KNOWN ISSUE: Keybinds Not Working As Expected After ‘Secrets of the Machine God’ Update

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Bugs
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We are aware of and looking in to a number of issues being reported concerning keybinds.

Existing reports may be merged here, to help us keep track of the issues being reported.

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Issue Type (Required):

Other

Issue Description (Required):

Since the game’s launch, I have had an issue where my secondary action becomes unassigned when booting the game. The workaround was to reassign my secondary action keybind each play session.

As of the June 25th 2024 patch, attempts to assign any key to secondary action are unsuccessful and leave it unassigned. This is not only visual - the action cannot be performed after attempting to assign the key.

Steps to Reproduce (Required):

Unknown - I don’t know of anyone else experiencing this issue

[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):

Yes, and I’ve tried disabling them

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

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console-2024-06-26-02.35.34-5ef892c9-876c-4b2b-825a-20b4dda8b3f4.log (113 KB)
darktide_launcher.log (769 KB)

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Same issue here. Previously had to rebind Weapon Special Action on every game launch prior to Machine God update.
Curently cannot change any key binds. It will close the key assign popup as normal but the keys stay unchanged. Currently, Weapon Special Action is ‘UNASSIGNED’, and using ‘reset to default settings’ doesn’t change or give it a key assignment.

I have tried verifying through Darktide launcher and Steam, reinstalling, restarting my PC, and removing all mod files. The issue persists at a 100% consistency rate.

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Same with the other posts. Keys that I’ve had to assign every launch since the beta are now locked out completely.

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The issues still persist post Hotfix #41 (1.4.1)

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Same issue for my game.

ACTIVATE ABILITY - [UNASSIGNED]

Will not bind to anything.

Key trying to bind to is ]

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I have the same issue described. Used to bind “[” on every launch to push to talk. The recent update has broken the ability to rebind this function at all.

Using the reset to defaults in game does not fix the issue.
Using the “reset keybinds on launch” in the launcher settings does not fix the issue.

After a bit of troubleshooting I did find a work around. It is a bit involved and will reset your save file resulting in the loss of all of your loadouts, preferences, and settings.

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The problem file is the one that is preserved via steam cloud sync. As a result, reinstalling the game, or using a different computer, will result in the same issue happening.

You can manipulate the game into using a new local, non synced save and regain your lost binding functionality. Then you can use this local file to replace the steam cloud sync file. I’ll describes the steps I took below.

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THIS WORK AROUND WILL DELETE YOUR ALL YOUR LOADOUTS! MAKE SURE TO WRITE DOWN/SCREENCAP THEM BEFOREHAND

I would also advise you notes all your game settings as these may be lost too.

  1. Navigate to %appdata%\Fatshark\Darktide and check if you have either default.old or default.sav. Delete or move these files somewhere else - these are the local saves that we will be using and existing local saves may cause these steps to not work the same.
  2. Navigate to [Steam Install Directory]\userdata\[SteamUserID]\1361210\remote. The install directory is usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam and your SteamUserID is a string of numbers, likely the only folder in that location. Locate a file named default. Make a backup copy of this file, you can restore this to restore your loadouts, etc. (but the keybind issue will return too)
  3. In the steam client, right click on the game and select properties. Under the general tab turn off Steam Cloud.
  4. Before launching the game, delete the default file found in step 2.
  5. Launch the game - at this point you should be able to bind the problematic keybind again. You will notice several game settings as well as your loadout are now reset too. These will need to be recreated/changes back to your preferences. You do not need to do all of this at this time. I would just verify the keybind works and move to step 6.
  6. Close the game. Navigate to the path described in step 1. Copy the file default.sav to the path described in step 2.
  7. Rename this copied file to default (no file type). You may need to change windows explorers settings to show file name extensions. Accept the warning about changing the file name extension.
  8. Re-enable steam cloud sync as described in step 3.
  9. Open the game and confirm that the binding still function. At this point the cloud save file has been fully replaced with this new one. Feel free to recreate your loadouts, etc.

Hopefully this helps those few players like myself who just dealt with the rebind issue that has excised since the closed beta and has since been made worse in this latest patch. In good news, it appears that after this workaround, the binding now persist across restarting the game. At least for the [ key that I use.

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Can confirm the above works. Thank you for the help :smiley:

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Issue Type (Required):

Other

Issue Description (Required):

I can normally go in to the keybinds and change my dodge key to ’ which is also the key I have programmed to my mouse. Since the Update I can no longer change any keykind. So currently the dodge key is UNASSIGNED with no way to change it. Broke game.

UPDATE
It only appears to be my dodge key that is bugged. It is stuck on UNASSIGNED and nothing I can do changes that.

[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

Steam (PC)

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Same for me…

I play with one hand and so use a multi key mouse on the side, with the last update i’m totally unable to assign the" equip a small object." Before the patch i used the “num0” for this action to use stims, but it was never saved, i always had to rebind it when launching the game. But with this patch i can’t bind anything anymore, wathever i chose to bind, it always stay 'unassigned." Because of that i can’t use stims anymore.

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See my work around here on another post with this issue.

https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/keybind-unassigned-cannot-assign-key/96242/6?u=ak_zephyr

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Issue Type (Required):

Other

Issue Description (Required):

Whenever I launch the game the small item key is unbound and when I try to rebind it nothing happens and I just can’t use them.

Steps to Reproduce (Required):

Not sure cause I havent seen anyone else with this issue but just try to change small item key bind

[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):

Yes, and I’ve tried disabling them

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

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I play with one hand and so use a multi key mouse on the side, with the last update i’m totally unable to assign the" equip a small object." Before the patch i used the num0 for this action to use stims, but it was never saved, i always had to rebind it when launching the game. But with this patch i can’t bind anything anymore, wathever i chose to bind, it always stay 'unassigned." Because of that i can’t use stims anymore.

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Issue Type (Required):

Weapons

Issue Description (Required):

Since the beginning of the game I had to reassign the weapon special action button each time when I launched the game. But since today’s update I can no longer assign the key for special weapon action. I have modes on the game that I deactivated to see but it doesn’t change anything.

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I have the same problem, i dont have any mod and i tryed to reset the keybindings to no avail.

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Im currently having the same problem as OP as well- I’ve had to rebind weapon special action every time I started up the game. It was annoying, but I got used to it, but since the update dropped last night I cannot assign any key for Weapon Special Action at all. I’ve checked if I can use those key binds on other keys and they work, I’ve checked my user config if it’s read only (it’s not), I have done a fresh install, removed all mods, tried to verify files. Nothing seems to work to fix it, which is highly frustrating given that many weapons that I like to use in the game have the Special action part of the combos that I use.

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Since the game was installed I always had to reset bindings for ‘Weapons Special Actions’ (And my wife always had to rebind that as well as ‘Interact’) every time the game started. i.e. the bindings were never saved.
After June 25th update those keys are still UNASSIGNED after launching the game but now we cannnot bind these actions to ANY key.
Now the game is unplayable.

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I too am having keybind issues. My dodge key is UNASSIGNED and I cannot change. So essentially I have no way of dodging.

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AK_Zephr has posted a fix that works.
See Keybind unassigned; cannot assign key - #3

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