Company of Heroes

Though I know there are more pressing matters to attend to right now (bugs & balance), I believe that amidst such issues, the concern about hotkeys remains an important one since many players live and die by them.

Even though vCoH was partially benevolent to the grid system (only wire/sandbag building icons were shuffled, but they didn't much bother anyone), CoH OF Beta is a sea of inconsistencies, with a plethora of misplaced icons that don't quite benefit the spirit of a grid hotkey system. Although this problem was present in Warcraft III, the game hotkey engine was very flexible and a quick trip to the CustomKeys.txt file allowed everything to be reconfigured to the player's want. This isn't so with CoH, where hotkey editing is a much more clumsy task, and patching is a real pain to custom key users.

Therefore, I'd like to ask Relic if they could, in the following beta patches, fix these inconsistencies and relocate the default hotkey icon locations in lieu of a more consistent layout . I am very sure many other CoH players would be very grateful of a such a change, given the fact that distributing the default icons is probably a painless change to program.

To make some lives easier, I'm including this list of inconsistencies I found (I may not have been very thorough):

• Build radio button (Sappers have it on F, other soldiers on A)
• What is common_ability (binded to letter "O")
• Bren Carrier Self Repair Button (on X instead of S/D)
• Booby traps buttons (Kettengrad vs. Soldiers)
• Repair buttons (PE have them on S location instead of D)
• Camouflage & Hold Fire buttons (camouflage seem misplaced)
• Luftwaffe ground Build Guns buttons (inconsistent with Sandbags & Wires)
• Truck Advanced bulding button is on grind place A instead of S
• Wires & Sandbags buttons (carried over from vCoH)
• Sapper emplacements buttons
• Mortar/Howitzer Barrage Types buttons (Royal Artillery Doctrine)
• Churchill Mortar Barrage (minor consistency: should be on Z instead of X)

Mind you, the hotkey layout I've done, thus, isn't as optimized as it could be. You'll find some hotkeys replaced by the nearest empty (or not) grid icon, so check before using the hotkey of an ability you'd think is in the correct place.

Of shortcuts are such a mess, grid ftw

but seriously why puting reinforce to y?

its really louziest shorcut

could just put it to r and the weapon upgrades from t back on y

Relic plz make gridkeys a norm for OF rather then some weird mod required thing. or let us set up our own, or just standardize the grids so we can use the mod at least. arghh.. there are more then 100's out there, probably more like 1000's that use gridkey's. such a simple thing rather then some weird hotkey's all over the keyboard.

'cmon relic.

Everyone that reads this post plz reply to it and ask something similar or hell just quote me and hit QFT.

I just memorize w/e hotkeys the game says are hotkeys

Tho I do see the benefit in the grid system! I wish we could just freaking assign our OWN hotkeys easily. Like almost every other game I own allows this, but not my favorite, beloved CoH.

Relic plz make gridkeys a norm for OF rather then some weird mod required thing. or let us set up our own, or just standardize the grids so we can use the mod at least. arghh.. there are more then 100's out there, probably more like 1000's that use gridkey's. such a simple thing rather then some weird hotkey's all over the keyboard.

'cmon relic.

Everyone that reads this post plz reply to it and ask something similar or hell just quote me and hit QFT.