[Suggestion] Walk speed hotkeys

[Gabula]

Currently the hotkey to change your characters running speed is Ctrl + R. This command causes your running speed to cycle one step forward (from walking to running for example), but also cycles back to a slower speed if no faster speed is available. This can cause problems, for example when in a pinch and forced to run, the player might spam the Ctrl + R command one time too many, causing his character to go into crawl speed instead of sprinting, a potentially fatal mistake.

My suggestion to solve this is to have two hotkeys, one for increasing your run speed by one step, and one for lowering it by one step. With this setup, a stressed player could spam the "go faster" hotkey to start sprinting, without fear of accidentally setting his speed to "crawl".

[Sevenless]

Already exists. Ctrl+R to increase, Ctrl+Shift+R to decrease, Shift+R to toggle straight to max speed.

Perhaps a better request would be to not let Ctrl+R wrap around?

[Hervarth]

Perhaps a better request would be to not let Ctrl+R wrap around?

Good idea. I know people who died in the old world because of this :p

[Gabula]

Already exists. Ctrl+R to increase, Ctrl+Shift+R to decrease, Shift+R to toggle straight to max speed.

Perhaps a better request would be to not let Ctrl+R wrap around?

Maybe it's just me, but Shift + R does nothing on my client.

[RedFox]

Perhaps a better request would be to not let Ctrl+R wrap around?

Seen as we already have hotkeys to go both directions anyways, I don't really see a lot of value in it wrapping around. I'd like to see this change personally.

[Sevenless]

Perhaps a better request would be to not let Ctrl+R wrap around?

Seen as we already have hotkeys to go both directions anyways, I don't really see a lot of value in it wrapping around. I'd like to see this change personally.

I personally can't think of a reason you'd want to switch from sprint to crawl either. Two key presses to get back to walk either direction.

Errr... maybe shift+r is amber client... wups?

[Sever]

Perhaps a better request would be to not let Ctrl+R wrap around?

Seen as we already have hotkeys to go both directions anyways, I don't really see a lot of value in it wrapping around. I'd like to see this change personally.

I personally can't think of a reason you'd want to switch from sprint to crawl either. Two key presses to get back to walk either direction.

Errr... maybe shift+r is amber client... wups?

Yeah, Amber client ties Shift+Q/W/E/R to crawl, walk, run and sprint.

Ctrl+shift+R is a fairly awkward hotkey, and I've personally never gone to crawl on purpose. I would like to see something that only toggles between walk and run, and something else that forces sprint, on any terrain (except water, thickets if they do/will exist), with appropriate stamina drain and, if necessary, possibility of injury; that is, more of a panic button.

[jorb]

Already exists. Ctrl+R to increase, Ctrl+Shift+R to decrease, Shift+R to toggle straight to max speed.

Not in the default client, but I don't hate that.