KEY BINDINGS REMAPPER

Description for normal people 😎

The short version is that this allows you to bypass the game's duplicate key blocking behavior by injecting the duplicate keys at launch and then loading them through the game's own key bindings menu by pressing "reload defaults". Works the same way that the PeacockPatcher.exe does for the Peacock server, except that instead of injecting memory for network-related stuff, this pokes at the game's internal table of default key bindings instead.

Description for nerds ☝️🤓

For anyone that is curious about the detailed explanation on how this works, it essentially involves using the game's own logic against itself. The game already needs to allow duplicates without verifying them and getting angry about them, and that's because its default key bindings loadout already comes with duplicates such as for the agility actions, the surrender action, and action that switches to the next ammo. This is fine as long as the game loads them itself from its own internal table of default key bindings located inside the game's memory, and it will continue to allow those three actions to receive duplicated keys as long as that group of three isn't subdivided by reassigning them non-duplicated keys and saving by backing out of the key bindings menu.

For instance, if you have ever played with the key bindings, you might have found that you can already load the defaults and then switch agility actions, surrender and next ammo from X, X, X to say 1, 1, 1 and back out of the key bindings selection screen and then go back in and still be able to change those back to X, X, X without the game getting angry. That's because that group remained intact throughout the entire process. However, if you had instead assigned 1, 1, and 2 and backed out of the menu and went back in, you would find that the next ammo's 2 cannot be reassigned to rejoin the others as 1 because it was separated from the group and saved. And once that particular action is out of the group, it won't allow any key that is already assigned to anything else to be given to it. At that point, that action is out of the picture as far as duplicates are concerned unless you reload the defaults which forces the game to recreate that group on its own and reassign the duplicates itself.

Basically the game doesn't care about duplicates as long as it applies them itself from its internal table of default key bindings. So that begs the question.. if the game will allow agility actions and surrender and next ammo to be loaded as part of a group containing duplicates, then why can't we just create another group of duplicates for say the interact and use item actions?