How do I assign a single Keystroke to multiple items?
Skyrim is great during the gameplay but I dont like the menus at all. The problem is there are scenarios where I need to switch whole sets of armor, rings, necklaces and weapons very quickly.
For eg, I start quests with sneaking around, for that I use the nightingale armor and use detect life spell + soul trap elven dagger. Now, when a tough guy / boss comes in the way then I need to switch to heavy steel armor, necklace for block, shield and a strong sword. Then I need to switch back.
This involves so much menu navigation that I am starting to hate it. It would be superb if I could assign keys to scenarios like:
- Assassin - light armor + blade
- Warrior - heavy armor + one handed combat
- Sharp shooter - light armor + bow + arrows
- Mage - magica regen apparel + spells
- Thief - muffle apparel + blade + lockpick/pickpocket ring/necklace
- Business man - stuff to increase speech craft and price discount etc etc etc
God! Is it just me or it is such a pain to switch between these items in-game. All because I like efficient gameplay.
I know the game doesnt support this (I know about the Q - # shortcuts) but perhaps there are scripts or mods that allow assigning a keystroke to multiple items (apparel, weapons, spells, shouts, powers)?
A macro program like autohotkey is what you're looking for.
Since skyrim has a consolified interface, almost any action can be done with keystrokes alone.
The trick is to use the favorites menu, and walk trough it while selecting the things you want.
A macro I have for example is:
q opens quick menu
wwwwwwwwwwww moves to top of list (number of items in list.)
eseequips or unequips an unrelated weapon and shield
the desired weapon is has a known state (unequiped)
sse moves to wapon and equips it.
ssse moves to shield and equips it.
q closes quick menu.
It isn't instant or very quick, but it saves a lot of time.
However, this setup is fragile and basically only works when all items of the Quick menu have consistent names.
Unfortunatly there is no way to do it yet. Like @Fambida wrote, lets pray for a mod that bethesda does not banish.