(missing?) Keyboard Shortcuts

posted on May 20th, 2009, 4:25 am

New to FO and I have to say I am very impressed! The game is beautiful and, well, it's fun to play

The only thing I can think of that's missing are a few keyboard shortcuts (I'm a keyboard junkie).

"B" for Build on all construction ships. (just bring up the build menu. I know the actual buildings, etc have direct short cuts, but sometimes I can't remember what they are and I want to hit "B")

Borg: Collective Uplinks -> Give a short cut for each ship (currently the tool tip says "F1" for all of them - perhaps a bug already?).

Borg: Modules: Give me a way to keyboad select and confirm this (i.e. something like 1-1-1-2- to select 3 beam weapon modules + 1 torpedo upgrade then enter to confirm)

Special Weapon shortcut(?) - (Borg Assimilator's Assimilator Beam was F3 in stock ST:A II but the tooltip doesn't show that is has one in FO.)

Again, beautiful job and even if I didn't get my shortcut wishes, the game would still be great (but it would make it all that much nicer!)

posted on May 20th, 2009, 7:37 am

Hi and welcome to the forums!

I will take a look at the shortcuts

posted on May 20th, 2009, 3:23 pm

"B" for Build on all construction ships. (just bring up the build menu. I know the actual buildings, etc have direct short cuts, but sometimes I can't remember what they are and I want to hit "B")

"B" was removed because a few ships also use that. If you try to bring up the menu for the Field Yard through a shortcut, you'll get a B'rel automatically. A few other ships also share a shortcut of one of the menu's.

posted on May 20th, 2009, 4:40 pm

Could you also sperate the R for recrew and the R key for repair. It can be very annoying when the tavara wont repair by pressing the R key.

posted on May 20th, 2009, 6:52 pm

"B" was removed because a few ships also use that. If you try to bring up the menu for the Field Yard through a shortcut, you'll get a B'rel automatically. A few other ships also share a shortcut of one of the menu's.

You only get a B'rel if you're already on the build menu.

posted on May 21st, 2009, 10:26 am

Ever heard of something called a 'Keyboard shortcut'? The current B'rel shortcut happens to be the same as what the Build menu is/was.

[Atlantis]

posted on May 21st, 2009, 4:48 pm

Last edited by Atlantis on May 21st, 2009, 4:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Well done for noticing that they use the same letter. It's a B. *applauds*

The keyboard shortcut is for the MENU OPEN AT THE TIME.
That means, that when it's the normal popup menu showing, the B key is the shortcut for the Build menu.
When the build menu is showing, the B is the shortcut for the B'rel. They are conditional based on the menu itself.

I have been modding Armada for a very long time, and know the system a hell of a lot better than you do. So don't you dare talk down to me like that. Because I do occasionally know what I am talking about.

[Edit: Underlining added to make it a bit easier for you]

[Tyler]

posted on May 21st, 2009, 5:11 pm

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B = B'rel, build menu open or not. With B back as the build menu shortcut again, hitting B once with the yard selected will cause it to open the build menu and put a B'rel in the list together.

posted on May 21st, 2009, 6:02 pm

Huh, strange, seems your right on my reinstalled stock copy. I was doing a lot of work on this kind of thing only a few months ago and it doesn't do that on my "messed up compilation of crap" version. God knows what I did to get that then.

Well in that case, the answer is obvious: Don't use B for the B'Rel. In stock A2 they used the F1-F12 buttons...

posted on May 21st, 2009, 6:06 pm

Yeah, but changing it from B in FO will ruin multiplayer. The F-keys were easier, I wonder why they changed them for ships?