(Update) Regarding the post I made about the item keybindings
Hey I just want to say some things about the post I made yesterday (where I suggested the option to choose permanent keybindings for items in your hands inventory).
The first thing I wanna say is that I have realized I didn't think much through the post before posting it, and probably should have.. The original idea I had before making that image was to be able to set permanent keybindings for each of the bandages (you have in hands space) in the settings, so you wouldn't have to put a hotkey on them over and over again like now. And when I started writing that in the image, I thought it would be simpler if it there was only one keybinding that gave the highest healing bandage and that there could be another that gave the one with the lowest healing so I put that instead. And after i put that there, I thought that I might as well put some other things too that people hotkey, since there was some space left in the image to fill. And I guess that changed the idea from what it originally was, It made it seem like I just wanted to have it completely faceroll with everything, with automatic access to pretty much every useful item that you can use/consume with a click of a button.
So I want to clarify that the only thing that I really wish (and think others do too), is to have a permanent hotkey for the bandages you have in your space inventory. And now that I think about it, I don't think the keybinding should give the most powerful bandage automatically, all I think there needs to be is a keybinding to give the dressing bandage since it is the one I think people most commonly hotkey (and maybe also the "bandage" bandage, all the other healing items I won't mind hotkey'ing). I really just want to have one key, that I can just set up in the settings once, to give me the dressings in my hands space and not have do it again so many times like we do now.
Also, most people were just focusing on the suggestion about the food, gas and binoculars keybindings in the comments, saying how unnecessary it would be to have the keybindings for those items. And I agree, that all the items or automatic actions for those items I mentioned in the image aren't that necessary, I really wouldn't mind still having to set a hotkey for every time I get them, because I never really have to do it as much for those items as I do with dressing bandages. I hotkey those bandages so many times every time I play, It feels like i'm constantly setting the hotkeys (it just feels like unnecessary work). And nobody really commented negatively on the bandage keybindings, so I am guessing that is the main reason why people upvoted that post. I think people just want to have the option to choose a permanent key for their bandage.
For those who will say being able to set a keybinding for the dressing bandage in the settings is still making it too easy and think it is unnecessary, I don't really know what else to say.
Anyways, if having a keybinding for the dressing or some of the bandages never happens, I think Nelson should think of something else to make it a bit simpler and less repetitive to manage healing items.
Posted Feb 21, 2016, 8:49 PM UTC · edited