An Open Letter to FD Regarding the ESC Key

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Please, PLEASE code the game so that the ESC key only takes you to the options menu if you are not in any other screen, menu or map.

To clarify, if I am in a menu, the ESC key should function as a UI back key. Same with the GalMap, the System Map, NPC Dialogues, whatever. Any time I am not just staring off into space.

Do you people even play this game, for god's sake?

P.S. I saw that you applied this feedback to terminals after it was given in Alpha. Kudos for that.

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Here is a video of exactly what I'm talking about...
Source: https://youtu.be/QRXLLcPNrMo
 
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Ydiss said:
Only once every ui window doesn't need escape to close

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There is an assignable UI back key. The problem is the game won't let me map ESC to it.

Drives me insane.

You know what they have assigned there? BACKSPACE.
BACKSPACE!!!!

So for me to back out of the UI with a hotkey, I have to pick up my hand. I should never have to move my hand. Ever.

Know what my other option is? Use the mouse. You know who uses the mouse? Bad people. That's who.
 

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vindelanos said:
Know what my other option is? Use the mouse. You know who uses the mouse? Bad people. That's who.
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As the proud owner of a new HOTAS - first time ever - I must say, I did find using my right mouse click as a back button to be pretty handy. But what do I know anymore? I'm now an official Super Sand Legend thanks to my thrusting stick.
 

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Sic Mundus said:
As the proud owner of a new HOTAS - first time ever - I must say, I did find using my right mouse click as a back button to be pretty handy. But what do I know anymore? I'm now an official Super Sand Legend thanks to my thrusting stick.
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The thing is that for KB+M, the ESC key is used properly as a UI back key during flight.
So as I'm zipping around, I never have to move my hand from my flight controls. The flight menu navigation in this game is designed really well that way. And some of us use those keyboard controls a lot, so much so that there is a muscle memory developed around them.

Then you get into station and other menus, and there an entire disconnect. You want to back out of a menu tier, and you hit ESC and you are taken to the options menu instead. Same with the GalMap and System Maps.

I have lost PvP fights because I accidentally hit that damn ESC key mid fight while trying to do other things. If I could unbind ESC from the options menu altogether, I would do so.

They got it right for your on-foot insight menu. ESC properly exits you out of it. They need to fix it for all other menus in the game.

I want the escape key to only function as an exit to the options menu when I am engaged with no other menu, screen, or map in the game.
 

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K-NINE said:
+1 on the ESC key working properly!

I'd also give up my G4 kit if we could PLEASE, PLEASE have the option to assign a key for night vision in the SRV!!!
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You can. Both my ship and SRV have the same key assigned.
Check your options again....
 

K-NINE

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What? Where? I've gone through the lists and lists of menus and simply can't find it!
Can you point me in the right direction?
 

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K-NINE said:
:oops:

What? Where? I've gone through the lists and lists of menus and simply can't find it!
Can you point me in the right direction?
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Dude, the only place I see an assignment is in Ship Controls -> Miscellaneous, but both my ship and my SRV use the same assigned key
 

K-NINE

K-NINE
Yup; that's the only setting I can find as well.

Hmmm... Just wondering... The assigned key for my ship's night vision is one of my joystick buttons (and, no, it doesn't work for the SRV). I wonder if I should change it to a keyboard option and see if that sorts it.

Lemme have a quick smoke and I'll log in and try it...
 
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