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Great Product. I'm very impressed with the performance of every game I've managed to make work.
One question I have is that it would seem not "all" keyboard functionality has been ported over.
Let me explain.

When I'm logged into GW with any character, I can move around and do anything within the game as normal.
Nothing strange.
When I'm IN the character selection screen though, pressing left or right doesn't scroll through characters. (it does in Windows)
Also, when going into the PM drop down while in game, up and down used to scroll through the names in the list. It also does not work.

Now.. Obviously this is nothing very Serious. :) My gameplay is still awesome. The Response, and framerates are amazing.
I'm just curious if this is something I could fix on the Mac OS side, or if it's something simple to look into on your side?
Either way if there's no solution for it soon, I won't cry over it. Just thought I'd bring it up.

Thanks for your time.

Hi Al,

I think the keyboard issue is a known problem (I remember seeing a post about it recently but can't seem to find it now).

For me, the arrow keys don't work at all. But in game, the alternate keys (W,A,S,D,Q,E) work for movement. Well, I'm more of a mouse clicker anyway :).

I was wondering about the keyboard not working as well. Perhaps we can change settings somewhere in an ini file ?

Off to read some more here...

Indeed WASD (a classic) works fine, and I'm a Hybrid kinda guy. I use a combination of Keyboard and Mouse.
Now I mentioned that it only really affected the UI, but you bring up a good point. The arrow keys actually don't work at all.

In either case, at least it doesn't truly affect gameplay, but I was curious.

Thank you all for your shared interest. :)

Just to confirm, this is a known problem on the Mac. On Linux all keys work fine as far as I can see. This problem was brought up even before the beta testing started. As far as I can see no critical functionality is missing and everything can be achieved with other keys or in the worst case the mouse, so we decided to ship despite this unfixed issue.

We don't know exactly what the problem is. It is not our usual Mac problem with the keyboard layouts, since the problem is universal across all layouts.

Thanks for the reply.

I does not hinder the experience at all. It's perfectly excusable given the situation. :)

I'm happy to hear you know it's an issue. Whatever means you take to resolve it (if any, it's really not serious) are appreciated.

I've never played using the WASD keys because of wrong implementation on azerty keyboards, and all these years of playing using the arrow keys sort of made me stuck on it. I realize this is only a minor quibble for most, so it won't probably get solved anytime soon. S

Still, if and when it happens, I'll be a happy camper !

Hi.
I have also problems with the keyboard.
For using the skills, we can use the keys 1 up to 8, but I don't know why it doesn't work for all.
I can use 1 2 3 4 5 7, but I can't use 6 and 8, and I didn't find why.
It is not a big issue, as I can click on them in the skill bar, but I wonder why some of them work some don't...
Thanks in advance

Now that's an odd problem. I can use the keys 1 through = on the top of my qwerty keys no problem. (I have 9, 0, - and = set to stuff also). If you're on a Macbook, may I suggest you double check that Numlock isn't on? With Numlock on, 7,8 and 9 would usually perform normally, but 6 becomes something totally different.

Just a suggestion.

I'm on a MacbookPro, but I assure you the Numlock isn't on (with the green LED it's impossible to miss).
I still haven't found the reason of that...
I'll work on that and hopefully find something :)

Well I found an interesting thing.
I forgot to tell that I have a french keyboard, then the key 6 corresponds to §
So if I switch to the American keyboard (via the system pref) it works, but if I stay in french it doesn't.
And I can't assign § to any action.
It's weird because if I try to type § in the chat it works, but when it comes to assign key to an action I can't use it.

Just to let you all know that the arrow keys work fine now, running on CX Games 7.1 !!

For me, this means I can play the game again !!

Alex Boschmans wrote:

Just to let you all know that the arrow keys work fine now, running
on CX Games 7.1 !!

For me, this means I can play the game again !!

Cool, that wasn't even intended 😊

I confirm, on french layout 6 and 8 are § and ! resp., which work in chat, but are not assignable to shortcuts.