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voelle's avatar
voelle
4 years ago

Keybinds for Cycling Primary/Secondary Weapons

In the latest update (as of 04/21/22), it seems like an important keybind option was removed from the game.

I could be wrong but... I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to find the keybind (and trying to resolve this issue), but to no avail... So, if you believe I am mistaken, please do LMK.

Anyways... Before the latest update, I believe there were two keybinds that allowed you to make it so that the scroll wheel cycled between primary/secondary weapons ONLY (as opposed to the default setting, wherein the scroll wheel cycles thru your ENTIRE inventory).   However, the latest update seems to have removed one of the keybinds that was necessary in order to set this up.   (Which means there is now no way to use the scroll wheel UP/DOWN to cycle between primary/secondary weapons ONLY.)   

If I remember correctly, there were keybinds for "cycle primary weapon" and "cycle secondary weapon" (or something along those lines), which could have been set to "scroll-up" and "scroll-down" respectively.   This made it so that regardless of whether you scrolled UP or DOWN, it would cycle between primary/secondary weapons ONLY.   (In other words, it didn't matter whether you scrolled UP or DOWN, it would just switch weapons without scrolling thru all equipment in inventory.)   

However, the latest update seems to have removed the "cycle secondary weapon" keybind, whereas the "cycle primary weapon" keybind is still present... which means if you utilize the "cycle primary weapon" keybind, you are only able to bind either "scroll-up" OR "scroll-down", instead of both.   

In effect, this means it is now seemingly impossible to use the scroll wheel to cycle between primary/secondary weapons ONLY... instead, you are essentially forced to ONLY use "scroll-up" OR "scroll-down" to switch between primary/secondary weapons, or you have to stick with the default settings which force you to scroll thru your ENTIRE inventory.   

Again, maybe I am missing something, but I couldn't figure it out.   Any advice/input would be appreciated.   I would be genuinely surprised if I am the only one who has noticed this & pointed it out.

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  • Tommygun722's avatar
    Tommygun722
    4 years ago

    I think we are all going to have to delete our configurations and redo everything like we had to do last time.  I cannot bind HELICOPTER roll with A and D.   It shows that I changed it to A and D but both of those keys will only function as YAW control, regardless of what I attempt to do.  It is very frustrating and unacceptable.  Every update we have to delete files and reconfigure our game?  NO THANKS!    I found one solution.   Install Battlefield 1, Bad Company 2, BF3, BF4 and enjoy the franchise.

  • voelle's avatar
    voelle
    4 years ago
    @fragnstein wrote:
    @voelle  I was able to bind scroll up to primary and down to secondary.

    @fragnstein  I am assuming you are referring to the keybinds that are something like "switch to primary" and "switch to secondary", but that's not what I am referring to.  

    If you bind those to "scroll-up" and "scroll-down" respectively like you said you did, it will behave just like a regular keybind (like pressing 1 or 2 on the keyboard), and it won't actually cycle between primary/secondary weapons when you continuously scroll in one direction, which is what the "cycle primary" and "cycle secondary" keybinds allowed me to do.  (Instead, it will just switch to primary and then stay on primary if you continue to scroll up, for example.)

    So, I appreciate your input, but it does not address the issue I am referring to.  The issue here is that the "cycle secondary" keybind was seemingly removed from the game entirely, for some reason.  The "switch to secondary" keybind might seem like the same thing at first glance, but it is not the same thing. 

  • fragnstein's avatar
    fragnstein
    4 years ago

    I see what you're saying.  How about assigning scroll up to both select primary and secondary.  I'm not at home atm so I can't test it, its just a thought

  • voelle's avatar
    voelle
    4 years ago
    @fragnstein wrote:

    I see what you're saying.  How about assigning scroll up to both select primary and secondary.  I'm not at home atm so I can't test it, its just a thought

    @fragnstein  Hmm. I am not sure exactly what would happen (or if it would even allow me to bind both actions to the same input like that), but I am fairly certain it would not resolve the issue I am describing.  (It would still leave me with nothing to bind "scroll-down" to.)

    Look at it this way: If I just bind "cycle primary" to "scroll-up", it does already continuously swap back & forth between primary/secondary ONLY just by virtue of continuously scrolling up, which is what I want it to do.

    But, that's only half the story.

    Again, the issue here is that the "cycle secondary" keybind was removed, which means there is nothing for me to bind "scroll-down" to, to allow the same behavior as "scroll-up".

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