Game Not Recognized Swapped Mouse Buttons in Windows

Delizin shared this bug 5 years ago
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When using an ambidextrous mouse with your left hand you can swap the right and left mouse buttons by going into the Windows mouse settings and switching the primary and secondary buttons. This gives a uniform mouse experience throughout windows and almost every single windows application, except Space Engineers.

Space Engineers does not recognize that the mouse buttons have been swapped. There does not appear to be any option in game to swap the mouse buttons either. You can rebind the tool use and aim buttons, but it does not fix any of the menus.

The correct behavior is for Space Engineers to use the Windows defined primary and secondary mouse buttons instead of hard coding to the physical left and right mouse buttons.

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I have the same problem. Probably 10% of your customers are lefthanded persons and therefore are affected.

To solve the problem, just make Space Engineers compatible with the mouse seetings in Windows.

Please, this is no minor bug. For lefthanded players this is essential and definitifely a reason to not even buy the game.

Kind Regards

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As a left-handed mouse user, I won't be playing until this is fixed.

And if you're not going to fix it, please refund my money; this is a Windows programming minimum.

Regards.

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Swapped mouse buttons worked fine for me in Windows 7.

So good game with such silly bug after 2 years. strange..

shame on you ))

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Hello!


Thank you for letting us know. I reported this issue and forwarded it to our programmers to fix it.


Kind Regards

Keen Software House: QA Department

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hi there any news on this problem?

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Looks like somebody finally understood :-)

Thank you, Kateřina.

Kind Regards

Leonidas

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This is still a problem in "Update 1.199 - Heavy Industry".

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Still a problem in 2022. Wouldn't have bought the game if I'd known.

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Uninstalled from Gamepass; unplayable by left handed people. A pity, looked good.

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Hello Engineer,


We’re pleased to inform you that this issue has been resolved in version 205.


As such, we’ll be closing this thread.


If you encounter any other issues with the game, please don’t hesitate to start a new thread here on the forum—we’re always happy to assist!


Happy engineering!


Kind regards,

Keen Software House - QA Department

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