Change the default key for Movement Mode

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donkatsu
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Change the default key for Movement Mode

#1 Post by donkatsu »

Probably the most common question I see in in-game chat is "help I can't attack anymore, what's going on?" The B key seems to be one that new players often hit on accident, and once they toggle Passive Movement Mode on, it will cripple their ability to play melee characters until they figure out how to turn it back off. Usually they don't even realize that Passive Movement Mode is the reason they can't attack by bumping anymore, which adds another layer of mystery. Might I suggest moving the default keybinding to a more esoteric key, such as PageUp? And/or maybe make it so that if you try to bump attack with Passive Movement Mode the game gives you a message letting you know that your bump attack has been disabled, and how to toggle it back.

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Re: Change the default key for Movement Mode

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Something like shift+B or alt+B would be better.
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Re: Change the default key for Movement Mode

#3 Post by Atarlost »

Auto-explore has similar issues. It's dangerously close the the weapon swap key, which at least one class uses all the time and I have racked up at least one Temporal Warden death to hitting 'z' instead of 'x' when there was a boss monster just out of sight that I as a player was aware of.
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