How often do you change the button configuration when playing a game?

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a-c-a-b
02/04/2024
12:37 PM
#1
Or do you just learn to adapt to whatever the default is?
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R1masher
02/04/2024
12:40 PM
#2
If I do its just the once
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kirbymuncher
02/04/2024
12:41 PM
#3
One of the first things I do when I start up a game for the first time is open up the button config. I'm not sure why really, since most of the time I don't change it. Unless it's a 2D platformer, in which case I almost always change it since I make my control scheme the same on all of those to keep my muscle memory
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Garioshi
02/04/2024
12:41 PM
#4
The only game I've gone out of my way to do this on is Meg Man X
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lilORANG
02/04/2024
12:42 PM
#5
Basically never unless for some reason they make the jump button anything other than X
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Alteres
02/04/2024
12:42 PM
#6
Very rarely.

Something has to be actively pissing me off and used semi frequently.

Unfortunately, those are the generally the games where you cant change the button layout. So you have to hard change it on the console for all your games.

Then Im really annoyed
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02/04/2024
12:43 PM
#7
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kirbymuncher
02/04/2024
12:44 PM
#8
_Valigarmanda_ posted...
"Y-axis: INVERTED"
camera control X-axis inverted
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Xatrion
02/04/2024
12:46 PM
#9
I try to maintain a consistency between games if at all possible. Things like in shooters, binding mouse button 4 to reload, or sprint to shift, or grenade to g, that sort of thing.
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PMarth2002
02/04/2024
01:20 PM
#10
Sometimes.

If I'm playing with a controller, I always turn rumble off.
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FL81
02/04/2024
01:35 PM
#11
kirbymuncher posted...
One of the first things I do when I start up a game for the first time is open up the button config. I'm not sure why really, since most of the time I don't change it. Unless it's a 2D platformer, in which case I almost always change it since I make my control scheme the same on all of those to keep my muscle memory
For 2D games, I always use the ZXCV and keys
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SauI_Goodman
02/04/2024
01:37 PM
#12
The only time I do is when the douchebag set the controls wrong. When I press up I want to look up not down.
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_Valigarmanda_
02/04/2024
01:55 PM
#13
PMarth2002 posted...
Sometimes.

If I'm playing with a controller, I always turn rumble off.

Oh yeah. On that note, it's not button configs, but

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reincarnator07
02/04/2024
02:05 PM
#14
Invert camera controls for controllers if that counts.

For shooters specifically, I usually rebind some of the controls onto my mouse, as it has 6 side buttons.
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DuneMan
02/04/2024
02:32 PM
#15
There are a few cases. Like, if an FPS game has melee assigned to 'V' when the 'Q' button is available instead I'll switch it.
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Bass_X0
02/04/2024
02:42 PM
#16
Garioshi posted...
The only game I've gone out of my way to do this on is Meg Man X

I have dash button on R so I can dash, jump and shoot simultaneously
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Ratchetrockon
02/04/2024
02:45 PM
#17
invert y axis for 3rd person shooters.

for dmc 3-5 playing as dante mainly:
i switch shoot and attack button
switch dt and gun change button
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kirbymuncher
02/04/2024
02:53 PM
#18
FL81 posted...
For 2D games, I always use the ZXCV and keys
for me it's WASD to move, J to jump, K for main action (often an attack of some sort), L for secondary action, and then if I need more keys I just kinda spill into UIOP; at random
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IfGodCouldDie
02/04/2024
02:54 PM
#19
I never used to but now I have to configure any fps to be as close to my apex legends setup as possible.

All other games I learn the default.
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Philip027
02/04/2024
03:00 PM
#20
Not that frequently these days, at least with controller inputs. I'm a lot more likely to do it if it's a game with keyboard controls. A lot of default KB controls for games are... well, boneheaded, to put it nicely.
Yomi
02/04/2024
03:01 PM
#21
Almost never unless it's a fighting game, and that's mainly because I use an arcade stick for those.
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Bass_X0
02/04/2024
03:05 PM
#23
Also for Street Fighter games, I like to have Fierce Punch on Square and Roundhouse Kick on X instead of the shoulder buttons. Im a pad user.
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ellis123
02/04/2024
03:07 PM
#24
I've changed the button configs probably around 10 times ever (ignoring controller config stuff when using a controller on PC).
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BlueAnnihilator
02/04/2024
03:16 PM
#25
Regularly for fighters.

Otherwise I hardly ever do it. Last non-fighters I recall doing it for were Tales of Arise and Astral Chain cause they map standards attacks to the shoulder button by default and that shit is trash.
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eggcorn
02/04/2024
03:24 PM
#26
I'm a lefty so with pc games I end up having to change everything. It's pretty frustrating for games with a ton of controls.
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furb
02/04/2024
03:26 PM
#27
gotta invert that y axis every time

gotta get that melee attack off the right joystick every time

I have to make those basic changes every time. So, that covers a lot of games.
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