Actually Customizable Controls (for LEFTIES and non WASD users)

[Chronic213]

Has anyone made a mod that allows players to simply customize the controls?

 

Before anyone has the bright idea to say "That's already in the game": NO, it IS NOT in the game. Please DO NOT suggest I simply change my controls. It is offensive for you to suggest I have not already exhausted that option. Also, please do not suggest I conform to WASD for movement. This is a PC game. There is NO reason I shouldn't be able to change the controls to ANYTHING on the keyboard. Hear me out.

 

I use the arrow keys for movement in FPS games (just like a whole lot of left handed people do). It is logically the most sensible and easily locatable area on a standard keyboard without having to occasionally look down to the keyboard to find WASD again, and there are AMPLE keys surrounding them to assign to other controls that need easy access. Some game developers actually thought about this. Not Bethesda. I have yet to find a Bethesda game that actually fully allows you to reassign keys. There is ALWAYS an extreme lack of thought about the PC ports that Bethesda do. They aren't PC games. They're console ports to PC (don't believe that? look at the screen shots for FO4 in Steams store page and remember that STEAM SELLS "PC GAMES", NOT XBOX GAMES). Essential details ALWAYS get overlooked when doing this (in my experience, anyway).

 

The mod I'd like to see would allow every control in the game to be re-mapped, specifically the controls that navigate the Workshop Menu so they can be assigned to something OTHER than the arrow keys.

 

Right now, I have my arrow keys set to movement. As soon as I open Workshop Mode, that gets over-ridden by the arrow keys navigating through the workshop menu. That means I CANNOT move when in Workshop Mode. As you can imagine, that essentially makes Workshop Mode COMPLETELY USELESS. It also makes approaching NPC's for dialogue very tricky, since UP is a key permanently assigned to responding to dialogue. There have been countless occasions in the game where an NPC started to say something as I come close enough, but since I'm pressing UP to move forward, the NPC doesn't actually get a chance to say anything before I interrupt them and reply with whatever the UP response is. Again. this virtually destroys the playability of the game.

 

Is there already a mod for this? Or is it even possible? Bethesda's support said "not possible", but they aren't worth listening to. On release day, I opened a support ticket with Bethesda to remove the restriction placed on assigning NumPad keys. The game used to just say "That key is reserved" even though it IS NOT reserved in any way or for any reason in the game. The very first update they released removed that unnecessary restriction. Since then, they have not changed anything about key assignments/controls in the game, despite the NUMEROUS shortcomings this creates within the game.

 

If someone could point me to this mod if it already exists, or make it if it doesn't, I'd be forever grateful.