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Keybinds & settings not saving LIVE TRACKER
Status Aug 8 (pre-launch): confirmed bug in the beta and playtest builds, officially acknowledged by Team17 support — launch fix unknown. This is not your fault and mostly not fixable from your side; below is what's confirmed, the two workarounds with real evidence, and the retest promise.
What's confirmed broken
- 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.inito 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 holdsGameUserSettings.ini(graphics/refresh). Testers found keybinds live in a non-editable.savfile — "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 13 | Launch — we retest within hours and update this status line |
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.
Last verified Aug 8, 2026 (all evidence beta/playtest-era) · next update: launch day, Aug 13.