how do you use a key??

[Joel.Tx3]

new here, stuck on the tutorial because i don't know how to turn a key to wind up the car. i just keep grabbing the key or the car and it goes back in my inventory. help.

[Bertie]

Open the car in your inventory (select then press space) then drag the key from the inventory at the bottom onto the car

[Joel.Tx3]

Originally posted by Bertie:

Open the car in your inventory (select then press space) then drag the key from the inventory at the bottom onto the car

Thank you!!

[350Chevy]

Thank you !

[Echelon86]

It's so counter intuative unless you know. They need to FIX this so it doesn't require you looking it up. Have a prompt on screen that you need to click and drag.

[mac]

Hello everyone. In the first tutorial, there is a short video showing how to drag the winding key from the inventory to a item. The item then shows the code for the chest.

However if that seems to be a issue again later in the tutorial, we might add another ingame video if people are stuck after some time.

Thank you for reporting and have a great weekend.

[Bertie]

I'd not played the full game tutorial as I played it in the demo, but I'd say it's clearer in the main game than it is in the demo

[350Chevy]

Originally posted by Echelon86:

It's so counter intuative unless you know. They need to FIX this so it doesn't require you looking it up. Have a prompt on screen that you need to click and drag.

Agreed !

[350Chevy]

Originally posted by mac:

Hello everyone. In the first tutorial, there is a short video showing how to drag the winding key from the inventory to a item. The item then shows the code for the chest.

However if that seems to be a issue again later in the tutorial, we might add another ingame video if people are stuck after some time.

Thank you for reporting and have a great weekend.

All good here, just simply had to learn, it is NP now. Love the game, makes you use your brain ! Thank you for responding and Happy Holidays !

[Buntkreuz]

Originally posted by mac:

Hello everyone. In the first tutorial, there is a short video showing how to drag the winding key from the inventory to a item. The item then shows the code for the chest.

However if that seems to be a issue again later in the tutorial, we might add another ingame video if people are stuck after some time.

Thank you for reporting and have a great weekend.

I made that and literally when it came up i didnt know anymore.
I know its mostly on me, but see it this way:
While i played i found most of the controls to be good and intuitive, but how the inventory works and what i press to put stuff into it and how to combine them wasnt.
So maybe the rest is intuitive but inventory management and combination isnt and needs some improvements.
You can start with this point because i had the exact same experience as the OP.

[mrflippy]

I also need to know how to use a key. I'm stuck on the very first key for the chest. It says "Use the key on the lock" but there doesn't seem to be any way to use the key on the lock.

Edit: I can open my inventory and examine the key, but there's no obvious way to "select" or "use" they key or anything.

Edit 2: The inventory use instructions came after the part where I needed them. I just needed to use mouse wheel or number keys to select the key from my inventory and then it worked fine.

Additionally, the mouse wheel and number keys are not listed in the controls section of the menu, so there was no indication of how to use the inventory.

[unexre]

I just spent ten minutes hitting "3" then "4" repeatedly while looking at the key or the car because this was so unintuitive, even after using the key on the toybox in the tutorial immediately before. The flow for using an item while looking at another item doesn't match the on-screen UI which assigns numbers to things and you expect those numbers to DO the thing instead of SWITCH to the thing.

Part of the problem is that when they teach you, you ONLY have the one or two items so there's no distractions. By the time you've picked up the key you've potentially got six markers and a whole train filling your inventory.

[DoomWomble]

Just want to add that I found this very confusing as well and struggled with many of the same issues mentioned in this thread. It wasn't intuitive to me that I had to drag from the inventory to use the key because all of the other interaction with the inventory is through picking one item at a time and doing something with it.

In fact, I found the code for the combination lock in the first tutorial level without even using the key, just by getting close up to the box and looking at the inside! I though that was some twisted right way of doing things, but apparently not.

[Stephen of Wimbledon]

I have played the basic tutorial for nearly 40 minutes and I cannot get the winding key to go into the box.

I googled and found a separate tutorial video which shows the user using the cursor to select the key. This does not work for me. Not only is the mouse dedicated to changing the Player View, in the previous tutorial challenge with a key that goes into a padlock the numbers are used to select items for action - resulting in a skeleton of that item (i.e. a skeleton view of the key in both instances) - and in the first instance using the key is then just point-and-click. When I try to do this in the key-box scenario the key is dropped, or the box is knocked over, or the skeleton key disappears - but nothing good happens.

What am I not understanding?

This is really frustrating; whenever I stop to look for answers not only am I not making progress, I'm also set back to the beginning of the tutorial!

[kyle]

This tutorial also took me and my mate over an hour to do before we eventually had to google it to find out how to do it, either we are very stupid, or is there a way you could make the tutorial a bit more straight forward lol

Edit: It almost made all 3 of us uninstall the game.

[Stephen of Wimbledon]

UPDATE

Thanks Kyle, for responding. Not very helpful tho' eh?

Regarding other comments.

- Lots of people mentioned a car. There is no car in the room I'm stuck in

- Mac: "In the first tutorial, there is a short video showing how to drag the winding key from the inventory to a item". As already reported I've tried doing this in Inventory but the cursor/mouse won't select two items at once. I can look at the key up close, or I can look at the box up close - but select the other and the first is reduced to an icon, bottom left, only. Like I said, I can't make my version of the game work like the video.

- Doom Womble: I have to disagree. It isn't that it's non-intuitive - it's that it's non-functional.