not gonna lie, its very annoying to use arrow keys/AXYB keys to do controls. its probably gonna be easier for others to play stuff. thanks.
I hear you, and I agree. The current key setup for Player 1 — arrow keys + a (or space) / b (or control) / x / y — is designed to provide a compatibility path between the gamepad and mobile (gamepad-like on screen controls) controls and keyboard controls. But they are not great for playing on the keyboard.
What I can think of is to provide re-mappable keyboard shortcuts, with two pre-defined mappings: the compatibility one (current) and one well suited for keyboard play (for example on US keyboard: arrows = WASD, a/b/x/y = a slice of keys for the right hand). I imagine the key map to be stored in the user’s profile, so that all games played with that user logged in would use the selected map.
Would that be useful to you? Do you have a preference for the keys you’ll like to see proposed by default?
MAYBE there could be like, 3 different types of key mapping (for console, tablets and computers) but remappable keyboard shortcuts sounds nice.
Would you be happy, on computers, to have the following mapping:
- Gamepad Digital Pad => WASD
- Gamepad A/B/X/Y => arrow keys
?
sure! sounds great for me (also with that, remove the UI of it on PC. thanks)