My Personal Key Set Up, XIV/XI Hybrid

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My Personal Key Set up, XIV/XI hybrid
 Lakshmi.Razius
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By Lakshmi.Razius 2010-11-27 09:25:25
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The recent update has really opened up the control system for keyboard users. This is what ive set myself up as. Its a semi hybrid between XIV and the more familiar XI set up, albeit without the Ctrl before it. Id thought id share as i know that a few friends of mine may find help from this, as we were disscussing it last night.

Its basically limiting alot of the controls to one key, for example, the numeric keypad and the W A S D buttons were used for movement, now its just the keypad, as it was in XI. This has opened up alot of keys for other actions, and ive copied the XI template as much as possible, for example Ctrl-E was for Equipment in XI, now its just E.

Ive kept some of the defaults, such as for Battle Regimen (you never know, may use it one day XD), and theres still plenty of letters free should u wish to add or alter. For this system to work you need to keep the original "compact keyboard" setting, where a space is needed to open the chat box. At this time, what little play ive done with the "chat specific" keyboard, i cannot fathom the controls, hence creating this "hybrid" set up.











I also suggest making the new SP/EXP bar the same size as the HP/MP/TP bar and placing it in the top left corner, making the bottom less cluttered.

No doubt many of you has already done this to your own personal liking, but for anyone that feels a bit stumped when looking at this new config screen, it may be of some help :) Any comments welcome!
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By Odin.Blazza 2010-11-27 11:36:25
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Wait, so can you still not reassign the arrow keys? Not being able to control the camera with arrow keys is the #1 issue I have with the controls...
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By Dubont 2010-11-27 11:43:51
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Odin.Blazza said:
Wait, so can you still not reassign the arrow keys? Not being able to control the camera with arrow keys is the #1 issue I have with the controls...
With the current keyboard layout, you can only use 1 key per 1 function (I think) so if you were to be able to set the camera to the arrow keys, you would still need to find keys for button scrolling. I just set my camera to WASD and movement to 8426 with the zoom in being 5, etc etc. It was weird for the first day or two, but I've actually gotten used to it since the action bar does require numbers 1-0 right above WASD.
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By Lakshmi.Razius 2010-11-27 14:09:12
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Aye, arrow keys come under the "fixed" keys tab. Maybe later ^^'

Thats a good idea putting the cam where the movement was, but i think im so used to it now id get mixed up, may try it tho! Just gotta sort out gear and attributes etc then :)
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By Shiva.Flionheart 2010-11-27 16:11:26
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Odin.Blazza said:
Wait, so can you still not reassign the arrow keys? Not being able to control the camera with arrow keys is the #1 issue I have with the controls...

Same, I'm really hoping for a fix to that soon.
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By Valefor.Slipispsycho 2010-11-27 16:52:35
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The whole point of being able to reassign keys is so you can be a lazy *** and control movement and camera all with one hand.. Way to go SE, you really came through for us..

/sarcasm

So they didn't implement the crafting recipe memory, *** up SP gain (at least for me, I dunno how everyone else is claiming to get 2-300 SP per yellow mob, I'm getting 80-90.) not only solo, but in party, and the key reassignment is a total waste of time.

Even I am starting to question my loyalty to this game.
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By zahakdrakesbane 2010-11-27 20:30:22
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Quick Question! Is there anyway to reassign screenshot keys? Have not had a chance to play with it yet. Damn keyboard wont scroll lock.

I'll be one to applaud SE I guess. /clap SE /CLAP I can change the transparency of my chat log and actually see my text now :) I'm a happy Lalafell
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By Dubont 2010-11-27 22:40:48
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zahakdrakesbane said:
Quick Question! Is there anyway to reassign screenshot keys? Have not had a chance to play with it yet. Damn keyboard wont scroll lock.

I'll be one to applaud SE I guess. /clap SE /CLAP I can change the transparency of my chat log and actually see my text now :) I'm a happy Lalafell
I dont think you can change screen shot keys, but if your comp won't scroll lock, just hit print screen and copy it to a paint document
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By Valefor.Slipispsycho 2010-11-27 22:43:06
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Dubont said:
zahakdrakesbane said:
Quick Question! Is there anyway to reassign screenshot keys? Have not had a chance to play with it yet. Damn keyboard wont scroll lock.

I'll be one to applaud SE I guess. /clap SE /CLAP I can change the transparency of my chat log and actually see my text now :) I'm a happy Lalafell
I dont think you can change screen shot keys, but if your comp won't scroll lock, just hit print screen and copy it to a paint document
Or get Fraps and use that. (Much easier than having to separately paste and save every image.)
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By zahakdrakesbane 2010-11-28 05:06:26
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Yea I use fraps right now. Just don't want too see my text logs and everything in all my screenshots. Looks like its time for a new keyboard! Thanks :)