Escape Key / Cancel Placement Keybinding is BROKEN

RangerRipley

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I'm pretty exasperated with this bug - the escape key, more specifically the keybinding "Cancel Placement, Close Browser, Deselect Object, Open Pause Menu" is completely broken. My keyboard is working perfectly, escape key works in every other program. I've tested rebinding the command to other keys, to another keyboard, to a macro board, and to the mouse to no avail. Other workarounds such as shift + esc don't work here either. 200+ hours of gameplay and this bug has appeared after installing the North America pack.

If there's a known workaround, please let me know. The game is nearly unplayable without being able to quickly navigate menus and selections.
 

RangerRipley

R
Yeah, that's a quick workaround for me too. However the keybinding usually breaks within 5 mins or so, which means constant reloading. I've tested in various modes and zoo sizes, and the result is consistent.
 

iloveyourzoos

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The escape key problem has been happening to me too. Not every time, but often enough that I worried that there was something wrong with my keyboard. (I tend to always assume the problem is me).

I use the escape a LOT to get out of menues, heatmaps, building groups, etc In other words, I'm mostly trying to get out of one of the helpful overlays.

My work-around has been to start using the "4' key two times, which opens and then closes the habitat menu. This gets rid of whichever overlay was on (without adding another one the way some of the other menus do), and thus functions as a close approximation to the way the escape key usually does.

(Sharing this work-around in the hopes that it might help give people an option in the interim, since if you're like me you still want to keep playing. Obviously I hope it gets fully fixed soon though...).
 

Anthracite_Impreza

Anthracite_Impreza
I've been noticing this ever more frequently. It's downright irritating, sometimes it puts me off building at all when I know I'm gonna have to restart 500 times.
 

KellyL

KellyL
Just weighing in here to say this bug appeared yesterday for me. Unfortunately, reloading (multiple times) didn't help. Files validated fine. I'll try the workaround of pressing 4 twice, thanks for this idea!
 

Chazzie99

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i got this issue even before the north america pack since i just got that and it has been happening after i re-installed the game a couple of days ago after not playing it for a while. im gonna try the workaround of pressing 4 twice since i didn't try that yet and thanks for that idea.
it's frustrating there is no real fix for this
 
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XT

XT
It's been pretty much broken for me for awhile, but I'm starting to notice an assortment of minor gameplay/control bugs in general. And, I recently deleted and reloaded my entire game to try and fix a crippling broken rotate camera bug so ... it seems like there's a bit of instability somewhere.
 
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