Its been almost 10 years of Elite, 10 years. I come back to this game that I backed since it was a kickstarter, rebind all my controls, and start playing again after an almost 2 year break. One thing changes beyond my control, and all my key bindings are broke. The last time I rage quit, was over key bindings. It takes me a good hour to setup my tartarus, naga, keyboard and a game pad. Every time, I have to go searching my memory for where I put keys I don't use very often, what ridiculous binding menu they are in, or, when I do finally need an obscure key, it's not bound because I missed it in the last iteration of the keybinding memory mini game. FIX IT.
Not only do bindings break my controls, they break the game. If my wireless xbox one controller turns off to save battery, some times, in ship menus go berzerk, no longer displaying the current menu, stuck on the previous screen, while still being otherwise operable.
This is absolutely ridiculous at this point. I shouldn't have to troubleshoot a text file, in hopes I find what is offending the game, and keeping it from loading ALL THE OTHER bindings that still are valid. I should not have to fix a game's problem, and think of it as just part of playing the game.
My suggestion, if you don't want to fix the game, make us a GUI key bind management tool, that can read the error log, parse that into something a normal human understands, with the ability to display a couple buttons with options. Such as: 1 your device X can not be found, press me to remove this device (pop up-warning this will unbind all keys related to device X, do you want to continue?) 2 your device X cannot be found, replace device X with found device Y? (pop up-warning, if this device does not have the same buttons, some keys will not be re-bound) 3 we have found a problem with your key bindings, would you like to generate an error report and share it with us? You could make it part of the launcher.
ANYTHING to stop this madness of one device, or even a device update, from ruining the avg user's bindings. I'm loosing game time, and my mind over this.
Not only do bindings break my controls, they break the game. If my wireless xbox one controller turns off to save battery, some times, in ship menus go berzerk, no longer displaying the current menu, stuck on the previous screen, while still being otherwise operable.
This is absolutely ridiculous at this point. I shouldn't have to troubleshoot a text file, in hopes I find what is offending the game, and keeping it from loading ALL THE OTHER bindings that still are valid. I should not have to fix a game's problem, and think of it as just part of playing the game.
My suggestion, if you don't want to fix the game, make us a GUI key bind management tool, that can read the error log, parse that into something a normal human understands, with the ability to display a couple buttons with options. Such as: 1 your device X can not be found, press me to remove this device (pop up-warning this will unbind all keys related to device X, do you want to continue?) 2 your device X cannot be found, replace device X with found device Y? (pop up-warning, if this device does not have the same buttons, some keys will not be re-bound) 3 we have found a problem with your key bindings, would you like to generate an error report and share it with us? You could make it part of the launcher.
ANYTHING to stop this madness of one device, or even a device update, from ruining the avg user's bindings. I'm loosing game time, and my mind over this.
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