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#### New preference available: choose whether the Up Arrow key acts the same as enter/select

It used to be that when there was a door, a signpost, or an item glowing behind your avatar, the UP and W keys would work like the ENTER key to activate it. As that behavior seems have to caused an unnatural level of grief among a certain population of users, we have removed it. And we have added a preference so that anyone caused an unnatural level of grief by the change can get the old behavior back (hit the COMMA key, or open the player menu in the top left of the game client and choose "Preferences" to open your preferences).
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Posted 93 days ago by eric | Permalink

### Replies

- Maybe it's a left handed thing, as I only use the up arrow for..well everything really.
  Posted 93 days ago by Vogon Blarg | Permalink
- I'm not left handed and i use the up arrow for everything too. Thanks for keeping it an option!!
  Posted 93 days ago by Coconut | Permalink
- If you turn the up arrow off then you can't climb vines any more.
  Posted 93 days ago by Touya | Permalink
- yup.. up arrow doesn't allow climbing action (unless preferences are set to act like enter) strange, but odd
  Posted 93 days ago by RainyRain | Permalink
- I can't climb ladders either with the up arrow off.
  Posted 93 days ago by Alexabury | Permalink
- Uh oh! Fixing the climbing problem now.
  Posted 93 days ago by eric | Permalink
- Fixed.
  Posted 93 days ago by eric | Permalink
- *high fives fixing devs*
  Posted 93 days ago by RainyRain | Permalink
- Thank the Giants! That up/enter thing was mighty confusing when trying to climb near a signpost.
  Posted 93 days ago by Lucille Ball | Permalink
- That navigation change subtly but continuously annoyed me as I navigate using the cursor keys and often 'grab' stuff I come across with a swift up motion on the pad, thanks for not spoiling it by making it optional. What has occasionally annoyed me in the past is 'up' pressing to grab a bonus Quoin rube prescence or other option and accidentally hit a single choice tag such as subway station or one stop direction post and bail out of the level thus losing the randomly appeared choice, if it gave me an 'are you sure' advisory at that point I'd be a lot happier.
  Posted 93 days ago by Benzyl | Permalink
- This is awesome. When I'm keyboarding, I use the up/W instead of enter a lot of times out of hand placement convenience. However, when I'm using my gamepad, the D-Pad is very sensitive and it's too easy to slip "up" when I'm trying to run side to side.
  Thank you for giving us an option of turning this on and off. I know I'll find it very useful ^_^
  Posted 93 days ago by Kaelyn Renai | Permalink
- Might I ask how you're playing Glitch using a gamepad? It sounds interesting, and I must try it.
  Posted 93 days ago by Jus​tin | Permalink
- Justin, try using JoyToKey- it maps the buttons and sticks on a gamepad to keyboard keys, letting you use virtually any program with a gamepad.
  Posted 93 days ago by Wrench | Permalink
- OH THANK GOD. I came to the forums specifically to figure out why my up arrow wasn't working anymore. I'm so happy I can re-enable it. <3
  Posted 92 days ago by Csophae | Permalink