I'm going to be very very detailed about what exactly it is I'm doing so people can fully be able to understand and either answer my question or agree or do something.

Anyway here is the deal:
Regardless if you use Keyboard and mouse or a 360 controller the same exact thing happens with both For the record I am using a 360 controller.

What's the point to the hotkey system when you can only get a one time use out of it?

For example, I will add an axe and bow to the favorites menu, I will then press and hold Left on the D-pad on the controller to hotkey the Axe and it shows 1. next to it on the left of the text shows up next to it denoting I have hotkeyed the Axe to the left directional on the D-Pad. I then hold right on the D-pad to hotkey the bow, and a 2. left of the text denoting I have hotkeyed the bow to the right direction on the d-pad

Now when I get back into the game I press Left on the D-Pad and My character Switches to the axe I had hotkeyed, I then press Right on the D-Pad and my character switches to the bow I had hotkeyed.

So far as expected this is what is supposed to happen... however now when I press either left or right on the D-PAD neither one of those items are able to be witched to any more using the d-pad...I literally have to go back into the favorites screen and rehotkey those same items in order to be able to switch to them again.

So again this is the dumbest thing in this game......There is no point in having a hotkey system you can only use once they never should have incorporated this game mechanic in this condition.

Anyone in Bethesda staff or the devs care to comment on what purpose a one time hotkey serves?

Anyone care to comment on this.

Maybe it's a bug that will be patched soon?

Hi,

Here's what I did...

In my inventory I "Favourite" one or more items.

I exit the inventory and press "q" to show my favourites.

I next hover my mouse over say "Imperial Sword" and press "1" - 1 now selects sword. I hover over "Iron Battleaxe" and press "2" - 2 now selects my Axe. I do the same for my "Hunting Bow" and set it as 3. I can now tap 1, 2 or 3 whenever I wish to switch weapons.

Finally, I often have Lightening in my left hand (I'm low-level, it's my only spell lol) and my Sword / axe or whatever in the other. To configure this I Clicked "sparks" on my favourties list ("Q" key remember) and ift defaulted to my LEFT hand, I next clicked "Imperial Sword" and that defaulted to my RIGHT hand. While my cursor was still over my sword (highlighted) I pressed "1". Now 1 equips my sword in my RIGHT hand and sparks in my left.

Note: clicking on Sparks TWICE in my favourites list ("Q" key) enables me to have Sparks in BOTH hands.

Hope this helps.

Scoob.

It happens if you have multiples of the same item. For example, if you have 2 of the same bows and you hotkey it to 1, after using the hotkey once it'll "forget" it.

A bug perhaps.

Hi Yvetty,

Interesting, but I've not experienced that bug, I've been carrying around 3+ bows of the same type for a while now yet pressing "3" still switches to it without issue.

Possibly I've been lucky and simply not experienced this bug?

Scoob.

I took a video of this because you guys obviously have absolutely no clue to what I'm talking about.

this games interface cannot even cast spells with it using the magic system from the favorites menu or the magic system.

Hi,

I have just experienced the "multi item" glitch...it works fine for my initial starting bow, which I'd managed to collect three of, but now I've got several "Hunting Bows" my hot key 3 loses it's setting.

All other items and magic are still working however.

So, yes, there is an odd glitch here, but I don't experience it for every item.

Scoob.

How do I hotkey a sword so that it equips to my left hand instead of my right?

I've got two swords hotkeyed but they both equip to my right.

agree with the op. i'm playing on the 360... and have also found when equipping torches or shields this seems to deselect hot-keys. very irritating and jarring gameplay. the duel wield mechanic is all messed up. other then a few bugs, the game is great.

LT and RT hotkey < 1 > 2. is my understanding. the system is quick to forget it however. and back to the favorites menu

Scoob

how did you even manage to hotkey 3 items with a 360 controller when it only supports 2 hotkeys?

It glitches on specific items. I have 1-8 filled up, 4 is supposed to be for my Steel Sword. I originally had it at 1, so i tried 4 after the hotkey would only work once or twice. Once I get into combat, and go to switch from my bow to my sword, the hotkey has come unbound. This does not happen with my spells, or my axe, or my shield or my bow. So far with only Steel Sword.... Pain in the ass bug.

Bethesda: Fix this [censored]. Ya'll focused too much on the [censored] consoles! This game feels like a port. They have abandoned their PC roots so they can make more money... [censored]in Lame.

Why do you have 2 threads for the exact same thing?

I posted about this earlier today, twice. I noticed it with my hunters bow. I had one, everything was fine and dandy. I looted another and then what you described happened. Everytime I switched to my sword, then tried to go back to the bow it was gone. Finally put two and two together, dropped one bow, and it worked like normal.

The "fix" is to not carry multiples of hot keyed weapons. Fast travel to a store to sell it, or store it, or drop it. Best we can do until a fix comes out. Btw I play on pc.

The 1-8 hotkeys work fine for me. Doesn't mean I don't find it unnecessarily awkward in the way they've set it up, but it works without bugs.

How are any of you hotkeying more than 2 items on a 360 controller?

Hit it once for right hand. again for the left hand (I think that's how I was getting it to work last night). It was working for my spells at least for sure.

Won't that just equip the same sword in both hands? What if you have two different swords? You have to press three buttons to equip two weapons?

Hopefully, this is helpful

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1258181-useful-gameplay-advice-for-all-our-newly-arrived-dovakiihns/page__p__19176029__fromsearch__1#entry19176029