I had the same initial adaptation experience but really grew to like it fast, so I would highly recommend giving the new system a chance. It is known as the GRID system and the positions of the buttons map to the QWERTY, ASDF keys, so it is a much more effective way to play the game and it doesn't take a lot of time to get used to it and a lot of modern RTS games use this system. The new system used by AoF has actually been around for quite awhile.

In any case, it is a much quicker way to go back with the caveat that you may not have proper hotkeys in AoF once you've set them up. Forgotten Empires uses a grid hotkey system.Īt the top of the file are the original definitions, so all you have to do is remove the bottom set (referenced above) from en-language.txt, and then run the game, go into AoK options to restore your original hotkeys. Hotkeys made on QWERTY keyboard, for some languages (FR?), some keys could be switched to match AZERTY/QWERTZ or other common layouts Shortcut hotkeys overrides - NO LOCALIZATION REQUIRED

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