Control Schemes?

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Hissssa
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Control Schemes?

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One of the reviewers of this game made an interesting comment about not being able to use the keyboard to activate character attacks (or magic)

Is that a possible future addition?

I don't know if you had thought about it or not but I would love to be able to use the number pad for runes instead of having to click the sequence each time. The enter button even looks like it is similarly positioned for the "execute" button for magic.
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Mameluk
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Just added this to the FAQs. Thanks. :)
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Post by luthur1964 »

This seems like the correct thread for this question:
Can you not left-click on an item and then just right-click on a character portrait to add it either to character armor (if empty) or to inventory? The video reviews I've seen do not show this. Are these reviewers unfamiliar with this time saving step or am I incorrect?
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While I understand why the numpad for magic won't work (multiple open at once), I would still like to see the "basic attack" for each character to be mappable.

Using 1-4 would be very convenient for example. It would allow you to move and swing/shoot with one hand while leaving the mouse hand free to concentrate solely on magic/other functions.
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Even myself I find wondering why some of the functions aren't reconfigurable. But I believe it's by design - you control movement with the keyboard and UI with the mouse, just like that.

There's a number of things you may want to do during combat, for example, including swapping weapons, switching from arrows to throwables, using potions, etc. Additionally, left/right click does a different action on the attack buttons, so you might not even notice much of a difference if you have 4 extra commands taken away from your mouse.
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