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Author Topic: [Bug] Free retreat from battle by pressing Esc  (Read 680 times)

GoldenArbiter

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[Bug] Free retreat from battle by pressing Esc
« on: August 10, 2019, 04:20:49 PM »

As in the title, if you are engaged in a battle that you don't want to do, rather than engage or flee, hit escape.

This causes the fleet options window to close, and the player has approx .1 seconds to issue a move order before the save screen opens. This will almost always allow the player to get an emergency burn in, and the player can do this as many times as needed to get away from the fight.

I am running a decent amount of mods, but I'm pretty sure that this is a vanilla thing because of the menu stuff.

Ver: 0.9.1a-RC8
Win 10

Edit1: Correction to my last, hitting escape just seems to close the window (as it would in a planet screen), but a second tap of esc allows the esc menu to be opened.
« Last Edit: August 10, 2019, 04:23:07 PM by GoldenArbiter »
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Histidine

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Re: [Bug] Free retreat from battle by pressing Esc
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2019, 05:29:01 PM »

Are you running on devmode? That lets the user Esc out of any menu (normally the menu would need to provide a leave/cancel option).
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Alex

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Re: [Bug] Free retreat from battle by pressing Esc
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2019, 08:53:36 PM »

(Yep, this definitely seems like a devMode thing. Just in general devMode does lots of weird and potentially unexpected things, so it's very much better to run with it off in the normal course of things.)
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Re: [Bug] Free retreat from battle by pressing Esc
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2019, 11:48:02 PM »

Roger, yah. You guys were right. Thought I had it turned off so I thought I'd throw it in. rip.
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Re: [Bug] Free retreat from battle by pressing Esc
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2019, 11:55:45 PM »

Roger, yah. You guys were right. Thought I had it turned off so I thought I'd throw it in. rip.
Did you play the benchmark mission? If so then that was what turn dev mode on
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