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Old 05-15-10, 12:34 PM   #9
Seefer
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I can confirm that the Depth Under Keel button problem I was having vanishes when I uninstall the Advanced Shift Keys mod. Thanks to Factor for the suggestion. I now get a voice report from one of the crew when I click the button.

In the absence of the developers giving us a sensible way to edit the SH5 keyboard commands I decided to open up commands.cfg to see how easy it would be to edit the file manually myself. In doing so I've noticed that there are a LOT of unnasigned entries that would make playing the game easier if only the developers had bothered to set them before releasing the SH5. Anyone noticed that F8 to F12 do not appear to do anything despite the keymap help display (shown by pressing F1), indicating that these keys have a function? As far as I can see that's just one example of many indications that the developers have rushed the release. I hope they make good with timely patches to fix all these flaws.

The command.cfg file appears to hint that F8 to F12 are crew 'special abilities' that may become functional when your crew gets those abilities, but at the moment these keys do nothing, thereby only serving to confuse players. The appaling documentation is no help in explaning anything

I think I've figured out the syntax for entries in the command.cfg file so I'll probably decide to edit things myself to get some functions working until the devs get their butts in gear and fix things to allow players to set their own keyboard shortcuts inside the game (though I'm not going to hold my breath)

Last edited by Seefer; 05-15-10 at 02:40 PM.
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