They PARTIALLY fixed this problem with the 5.0 Patch, which now allows you to rotate the camera up and down with Page Up and Page Down keys.
We are still unable to rotate left and right though, which is the most important camera setting imaginable, so the Photo Mode remains useless with keyboard.
But there's at least some progress made. Maybe it will finally work properly with game version 6.0? Let's hope that's the case.
Yes, PgUp-PgDn keys are at least documented.
But still no camera rotation left-right.
The problem still exist in v5.0
EA Staff (Retired)Unfortunately, this isn't something we're able to look at resolving as there is limited functionality when it comes to wheels and keyboards when in Photo Mode. The best use of Photo Mode is with a standard controller.
@CM_TGK Can you further explain why please?
You literally just added two keys that weren't there before (you needed to add four though). Or did you mean to say that you reached the limit of usable keys with this update and you are unable to improve it any further?
Either way, this sounds like a very weird situation to me. This game uses dozens of keys, not sure why it's a problem with Photo Mode. Keyboard literally has the biggest number of available inputs compared to any other gaming device.
Not everyone uses a controller. Arcade games can easily be played on a keyboard, hell, I can play most simcades on keyboard too or even some older sims.
I understand that keyboard players have never been a big priority to Codemasters (I remember games like DiRT having splitscreen, but forcing a controller for Player Two), since we are probably in the actual minority here, but still, EA/Codemasters are a BIG company, there's no way in hell they cannot figure this out if they wanted to.
Plus, if you really can't assign more keys, how about reversing them at least? I'd much rather be able to fully rotate the camera instead of being able to move to each side when I cannot force the camera to rotate as it ALWAYS sets itself behind the car.
So that would be four keys for camera rotation (WASD) and just two keys for camera move (Page Up, Page Down). Because you know, if it was like this, I could possibly work around not being able to move to the right or to the left by rotating the camera to the direction I wanted to go.
Photo Mode seems like a nice feature, us keyboard users will sadly never be able to actually use it properly.
Sorry, this is not an acceptable answer.
You are missing the key functionality of the very advertised game feature.
I cannot use Photo mode without the ability to rotate camera.
And I am not going to buy a controller because I already have keyboard and steering wheel.
From the DEV point I also don't see what prevents you from fixing it. It is a simple input key assignment. It can be easily done by XML fixing, unless you messed up the code to a very bad state.
It is a minor bug, but it has to be fixed.
EA Staff (Retired)Thank you very much! I am looking forward to see the results.
This is great news! I'm expecting the next patch to be the final one (would love to be wrong though), so I'm very happy to see that the two biggest issues (permanent nemeses + unusable Photo Mode) are set to be fixed. Thumbs up!
