As survival game Sons of the Forest continues to dominate the Steam charts, developer Endnight Games has been working on making the early access experience a bit smoother for players. A new hotfix arrived today, and while it's a small one it addresses a couple of big requests from the community.
Sons of the Forest didn't have a hotkey system at launch, so players could only get an item into their hands by opening their inventory and clicking on the item they needed, or by adding items to their backpack, then holding their backpack up and choosing the item or weapon they wanted from that. The system wasn't exactly user friendly and felt a bit awkward, especially when being chased around by enraged cannibals.
But a hotkey system has blessedly been added in today's hotfix. Now you can assign items to your number keys (0-9) while using your inventory. Just hover over something like a pistol, shotgun, or bow, and you'll see a small empty UI box appear over the item. Press a number between 0 and 9 and it'll be assigned to that key. While playing, just tap that number and the assigned item will pop right into your hands. Ahh, so much better.
Another few small but welcome tweaks: tapping Escape will now close the construction manual, the 'grab bag' (when you're holding up your backpack), and the tutorial book, which improves the clunky interface a bit. Cutscene prompts have also been improved for more visibility, and some more hints have been added to the loading screen.
Note: If you happen to be using mods, such as the debug console mod that lets you play around with Sons of the Forest cheats, you may have trouble running those mods following the hotfix. At first I couldn't launch the game with mods, but a quick exit and restart of Steam and the Thunderstore mod manager sorted that out, and everything seems to be working as it did before.
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This is the easiest way to improve your skill and gameplay. Playing DotA gets better from day to day, and beginning from now the latest of DotA AllStars and Legends of DotA maps include a completely new way to manage your ingame settings - a text-configuration file.
After the first launch of DotA 6.88+ or LoD , a special configurating file will be created in your WarCraft III root folder (config.dota.ini or config.lod.ini). This file can be opened and edited with any text editor such as Notepad, it is a plain text file. We are recommend to use "clever" text editors, e.g. NotePad++, as they have syntax highlight for an easier navigation through.
Edited values cannot be applied during the game. You must edit it before a game. Except of hotkeys that can be changed. You must save your file and type in chat a command that will apply new hotkeys "-bind reset"
It is also possible to add a single modifier to the key; either Alt, Ctrl or Shift. This allows having your whole inventory and skillset bound to specifically modified keybinds (like ALT+R) that are used by WC3. There are couple of hot-binds like "Space", "F1"-"F9", which can be used directly, even without using the HEX value. However, it is not possible to add any modifiers (Alt, Ctrl, Shift) to Space and F1-F9.
Now, here is about binding settings. Take a look at this picture:
Binding of new keys is done strictly by slot numbers. Inventory slots 1-6 are self-explanatory, and skills are ordered as shown. Extra-binds like "BindMove", "BindStop" are used on the same cell as named skill (default layout). Default ingame hotkeys won't change and also will be available, unless you override the original key with another bind.
This is a very simple block of lines which will be entered in the chat at the start of the game. Make sure to allow all the commands (enable them in the above settings) to be typed first, before you make your own inputs.
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There are lots of handy tools and apps designed to work intuitively with the ROG ScreenPad Plus, with more to come as well. I know they don't want too many associations with Zen, but this is a case where we can use one to show that there's an existing ecosystem.. of sorts at least
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The heat from powerful internal components can sometimes make laptop keyboards uncomfortable to use, particularly during marathon gaming sessions and with sustained heavy workloads. To help keep your hands away from the warmest parts of the machine and create more space for the second display, we pulled the keyboard forward like the original Zephyrus and the new Zephyrus S17. The design lets your wrists sit on the table, like with a desktop keyboard, and we have a detachable palm rest for greater comfort while you work and play.
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