I want arrows keys mapped to camera!

I want arrow keys mapped to camera! so i can play with keyboard like in FFXI!

thats is all...

Her here! i agree 100%, i used to love playing xi with one hand and thats how i want to play xiv! no reason why kb layout cant be fully customizable, i mean half the keys do nothing to begin with.

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Originally Posted by NotApplicable

The arrow keys themselves can't be mapped to the camera as they're "fixed keys" for moving the cursor around. You can use the arrow keys on the keypad if you leave numlock on, though.

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Those are used for movement. The arrow keys control the camera. In FFXI's control scheme that is.

I don't see why we can't just map our controls the way we'd like to.

a friend refuses to play until they implement this

I remember talk of this being implemented, but sadly it never came to pass...

I would also like this. Maybe after the core of the game is up to par they could work on this.

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Originally Posted by Majidah

a friend refuses to play until they implement this

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Your friend is an arrogant moron then. :)

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Originally Posted by Vahzl

Your friend is an arrogant moron then. :)

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Why because he wants to play a game with a control scheme he is comfortable with? so we should all play games we dislike? The game can barely stand on it own merit with alot of people so something like an unintuitive control scheme would be enough to keep people from even trying it. unneeded insults do not make you seem more intelligent.

I like the current control scheme for some reason >.>

Oh ya some people do like the control scheme, i am fine with it myself as well. It would just be nice if it was a little more customizable because i loved the scheme in XI. It just flowed better for some reason. It would just be nice if they let people play their own way you know.

i agree , in FFXI wasd + arrow for camera = win :D

Really... it's quite silly. If the option to "lock" certain keys in place has been hard coded into FFXIV... well then I believe we have far greater things to worry about. Give users the ability to fully customize their gaming experience... especially when it comes to a minor issue such as this one.

No. More. Locked. Keys.

Aren't I, J, K and L mapped to the camera by default? And O and P are used for zooming in and out.

What is worse is some keys cannot be mapped whatsoever. Try mapping the z key or any non-alphanumeric key...

In FFXI I moved the camera keys slightly to the right since my hand hovers closer to enter instead over J. Couldn't do that for FFXIV since those keys are not mappable.

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Originally Posted by Vahzl

Your friend is an arrogant moron then. :)

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I won't play games that don't have "good" setups for using controllers.(This is becoming less of a concern, but I still look into it)

And like others have mentioned, regardless of control method, you should always allow people to change the controls. Should be automatic for any game.

I want all the keys can be reassign!!

shift + arrows = camera

There is no reason this cant be done, it used to be in Alpha and its in XI and can be done in just about every other game out there except XIV because XIV has to be the awkward one.

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Originally Posted by viion

There is no reason this cant be done, it used to be in Alpha and its in XI and can be done in just about every other game out there except XIV because XIV has to be the awkward one.

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The fact that the game fails on stuff that every f2p MMORPG gets right confirms that Tanaka had hipster cat in the damn payroll.


Camera arrows? Too mainstream!

I have my camera control on the arrows of my number block.

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Originally Posted by Majidah

a friend refuses to play until they implement this

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I can't play with a keyboard because of this (sorry, mouse control in this game is garbage), wtf were they thinking? It worked in XI, why "fix" something that wasn't broken?

edit: Movement on numpad, camera controls on arrow keys, for clarification.

Can we get an acknowledgement of this issue please? I understand that moderators can't possibly reply to every single request, but this is a big problem for the people who don't use a controller for this game.

this is the reason why i got a controller for this game. i don't know why they change things that already works well. it's almost like they've never heard of ffxi

I really craved this function when I first purchased the game...after some time I just got used to it.

If anything, I would want them moved to arrow keys so 'I' can be used for a Inventory hotkey.

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Originally Posted by JayvirDeforte

If anything, I would want them moved to arrow keys so 'I' can be used for a Inventory hotkey.

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That brings up another point about XIV being controller-biased. We'll see what they do about the UI improvements in June (I think? Or is it just the battle system). In its current state, XIV is far too slow to be pressing up, up, up, enter, down, down, down, etc for opening windows, or using abilities. And the same goes with the controller button presses, though you can't use key shortcuts like you can on a keyboard for that. You're stuck with manually going through all the menu options forever if you use a controller. But for the rest of us who play a PC game with a keyboard, I know its unfathomable to do so, my keyboard has about 100 more keys on it than a controller has buttons. I'm sure we can find a use for some of those keys.

Please god do this. It's a small matter, granted, but it's SO much easier on keyboard players. We simply use our thumbs while never having to move our right hand from the navigation controls. I'm sure their are more important matters to deal with, but this would be a god send.

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Originally Posted by TomRiddle

Please god do this. It's a small matter, granted, but it's SO much easier on keyboard players. We simply use our thumbs while never having to move our right hand from the navigation controls. I'm sure their are more important matters to deal with, but this would be a god send.

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amen!

-as an aside. If you like the new scheme you shouldn't have to fret that the xi system will be the only system (if they ever decide to bring it back) because they could just let you click a button that let you switch between styles... or (i know it's crazy) let you change any key to what you want.

Heya!

Actually, my preference with both FFXI (for the little I've played) and FFXIV is only the gamepad (now the FFXIV Gamepad with has the Function button in order to press F1, F2, Fn+1 keys from the gamepad), but when I don't have it, I just go:

WASD: to move around,
IJKL: to look around and
OP: to zoom the camera.

Actually I like it really much, but I think that a player has to map his/her own keys. If that messes up, just press the Reset button and everything becomes peaceful again =)

In conclusion: for the freedom of the players, I think the Fixed Buttons should be mappable. Let's hope that after these battle changes they'll do something for it.

See ya!

There's no reason why not everyone could be happy with their keyboard control scheme. They just need to give us the option to map keys like we see fit.

I also hate that we can't use the arrow keys to move the camera as it's very tedious so I just downloaded some tool which allowed me to enable my PS3 controller on my PC and I reconfigured the whole thing for my game pad (similar to XI)

For this reason I can chill back and play it as if it's on my PS3 win win!

So after a 4 month hiatus I decided to pop back on and check out what updates have happened. Unfortunately I find that the keyboard still cannot be remapped. Honestly, I don't care what you add to the game, if I'm not comfortable with the controls I'm not ever going to get into it past casual chatting with friends. I want the ability to re-map my keyboard to whatever configuration I desire, until that happens I will continue to find other means of entertainment.

Hey everyone! We know this has been a very popular topic on multiple occasions and the dev. team wanted to let you know that they have began working on increasing the key mapping settings. This will include being able to set the camera controls to the arrow keys!

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Originally Posted by Rukkirii

Hey everyone! We know this has been a very popular topic on multiple occasions and the dev. team wanted to let you know that they have began working on increasing the key mapping settings. This will include being able to set the camera controls to the arrow keys!

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Ooh! Ooh! What about Mouse3/Mouse4/Mouse5, MM keys, and F13->F20?

Very nice to hear!

Thanks so much for the reply.

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Originally Posted by Rukkirii

Hey everyone! We know this has been a very popular topic on multiple occasions and the dev. team wanted to let you know that they have began working on increasing the key mapping settings. This will include being able to set the camera controls to the arrow keys!

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Very nice! They may as well let the user remap everything to any key. There really isn't any reason not to do that.

In fact, some people need flexible remapping functionality because of disabilities.

Like this guy, who has to play with his head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVwGFkrxtPE

I had to log in to say thank you for the news on this Rukkirii. This has been bugging the heck out of me since beta and still does. Glad to hear this and hope it's for real this time (they said during beta it was being worked on too -_-)

Game is only playable with a gamepad imo. I ran out of batteries on mine one day and tried to play keyboard. Too frustrating to actually do anything with. I had absolutely no problem with FFXI on keyboard since I used the numpad and the arrow keys, I loved it. I would gladly go back to keyboard if we could use the same keys.

FFXIV has a good Keyboard layout to me quickplay Battle Regimens just hold Shift an press the number and press G when ready i have never played with such a clean keyboard layout i never have to put my hand on the mouse to play W,A,S,D to move around and I,J,K,L to pan camera around freely if u wanna zoom out u use page up an down most people play with a control which is really disappointing because it really gimps there speed an amount of things that player can do from the control if u learn to use there keyboard layout u will gain speed an reaction time with certain commands an Battle Regimens

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Originally Posted by Nemo5990

FFXIV has a good Keyboard layout to me quickplay Battle Regimens just hold Shift an press the number and press G when ready i have never played with such a clean keyboard layout i never have to put my hand on the mouse to play W,A,S,D to move around and I,J,K,L to pan camera around freely if u wanna zoom out u use page up an down most people play with a control which is really disappointing because it really gimps there speed an amount of things that player can do from the control if u learn to use there keyboard layout u will gain speed an reaction time with certain commands an Battle Regimens

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I take it you don't use periods because they only slow you down.