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Thread: Wtb shift key back in use for scrolling through chat!

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    Wtb shift key back in use for scrolling through chat!

    As topic says. I want the shift key back in use for chat! Using the alt is just clumsy and retarted, and u cant hold alt and arrow and fast scroll through, u have to spam the arrow key for anything to happen. Fix this back the way it was. Why ninjachange something that aint broken? Chat was working perfectly fine until u broke it!!

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    I wholeheartedly agree. Why oh why could they not keep the old way of doing things, just because of a new input system???

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    Agree too. Used shift in chat window 5 years and now i even can't rebind it. Same with shift+up as auto-run (even if I bind it - it just don't work) :/

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    bump. a really huge one.

    it's really annoying that they changed that without a reason. i use it alot when playing with more than one toon and now i always hit the wrong keys...

    wtb chat reroll =)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slackadoo View Post
    As topic says. I want the shift key back in use for chat! Using the alt is just clumsy and retarted, and u cant hold alt and arrow and fast scroll through, u have to spam the arrow key for anything to happen. Fix this back the way it was. Why ninjachange something that aint broken? Chat was working perfectly fine until u broke it!!
    That you have to spam the key to scroll sounds like a bug.
    If you want the old behaviour back, you can change your key bindings. No reason to change the default. (IMO, they should've kept arrows = manage text field when text field has focus... but that's me. They gave in to the whining, and I changed my key binding.. and there's that.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Demoder View Post
    That you have to spam the key to scroll sounds like a bug.
    If you want the old behaviour back, you can change your key bindings. No reason to change the default. (IMO, they should've kept arrows = manage text field when text field has focus... but that's me. They gave in to the whining, and I changed my key binding.. and there's that.)
    As one for oposite standing, I think they shouldn't have changed it in first place, just made clear it can be re-binded in different behaviour. Years old mechanics shouldn't be messed up...
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    I liked it how it was in patch 14.0.0.2 where you didnt need shift to scroll up or down.

    But this new way will just take some getting used to... unless i can rebind shift to do this?
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    PLEASE bring this back. Been using shift+direction to auto-run for the past 8 years. Going crazy without it!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mako View Post
    PLEASE bring this back. Been using shift+direction to auto-run for the past 8 years. Going crazy without it!
    couldnt you just bind autorun to shift + w (or whatever key you use for forward?)

    i kind of like it the way it is now because i use shift for my push to talk key on ts3 and vent in all games i play. the way it was in AO i couldnt use it for years so i had to use voice activation, which really sucks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mako View Post
    PLEASE bring this back. Been using shift+direction to auto-run for the past 8 years. Going crazy without it!
    Bump.

    And I for one use the arrow keys to move. Apparently, after discussing it with a GM, you are not currently able to bind shift and a cursorkey.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slackadoo View Post
    As topic says. I want the shift key back in use for chat! Using the alt is just clumsy and retarted, and u cant hold alt and arrow and fast scroll through, u have to spam the arrow key for anything to happen. Fix this back the way it was. Why ninjachange something that aint broken? Chat was working perfectly fine until u broke it!!
    someone once very wise said if it aint broken funcom will break it :P
    i want it back too ive been trying to do it all day, just leave things like button configs the same, what is the need for changing something like that when the games been out for so long :/ you just get regular players riled up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fenixmik666 View Post
    someone once very wise said if it aint broken funcom will break it :P
    i want it back too ive been trying to do it all day, just leave things like button configs the same, what is the need for changing something like that when the games been out for so long :/ you just get regular players riled up.
    As I posted in another thread to debunk the "it's not broken" statement:
    Quote Originally Posted by Demoder View Post
    Years of complaining about how terrible the AO key binding system was, should count as "it's broken". They fixed it. Then more whining, and they fixed it some more. Apparently, the majority of whiners now think the default key binding is fixed. I think they broke it in the last patch... but no matter. The key bindings are nice enough to let me adjust how they work, exactly as I please.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Demoder View Post
    As I posted in another thread to debunk the "it's not broken" statement:
    I just looked up the meaning of debunk. To expose the falseness of a idea.

    My movement and the ability to press shift while running forward to turn on autorun was certainly not borken before the patch, now it clearly is. The same is true for using shift to select different chat channels and going up and down in text.

    And there is no way to get this action back so it was clearly working, now its not. They fixed something which didn't need a fix and now can't be fixed.

    So it wasn't broken and they shouldn't have tried to fix it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mako View Post
    PLEASE bring this back. Been using shift+direction to auto-run for the past 8 years. Going crazy without it!
    This actually was a bug that was fixed.
    We just got used to it, but it's very behavior was a bug.

    It wasn't just shift+direction, it was a specific order of pressing and releasing buttons.

    It wasn't fixed to kill off this behavior, it was fixed because it caused issues elsewhere.
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    Massive de-bump.

    I always hated how awkward the text input method was in AO. They finally made it work like it should, only to revert it back to pretty much how it was less than a week later thanks to all the whining.

    I do not want to hold down any additional keys to force a text input field to work the way it should; not Shift, not Alt, nor any other one. When I have the focus on a chat window, every keyboard event should be passed to it and nowhere else, pure and simple, no bypassed/shared/global keys until I've moved the focus off that window.

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    wtb option in preferences:
    - old method pre 18.4 (shift-arrows move cursor in chat, etc.)
    - new method (whatever, i wanna use the old method... )

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    Well.. the change from >shift< to >alt< is annoying, but something one can get used to I think. What really bugs me is the fact that I can't switch between my active chat channels w/o using my mouse - which really sucks if you want to leave a quick comment or change for w/e other reason and use the keyboard mainly.

    WTB that back! Or at least be an option on the settings.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thaylia View Post
    What really bugs me is the fact that I can't switch between my active chat channels w/o using my mouse - which really sucks if you want to leave a quick comment or change for w/e other reason and use the keyboard mainly.
    That's definitely a bug.
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    i hate the new input crap.

    also about this: how do i change between channels in the same chat window without using mouse if there's multiple with the same start letter? before you could do this enter-tab-shift+up/down, but now i havent been able to figure out yet how to do this...

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