Hotkeys for Skills

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I'm not sure whether or not the skills you get with your character have specific hotkeys.  If they don't, they really ought to.  I imagine, however, that they must have hotkeys.  It would be a rather large oversight if they simply did not.  The reason I don't know for sure is because the tooltips for the skills don't list what the hotkeys for the skill is.  This should be changed.

Each skill should have an intuitive hotkey associated with it.  For instance, a skill named "Fireball" would have the hotkey "F", or perhaps "E" or "R".  Any key near the left hand that isn't used for other things already.  Since all Demigods have different skills (duh) you would only need a certain number of unique keys for each one.

Alternatively, you could simply implement something akin to an MMO hotbar.  The player drags and drops things to the hotbar - potions, skills, items, etc - and uses a corresponding number key to use / activate them.  So I put Fireball in hotbar box 1 and I press 1 in order to use that skill.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

I believe the skills are hotkeyed to 1, 2, 3, and 4, and the items are hotkeyed to F1, F2, F3, and F4.  Unless I did this in the key-bindings and don't remember...

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Hm, I'll check that out.  If that's the case, then most of my post may be disregarded, but it should definitely say what the hotkey for a particular skill is in the tooltip.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Hotkeys are listed with the onscreen button, just sorta smallish.  1-4 your skills.  5-7 minion summon.  F1-F4 your items.  Minion controls has some hotkeys, but don't remember them.

I also noticed you've been creating a lot of threads, but haven't been putting any notifiers in the title.  It would probably help the dev team sort better if you followed the sticky suggestion and put thinga like [Bug][Gameplay][Crash][Interface] in the title.

Have fun finding more things that are wonky, as I think the game has potential if we can just find the problem areas.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

Pretty much all of my posts are [Suggestion] but I'll remember that, and do that with my posts in the future.

I just noticed when I was playing that there are numbers next to the skills but I didn't put 2 and 2 together that those were the hotkeys.

 

Once again, I guess the point of my post now is that the hotkeys for the skills ought to be made more obvious (being in the tooltip would be great.