Originally Posted by Dick Blonov

Left shift is mapped to a LOT of things and the key mapping GUI is not the greatest.


Try this:

Go to your - C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\{profilenumber} where profilenumber = the profile you wish to modify (you can open the profile.con file in the various profile folders (0001, 0002, etc) with notepad to doublecheck the BF2 name)

Once you have selected the corrected profile folder open the Controls.con file using notepad. Saving a copy first is not a bad idea...


Find the line:

ControlMap.addKeyToTriggerMapping c_PICrouch IDFKeyboard IDKey_LeftCtrl 0 0

And change it to:

ControlMap.addKeyToTriggerMapping c_PICrouch IDFKeyboard IDKey_LeftShift 0 0

edit: I assume you removed left shift from other infantry controls (with the GUI). If not, find it in controls.con (ControlMap.addKeyToTriggerMapping c_PISprint IDFKeyboard IDKey_LeftShift 0 0) and remap it to whatever you want.


DB

Now thats the sort of answer I was looking for. I knew there was a way to do it through configuration files...just didnt know where to look. Thanks!

Edit: So it worked. Turns out that defaulted, left shift is set to helicopter "sprint" and boat "sprint". Since these commands arent used in the game, they dont show them in the GUI, but they still conflict! How silly. Anyways, I just changed them both to leftalt, since thats what I used for my sprint button on all the other vehicles. After that I went into the game, and shift was free to assign.

Thanks a lot, because that totally worked, and you had very simple (and correct!) advice. Just playing last night with left ctrl for shift was giving me a horrible claw-handed cramp.