Am I supposed to be able to interact with a campfire/bonfire?

[Hoverboy]

I'm assuming so, but there's no interact option when I craft and place either of them. I've sifted through a few videos and found one that quickly shows the [E] button when they hovered over it, so I'm guessing that I should also be seeing said [E] button?

EDIT: It's a bug with ultrawide. When I drop to windowed mode 16:9 I can interact with the campfire just fire. Dear developers: please, please, please stop "zooming" in and claiming that you support ultrawide. Zoom isn't actually supporting ultrawide, and often (as in this case) adds even more issues...

EDIT 2: Specifically, this is more of an issue if you run 5120x1440 and do NOT use the Camera Distance option to zoom out. The second I move the camera out by even one place on the slider, goodbye campfire interaction (and stairs, and bonfire, and...)

You can edit the Engine.ini file and add the following to make interaction a bit better all around:

[/script/engine.localplayer]
AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV

But this flips the issue, and the camera is so far away that it's almost like playing a real-time strategy game.

If you're hitting this issue, please take the time to select Report from the Main Menu and file a bug. I did this and got a response (that *almost* equated to "you're doing it wrong"... almost). Just CnP this if you don't want to type your own:

--- BUG ---

ISSUE
When playing in 32:9 @ 5120x1440, many things in the game only have a tiny interact box, and getting the [E] to interact popup to show up is hard to do. However, if you change the camera distance setting at all, then you can't interact with some of these items at all, including the campfire, bonfire, and stairs.


REPRO
1) Run game on an ultrawide monitor that can do 5120x1440 @ 32:9 in fullscreen/borderless window.
2) Place a campfire and try to interact with it.
3) Go into settings and change the Camera distance setting.
4) Go back into the game and try in interact with the campfire.


NOTES
- At Step 2, you can still kind of interact with the campfire, but it's hard.
- At Step 4, you will no longer be able to interact with the campfire.
- If you switch to a 16:9 resolution, interaction with everything is great.
- This isn't limited to the campfire. It's everything to a degree.
- This is likely due to you zooming the 3D space instead of scaling it. Zooming as "ultrawide support" isn't actually supporting ultrawide, and more often than not causes more problems than it claims to solve.


--- END BUG ---

[Jayson Phoenix]

sure you can interact with both as a popup menu and you can open it like a crafting table to cook or put fuel in, its the use button, press or hold for open or menu accordingly

[Hoverboy]

Thanks, so I'm guessing that since I see no interact popup (and pressing E does nothing when I'm right at either fire) that I'm hitting a bug.

[Ngog]

Same here... if I reduce the resolution in windowed mode to 1920 x 1080 the "Interact" promt shows. Unfortunately since this game doesn't seem to have any ambient sounds and me being forced to play in window mode, this breaks it completely. Looks like a refund... too bad.

[Jayson Phoenix]

heared about that resolution thing, its a bug, guess will be fixed soon. till then reducing the resolution should probably work, dont think you really need windowed mode if its not for widescreen resolution issues

[Ngog]

In Windowed Fullscreen mode the game only let's me play in my native resolution (5120x1440). In Fullscreen mode I can only choose from my native and one extra resolution, both don't let me inteact with ♥♥♥♥, so unfortunately I have to play in windowed mode.

[Hobcodlin]

Oh damn I was almost fighting with my friend about interacting with campfire but its ultrawide problem again :( 5120x1440 here too.