Once again I go back to the Exiled Lands (Savage Wilds this time, actually), and once again I can’t help editing “…/Conan Exiles/ConanSandbox/Config/DefaultGame.ini” to strip away the opening credits that I can’t really skip otherwise or automatically. Not everyone is bothered by it and the wait time is the same, but I’m happier this way.

Do you have some quirk like that in your gaming life? Something that takes at least a bit of effort or research to make your setup just nice? Give me all your most silly and trivial examples. All praise mods that automate doors.

  • ayla [she/her]@beehaw.org
    7·
    3 days ago

    for FF14, I use a separate launcher, XIVLauncher, just so I don’t have to type my password in all the time, it saves it for me

  • soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de
    8·
    3 days ago

    Not really that big of a deal, but Baldur’s Gate 3 can be launched with the --skip-launcher command line parameter to, well, skip the launcher.

  • memfree@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    I hate using AWSD as direction keys. I don’t understand why some games refuse to map the arrow keys to the same commands, but some don’t and it becomes up to me to manually set that right before playing anything.

    It irritates me so much to me that if a game doesn’t let me change the key mappings, I’m probably going for a refund rather than play at all.

    • wirelesswire@kbin.run
      2·
      3 days ago

      The best games in this regard are the ones that let you rebind everything and also have an alternate set of keymappings.

      • agegamon@beehaw.org
        3·
        3 days ago

        Oof, yeah I’m pretty picky about some keybinds and games that lock down keys can be almost unplayable.

        Helldivers 2 doesn’t let you remap interact to F (which is the only muscle memory interact key I can use) and I haaaaate that so much. I had to get a workaround just to fix it.

  • agegamon@beehaw.org
    4·
    3 days ago

    I have a foot pedal button assigned to mute my microphone.

    (And no, I don’t stream or anything, purely a QoL thing 😆)

  • Kissaki@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago
    • I did in the past: Replace .bik intro video file with an “empty” one to skip intros
    • I know of, haven’t used: Change game window to be borderless with Borderless Gaming
    • IIRC I’ve used Cheat Engine, before it was littered with shit, to speed up an awfully slow singleplayer game
    • In Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (W:ET) I had a whole setup of config scripts for key bindings
    • For W:ET server hosting I put configuration into a deliberate, structured set of files (it’s not necessarily obvious between splitting base game and alternateable mod configuration)