Disable the 'W' & 'S' keys?

[Allein277 (Allein)]

Hey! I’m trying to make a side scroller but I ran into an issue. I need it so the player can’t run towards/away from the screen but rather is forced to use the ‘A’ & ‘D’ keys to move around. Any ideas on how I could do this?

[octav20071 (OctaViano)]

Maybe search before posting?

Problem with disabling the player moving forward or backwards by pressing Keys

i don’t think the current core scripts use those names anymore in the first place but even if it did… The reason putting your local script in the Replicated First doesn’t work is because, well, anything in the replicated storage replicates first before the character scripts are loaded, and before any movement keys are binded, meaning that unbinding before a bind actually exists won’t do anything. You could yield and wait for everything to load and what not, but i’d argue the replicated first s…

[Allein277 (Allein)]

Tried using the solution, it doesn’t seem to affect the game whatsoever.

EDIT: It only seems to work partially, got to do some testing with it.

[PersonifiedPizza]

You’ll need to use the ContextActionService and bind an action with a higher priority than the movement actions.

[Allein277 (Allein)]

I added a small delay to the script and it seemed to fix it.