Some of The First Descendant Keybindings on Consoles Are in Need of Serious Attention

PC players have always had it easier when it comes to keybindings, due to an obvious advantage in the number of buttons. You have the option to change a lot of different keybindings in TFD and controller users are bound to have some overlap as they have fewer buttons to work with. This can cause some unexpected trouble and lead to mistakes that cannot be undone.

It Is Way Too Easy to Mess Up Your Reactors on Consoles

A lot of console players noticed that you use the same button to Favorite/Unfavorite an item and to scroll down the Reactor tooltip, to see the rest of the stats. Since Reactors are usually dismantled by the bulk, players select the ones they want to keep as Favorites, so the “Select all as Junk” button will avoid them. But, since the Favorite/Unfavorite and Scroll Down options share the same button, you may unknowingly “Unfavorite” a Reactor and dismantle it by accident. This could be avoided if console players had the option to change those keybindings.

This was brought to our attention by pequepadawans_ on Reddit, who said: “Having the button to fav/unfav an item and using that same button in a sequence to scroll the description (you can’t see the sub-stats of your reactor without doing it) it’s a horrible idea it’s not the first time that I see someone delete a reactor by accident by this, please at least allow us to change that button”

A lot of players were on the receiving end of this problem, and you can see demoralizing comments, like “Yup…I deleted my Hailey reactor because of this…” and “Lost a god roll this way. It’s horrible in and needs a fix!”.

Possible Solutions

There are a lot of ways this can be fixed. Besides the aforementioned one, to add the option to change the keybindings, a lot of players noticed that one of the D-Pads is almost unused in the menus. “Scrolling should just be with the d-pad,” said Nightshade_NL and “I play on PC mostly using a controller, and I have this same issue. The right stick isn’t used in menus really, so they should rebind the scroll to right stick in my opinion. I have had the fav icon change on some and I have unfavorited some as well trying to scroll.” added Phromik.

Another obvious solution would be to resize the tooltip so that the scrolling is unnecessary. Be it on PC or consoles, having to scroll down to see the last few lines of the Reactor stats is a bit annoying, so this solution is our favorite. And simple resizing shouldn’t be that much of a problem for the dev team.

Losing an item that you really worked hard for by accident can and will frustrate almost everyone, which can sometimes lead to quitting the game altogether, so we hope Nexon will look into this. The next major update is about a week away, so fingers crossed.