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Verdant Skies

Ensure the success of your colony as you make friends and pursue romance with a diverse cast of characters. · By HowlingMoonSoftware

Escape key closes the pause menu but not the controls menu

A topic by Fauxcas created Jun 08, 2020 Views: 262 Replies: 1
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Hi, just wanted to let you know about something I noticed that I don't think was intended. When you open the menu by clicking the cog in the bottom right it pauses the progression of time. When you open the settings or the controls from that menu time remains frozen, I think, because that menu is still open in the background. Is that right? I got the impression that the pausing/unpausing of time is directly tied to the opening and closing of that menu. Anywho, when you press the escape key it always closes the pause menu if it's open. When you're looking at the settings window it closes both the settings menu and the pause menu at the same time if you press escape, but that doesn't work the same way with the controls menu. Instead, if you press escape with the controls window open, the controls window remains open while the pause menu closes behind it. This makes it so that the game is continuing and time is moving, but the controls window is still open. This is really easy to do by accident as I did within a few minutes of playing the game by just looking at rebinding controls. I think perhaps the controls menu should also close when the escape key is pressed like the settings menu does, or alternatively (if players might accidentally close it while rebinding controls too often) the pause menu should be impossible to independently close in the background with the escape key while the controls window is open.

Just wanted to bring this to your attention! Loving what I've seen so far. <3

Developer

Hey thanks for the report! I put that bug in my bug list. You probably noticed the rebinding menu doesn't quite look or feel like the rest of the game. It's provided by Rewired, so it always behaved a little weird. But I think we should be able to do something with this issue, especially just preventing the main menu in the background from closing when the controller changing menu is up.


Thanks! -Andy