Unable to navigate the Options menu

[Miliki]

My game opens and runs fine. I went into the options to adjust the screen size and I cant get the cursor or controls to move when I enter the Options screen. I can't adjust difficulty or anything that would allow adjustments in the Options screen. I can exit the options without issue. It doesn't freeze, it just doesn't allow interaction.

Anyone else having this particular issue? Has anyone else figure out a solution? Or will I have to wait for it to be patched?

[Tetsuo Shima]

I am having the same issue. I can navigate everything and go to option but that picture is static and I hear audio. Controller or mouse/keyboard the screen is not live and can not see the options.

Its like someone hit pause on my game =(

ALT+ENTER makes it go windowed but the same problem exist. Its at some wonky low resolution and I am not staring my game experience like that. Ill find a fix somehow.

[Tetsuo Shima]

Config file is located here and is very basic.

C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\Sega\SonicFrontiers\steam\x64

I can see it choosing the wrong resolution. Has no other options. I deleted and the game recreated it.

I got super frustrated and started clicking on the screen everywhere and when I clicked the top that said the word OPTIONS. Even though we already are in the options. The screen focused and I can navigate the menus.

Now lets see if it sticks!

[Some Random Guy]

The reason is because more menus besides "options" unlock not long into the game. So even though there's only the one menu tab at the very start you still need to confirm to get to the option sub-menus. It's very unintuitive and a lot of people have complained about the same thing thinking the game froze or something

[AutumnWolf]

To fix it just go into your nvidia control panel > program settings > add, Sonic Frontiers > Make sure your processor setting is set to high performance. And you welcome.

[rabidcopy]

As no one provided the solution, hit A or space after pausing. You have to confirm to access the options after you already have the options screen up.

[Chubzdoomer]

Originally posted by rabidcopy:

As no one provided the solution, hit A or space after pausing. You have to confirm to access the options after you already have the options screen up.

This. The UI was just haphazardly designed.

When you select Options on the Main Menu and are taken to the... Options screen, the "Options" button at the top is then highlighted, and so you must select IT in order to actually start navigating the options.

[Miliki]

Originally posted by rabidcopy:

As no one provided the solution, hit A or space after pausing. You have to confirm to access the options after you already have the options screen up.

Why I didn't think to try hitting A or Space *face palm*
It worked. I am just so used to tabbing over and clicking on what I want to edit and it going straight there, I just assumed I was locked out or something. Apparently, it requires redundant confirmation. Thank you.

[DarthDub]

Yeah I had the same issue til I found out that you had to press A to actually go through the options. It feels like someone tried making a mobile port or something with really bad UI.

[Doctor Hades]

Yeah, it took me a while (playing the Xbox Series X version) to realise that I had to press A to access the options. Like the rest of the game, the user interface is a bit of a mess but since when have Team Sonic ever delivered anything polished, intuitive and great?

Not saying that Sonic Frontiers is a bad game; it isn't. It is fun exploring the open world even if the visuals are muddy and bland with PS3/Xbox 360 era textures, the pop in unbelievably bad and the music almost non-existent outside of the cyberspace speed stages.

It's just the whole package feels like it was made on a shoe-string budget and is held together by duct tape. It's clearly the engine simply cannot handle the developers' ambitiious open world design and as a result almost everything suffers in some way. I think they should have ditched the Hedgehog engine for something better suited to an open-world (and 4K textures!). They also could have hired someone competent in designing a modern user interface. By the way, these are same complaints I have about the disappointing Star Ocean: The Divine Force which looks and plays like a game from 10 years ago.