Key Bindings on PC still not saving

@shardreg said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

Hello everyone,
hello Rare team,

it's been years now since this bug first haunted sailors and it still is an issue to this day.

With the addition of new actions in today's update (crouch toggle, crouch hold, dart radial), having to re-map key bindings again and again becomes even more of a chore.

It's mindboggling to understand the issue. One month it's the "Bait" action that won't bind, the next month it's all F-keys that can't be used.

Please, please, please finally make this a priority item and solve it for us.

Thank you!

Shardreg

Hello again,

Any chance of this getting any recognitation and acknowledgement?

Thanks!

Yes, i am getting this - having to rebind crouch each time i start the game up - if i close a session and restart then its still changed, but on closing the game completely it seems to wipe the changes.

I have seen in other games this issue being the file used to save these changes being read only.
Not on computer now so I can't look for the file.

@astralenigma said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

I have seen in other games this issue being the file used to save these changes being read only.
Not on computer now so I can't look for the file.

I have tried this before - last year even - and it did not help the issue, unfortunately.

Hoping for our moderators/developers to finally address this.

@shardreg said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

Hello everyone,
hello Rare team,

it's been years now since this bug first haunted sailors and it still is an issue to this day.

With the addition of new actions in today's update (crouch toggle, crouch hold, dart radial), having to re-map key bindings again and again becomes even more of a chore.

It's mindboggling to understand the issue. One month it's the "Bait" action that won't bind, the next month it's all F-keys that can't be used.

Please, please, please finally make this a priority item and solve it for us.

Thank you!

Shardreg

Hello,

I'm still trying to get a response here. Any chance?

@shardreg said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

Hello everyone,
hello Rare team,

it's been years now since this bug first haunted sailors and it still is an issue to this day.

With the addition of new actions in today's update (crouch toggle, crouch hold, dart radial), having to re-map key bindings again and again becomes even more of a chore.

It's mindboggling to understand the issue. One month it's the "Bait" action that won't bind, the next month it's all F-keys that can't be used.

Please, please, please finally make this a priority item and solve it for us.

Thank you!

Shardreg

Dear Devs & Mods,

please review this issue and put it on the "to fix" list. It has been years.

@itzeggward said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

@shardreg hey bro they are kinda busy fixing a ton of bugs right now and since the player can fix this one, its prob low on their priority. I fixed this by taking a picture of all my settings, then resetting everything to default, saving the game, and adding all my settings back in. It's tedious but it works, look it up on reddit that's where I found an explanation for the fix.

Hey you!

I appreciate your input and I am aware that there are a load of issues with Season 14 and its features.
However, this particular (proverbial) can has been kicked down the road for a few years now and still frustrates players - likely a lot more than bother to show up in the forums.

What's more, the "fixes" on reddit and on here do not guarantee success and it remains a gamble whether or not keybindings will save - and which.

Hence my persistance to keep this thread up high and get it noticed eventually.

Again, thank you for chiming in!

Cheers

@il-truth-li said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

@shardreg

Try what i replied to the other user

Hello friend!

Sadly, your solution is one that's also presented on reddit (and here) - and it works just as "optionally great" as the other workarounds.

For instance, with the current iteration of the keybindings-not-saving-bug, it does nothing for me.

@shardreg said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

Hello everyone,
hello Rare team,

it's been years now since this bug first haunted sailors and it still is an issue to this day.

With the addition of new actions in today's update (crouch toggle, crouch hold, dart radial), having to re-map key bindings again and again becomes even more of a chore.

It's mindboggling to understand the issue. One month it's the "Bait" action that won't bind, the next month it's all F-keys that can't be used.

Please, please, please finally make this a priority item and solve it for us.

Thank you!

Shardreg

Hello again,

I'm still trying to get this recognized and (officially) commented on.

Please help.

@shardreg said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

Hello everyone,
hello Rare team,

it's been years now since this bug first haunted sailors and it still is an issue to this day.

With the addition of new actions in today's update (crouch toggle, crouch hold, dart radial), having to re-map key bindings again and again becomes even more of a chore.

It's mindboggling to understand the issue. One month it's the "Bait" action that won't bind, the next month it's all F-keys that can't be used.

Please, please, please finally make this a priority item and solve it for us.

Thank you!

Shardreg

Hello again,

It has been 2 weeks and this issue still persists ingame.

Please put this on the "to fix" list.

While it may not be the most urgent, considering the state of Season 14 and its features, it is one of the longest standing bugs in SoT.

Thank you.

Shardreg

@bub3832 said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

Glad to have found this already posted. Upvoted.

I made this comment elsewhere but lets get one thread promoted until it's read.

I'm Steam on PC and my friends and I struggle with the new crouch keybinds auto overwriting existing settings on every restart. Please save my keys. I've tried the "workarounds". They don't work.

Thank you for chipping in!

The "workarounds" are at best a temporary solution and at worst (more realistically) a way to keep this issue from getting fixed.

@sxthyt said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

Upvoting, can't believe this still isn't even on the known issues list after all these years. Resetting doesn't work for me either.

Thank you for confirming and getting more visibility on the issue.

Add me to the list, as of today I have lost all key bindings and cannot get them to save either. Now I need 15 minutes to reset every bind before I play!

@musicaipen said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

Upvoted as this has been an issue on Xbox console as well. I have to change my volume, key bindings, gameplay, and hud settings EVERY time. It's very inconvenient!

I was unaware that it was an issue for console players as well - thank you for informing us!

@v7z12 said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

I also have had this issue recently when I haven't had any issue before, seemed to start on season 14.

A similar experience to mine, then.

It worked in the previous 2 seasons and the issue only returned with Season 14 - and now refuses to leave.

@madmark1961 said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

Add me to the list, as of today I have lost all key bindings and cannot get them to save either. Now I need 15 minutes to reset every bind before I play!

That sadly sounds so familiar, yes. Thank you for speaking up.

@reverend-toast said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

Be sure to submit a bug report.

However if you reset controller bindings, edit your keyboard bindings, then reset controller bindings again they usually save.

Bug report should long be submitted, but thank you kindly for pointing this out!

The workaround with resetting controller settings does no longer seem to work with Season 14.
Which is probably for the best, honestly, as "working workarounds" tend to slow down bugfixing.

@mp-dino said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

For each setting that is not saving. Reset that category to default. Close the game. The put your settings back. They should save after that as it worked for me

I appreciate your input, but as many others have already stated in this thread, all of those (old and new) workarounds do not work.

What's more, workarounds are not fixes - and this issue needed fixing years ago.

That workaround is also an invitation to disaster - i dont mind changing a single setting each time i play - but resetting everything to default risks it remembering none of my keybinds and thats just too big a risk to take.

@sally-kraken said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

That workaround is also an invitation to disaster - i dont mind changing a single setting each time i play - but resetting everything to default risks it remembering none of my keybinds and thats just too big a risk to take.

This is something that has happened to me as well - when trying the workaround. After this, none of the keybindings save anymore and it is utterly frustrating. Moreso when it is paired with game crashes.

@d3adst1ck said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

I imagine the reason this bug still exists is because it only affects some people, and no reproducible method of making it happen exists which makes it difficult to track and fix.

If you can figure out exactly what causes the keybinds to no longer save, and you can easily reproduce the issue, that would go a long way to getting them to look at it.

Having worked in game development, I understand and appreciate the complex nature of a severe bug that does not affect 100% of a game's population. It can be tedious and time consuming.

However, the onus is not on those affected by the bug. It is on the game developer to figure out reported bugs and sort them out.

There are many reddit and forum posts asking for help and providing workarounds, even some that narrow down some of the problematic key bindings (for example: bait). Those are the jump-off points from which the game devs will have to take it.

@reverend-toast said in Key Bindings on PC still not saving:

@shardreg I:

Reset Controller Bindings, Change the keyboard bindings, reset controller bindings again. I sometimes go back to menu as well.

Thank you for trying to provide a solution.

However, you will find that the original problem statement already outlines that these old workarounds no longer function (reliably). Your solution, specifically, has been suggested here already and has been shown to only work "some of the time".

I am afraid we will have to keep asking for this to be fixed.