Rare, please add the ability to hotkey items to your number keys on the PC. I understand that this is a cross platform game but xbox players DO have the capacity to use a mouse and keyboard if they so wish.
Beyond that, a very recent MMO has shown that it is possible to tailor the gameplay experience to both controller and keyboard without depreciating the play experience for either by playing to their unique strengths. The game I am referencing is FF14. In that game, the creative use of toggles allows for controller users to be just as fast and efficient as keyboard players without lessening the experience of the keyboard player by removing or limiting action bars, hotkeys or macros.
What I would like to see is:
Once the item menu is brought up by holding Q, the player can then mouse over the desired item and press, 3, 4, 5, etc respectively to then bind that item to the desired key. This would greatly reduce frustration when swapping to bananas in combat, when changing between boards and buckets, heck, even if you wanted to bust out in a tune as your enemy drifts to the locker below.
I recognize you may have wished to find a happy medium between control input devices but what we have is a system that doesn't elevate the controller user's experience while depreciating the keyboard player's experience, especially when over-panning your mouse can lead to you being tabbed out of the game or your mouse going to an entirely different monitor all together should you have a multi-monitor set up.
