Not possible to bind "<" key as a hotkey

Age of Mythology: Retold Report a Bug
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  • Game Version: v100.17.22308.0 (481060R)

  • Build Number: 481060R

  • Platform: Steam

  • Operating System: Windows 11

Issue:

It is not possible to bind the “<” key as a hotkey in this game. The “<” key is the one that is below the A key and to the right of the “left shift” key on QWERTZ layout keyboards

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AoE2DE has no issue with this and allows you to set the < while AoM retold doesn’t let you

Trigger Event:

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Repro Steps:

  1. Change some hotkey and try to set it to “<”
  2. Notice that after setting it, it shows the hotkey as blank, and if you try to use this hotkey ingame, it will do nothing
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The term for this keyboard is either an ISO keyboard (in contrast to the ANSI keyboard of most US keyboards), or a 105-key keyboard (in contrast to 104 keys on a US keyboard).

Searching those terms on these forums, it looks like aoe2 only quite recently fixed the issue.

Key 56 can be a hotkey but does not appear in hotkey list - Age of Empires II: DE / II - Report a Bug - Age of Empires Forum

Thankfully once reported it was fixed pretty quickly, so hopefully the same can be true here.

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Actually, aoe2 had it working since release all these years, and then somehow they broke it in March 2024 of this year, and fixed it after 2 months. Was definitely strange.

Btw another combos i see not working is shift + mouse wheel up or shift + mouse wheel down. It seems to be so because mouse wheel up down for scrolling is hard coded? or at least seems to be so

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Oh that is weird.

As for the mouse, yeah I suspect it’s hard-coded. You might be able to trick it if your mouse software lets you reprogram it so that scrolling acts like a different key.

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Bump, devs please dont forget about this, hotkey customizability is always nice. Please make the < key usable.