[FEEDBACK] Input Profiles

[Ketraar]

Info
With an emphasis on making the game more accessible and enjoyable for all, the 7.00 Public Beta of X4 has introduced enhanced button remapping and ready-made control profiles to match your steering needs in space. Furthermore, during the course of the beta phase, we also aim to implement a new standard profiles. Here, we ask for your support, both your feedback on the options themselves but also to submit you own custom profiles if you have them.

Should you want to submit your profile please make sure to state if its for M&K, Controller or Joystick. In the case of Joysticks, and to a lesser extent also controller profiles, state the type so we can associate them to the profile.



Default Profile:
For 7.00 Beta 5, we have changed the default controller profile to the game. We'd like to ask you to try out this new default profile and let us know how you feel about the default settings, which mappings you find better, etc.

The default controller profile has been changed, specifically to make the new radial menus available on controllers (via buttons X and Y). If you have a custom profile already, it will not be affected. To try out the changes, save your custom profile and load the profile called "Default - Keyboard & Mouse / Controller". This is a open process still and we are looking for suggestions for the mappings. Please share which mappings you would change or if at all. You can just make your changes in the game settings and send us your inputprofile.xml



Feedback Notes:

• General Feedback on the new options, especially the new radial menu
• Feedback and suggestions for input profiles for Mouse and Keyboard
• Feedback and suggestions for input profiles for Controller
• Feedback and suggestions for input profiles for Joysticks

Known Issues:

• TBA

[pbright]

Love the new controller mapping GUI rework! Great job developers! The old version was a nightmare and this one is as smooth as butter. Still trying to determine new mappable options... but I had to give feedback just on the mapping process improvement!!!!!

[pbright]

How about a profile for dual Virpil controllers:

VPC Constellation ALPHA-R https://virpil-controls.us.com/vpc-cons ... pha-r.html
VPC Constellation ALPHA-L https://virpil-controls.us.com/vpc-cons ... pha-l.html

[Endellur]

A profile for dual vkb would be nice as well. I can help if needed.

[MakerLinux]

Are there any instructions on how to use the radial menus? Only thing so far that I figured out is assigning keys to the two menus. However they are mostly empty and I couldn't see where to assign actions to them, and I can't even select them with the key pressed.

Is there any plan to implement the radial menus as a toggle instead of having to keep the key pressed? So that when you select one of the options it would automatically disappear.

[HeinzS]

before, we had "nearest enemy" as well as " next enemy"

[chew-ie]

before, we had "nearest enemy" as well as " next enemy"

Should still be there - at least it is for me:


Using the search (exzellent idea to add that btw!) might help finding individual settings.

[chew-ie]

Are there any instructions on how to use the radial menus? Only thing so far that I figured out is assigning keys to the two menus. However they are mostly empty and I couldn't see where to assign actions to them, and I can't even select them with the key pressed.

Is there any plan to implement the radial menus as a toggle instead of having to keep the key pressed? So that when you select one of the options it would automatically disappear.

An excellent question - as a mouse&keyboard user the only use the radial menu for now has is to quickly look up keybindings

There seems to be no way both select and trigger any of those slot actions - they even seem to be greyed out...

[HeinzS]

before, we had "nearest enemy" as well as " next enemy"

Should still be there - at least it is for me:


Using the search (exzellent idea to add that btw!) might help finding individual settings.

friendly ships are also selected for the next target, but I only want to select enemies in combat.

[flexoleonhart]

Can't modify option for mouse/keyboard:
Slider set Left limit
Slider set Right limit
Trying to set "Shift+A/D" keys, but nothing happen.
Trying to set any other inputs - worked ONLY mouse left/right/up/down

[MakerLinux]

Found the answer to my question in the steam forums: https://steamcommunity.com/app/392160/d ... 945316190/

Basically it's the right side of the input configuration

[HeinzS]

friendly ships are also selected for the next target, but I only want to select enemies in combat.

Correction, "next target" works as it should

[chew-ie]

Found the answer to my question in the steam forums: https://steamcommunity.com/app/392160/d ... 945316190/

Basically it's the right side of the input configuration

That part was obvious - what tricked me is this: you can't use the radial menu when on foot. You have to pilot a ship, then the mouse movement will select slots and clicking the left mouse button will execute the bound action.

[alt3rn1ty]

Radial Menu :

I'm probably weird with these, they seem to have a lot of fans, but I hate them.

Cyberpunk introduced a radial menu for selecting weapons, and it really put me off the game.
I dont know why, but it always feels awkward to me to mentally shift from what you are doing in game with the mouse, to then have to move your mouse differently to make a selection, in Cyberpunk that is more relevant because when you want to make a quick change of weapon to respond to enemies you are battling, I end up in a bit of a flap trying to select the weapon I want, and the sensitivity of the mouse on these radial menus is sometimes different to the rest of the game and so you can shoot past what you want to select, and probably take a bit more damage than I would without a radial menu selection. I think they were in one of the Assasins creed games aswell, didn't buy the game purely because of the radial menu.

Thankfully in X4 we are not forced to use them.
Sorry but not a fan of these things.

[Codejnki]

I am struggling to add a keyboard mapping that includes a modifier key.

I'm attempting to map ALT+F to the "Display FPS Counter" option (as an example). The pop-up closes when the ALT key is pressed, but the additional key is not picked up.

Am I doing something incorrect, or are others seeing this same behavior?

[Codejnki]

I am struggling to add a keyboard mapping that includes a modifier key.

I'm attempting to map ALT+F to the "Display FPS Counter" option (as an example). The pop-up closes when the ALT key is pressed, but the additional key is not picked up.

Am I doing something incorrect, or are others seeing this same behavior?

I may have figured out my difficulty. Looking in the Input Modifiers screen, I see that only two Keyboard Modifier options are available to us currently using SHIFT and CTRL.

Can we add a 3rd keyboard modifier so we can also use ALT as a modifier?

[DizzieDawgie]

I cannot control parts of the map with a controller. I had loaded the "Default - Keyboard & Mouse / Controller" profile. I use a Power-A XBox controller. I couldn't complete the map tutorial because I can't move the "pointer". I can zoom in/out and pan/rotate the map, but I can't directly move the little crosshair/cursor to select things on the map. Also during the map tutorial I wants me to reset the map by selecting the character name at the top-left (the "Reset to top view (R)." function), but I couldn't find a way to move the selection into that part of the screen with the controller.

[Codejnki]

I'm reporting an issue with the analog look inputs. On 7.0_1, the analog look speed is dramatically slower than on 6.2. I confirmed this by switching off the beta to verify that the expected behavior returned.

I have a dual VKB EVO setup. The A1 HAT has two modes, one for digital inputs and one for analog inputs. Using the analog mode, I configure the left and right HAT sticks to have movement mapped on the left-hand side while the right-hand side handles look. This gives a mapping that works like an FPS using a controller.

I am loading my custom input map into both versions. You can find a copy of my configuration here: https://github.com/codejnki/x4_vkb.

The analog inputs in both 6.2 and 7.0_1 map as follows:
FP Look Left-Right -> X Rotation
FP Look Up-Down -> Y Rotation

In 6.2, the motion is fluid and smooth, and the action resembles what you expect.

In 7.0_1, though, the look motion ranges from exceedingly slow to none.

I've tried adjusting the "Controller / Joystick: Sensitivity" values, but there is no noticeable difference in movement speed.

One interesting discovery in my testing is that if I slowly push the stick in a direction, there will be faster movement than if I quickly push the stick in the same direction. There is almost no movement if I quickly push the stick in a direction.

Hopefully, this is enough information for you. If you need anything else, please let me know.

[Codejnki]

I cannot control parts of the map with a controller. I had loaded the "Default - Keyboard & Mouse / Controller" profile. I use a Power-A XBox controller. I couldn't complete the map tutorial because I can't move the "pointer". I can zoom in/out and pan/rotate the map, but I can't directly move the little crosshair/cursor to select things on the map. Also during the map tutorial I wants me to reset the map by selecting the character name at the top-left (the "Reset to top view (R)." function), but I couldn't find a way to move the selection into that part of the screen with the controller.

I wonder if this behavior is related to the same bug I posted.

viewtopic.php?f=192&t=460932

[ahmetsa]

Can we have separate input for advanced satellite and satellite. currently it just deploys best satellite available. possibly for mines too.

A key to rename selected ship.(perhaps mass rename function would be more important than that)

A key to eject from ship.

A key to tell wing withdraw and hold.

A key to drop mine or satellite on map rather than using dropdown menu...

as far as making game accessible though, things need to change are on map interaction side mostly. it took me hours to figure out i need to select ship then point to a map position to give command(coming from x3).