Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order - M & K Control Customization Extremely Limited

Good luck with getting a fast patch on re-key-binding.  I doubt it's forthcoming which is why the refund for me.  Like I said above, there's only 24 hrs after log in to make the decision.  Not much time to wait to see if a patch will make it.  I'm sure they knew this was a problem long before we posted which is why the "recommendation" to use a controller comes up so fast at game launch.  With that in mind, there may be some reason why they can't altho every other game I've looked at for the Unreal engine includes what you and I are talking about as standard playability.

But, your more than correct OP, the game is unplayable on a PC and at the least, EA should of made customers aware of this problem before money changed hands.  And I have to admit, I was looking forward to another Star Wars game.  Guess I'll stick with SWG.

I'm gonna get chewed up for this, but I don't entirely agree. I don't think this game is unplayable using mouse and keyboard, I just completed it twice, and didn't have too much trouble with it, but I agree, the mouse keyboard settings are disappointing. I don't understand your comment about mouse-look, are you not using WASD to move? I don't even touch those arrow keys.

I played the last two releases of star wars battlefront, so I guess I'm used to the interface, and I DO APPRECIATE that they kept the controls the same. I refuse to use a console controller. As a grown up I feel like I'm not actually playing video games if I'm using a keyboard mouse or joystick 😉 but I did have to remap some of the keys. 1,2, and 3 are extremely uncomfortable to reach, I remapped Slow to T, Push to G, and Pull to V, it turned out to be much easier. I also was able using a proprietary app for my Microsoft mouse to remap the back key on my mouse to Z.Z to roll backwards, that was most helpful.

Things I struggle with are as follows:

- X and C are very uncomfortable to hit to switch between single and double LS blades. A toggle option would be so much simpler during a fight.

- I keep hitting the Windows key on my keyboard, which pulls you out of game and has gotten me killed numerous times during boss fights. Can't this be set to be disabled? I did fix this by downloading a free app that I have to remember to activate every time I play.

- why can't you assign mouse buttons? 5 button mice are not exactly new inventions, and the mouse wheel is totally unused unless you are looking at the map. I would have liked to roll it to toggle between lightsaber modes.

I rolled my eyes when I saw under system requirements that a game controller was not required but strongly recommended. You all need to stop trying to phase out keyboards, mice, and joysticks. Star Wars Battlefront II apparently had joystick support during beta which was REMOVED, and the game was not fun in Starfighter modes. Fortunately some resourceful person figured out how to back the controls to make a USB Joystick emulate an Xbox controller. PC users make up a huge portion of your consumers, quit trying to dumb down our games by making us use controllers.

@ReposterFair enough, I've tried both myself at this point because myself and a few gamer friends had a little launch party for this game tonight, and we've all seen that the problems DO exist with both the Steam and Origin Platforms for the PC versions of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order specifically regarding play control and control customization issues.  Any other issue may or may not be platform specific, but the play control and control customization problems are essentially universal to both PC platforms, so this thread is fine to use for any posts about the play control and control customization problems that need to be patched.

On Steam I can say that I just looked, and it appears that both Respawn and EA/Origin share the same developer/publisher pages according to the listing of the game with their shared developer/publisher page being here at the following URL:

https://store.steampowered.com/developer/EA

...with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order being listed at the URL below:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172380?snr=1_41_4__42

I've no idea what the developers and publishers do and/or do not do; however the URL does at least make it known that there IS some sort of EA/Origin and/or Respawn Entertainment presence on Steam.

As a set of rules, when issues like this come up with anything, I always suggest dealing directly with whatever forums apply to the platform the game is being used from and/or was purchased from because while we of the community are certainly capable of thinking on our feet when being inquisitive and empathetic about these kinds of problems ( i.e. "Are others having the same problem on other platforms?"
) ...in the event there are any platform related issues that also come up, I'm not concerned about the community getting derailed, I'm concerned about the developers getting derailed should this thread garner their much needed attention. That's why I suggested Steam users should keep their posts on Steam Community unless Steam Support says to do otherwise, and that Origin Client users should be using these forums here.

Hope that helps clarify things, so that everyone can mutually benefit from some focus. :D

Just picked up access premium (what a screaming deal!) and started playing fallen order 2/26/20 today. The mouse keys do bind, but it doesn't always let you, you have to sit there and keep pressing and holding the mouse key you want bound. The first 20 times I pressed them in "bind key" mode it wouldn't do anything. But after a few minutes of trying they started working.

Weird that you have to hold and wait for it to bind. I was unable to bind mouse scroll up or mouse scroll down due to this timed function in keybinding. Lame sauce as this is how 99% of all games zoom in or out!