Hey everyone! So I have been working on “Perfecting” my keybinds and just trying to give AO a more modern feel and realized I am having trouble using my Razer Naga. For those who don’t know, the Naga is a gaming mouse that has 12 keys on the side created for MMO’s.
The Naga utilizes the Num-Pad to bind most of these keys. What I found out is for some insane (imo) reason Anarchy Online has fixed keys bound to a few of the buttons on the num-pad and WILL NOT allow you to rebind them. Is there a way around this? I can control my camera without the numpad. I dont need it to control the camera.
I am assuming someone with more know how of the games preferences files would know a way around this and could hopefully help me out as I would love to open these keys up and bind them to my mouse.
TLDR; Is there a way to “unlock” the fixed keys by adjusting something in the prefs folder or else where in the game files? How would I go about this? Should I just bind things to something else in the Razer software and give up?
Thanks!
So with some ingenuity I was able to figure out a way to do this…while its a little funky it seems to be working just fine for me.
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Browse to:
C:\Program Files\Funcom\Anarchy Online\cd_image\gui\default\OptionPanel
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Right-Click the File titled “HotKeys” → Open With → Choose Notepad
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Find this line of text:
HotKeyGroup label=“Fixed keys” mode=“fixed”
- Remove the “mode=“fixed”” so that the line looks like this now…
HotKeyGroup label=“Fixed keys”
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Save the “HotKeys” file and Log into Anarchy Online.
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You will now be able to “edit” the fixed keys. The problem now is that it won’t let you just erase them. And you can’t use the num-pad keys still because they are still bound. What you can do though is go through the “Fixed Keys” and change them (Double Click on Them). The only key I find necessary is the “Reset Fixed Camera pos” so I went through and change them all to H Which gives this option to erase the one it was previously saved to…ultimately clearing out the keybind.
- Once you go through and erase the Fixed Binds you can then go through and rebind the keys (In my case the num-pad keys) to whatever you want. Presonally, I bound them to a new toolbar.
Hopefully that helps someone else out as I found this to be SUPER frustrating and dated.
I didn’t know that mouse used numpad keys; as for the keybinds being dated … well lol
Good information, should sticky.
Frustrating that they would “Lock” keybinds and not allow customization. As I did the research, I noticed this carries through to most Funcom games.
As with most things in AO, there was a work around. Gives me so many more options now!
Seems this works only on old engine for some reason. Working on a fix.
Figured it out, apparently it can be saved in a few places. Doing a quick windows search of “HotKeys” and following the same process on any file that pops up worked for me.
Woot.