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Keybinds & settings not saving LIVE TRACKER

Status Aug 25: Patch 1.2 went live on Aug 21 and it did fix part of this — but not the part most people are hitting. Team17's own changelog lists "Settings not saving correctly", "Duplicate keybind warnings" and "Tactical Map keybinding issues" among 500+ fixes. Four days later the reports have not stopped: on the official Report a Problem thread, players posted on Aug 22 and Aug 24 that their settings look saved but do not actually apply until you toggle one off and back on, and Team17 support replied on Aug 23 that "persistent issues with video settings and keybinds in the full game" had been added to their report. So: partly fixed, still open, still acknowledged. Below is exactly what 1.2 shipped, what is still being reported, and the two workarounds with real evidence behind them.

The five launch keybind bugs Team17 confirmed on Aug 12 — and where Patch 1.2 left them:

Gunner Fire / Gunner Alt Fire bindings resetting after leaving the Options menu — fixed in 1.2. Changelog: "Gunner Fire and Gunner Alt Fire keyboard bindings no longer reset after leaving the Options menu."
Tac-Map rebinds not reflected inside the map — fixed in 1.2. Changelog: "Custom Tactical Map keybindings are now correctly reflected within the map."
A key assigned to a new action not being removed from its old action (double-binding) — fixed in 1.2. Changelog: "Assigning a key to a new action now correctly removes it from its previous action."
VOIP channels not working when bound to mouse buttons — not in the 1.2 changelog. No official word either way.
Losing keyboard input entirely right after spawning — not in the 1.2 changelog. No official word either way.

The broader "everything resets when I re-enter the in-game menu" complaint from beta was never one of these five. Patch 1.2's highlights do name "Settings not saving correctly", which is the closest official match, but the changelog does not spell out which save path that covers.

Still being reported after Patch 1.2 (checked Aug 25):

Settings that save but do not apply. Two players on the official Report a Problem thread, Aug 22 and Aug 24: the menu shows the settings you chose, but the game runs as if it did not load them until you change one value away and back. Team17 support replied on Aug 23 that it had been passed to the team.
Mouse wheel still cannot be rebound. One player reports on the Patch 1.2 announcement thread that wheel up / wheel down stay locked to next / previous weapon. Single report, not officially confirmed.
What has gone quiet: no new "keybinds keep resetting" thread has appeared on the game's subreddit since Aug 19, two days before the patch. That is an absence of complaints, not proof of a fix.

Patch 1.3 is aimed at "next week" as of the Aug 21 post. The issues Team17 listed as targets for it contain no keybind items.

What was confirmed broken before Patch 1.2

Keybinds reset when you re-enter the in-game menu. "You save it, go back in game, and it resets. Even deleting keybinds and getting back in game resets them back" — "Keybinds keep reseting" report thread. One tester pinned the trigger precisely: binds reset "when exiting and entering the ingame menu", not when switching tabs (early-testing feedback thread).
Team17 knows. Official support reply, June 2: "we've had the issue with keybinds not saving correctly reported to us already" (support thread).
Still present in the July playtest build: mouse-wheel rebinds wouldn't save on Jul 29.
Non-QWERTY keyboards (AZERTY etc.) have an extra layer: binds display as the wrong keys and fail to save (AZERTY thread).

What actually helps (evidence-backed only)

Rebind from the main menu, before joining a server. The observed reset trigger is the in-game settings menu; beta players kept binds longer doing everything from the title screen. Close and reopen settings once to confirm it stuck.
Check your config isn't read-only. The popular 60 Hz-unlock fix tells you to set GameUserSettings.ini to read-only — which then silently blocks every settings save. Its own author warns: rebind first, set read-only last (performance thread). If you applied that trick, untick read-only before blaming the game.
Don't hunt for a keybinds file to edit. The config folder is %LOCALAPPDATA%\HLLVietnam\Saved\Config\Windows, but it only holds GameUserSettings.ini (graphics/refresh). Testers found keybinds live in a non-editable .sav file — "Game does not use the typical UE config structure" — so HLL1-era advice about editing binds in the ini does not apply here.
Add your report to the Report a Problem forum — support is actively collecting cases.

Timeline

Date	Event
May 29 – Jun 1	Open beta: multiple independent reset reports (keybinds + general settings)
Jun 1 – 2	Team17 support acknowledges the issue, requests details
Jul 29	Crossplay playtest build: rebinds still failing to save
Aug 12	Team17's pre-launch known-issues post confirms four specific keybind bugs (above) — the general "resets on menu re-entry" report from beta is not among them
Aug 13	Launch. No independent community confirmation yet of the original general reset bug on the live build.
Aug 14	Team17's dev-comms post officially lists "settings resetting or saving issues" and "keybind problems" as issues being actively worked on — first official acknowledgment of the broader bug, not yet in a fix list.
Aug 18	Team17's "Coming Next: Roadmap & Patch 1.2" announcement previews Patch 1.2 (500+ fixes): "Various keybinding issues have been resolved, with further fixes planned" — first official word that keybind fixes are actually in an upcoming patch. Not yet released; no date or per-bug detail given.
Aug 21	Patch 1.2 goes live on all platforms, 500+ fixes. Three of the five confirmed launch keybind bugs are named as fixed in the changelog; "Settings not saving correctly" appears in the highlights without further detail.
Aug 22 – 24	Two players post on the official Report a Problem thread that settings still fail to apply until toggled off and on. Team17 support replies Aug 23 that it has been added to their report.

While you're in the settings menu anyway: the voice transmit bind is mislabeled as "Radio channel On/Off" — full story on the push-to-talk page.

While your keybinds sort themselves out: our mortar & artillery calculator converts grid coordinates to range and elevation instantly — no keybind required, just open it in a second window.

Sources: "Keybinds keep reseting" report thread · official "Known Issues, Launch Time & More" blog (Aug 12) · official "Dev Comms Thread & Launch Updates" (live-updated thread, checked Aug 15) · official "Coming Next: Roadmap & Patch 1.2" announcement (Aug 18) · official "Patch 1.2 | Full Changelog" (Aug 21) · official "Report a Problem" thread: Settings Not Saving (read Aug 25)

Last verified Aug 25, 2026 ~07:05 UTC — re-read Team17's Patch 1.2 full changelog (published Aug 21) and the official Report a Problem thread. Three of the five Aug 12 keybind bugs are named as fixed; two are not mentioned. Player reports of settings not applying continued through Aug 24 and support acknowledged them on Aug 23. Dates for the Steam thread are as displayed on Steam.