Left click dragging Units Issue patch 5

**Garensterz** · October 20, 2013, 10:27 AM

In patch 5 The left click drag units is now more responsive. Does anyone gets irritated by this?

**Chirurgeon** · October 20, 2013, 03:27 PM

yes i wind up moving units instead of drawing a box around them...in the heat of battle it sucks moving a phalanx unit that is heavily engaged. Obviously they will have to fix this

**daniu** · October 20, 2013, 03:43 PM

You can set the threshold in seconds before the dragging starts in your preferences script.

**IlluminatiRex** · October 20, 2013, 03:46 PM

Yeah I noticed this as well, and +rep to daniu for the fix.

**Jofoblie** · October 20, 2013, 03:50 PM

Is there a way to turn this off completely or do you just need to turn the sensitivity down? I never used it before patch 5 and now it's just a nuisance. Honestly I'm really not liking this patch

**♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠** · October 20, 2013, 05:44 PM

Yeah they made a point to increase its sensitivity. Where I had never seen this feature in the past AT ALL - now I'm doing it all the bloody time. Will change in prefs, thanks

**spiderknight** · October 20, 2013, 06:08 PM

Ya i was really annoyed by this. Thanks for the heads up .

P.S. 100th post!

**Garensterz** · October 20, 2013, 08:31 PM

It was already in the game since launch but only it has a delay when you do it. CA just made it more responsive which is irritating. Maybe Ill try daniu's post, can anyone help me find the preferences in the rome 2 folder?

Edit :Iv'e done it. If anyone's wondering where the preference script is:

- Go to C:
- Users
- AppData
- Roaming
- The Creative Assembly
- Rome 2
- Scripts
- And click preferences.script.

**Achilleslastand** · October 20, 2013, 10:54 PM

If im mistaken change the 0 to a 5

**Garensterz** · October 21, 2013, 01:24 AM

Originally Posted by Achilleslastand

If im mistaken change the 0 to a 5

Is 5 has the same delay as the previous patch?

**crzyrndm** · October 21, 2013, 04:06 AM

Originally Posted by Garensterz

Is 5 has the same delay as the previous patch?

Previous patch is probably in the region of 0.5-1.5. It certainly wasn't 5 entire seconds.

Also, while I can certainly understand the annoyance of it having 0 delay (since I've dragged a few units around by accident myself), I'm completely stunned to learn that there are people who dont like using this tool. If there's one thing that I'm missing from Rome 2 when I play Shogun 2 or Med 2, its the ability to accurately and seamlessly place my army. Whoever came up with this nifty evolution of the compass deserves all the praise he can get IMO.

Well, I guess we wouldn't be human if everyone agreed on something...

**Garensterz** · October 21, 2013, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by crzyrndm

Previous patch is probably in the region of 0.5-1.5. It certainly wasn't 5 entire seconds.Also, while I can certainly understand the annoyance of it having 0 delay (since I've dragged a few units around by accident myself), I'm completely stunned to learn that there are people who dont like using this tool. If there's one thing that I'm missing from Rome 2 when I play Shogun 2 or Med 2, its the ability to accurately and seamlessly place my army. Whoever came up with this nifty evolution of the compass deserves all the praise he can get IMO.Well, I guess we wouldn't be human if everyone agreed on something...

Having the left click drag is a very useful addition to the game, I also use it alot when i want to march my whole army closer to the enemy. But making it more responsive is just a pain in the A*s. Especially when you click your unit while it's fighting and then it quickly triggered the left lick drag with no idea and it simply ruins your units formation.

I really liked the feature, however it needs to go back in it's original timing.

**Archimonday** · October 20, 2013, 11:13 PM

Which preference do you modify specifically?

**Arkanfel** · October 20, 2013, 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by Archimonday

Which preference do you modify specifically?

battle_left_click_drag_move_delay

It's near the end. The number value appears to be the delay (in seconds) before the 'feature' kicks in. I'm setting mine to 5 as per an earlier post, should be fine.

**Protector** · October 21, 2013, 07:24 AM

battle_left_click_drag_move_delay

This preference doesn't excist in my preferences.script.

Does it mean I dont have patch 5 yet ? (Because of varios issues with patch 5, I didnt start yet RTW2 to look after the version 1.5, so I dont know)

**Archimonday** · October 20, 2013, 11:24 PM

Weird, it wasn't in there.

**Achilleslastand** · October 21, 2013, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by Archimonday

Weird, it wasn't in there.

This line......write_preferences_at_exit true; # write_preferences_at_exit <bool>, Write preferences at exit # has to be set to true and not false I believe. The restart your game then quit then go and look for this like at the bottom
battle_left_click_drag_move_delay 5; # battle_left_click_drag_move_delay <float>, Number of seconds have to have mouse clicked down still on unit before initiates a left click drag action (as some people who use drag select a lot prefer to have a delay, but the delay makes the move less responsive obviously) change the 0 to a 5 and it should be all good.