Move the sprint key from the spacebar to the shift key

[restricted]

We don't need to be special, just be like every other game and put it on shift, please.

Edited December 26, 2023 by restricted

[Star Dust]

1 hour ago, restricted said:

We don't need to be special, just be like every other game and put it on shift, please.

wait you can switch to sprint by pressing space?!?

How long has this been a thing!

[restricted]

1 minute ago, Star Dust said:

wait you can switch to sprint by pressing space?!?

How long has this been a thing!

Just found it out today myself, but OOC chatter indicated this is very recent

[Codename: Bear]

Oh I thought it was just gone LMAO

Why is it space??? At least I know now, but I kept pressing shift and just thought I was a complete moron and it was never shift.

 

STOP GASLIGHTING ME AURORA. I'M DUMB ENOUGH AS IS

[Carver]

If it remains exclusive to hotkey toggle then this seems like an okay idea, I will just hope it doesn’t fumble anything for us OG control users who shift click to examine everything.

[restricted]

8 hours ago, Carver said:

If it remains exclusive to hotkey toggle then this seems like an okay idea, I will just hope it doesn’t fumble anything for us OG control users who shift click to examine everything.

From my experience with it on other servers it did mean that if you examine on the move you'd briefly sprint while going for the examine, which is a bit annoying. But overall I like my spacebar for macros, having it be reserved for sprint annoys me ever so slightly.

[Fluffy]

Mod keys (like shift, alt) are not bindable alone afaik, that's the first thing I tried if I remember correctly, and it didn't work

[restricted]

4 hours ago, Fluffy said:

Mod keys (like shift, alt) are not bindable alone afaik, that's the first thing I tried if I remember correctly, and it didn't work

Other servers have this implemented or have had this implemented.

[Fluffy]

3 minutes ago, restricted said:

Other servers have this implemented or have had this implemented.

I think that depends on the underlying system that relays all the keys without relying on skin.dmf to process them into commands, and then use the backed to process what they do; when I tried it it didn't work as far as I remember, but if you can manage to have it working with shift, feel free to PR it and move it from the spacebar to shift, as it would indeed be a better option

[Carver]

I only hope if it’s moved to shift then it will be something only there with hotkey mode toggled on. I really don’t want to be burning stamina while trying to walk by and examine a dude, especially on funny low stam high speed species.

[dessysalta]

I'm in favor of keeping it to space, honestly. Set a macro for whatever button you want to toggle mov_intent(?) and there you go. Space is an alternative for shorter bursts. Adding it to shift would make examining a pain and combat while sprinting worse methinks.

Bay also has it set to space for similar reasons I'm pretty sure.

[Butterrobber202]

i dont care what happens but please get mov_intent of my spacebar. I used it as my resist key, and I do not want to combo shift, crlt or alt to get out of grabs.

[Omicega]

On 28/12/2023 at 03:50, Butterrobber202 said:

i dont care what happens but please get mov_intent of my spacebar. I used it as my resist key, and I do not want to combo shift, crlt or alt to get out of grabs.

I can't agree with this more. Please revert this change -- I've been using spacebar as my resist key for years. At the very least, you could make it not totally override my keybind macros and just set both things to occur when I push it, instead of forcing a key binding on me I didn't even want in the first place.