Age Of Empires 2 Hot Keys
Hot Keys: Age of Empires II: Age of Kings By retrovirus February 1, 2012 2 Comments. Welcome to Hot Keys, a blog series about my love for and history playing RTS’s. This week, it’s the follow up the first Age of Empires: Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings. Age of Empires 2 is my favorite RTS of all time, no question. Age of Empires: Definitive Edition PC Keyboard Shortcuts. 16 February 2018, Friday, 20:41:29. PC Keyboard Shortcuts / Hotkeys. Shortcut – Description. Space Bar – Views the selected unit. Arrow Keys – Scroll the game view. ENTER – Enter chat mode or send chat message (Cheat mode as well) ESC – Unselect a unit or building, cancel an order. Sets hotkeys to the DEFAULTS used in the HD Version and Forgotten Empires. You can also customize your own hotkeys, and use this mod to switch between the two. This mod will NOT overwrite any custom hotkeys you may have set. You may need to run Vooby/AoC as an admin for this to work.
I am trying to change the hotkeys for Age of Empires 2: HD (version > 5.0), but I can't get it to work.
I download this mapping file (.hki, selecting HD5.0+ at the top left side) and I copy it into my game folder: C:Program Files (x86)SteamSteamAppscommonAge2HDprofiles. However, this folder already has three profiles (player1.hky, player2.hki, player3.hki). I tried saving it as player4.hki as well as overwriting player3.hki, and using player0.hki but in none of these cases the actual new mapping was used - but it did seem to change slightly.
The thing is that I am trying to install an azerty layout, and still q and a and z and w (among others) are switched, even after installing these new files.
Can anyone provide a guide on how to correctly install these files, even when player*.hki files already exist? Which digit should be appended to the file name? A new one, 0, the latest one, and so on.
When I try to change the hotkeys in-game, I can't complete the process because of duplicate keys. Even though there are clearly duplicates in a single list (e.g. Q for house and barracks):
When I try to change both of those to A, I get a message that one of those was cancelled. So I am not able to put in duplicates.
1 Answer
There's a really good tool for this online.
Essentially, AoE reads the hotkeys/bindings from the root installation directory and will set the keyboard to whatever that file reads. This site allows you to easily edit them in a nice-ish UI. Download it, replace and boot - should all work :)
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I am trying to change the hotkeys for Age of Empires 2: HD (version > 5.0), but I can't get it to work.
I download this mapping file (.hki, selecting HD5.0+ at the top left side) and I copy it into my game folder: C:Program Files (x86)SteamSteamAppscommonAge2HDprofiles. However, this folder already has three profiles (player1.hky, player2.hki, player3.hki). I tried saving it as player4.hki as well as overwriting player3.hki, and using player0.hki but in none of these cases the actual new mapping was used - but it did seem to change slightly.
The thing is that I am trying to install an azerty layout, and still q and a and z and w (among others) are switched, even after installing these new files.
Can anyone provide a guide on how to correctly install these files, even when player*.hki files already exist? Which digit should be appended to the file name? A new one, 0, the latest one, and so on.
When I try to change the hotkeys in-game, I can't complete the process because of duplicate keys. Even though there are clearly duplicates in a single list (e.g. Q for house and barracks):
Age Of Empires 2 Conquerors Shortcut Keys
When I try to change both of those to A, I get a message that one of those was cancelled. So I am not able to put in duplicates.
Age Of Empires 2 Hotkeys Grid
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1 Answer
There's a really good tool for this online.
Essentially, AoE reads the hotkeys/bindings from the root installation directory and will set the keyboard to whatever that file reads. This site allows you to easily edit them in a nice-ish UI. Download it, replace and boot - should all work :)
Age Of Empires 2 Shortcuts
