What do you think of live button remappings?

[JeanFrancois-1217]

@Shadout-2849

Key modifiers should solve the console compatibility at least. Maybe also the mechanical challenge.

You mean toggle buttons that would do button remapping except you have to decide which set of actions you want to access and press the corresponding toggle button, limited by the number of buttons available for this separate toggle function? What “key modifiers” do you refer to?

@Shadout-2849

Having to keep track of what your keys do at any given moment, since they are dynamic, seems like it could easily be as big a challenge as keeping track of 20 different buttons?
When you want to teleport in a split second, should you really have to spend time figuring out if you need to click the Exit button first or not, to get out of a combo sequence?

Remapping should be breaking down the actions into groups that come into play predictably, and you’re obviously aware by seeing your executed actions on your screen. You should know where you are. The dynamic runes and runewords version may not even go three levels deep and is tightly linked to already existing skills.

@Shadout-2849

Each key having a specific purpose sounds both easier, and offers more options for the player (of course, reducing options for the player can make a system worth it on its own, to have consequences for your combat decisions; “while you do X you lose access to Y”, with shapeshifting being an obvious example of course)

Each key having a specific purpose has already been explained as problematic in multiple ways. The only benefit you get is having access to 20 skills simultaneously. Simultaneously there are more options, yet because they’re simultaneous you would both struggle to have a purpose for them (unless there are cooldowns and conditions affecting their availability you would have to keep track of mentally instead of just passing through them) and to use them well. Developers would also have trouble implementing them cross-platform and making them work together. I think we both know Diablo IV will never become WoW.

@Shadout-2849

of course, reducing options for the player can make a system worth it on its own, to have consequences for your combat decisions; “while you do X you lose access to Y”

Yes…

@Shadout-2849

I cant recall saying I couldnt tell that difference

I can recall you not telling it.

@Shadout-2849

Irony how?

Compare what I quote you posting with the subsequent link. I did include a colon mark.