Mouse & keyboard is very personal, and everyone’s different. I just want to share how I remapped mouse & keyboard to improve accuracy, timing, and overall flow. I set up these new controls, and it honestly didn’t take long before they felt a little bit more natural.
The important thing here is not having dodge-roll on the spacebar, because you dodge so often that using the spacebar or another keyboard key ends up feeling slow and clumsy. But have you noticed how Xbox/PS5 controllers have small buttons that are super easy to tap? Well—here’s the trick.
Set dodge-roll to RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON, and “walk to mouse” on the W key — yes, really. Try it. It creates a kind of natural flow.
Then you also set run to RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON. You simply hold RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON and point the mouse cursor where you want to run when not in combat (relaxing the keyboard finger.)
(!!TOGGLE RUN TO ALWAYS OFF IN GAME!!)
When you enter combat (or approach an edge or a fire!!!), just use W for slow walking. Then you can hold RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON periodically if you need to sprint(no need to release the W key), tap right mouse button to dodge-roll, and left mouse button to attack; this is very important for stamina controll — you will most of the time be slow walking and dodge-rolling in combat. These controls also works very well when sprint-attacking.
This is probably not some brand-new invention in control settings, just a tip from me.
Combined movement → ON
Run to cursor → ON
Gameplay → Auto Target Enemies → ON
Controls → Customize Keys:
Forward: Keyboard Arrow Up (not using this key)
Backward: Keyboard Arrow Down (not using this key)
Left: Keyboard Arrow left (not using this key)
Right: Keyboard Arrow right (not using this key)
Interact: E
Food: F
Quick Item: Q
Walk to Mouse: W (!!FOR SLOW WALKING!!)
Sneak / drop down: C
Run: RIGHT mouse button
Dodge: RIGHT mouse button
Toggle Walk/Run: R (!!toggle run to always OFF in game!!)
Attack: LEFT mouse button
Mainhand item: Z
Offhand item: X
Utility runes: SPACEBAR
Offhand use: D (just think of D as your other hanD or shielD)
Parry: Middle mouse button
Shoulder Barge: V
Target Lock: SHIFT (Just tap SHIFT to change target lock, or HOLD SHIFT to EXIT MANUAL TARGET LOCK…. think of SHIFT as in SHIFT TARGET)
Toggle Runes: A
Invetory: Mouse Button 4 or 5
Journal: J
Gestures: G
Map: Mouse Button 4 or 5
Runes: defualt settings
Utility runes: defualt settings
Have a nice day! 