem until now.

And yes, I have other problems with the E key -- like looting. What's up with E being looting some things (containers) and KEYPAD-ENTER, as I have it mapped, doing it other times (single items)?

Anyway, I can't move forward or backwards when I'm trying to place a building. I'm assuming that you are supposed to be able to do so -- maybe you aren't -- but if you aren't, that's a whole other problem. I'm left with guessing that a building (or whatever) will fit in the space I want it to. I can move side to side, because my left and right strafe "keys" are mapped to my mouse buttons #4 and #5 and those don't interfere with the built-in key binds.

I would be nice to have the ability to have two keys bound to the same action; in my case E and ARROW UP would operate as move forward where I could use E to move my character and UP ARROW when building, as many games do.

If you have suggestions, I open to them.

(Disclaimer: I'm at work at the moment, and can't check for accuracy of my statements. I'm going off memory, which when you are as old as I, can be sketchy at times.)

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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:49 am

See, for me this keybinding mapping we got isnt a problem, and maybe is bc i play MMO games, so all the keybinding they give me this time are the same i use for playing MMO. So i have 0 idea about the problems ppl are having.

Still i understand how ppl can get frustrated about this, and this isnt just for Bethesda game, but more and more game arent giving us the option to redo key binds on pc.

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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 11:13 am

Well, seeing how this thread has moved to personal attacks and name calling it's time to lock it.

It's fine to disagree here but it's not fine to do so by dishing out personal attacks. If I have time to clean it up and give it another go later I'll try to do so. But currently it's unacceptable.

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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:51 pm

I have finally had a moment to clean this thread up. Gone are the flamebait, console blaming/bashing, name calling, flames and any post that quoted those posts. Please don't respond to flame posts but rather report them and let a moderator take care of it. Responding in like will end up getting you both warnings.

I will reopen this thread again but if we have to remove further messes and flames it will be closed for good and warnings with suspensions will be handed out to everyone. Those making the flames and those responding to flames.

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