Does Command Hotkey Work?

Renmauzo

I remember back in 1.03 the command hot keys are quite buggy... For example I press med pak and ammo but they don't neccessary drop them.. Turns out that I have to be in the marine equip sub menu first in order for those 2 keys to work.. I find that extremely stupid.. Has this been addressed in the 1.04?

Sandrock

Nope this isn't fixed. Same as 1.03 as far as I can tell. Personally I dont find it that big of an issue, but yea, occasionally it will go back to the default menu and I will finally realize that those medpacks aren't dropping... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->

V_MAN

Never had a problem with this, only with the doors/lifts not working.

verbose

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AFAIK, you still have to be in the menu where the real button is. I have each menu set to a hotkey, and another set of buttons that remaps the number keys to the items in that menu. For example, I hit "z x" for the equipment menu, then "1" for a medpack, "2" for ammo pack, etc. It works reasonably well, and I don't find that having to switch menu setups slows me down that much. Plus, since it's all near my left-hand setup, I don't have to look at the keyboard.

Tempus

Slightly OT, but related.. I have a problem where my 'jump' key WILL take me to the last system message: "Base is under attack" etc., but will NOT ever take me to the last marine radio command: "Need Ammo/Health". My 'jump' is binded to ShiftKey.

Any suggestions?

Havanna

Most people know you have to be in the right menu, and that isn't really a problem, because you hit the items screen button and them spam H or whatever your health button is.

But the problem Sandrocky states is a real problem. I can't figure out what does this, if its some fault of mine or the game, but yeah, sometimes the screen jumps back to default, where there is no screen out at all. It happens when you're spamming something, maybe spamming too fast, but the point is it stops suddenly. It takes at least 3 seconds to figure out what happened, and since health spamming usually means dire need, and at the end of those 3 seconds, marines usually end up dead.