As someone who plays Roblox a few times a week, and also play the games with a lot of different shortcuts to let’s say, open the shop, attack, or exit to menu, keyboard hotkeys might interfere with my experience.
The keys f1 - 12 are commonly used as device hotkeys for the program(Windows, Mac, etc.), and sometimes, games need to use the same keys to improve accessibility in their game.
I myself use these hotkeys for convenience purposes, but, I really don’t need them in game, where the hotkeys can be used for gaming convenience. For example, I don’t want to open the shop with f3 and increase the brightness doing so(f3 increases the brightness of the monitor), and mute the speakers with f6. These little things can get annoying, and generally people would have a worse experience.
Code examples can be:
--// Local Script
local UIS = game:GetService("UserInputService")
UIS:SetHotkeyEnabled(Enum.KeyCode.F1, false) -- Disables the "f1" hotkey
UIS:SetHotkeyEnabled(Enum.KeyCode.F2, false) -- Disables the "f2" hotkey
UIS:SetHotkeyEnabled(Enum.KeyCode.F3, true) -- Disables the "f3" hotkey
UIS:SetHotkeyEnabled(Enum.KeyCode.F4, true) -- Disables the "f4" hotkey
print(UIS:GetHotkeyEnabled(Enum.KeyCode.F1)) -- false
Then, why don’t they just disable them themselves?
As I said, people want their hotkeys because it’s convenient, and some people just don’t want to do it/don’t know how to.
This would help me as a developer because this can improve gameplay for my games.