Rage 2 may be very nearly right here on PC, however for a game half-developed by Doom maestros id Software, there’s something actually fairly rotten concerning the state of Rage 2’s default keyboard controls. For in addition to having an arsenal of mildly ridiculous weapons at your disposal, you even have varied particular skills that can assist you within the warmth of battle, such because the sonic boom-emitting Shatter Strike punch. The solely downside is that the default management for Shatter Strike is Ctrl+F.
Now I don’t find out about you, however once I’ve acquired three fingers on WAD and my little finger nearly at all times caught on Shift so I can transfer round with out getting riddled with bullets, Ctrl+F is, fairly actually, a little bit of a stretch. Infuriatingly, the remainder of Rage 2’s particular skills are all tied to Ctrl as effectively. Fancy a Slam? That’s Ctrl+Space. Throw up a barrier? Ctrl+C. It goes on. Fortunately, assistance is at hand inside Rage 2’s key mapping menu. Here’s the way to remap these horrible default keyboard controls so you’ll be able to keep on taking part in Rage 2 like a real mohawked champion.
I ought to level out, in fact, that the remainder of Rage 2’s keyboard controls aren’t truly that dangerous. It’s actually simply the particular skills which were giving me a lot grief – though why anybody thought this was an appropriate state of affairs within the first place is anybody’s guess.
Luckily, as a substitute of getting to press Ctrl+ one other button to activate your tremendous punches and spine-splitting floor kilos, you’ll be able to merely reassign each to one thing known as an Instant Cast binding. This means you solely should press a single button as a substitute of two. Your beserker-esque Overdrive potential, for instance, is already set to be Instant Casted to V, however the remainder (for some motive) are all tied up together with your Ctrl-based Focus potential by default.
By default, Rage 2’s particular skills are (infuriatingly) all tied to the Ctrl button.
Still, should you head to Rage 2’s Settings menu, click on Keyboard & Mouse Bindings after which scroll all the way in which all the way down to the Abilities part, you’ll discover the choices in query. Some of chances are you’ll be completely wonderful contorting your arms to hit Ctrl+F within the warmth of battle, in fact, but when, like me, your joints are already fairly decrepit just by advantage of being older than 20 years previous age, then you definitely’ll wish to remap these skills to the Instant Cast choices straight off the bat.
Obviously, you’ll wish to remap them to keys which might be inside simple attain of the WASD keys for if you want them in the midst of a gunfight, however I’ll warn you now that Rage 2’s different myriad controls already occupy a good chunk of your previous keyboard, so chances are you’ll have to spend a little bit of time tweaking different choices as effectively relying on what you discover most snug.
Thankfully, this act of finger contortion will be shortly rectified by remapping them to the out there Instant Cast bindings.
Matt, for instance, (who’s at present in the midst of deciding wot he thinks of Rage 2 in the mean time) discovered that merely altering Ctrl to Alt was sufficient to unravel his hand contortion woes (though he is a younger’un with significantly suppler bones than I), describing the strategy as “surprisingly nice”. He additionally informed me, and I quote, that “urgent Alt + Space to do the Slam specifically makes me do a weirdly satisfying factor with my thumb that type of evokes the precise motion.”
Whatever floats your fluorescent-coloured boat, I suppose.
Or, you recognize, you may at all times dump the keyboard completely and accept a controller as a substitute, which in hindsight appears to be clearly what this game was truly designed for. However, for the mouse and keyboard stalwarts amongst you, hopefully this tiny bit of recommendation will assist make Rage 2 a bit extra playable than it may need been in any other case.
