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NiceOneSix
4 years ago

Re: Free Look will not unbind from the arrow keys

how they managed to release a military game with jets and helicopters that has NO joystick support in 2021 was already mind boggling...

then they literally just told a HUGE section of their customers "we don't CARE how you would *like* to control the game... we just hard coded it to be impossible for you to use the keys you prefer... eat it."

I guess they don't realize that left-handed people exist... or that people have been playing PC games since before 3d GPUs even existed (aww i miss my 3dfx voodoo!) when NOBODY used WASD to move... it was ALL arrow key movement.

after 30 YEARS of playing every FPS with the same keybinds (Duke came out in '91 folks...) it's literally impossible to start using forced WASD now... and that isn't even the point.

This is *supposed* to be a AAA game made by one of the biggest gaming companies on the planet... there are literally indie games with ONE dev who can handle coding joystick support and user's choice keybinds.

This is also like the 57th battlefield they've made... we could use joysticks and rebind our controls in the original BF1942 like 20 years ago... HOW do you revert to this level of sheer incompetence when you've had this long to sort out how to put out a re-skin of the SAME game every couple of years???

but hey at least they didn'y HYPE the crap out of Portal only to pull the rug out from under all of us and make it give NO XP right?

Oh... wait...

and the icing on the cake is that EA support is just like "lol we already got your money... QQ moar!"

this is just beyond ridiculous.

6 Replies

  • Radious1987's avatar
    Radious1987
    4 years ago

    Any fix for arrow keys coming? Infantry only modes do not exist in 2042 and driving with this is impossible....

  • Radious1987's avatar
    Radious1987
    4 years ago

    Still no fix, 2 more patches and nothing....Any official news when this bug will be fixed? Game has no infantry modes and if we play with arrows we cant drive properly 60% of all ingame vehicles.

  • audazsagaz's avatar
    audazsagaz
    4 years ago

    Left-handers:
    1) Put the A and D keys on soldier, vehicles (menu game BF 2042).
    2) Open the program and place the arrows: right > D , left > A.
    No input lag.


  • Radious1987's avatar
    Radious1987
    4 years ago
    @audazsagaz Why are you posting this which has nothing to do with the issue that left arrow and right arrow cant be unbind and is always connected to look left/right?
  • audazsagaz's avatar
    audazsagaz
    4 years ago

    @Radious1987if you had done what I said, your problem would have been solved. I am left-handed and was experiencing this problem exactly. That solved it. The camera stopped being "free look" when I moved the vehicle. its perfect now.

    there is the bug of the arrow key and the free look for vehicles. If you use this program, remap the key, the problem will stop. The bug exists in the game, but this fixes the bug UNTIL DICE FIXES IT.
    and I said it doesn't add lag. that is, this is an advantage.

    all left-handers who have done this, the bug has been fixed. They managed to move the vehicle left and right, without the camera moving with it. the battle tank doesn't have this problem, but the other vehicles did. If you put A for left and D for right in the game for all vehicles, including the battle tank (and the soldier too, even though he has no problems, just so that everyone can move using A and D in the game, but on the keyboard, due to the remapping, the left and right arrow keys, have the emulation of the A and D key. . ), and use the key remapper to put A as left arrow and D as right arrow, then everything is perfect as it should be.

    This program is very well known and has won several awards. The developer exists since 2008 and is indicated in several reviews.

    soldier and  all vehicles:   (using this = no free look when move with arrows)



  • Jusebert's avatar
    Jusebert
    4 years ago
    @audazsagaz This is a valid workaround until DICE gets around to fixing the hardcoded binds for arrow keys left and right.

    You can also add an exception when creating the above binds so they only work while you're in BF2042.exe

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