Why must we "Press Space to Continue"?

[ShadowDragon8685]

Seriously. Why are there button-presses between me launching the game and actually getting to the character select screen?

I like to start the game, then tab out to check Reddit or something. Why, if I don't keep my eye on it, do I come back to that screen, instead of the character select? The load-in times on the Mourningstar are already redonkulous. I miss Taal's Horn Keep already - it was mine and mine alone, I didn't have to wait to load into a shared keep.

[Loki Autism]

m1, m1, m1, esc, space

[The Killer]

I wish there was a "skip-launcher-and-skip-intro-and-skip-splashscreen-and-load-me-directly-to-character-selection-screen"-fix.

[Kattsylt]

Bothers me too, its just excessive.
And i never understood that last -Press x to continue- that a lot of games have. What else am i suppose to do, if i changed my mind about playing i still have to press it to exit. There is no point of it, i dont get it. Just bring me to the menu.

[CryonicSuspension]

Because Fatshark...

[Frostbeast]

Easy to explain. Same reason some developers prevents you from skipping a cut scene. They fear you miss something and cant follow the story anymore. Get bored and never touch the game again.
They did so much work into the intro. We would not want it that you skip it by accident.

[Taemien]

There is a ton of unneeded confirmations and button pressing and holding. I assume its because of potential console ports and these actions keep the controller users occupied.

Speaking of the title screen. You have to login to character select before you can quit. Which means an alt-f4 or end task if your connection is faltering or their servers are down. That isn't very good UI design.

[Kazaanh]

Originally posted by The Killer:

I wish there was a "skip-launcher-and-skip-intro-and-skip-splashscreen-and-load-me-directly-to-character-selection-screen"-fix.

It was one of the most popular mods for Vermintide2, but this game does not allows mods

[Siilk]

Yeah, not the biggest problem with the game but certainly annoying.

[The Killer]

Originally posted by Kazaanh:

It was one of the most popular mods for Vermintide2, but this game does not allows mods

Can only hope they add that in the future, sooner rather than later.

[Don Montega]

When i first entered Darktide for the second time playing, the inability to skip the introductory screens annoyed me. I crave for the certainty of skipping intros via console commands.

[Nona NNK]

This is not the only problem that I am confused how a professional game designer overlooked or ignored this problem.
while the lobby is nice to look at at first it eats time to load into it and run to the designated spot to buy weapons, select mission, upgrade items etc. A small amount of time that you will do so many times that you quickly waste hours running from X to Y to Z. It seems the main function of the lobby is to waste your time with NOT GAMEPLAY. Instead of physically running to the interaction points, let me select them from the ESC menu or put interesting PLAYER X PLAYER interactions in the main lobby. Right now its a waste of time.

[Arkanis]

Originally posted by ShadowDragon8685:

Seriously. Why are there button-presses between me launching the game and actually getting to the character select screen?

I like to start the game, then tab out to check Reddit or something. Why, if I don't keep my eye on it, do I come back to that screen, instead of the character select? The load-in times on the Mourningstar are already redonkulous. I miss Taal's Horn Keep already - it was mine and mine alone, I didn't have to wait to load into a shared keep.

Bigger question is would you have even noticed if the game did not crash so much as i only noticed it because the game was crashing 2-3 times per game

[Cleric]

Originally posted by Nona NNK:

This is not the only problem that I am confused how a professional game designer overlooked or ignored this problem.
while the lobby is nice to look at at first it eats time to load into it and run to the designated spot to buy weapons, select mission, upgrade items etc. A small amount of time that you will do so many times that you quickly waste hours running from X to Y to Z. It seems the main function of the lobby is to waste your time with NOT GAMEPLAY. Instead of physically running to the interaction points, let me select them from the ESC menu or put interesting PLAYER X PLAYER interactions in the main lobby. Right now its a waste of time.

I'm about to really piss you off.

Did you know you can access the MTX shop via the character selection screen by hitting ESC?

That means while the servers are down and you're unable to load into the time-wasting HUB, you can still shop in the MTX store flawlessly.

[TormDK]

Because Consoles.

[Varenvel The Festive Dinosaur]

Originally posted by ShadowDragon8685:

Seriously. Why are there button-presses between me launching the game and actually getting to the character select screen?

I like to start the game, then tab out to check Reddit or something. Why, if I don't keep my eye on it, do I come back to that screen, instead of the character select? The load-in times on the Mourningstar are already redonkulous. I miss Taal's Horn Keep already - it was mine and mine alone, I didn't have to wait to load into a shared keep.

becouse loading game after crashing is so fun you got to sit thru 5 loading screens to rejoin game

presuming you load fast enough to be egible to rejoin the game you crashed/booted from , not likely.

i refunded mine , getting dwarf fortress instead.