Gamers - question, kind of random, but do you normally change your keybinds when you play games? 🤔 Just curious 🧐, because I never do. I'm averse to it. I'm literally trying to get my 🧠 learn to twist my hand to press the R key with my left middle finger while my ☝️ is pressing D... I'm a wonky guy - ThreadSky

datvivar.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Gamers - question, kind of random, but do you normally change your keybinds when you play games? 🤔

Just curious 🧐, because I never do. I'm averse to it. I'm literally trying to get my 🧠 learn to twist my hand to press the R key with my left middle finger while my ☝️ is pressing D... I'm a wonky guy

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vravl.bsky.social•2 days ago

If a game deviates from the 'universal language' of keybinds/buttons, I'll change it. if I can't I'll usually struggle for a while.

Top button (PS triangle, Nintendo X, Xbox Y) usually opens the menu in JRPGs, in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 it opens the map. I still misclick and I'm 50+ hours in. 🥴

datvivar.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'd expected more people to say that.

Nintendo and PS always did the opposite or something right? Each game I play, I relearn the new control schema, every time... I cannot help myself haha.

Thanks for the answer!

ceu---azul.bsky.social•1 day ago

I just love how humans invent their own problems, it even pleases them to such an extent to post online about how utterly trapped they are inside prisons of their own making that could crumble at any time with but a wish

datvivar.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's one way to look at it. Thanks for sharing.

chiakitachibana.bsky.social•2 days ago

The only change i usually make is when sprinting or runing is set to pressing the stick, i prefrer to hold a shoulder button for that.

datvivar.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ya know, that might be the only change I could be okay making, sometimes...

Good answer and thanks for contributing. 😀

r0ttenpanda.bsky.social•2 days ago

when emulating a controller I use numpad for the buttons and triggers. Arrow keys for right stick camera movement. My left hand is solely for movement (WASD). Other than that, I usually go for default.

datvivar.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's interesting 🤔 I've never emulated a controller, and that would really change up everything haha.

Thanks for the answer. 😊

nesstalgic.posts.games•2 days ago

I change them if the controls are really wonky and hurt for repetitive tasks, or they need me to lift up my fingers to press and it messes with my hand placement too much.

datvivar.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thanks for the answer! That makes sense. 😊

Sounds like I'm definitely in the minority of sticking to the initial controls haha. 😅

shenobifactor.bsky.social•2 days ago

I have to if things feel off. If anything feels uncomfortable, I'll spend my whole time just thinking about how uncomfortable I am while playing instead of actually enjoying the game. 😅

datvivar.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's totally understandable. I partially worry that my trying to change keys will make things worse and/or start the learning curve over again.

So I just brute force/dexterity it until I find something that works... 🥲

Thanks for the great answer! 😊

shenobifactor.bsky.social•2 days ago

I honestly wish I could do that, because I'm probably not optimizing things efficiently for myself when I do it -- I just things to feel nice! I could imagine you ultimately benefiting from getting used to the expected control scheme normally in most cases. It's there for a reason! 😅

dsunderlin.bsky.social•2 days ago

Also why not just just take your index off of D to press R? Do you need to have both pressed?

datvivar.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's exactly it. I need to be strafing right and then press 'R' to do a bow 🏹 hop to my right... I've mistakenly jumped at the monster multiple times lol.

But I'm super stubborn with this stuff, I'll eventually find a way to naturally do it (even if it is unnatural haha) 😉

dsunderlin.bsky.social•2 days ago

I almost always change crouch and melee to mouse buttons

Controller always crouch on R3

annathelalafell.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's rare when I don't need to change a game's controls (controller btw).

I'm quite particular with how a game controls. If the controls really bother me, I often go into Steam Input to fix/add what I can. Gyro, button combos, adding toggles, turbos, etc.

datvivar.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wow, some extensive changes there (at least from my perspective haha 😊).

Thanks for the response! 🙏

skippharlow.bsky.social•2 days ago

With extra buttons on my mouse, I usually always rebind crouch to my mouse. I also usually change ‘interact’ to F. I like comfortability over getting through the learning curve.

datvivar.bsky.social•2 days ago

I always hammer through that learning curve haha... but it seems like changing crouch is a common answer.

Thanks for the input! 😊

skippharlow.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mostly change crouch, because then it frees up the C key for other priority actions. One example is games putting the inventory button as I, then I can change it to C or something else I’ve freed up.

bornformedia.bsky.social•2 days ago

I changed them for the first time in my life recently, for Nier Automata. Dodging was R2 which just felt very unnatural. Remapping it to circle saved many of my lives 😂

Normally I always try to give myself the time to readjust though

datvivar.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thanks for answering. Yeah, that's interesting - I always figure the devs had a default layout/schema for some reason, so I bend over backwards trying to make the default controls work 😅

bornformedia.bsky.social•2 days ago

Haha yeah that's usually what I think as well. And usually it does kind of make sense once you're used to it

But yeah, it never made any sense in Nier 😂

larrybelator.bsky.social•2 days ago

I do sparingly, usually to move hotkeys I don’t like to my mouse button 4 and 5

datvivar.bsky.social•2 days ago

Lots of ppl putting things on the extra mouse buttons... those buttons are wasted for me. 😅 Only ever use middle mouse and the scroll wheel.

Thanks for the answer! 😊

eldritchboy4.bsky.social•2 days ago

I use the controls as the devs wanted cause I'm an animal that adapts quickly to situations 🙂‍↕️ (also the devs used those keys for something I guess, I better respect that)

datvivar.bsky.social•2 days ago

No wonder we get along, *whew* I thought I was the only one lol. 😂

Thanks for the input. 🙏

eldritchboy4.bsky.social•2 days ago

Seeing the other replies yeah I guess we are the only ones 😅

justdanikat.bsky.social•2 days ago

For keyboard and mouse I usually change them because I'm left-handed so the defaults rarely work (e.g. try putting your right hand on WASD and reaching the space bar), also I have extra buttons on my mouse I want to use.
For controllers I usually keep the defaults.

justdanikat.bsky.social•2 days ago

Specifics vary by game of course but I usually move most things over to the number pad and arrow keys, because I find it more comfortable.

datvivar.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ah, yeah, I can see that (my brother is left handed - iirc he did something similar with many games).

Good answer and thanks for the response. 😊

mhbeergeek.bsky.social•2 days ago

Only on 1 of 2 conditions: a) The defaults just don't make sense to me from the start (rare); b) they're slightly different from another game I'm used to playing (more likely)

datvivar.bsky.social•1 day ago

I like those conditions/qualifiers (very logical). Thanks for the response! 😊

ryuugahideki.bsky.social•2 days ago

Most of the time I’m good with adjusting to each game’s default, but in FPS games I always need to have grenades/throwables and melee attacks mapped to my side mouse buttons. Toggle crouch also goes on left ctrl, if it isn’t already.

datvivar.bsky.social•2 days ago

So a couple of crucial switches for FPS games, got it. Thanks for sharing! 😊

schmiff.bsky.social•14 hours ago

No but I always invert the Y axis :)

datvivar.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Now that's scary 😯 - haha, jk. Thanks for the response. 😊

That might be the only thing I change that I didn't think of. I cannot do an inverted Y axis.

ashleyjohnsonuk.bsky.social•2 days ago

In the past I used to change them but nowadays I like to just keep them as they are 🙂

datvivar.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's interesting, migrating/evolving from one system to the other. Thanks for sharing and welcome to the keep them as they are club 😊

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