cannot progress past the first maintenance jack door

[darkheart irl]

hello! i've only seen this problem in like, 2-3 other threads with 0 working solution, so i'm a bit worried, but still figured i'd ask.

i've just gotten the maintenance jack off of the dead guy, and despite the prompt for holding my aim+fire key working just fine, the game does absolutely nothing when i hit A. i've tried changing the input keys, closing and reloading, verifying files, all to no avail. moving the camera with it doesn't do anything either. i'm kind of at a loss here

no controller to use so can't really resort to that either haha

any help would be very appreciated @_@

[darkheart irl]

if it helps, i am on Windows 11 on an HP laptop

[darkheart irl]

figured it out--this issue is a hardware one thanks to my handy dandy laptop not liking it when three keys in the same circuit or whatever are held at once. this is, as scientists are calling it, pretty gay. i managed to "fix" it by rapidly spamming both inputs once the Press A thing appeared

hope one of the 3 other people who had/has this problem stumbles on this thread

[DessIntress]

Originally posted by Flynn:

figured it out--this issue is a hardware one thanks to my handy dandy laptop not liking it when three keys in the same circuit or whatever are held at once. this is, as scientists are calling it, pretty gay. i managed to "fix" it by rapidly spamming both inputs once the Press A thing appeared

hope one of the 3 other people who had/has this problem stumbles on this thread

What a great example of how user systems can cause the craziest problems and it's not always the game's fault.

This button spamming can lead to tricky situations if you are running away from an enemy and things don't work out the way you thought they would. But there would be some alternates...

If you're not too keen on using third-party software, you could see if you can use software that lets you create shortcuts. For example, you could put the two keys for aiming and shooting on one key and only have to press two at the same time - which should work if you consider combos with Shift Ctrl etc.
Logitech used to do this, for example, but there's also software that was created just for this kind of thing and maybe something is already included in Windows 11.

Another option would be to plug-in a second keyboard. (usb/bt)

[darkheart irl]

Originally posted by DessIntress:

Originally posted by Flynn:

figured it out--this issue is a hardware one thanks to my handy dandy laptop not liking it when three keys in the same circuit or whatever are held at once. this is, as scientists are calling it, pretty gay. i managed to "fix" it by rapidly spamming both inputs once the Press A thing appeared

hope one of the 3 other people who had/has this problem stumbles on this thread

What a great example of how user systems can cause the craziest problems and it's not always the game's fault.

This button spamming can lead to tricky situations if you are running away from an enemy and things don't work out the way you thought they would. But there would be some alternates...

If you're not too keen on using third-party software, you could see if you can use software that lets you create shortcuts. For example, you could put the two keys for aiming and shooting on one key and only have to press two at the same time - which should work if you consider combos with Shift Ctrl etc.
Logitech used to do this, for example, but there's also software that was created just for this kind of thing and maybe something is already included in Windows 11.

Another option would be to plug-in a second keyboard. (usb/bt)

howdy! i've already experimented a little with using an AutoHotKey script for this, but after some tinkering it seems like i can get the maintenance jack locks opened fairly consistently now that i've figured it out, but i'll definitely keep messing around with other third-party options if this winds up not working out for me :')

i'd love to get another keyboard for this, unfortunately i am not in the best financial situation but i AM waiting to hear back from an interview so maybe if i land the job i can actually look into it lol

ty for replying! appreciated :]