talent display hotkeys

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martinuzz
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talent display hotkeys

#1 Post by martinuzz »

One version after the release of the beautiful talent icons, pressing Ctrl, or Shift, no longer switched the display of the talents at the bottom of the screen to the corresponding page, in tiles mode.
I believe it was removed intentionally (it was in the release notes), although I can't see why.
It forced me to revert to text mode (with pain in my heart, because I really think the tiles are beautiful). I just can't get used to the talent pages no longer switching.

- could this switching please be returned to the game? Perhaps, make it optional, via the keybindings menu?
- could the switching, for text mode, be updated, so that pressing Alt will show the new 4th talent page?

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Re: talent display hotkeys

#2 Post by Grey »

I disliked the switching myself. It would start switching when doing other things, like activating the level up screen or chatting in the text. Was a nuisance, and provided no gameplay advantage to me. I much prefer relying purely on PgUp and PgDn for switching.

Still, nothing wrong with an option to bring it back. I think maybe the game options should be looked at to switch a few things round in to UI Options, Graphics Options, Game Options.
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Re: talent display hotkeys

#3 Post by bricks »

I'd really like to have this option back. It made playing on a laptop much easier. The auto-switching when doing other things didn't both me because I could just tap the key to force it to flip back.
Sorry about all the parentheses (sometimes I like to clarify things).

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#4 Post by edge2054 »

You can still rebind them. They're just not a toggle anymore when you hold down shit of control.

The problem I was having with them and the reason I suggested they get changed is because I like to rebind my second page of hotkeys to shift (mainly because I have a sticky control key). So everytime I'd hit shift to cast a talent all my shift hotkeys would dissappear (because they were where my control keys used to be).

Bringing it back as an option wouldn't be bad. I would hate to see it go back how it was though without a way to turn it off. It was annoying.

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Re: talent display hotkeys

#5 Post by Canderel »

Personally, I think there should be a second "row"...

As in the game should automatically "stack" the talent icons from left to right. (Maybe you could insert a "divider" if you wanted to?), and once it ran out of space it creates a second row of icons. Meaning all your icons are always visible.

So... perhaps all the "default" 1-= keys, "packed" in, then a divider, then the ctrl 1-= keys packed in, ending with a divider, then the shift 1-= and lastly the alt 1-= buttons (not ending in a divider, as it's the last lot). Once you're "full" create a second row.

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