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[dawud]

Setting up controls over and over again is a big Pain and nobody likes it.

- Add Option to create/add a new custom-control profiles called Custom2,Custom3,...,and so on
-Add Option to merge existing Profiles (want to use gamepad for SRV and Hotas for ship? just merge the gamepad and hotas profile)
-Add Option to Clone existing Profiles

This would solve so many of our issues.

I ´m an old veteran-cmdr, and i switch a lot between pancake&VR
using Hotas+Voiceattack, as well as Keyboard+mouse & gamepad a lot, and
this feature would have saved me many hours.

 

[Para Handy]

You know you can do this already. Unfortunately F D find it impossible to code a "save as" button so we have to do it manually on PC. (Consoles I know nowt about.)

So have a look at this:

lost your binds? want hasstle free backed up binds look no further

keybindings can reset if you visit the control section without one of your usual devices used to play the game ie hotas , xbox pad etc not plugged in or at that present moment is undetected by windows as it thinks your just using keyboard and mouse it simply rewrites your binds for you...

forums.frontier.co.uk

So for example I can have a set of binds for exploration and another one for combat - I can switch between them by selecting the appropriate option (the name I have given the binds) in the drop-down list.

 

[Pete Clements]

Setting up controls over and over again is a big Pain and nobody likes it.

- Add Option to create/add a new custom-control profiles called Custom2,Custom3,...,and so on
-Add Option to merge existing Profiles (want to use gamepad for SRV and Hotas for ship? just merge the gamepad and hotas profile)
-Add Option to Clone existing Profiles

This would solve so many of our issues.

I ´m an old veteran-cmdr, and i switch a lot between pancake&VR
using Hotas+Voiceattack, as well as Keyboard+mouse & gamepad a lot, and
this feature would have saved me many hours.

Seconded! Please Frontier!
Trying to set up Hotas (in ship) and a game pad (on foot / srv) for Odyssey Alpha phase 4 is an immense pain

 

[dawud]

@Para Handy Yeah i know about the .binds and havre gone through several iterations of this fix/workaround and even with read/write protection i cant prevent Elite from messing with my .binds with every update.

Also, how do you currently merge bindings without messing arround with the editor and admin-privileges?..we should not have to do that.

 

[oggmeista]

I was just about to create a new thread on this very topic

here's my take...

Actually this to my mind should of been in the game from the start, it's that much of a nobrainer imho

I'll expalin, when we enter the controller configuration bindings options, why isn't there a save custom binding configuration option?, so we can load our own custom preferred set, so if something happens to it, rather than choosing one of the default sets and editing it, i noticed that with the updates for odyssey in particular certain game states have not been preserved, bookmarked planets seem to have gone, and my friend tells me his controller bindings are all mixed up, this and i stand to be corrected, is exactly the type of thing that can put people completely off playing a game, and in the case of the bindings i don't think it's that difficult to include an option to save your own set like i have seen in many other games, particularly one which has as many different command inputs as elite dangerous does and increasingly so as the game ecpands and develops into an ever increasingly more complex simulator experience, and if someone knows how to do this through the game interface than please educate me,, though i don't see it. and for the life of me the more i think about it, the more i fail to understand why i game like this hasn't had this option from the very start......cheers