[Rant] Config guy here; Valve, can we please get full control over the binds of our keyboard and mouse? Source 2 was supposed to be better than this

Here is a rant, coming from someone that has been struggling to make do with the Source tools available to make stuff like the [Dota2 Core Config Engine](https://github.com/loopuleasa/Dota2-TheCore-Config-Engine), and these annoyances are shared by other people that tried to customize their keyboard and mouse setup in the game.

 

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The new [Reborn update](http://www.dota2.com/reborn/updates) stated this:

Added support for a wider range of bindable keys

 

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And after testing, here is what's probably new:

- You can bind an action to CTRL (its old ctrl+groups, ctrl+alt pings, ctrl+ability and unified unit command functions remains)

- You can bind an action to SHIFT (its old queue function remains)

- Some non-standard keyboard keys (for non-qwerty)

- You can now bind an action to MWHEELUP and MWHEELDOWN (but it **doesn't work**, seems to be bugged)



 

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And here, are the keys you still **cannot** bind:

- Mouse 1 to another key or a mouse button (always left click)

- Mouse 2 to another key or a mouse button (always right click)

- Mouse 3 to another key or a mouse button (always middle mouse camera drag)

- The ";" key (for some reason, probably structure wise, you cannot bind ";" )

- The ESCAPE key

 

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Here's stuff that you **cannot** do without external scripting programs:

- Swap the mouse buttons around

- Move the CTRL functionality to another key

- Move the SHIFT queue functionality to another key

- You can move the ALT queue functionality to another key (using the special "dota_remap_alt_key"), but not completely since some stuff like ALT+Clicking on items/heroes/clock to print in chat will always stay on that key.

- You cannot make one of your keys on the keyboard simulate a right click, or a left click, or a middle click. What if you want to have your clicks on the keyboard and aim with something precise like a graphics tablet? You can't do that.

- What if you wish to implement smart casting, like some people familiar from other MOBAs using some autoexec binds? Well, you can't since there is no function for left-clicks available.

- What if you wish to make the Attack / Follow actions not require that extra click (making them like quickcast). Well, you can't because there is no quickattack or quickfollow command implemented, nor there is a left-click function available to simulate that behaviour.

- You cannot decouple some functionalities from the special keys (like for instance, what if you want to have the Ctrl+Group assign key not use the CTRL key, but something like the TAB key, while maintining the other CTRL functions on the original key).

- You just can't 100% switch keys around using the engine's software.

 

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Source 2 was supposed to be better.

Right now it's worse than Legacy since it doesn't even have the "+sixsense_left_click" commands for simulating simple clicks.

Why not focus a bit on providing a proper structure for our own customization and let the community figure out how they like to press their keys.

There's not enough control over our setups from the console commands.

The in-game menu interests me less, since it's not intended to give you full control anyway and it's adequate for most people.

Just give us the command tools to make these customizations.

It's all we want.

volvo pls