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set a clear option to spacebar

Discussion in 'Suggestions & Ideas' started by Landoo2, Jul 30, 2013.

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  1. Landoo2

    Landoo2 Ballista Bolt Thrower

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    hey guys, i know the headline sounds a bit strange but i'll explain it,
    if i play kag beta, i always put some burgers and a lantern in my inventory, when i get attacked i press space to eat a burger, but what happens? i clearly light the lantern and i get killed, that happens me so often and im so ''angry''
    because i could have conquer the enemys hall..,
    so my idea is, that you can set the action, what you want to do with the first hit on spacebar, not light the lantern but eat the burger. ( or maybe it will get to normalness in the next update )
    it would save so much more lives from me ^^ and i think it would be much more fun if you could survive for longer with this ^^

    so what do you think?
    i just always feel a bit pissed on if i want to eat a burger, press spacebar, then the lantern lights, and i get a blow from a knight and die,... that could end better...

    what do you guys think?
     
  2. alex4864

    alex4864 Shopkeep Stealer

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    I agree. I feel that it would be even better if you had a "hotbar", where you could assign items to the 1, 2 ,3 etc keys.
     
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  3. Auburn

    Auburn Prepare Yourself! Forum Moderator Staff Alumni Donator Tester
    1. SharSharShar - [SHARK]

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    the issue with the hotbar is the emoticons are set to the numbers that everyone uses and is used to. I don't want to accidentally light a bomb in my base when I tried to smile at a teammate.
    I think an alternative would be to use a button to cycle through your inventory, kinda like how the knights can switch bomb types, and archers arrow types. but this would make it with your entire inventory maybe.
     
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  4. alex4864

    alex4864 Shopkeep Stealer

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    Lol, sorry about that brain fart. I completely forgot emoticons.
     
  5. Fate

    Fate Studying seashells

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    Yeah because emoticons are definitely much more important than making gameplay smoother. Make emoticon keys rebindable. Having 1 2 3 4 hotkeys seems like a very good idea to me. You could easily use zxzxzx instead of 252525
     
  6. LostPix

    LostPix Base Burner

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    Emotes can be moved to NumPad right?
     
  7. Fate

    Fate Studying seashells

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    Just make them rebindable. Some laptops don't have a numpad and pressing Fn+J or whatnot is not really fast.
     
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  8. 8x

    8x Elimination Et Choix Traduisant la Realité Forum Moderator Staff Alumni Tester
    1. The Young Blood Collective - [YB]

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    This would mean selecting an item in the backpack by a combination of keys (lets say F + 1,2,3,4...), and have the backpack at the HUD so youcan always see how you're inventory is organized and access it fast.

    I came up with this idea, but my main suggestion was to add a shortcut for grabbing mines from the backpack. For it's a bit uncomfortable to open the F menu while rushing as a knight to grab a mine you want to place to open a wall.

    //edit from Kouji: Merged with this thread since it's basically the same thing.
     
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  9. Crabmaster

    Crabmaster Bison Rider
    1. Zen Laboratories

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    I approve of this idea, also a way to quickly switch between waterammo and bomb ammo would be nice...instead of needing to hit that button just right...
     
    Last edited: Oct 29, 2013
  10. Klokinator

    Klokinator Such Beta
    1. Aphelion's Roleplay

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    Yeah I've always thought emoticons being so easy to use when actual gameplay functions like switching ammo should be on the number keys was a bit silly. The Q key should be good enough unless people actually want to rebind emotes.

    On that note, I'd at least like to be able to rebind what number keys activate what emotes.
     
  11. Duplolas

    Duplolas So Sad

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    TF2 game play is super smooth. Why not just copy them? Q is used in tf2 to switch between weapons, and it works perfectly. I think adopting their system would work great.
     
  12. Blue_Tiger

    Blue_Tiger Haxor Tester

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    I know this thread is old, but I've been thinking this exact same thing recently.

    I play KAG, I have 3 arrows and I have to know what order they're in and press F a certain amount of time to get to them. It's kind of annoying. Also, I'm pretty sure sometimes I press F and hold it a little too long, bringing up the display, and selects the original arrow again. Therefore I have a knight coming at me, and I either shoot 3 normal arrows which just stuns him a little and he kills me or I shoot 3 water arrows and that does the same.

    I would like to see a way to select what arrows I use, even if it is kinda awkward like z x c v. (I'd much prefer 1234, but for some reason emotes are there :S)
     
  13. emasame

    emasame Bison Rider

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    ive gotten used to it so its not so bad now but i do agree i still find it annoying all the time. tapping f doesnt always get you the results you want and sometimes theres some wonkiness where you if youre playing archer you cant select the only arrows you have in your inv.
     
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