I've been playing SoT since the day of release and played regularly up until the Cursed Sails release (got Legend). I took a long break from the game due to lack of content. However, I've still been on the forums every couple of weeks or so to read all the new changes and updates that have been happening since Cursed Sails and have finally journeyed back to play.
For me, there had always been frustration due to lack of keybind customization, but nothing that made the game not worth playing. The most annoying of which was not being able to map the "F" key when pulling up the map or inventory radial wheel's to get to the next wheel when the first one was full. I am a player who uses the "up", "down", "left", and "right" arrow keys for all my movement, and the surrounding keys on the numberpad, Delete, End, PageDown, etc... Although it's great that I can set the "map" and "inventory" keybinds to anything I want, I can't set/re-map the "F" key to get to the 2nd page of any radial wheel without using two hands and reach across my keyboard to press "F". This wasn't a big deal before cursed sails though because you hardly ever have to get to that 2nd wheel in my experience. I would love to see this fixed to where it could be mapped though.
Moving forward to the latest version of the game, which utilizes the new barrel/inventory method, I am now finding that playing this game will not be possible for me until their is a keybind fix for the new inventory system. When you go into a barrel, the only ways to exit the menu for a keyboard and mouse player are to press "X", "Esc", or use the mouse to click "X" in the lower left corner. For anyone (like me) who is not using the standard "W", "A", "S", and "D" format, you're fried. For example, in most combat/PvP situations on an enemy ship on the old SoT versions, I could easily walk up to a banana barrel, grab 1-5 of them and within 1/4 a second swing around with my sword or gun and seamlessly re-stock while battling. Now what happens is I go to grab a few banana's, and I have to reach across my keyboard to press "X" or "Esc" or try to click "X" as quickly as possible to exit the menu. The average time to do this is 1-2 seconds - the fastest being if you simply click on "X". Even then, sometimes you miss and have to click a 2nd time. Do to this, I cannot re-stock and engage fast enough and get killed while on the barrel because I cannot exit the menu fast enough. Players like me need the ability to re-map "X" to something else, or for a work-around to be developed/considered to address this.
Bottom line:
The game is quickly approaching the one year mark and I know I am not the first to complain about these keybind issues. Something as rudimentary as allowing a keybind to be remapped should have been addressed by now. For me, I will not be able to play this game any further until this is addressed because it has gotten me killed unjustly so many times since my return.
Rare, please give followers like myself some acknowledgement that you are at least hearing/seeing this issue and if anything is being done to address it.
Jeepy
