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#1 User is offline   Nyst Icon

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Posted 18 August 2007 - 09:33 AM

Hello.

I found the John Defoe games through my gaming magazine, and have enjoyed the first two immensely! Insofar being scared witless can be called enjoying smile.gif

Now I find myself trying to get into the third game, Trilby's Notes, but I'm having a little difficulty. The first being that I can no longer use my mouse at all. Feels weird that does.

If possible, can I ask for a list of type commands? Do I use a standard list, like with Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis (made of awesome) like push, pull, open, close, etc...or are the commands specific for each situation?
I'm one of these people who wants to get every line of dialogue out of a game tongue.gif

Secondly, I'm having difficulty typing, as I'm using an azerty keyboard. That's what I get for living in Belgium. It means I'm typing weird though, as things like "talk to man" become "tqlk to ;qn".
Is there anything I can do about that?

Thanks in advance!

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Posted 18 August 2007 - 02:14 PM

Greetings,

About the game commands, they are roughly the same, but there are some unique ones in certain situations, eg. the very last puzzle, which I'm not going to spoil for you.
I have no idea what kind of advice you're looking for with your new keyboard, apart from "Get used to it.".
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Posted 18 August 2007 - 06:00 PM

Thanks.

I've been playing the game like this (can't leave a good game alone),
and I've found the commands I need. Only a handful are different but easy enough to guess.
If there's any I missed, they're not impeding the gameplay much.

As for the azerty thing; I've played games that were only querty before, and as long as they don't use the wasd for movement or such, I'm fine. In general I'm doing okay with that too, but during scary parts I tend to forget about the keys. I've almost died because of that, but it's also kind of immersion breaking to have to look down on my keyboard

As for the game, it's tons of fun smile.gif the whispering voices in the evil hotel are really creepy!
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Posted 18 August 2007 - 07:51 PM

Would it be too much trouble to order a qwerty from abroad?
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Posted 19 August 2007 - 07:34 AM

For a start, a lot of commands should be intuitive. I find with any text parser, you just try typing a bunch of different commands and if they work, great if they don't, well mark that one off your list. Quite a few commands can mean the same thing e.g. "take" "pick up" "get" and as for talking to people, the main thing you need to know is "Ask [person] about [topic/item/person/thing/etc.]" Sometimes you'll need to step back, ask what you need to do, and then type it in, instead of sticking to the same set of commands time and time again.

As for your qwerty woes, surely there's a configuration that can change on your operating system for the key mappings for your computer. I know I've switched keyboards I own between UK and American and even DVORAK, just by fiddling with settings. For Windows computers, just go the the Control Panel and it should be under either keyboards or regional settings.
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Posted 19 August 2007 - 09:27 PM

Thank you.

And yes, it's getting easier the more and more I play. I just wish it'd been like this from the start.
Some games detect your country automatically, others let you bind the keys, etc...I guess I'm spoiled.
As for the setting, I'll have to experiment. Maybe setting my region to America or something will help.

QUOTE (AdamM @ Aug 19 2007, 02:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Would it be too much trouble to order a qwerty from abroad?

That'd be like asking the French to drop their silly language and just talk English tongue.gif
I don't know why my country chose a different keyboard, but what can I say? I'm used to it and I'm sticking to it.
In time I'll master both.
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Posted 20 August 2007 - 09:13 AM

What?! Ok, hang on, the way you said it sounded like you had moved to Belgium from abroad. So you're native? In that case why didn't you grow up learning to use an azerty keyboard?
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Posted 02 September 2007 - 05:50 PM

QUOTE (AdamM @ Aug 20 2007, 04:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
What?! Ok, hang on, the way you said it sounded like you had moved to Belgium from abroad. So you're native? In that case why didn't you grow up learning to use an azerty keyboard?

I do use an Azerty keyboard; that's kind of the thing tongue.gif
Some games it doesn't matter with; wasd or zqsd, the effect is the same.
And most games are smart enough to tell I've a different keyboard.
In this case it's different, since I'm typing in commands where the game thinks I'm using a querty keyboard, and assigned the keys as such.
So pressing the 'a' key produces a 'q' and so forth.
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Posted 02 September 2007 - 11:39 PM

The problem was that people thought that you had moved to Belgium and used a qwerty keyboard, and you were having difficulty becuase you were instinctively typing as if it were a qwerty not an azerty.

The game doesn't know you are using an azerty keyboard and there is no way to change that.
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Posted 03 September 2007 - 01:37 AM

QUOTE (Prodian @ Sep 3 2007, 02:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The game doesn't know you are using an azerty keyboard and there is no way to change that.



Heh...pull off all the keys, and stick them back on in a QWERTY fashion.

Or make a cover for your keyboard with the QWERTY keys on it and type through that.

Or just have lots of fun trying to remember what all the keys are when using them.
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Posted 03 September 2007 - 09:05 AM

Greetings. My advice would be to just try to figure out...

Holy shit, Thaluikhain has an awesome avater

Anyway, just try to figure out how to use it. Oh, and that there's an introduction thread in the lobby.
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PM me, we'll talk.
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