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I’m left-handed and while key rebinding has gotten better in some ways, it has recently regressed in gaming in the past few years.

I make custom layouts for every game I play. IJKL to move, Semicolon to sprint, Quote to crouch, etc. I find many games where “I” is hard-bound to inventory, some bindings overlap keys I’ve bound, some keys are unable to rebound entirely in-game, some keybindings menus require jank to actually work, and so forth.

It’s very frustrating. I can only imagine what people with physical disabilities and assistive devices deal with if it’s this hard for me.

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badabim@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s also pretty bad when you’re not using QWERTY layouts.

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chunes@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I can only imagine what people with physical disabilities and assistive devices deal with if it’s this hard for me.

I learned AutoHotkey and I genuinely couldn’t play many of the games I do without it.

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- MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Unfortunately, some games seem to monitor keyboard activity directly, not letting AutoHotkey assignments take effect.
  
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  - M1ch431@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, I’ve encountered a few games that do that.
    
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- M1ch431@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Same, but I left Windows. On Linux/Wayland, it’s a bit more difficult and less powerful with current tools. AHK can’t be beat.
  
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