I can only imagine what people with physical disabilities and assistive devices deal with if it’s this hard for me.
I learned AutoHotkey and I genuinely couldn’t play many of the games I do without it.
Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves
M1ch431@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
I’m left-handed and while key rebinding has gotten better in some ways, it has recently regressed in gaming in the past few years.
I make custom layouts for every game I play. IJKL to move, Semicolon to sprint, Quote to crouch, etc. I find many games where “I” is hard-bound to inventory, some bindings overlap keys I’ve bound, some keys are unable to rebound entirely in-game, some keybindings menus require jank to actually work, and so forth.
It’s very frustrating. I can only imagine what people with physical disabilities and assistive devices deal with if it’s this hard for me.
chunes@lemmy.world 4 days ago
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Unfortunately, some games seem to monitor keyboard activity directly, not letting AutoHotkey assignments take effect.
M1ch431@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Yeah, I’ve encountered a few games that do that.
M1ch431@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Same, but I left Windows. On Linux/Wayland, it’s a bit more difficult and less powerful with current tools. AHK can’t be beat.
badabim@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s also pretty bad when you’re not using QWERTY layouts.
coriza@lemmy.world 4 days ago
When the game let’s you rebind some but not all keys it is like spraying lemon on the wound, at least when no key is refundable you can guess they could not be arsed to do it, but when they just do a shitty job on it is like it was almost there, why not do it right?
M1ch431@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Yeah, really. Like a lot of games refuse to let me bind “1” through “0”, “[”, “]”, “;”, “'”, “,”, “.”, “/”, ""
Like c’mon. I need those keys. It’s feels like laziness and is sometimes the result of a console-focused development cycle (with PC as an afterthought). They add all the major keys, but those special characters? Nah.