Why does pressing the Esc key close out the game?

[Dongald Jeffreys]

Every time I press the Esc key the game just completely shuts down. Is anybody else having this problem? Is there a reason for this? It's annoying.

[PaddyTheBadussy]

Първоначално публикувано от missingnoge:

It's not a bug. Pressing ESC just quits the game. I don't think Scott Cawthon implemented a pause menu.

Is this in every game? I was playing games 1-4 and every time I press esc it exits the game but I joined a stream of someone playing fnaf 2 and he had a pause menu. I asked him how he paused and he just said he presses esc. I think not having a pause menu for the games is a bit silly, especially for when I'm streaming and chat activity goes up but even if you just want to pause to go to the bathroom or whatever I think a menu should be in the game.

[Eighteen-Counts Trevor]

For when you get too scared of the game

[anthonyjamestone²]

Първоначално публикувано от DarkVeneno:

I think its because Scott wanted a way for people to immediately close the game in case they're scared. I'd just use Alt+F4, but whatever.
Plus, it isn't bad design not to have that feature:
1. It's NOT an ordinary horror game;
2. It adds to the mistery (game suddently closing instead of behaving normally)
3. Plus it represents Afton being in purgatory. Purgatory has no pauses.

I don't think Cauthon implemented number 3 on purpose, but it still has that effect to me.

HUUUUUUUUUUGE stretch

[Herobrine]

The developer just used the basic clickteam function that ends the process when you press the esc key.

[TopSuperDude]

Първоначално публикувано от DarkVeneno:

I think its because Scott wanted a way for people to immediately close the game in case they're scared. I'd just use Alt+F4, but whatever.
Plus, it isn't bad design not to have that feature:
1. It's NOT an ordinary horror game;
2. It adds to the mistery (game suddently closing instead of behaving normally)
3. Plus it represents Afton being in purgatory. Purgatory has no pauses.

I don't think Cauthon implemented number 3 on purpose, but it still has that effect to me.

UCN is Afton's purgatory... not FNAF 1

[masterKnurd]

Първоначално публикувано от Dongald Jeffreys:

Първоначално публикувано от Missingnope.:

It's not a bug. Pressing ESC just quits the game. I don't think Scott Cawthon implemented a pause menu.

I don't care what his reasons were, that's bad design.

i personally don't mind cuz in hw if ur in vr if u pause the game is still active

[masterKnurd]

Първоначално публикувано от PattyMCP:

Първоначално публикувано от missingnoge:

It's not a bug. Pressing ESC just quits the game. I don't think Scott Cawthon implemented a pause menu.

Is this in every game? I was playing games 1-4 and every time I press esc it exits the game but I joined a stream of someone playing fnaf 2 and he had a pause menu. I asked him how he paused and he just said he presses esc. I think not having a pause menu for the games is a bit silly, especially for when I'm streaming and chat activity goes up but even if you just want to pause to go to the bathroom or whatever I think a menu should be in the game.

bro i think he's on mobile pc will never get updated

[Herobrine]

Първоначално публикувано от masterKnurd:

Първоначално публикувано от PattyMCP:

Is this in every game? I was playing games 1-4 and every time I press esc it exits the game but I joined a stream of someone playing fnaf 2 and he had a pause menu. I asked him how he paused and he just said he presses esc. I think not having a pause menu for the games is a bit silly, especially for when I'm streaming and chat activity goes up but even if you just want to pause to go to the bathroom or whatever I think a menu should be in the game.

bro i think he's on mobile pc will never get updated

Mobile version has no pause menu actually. They would have to be playing one of the console versions via a capture card in order to have a pause menu.

[Manimaniac]

if you have windows, download and open Powertoys, enable Keyboard Manager > Remap a key > Physical Key Type > Press ESC > OK > Mapped To (use the dropdown) > Disable


Now after doing this, to toggle the ESC key on and off just enable/disable the Keyboard Manager

[sussy wussy]

Първоначално публикувано от Dongald Jeffreys:

Първоначално публикувано от Hunter:

theres a reason it does that. so you can ESCAPE in 5 seconds or less.
seriosly, no pausee is fair. as why would you want a pause feature added so they can punish you for pausing.

No pause is NOT fair, every game should have that extremely basic function, and you can "escape in 5 seconds or less" by pausing and clicking "Quit game"

aahahahah that's so hilarious

[Mackeriv]

I'm not sure this is considered "bad design", and by what standards, but maybe you guys are reading too much into this. Esc is for "Escape", and has been used in computing for a long time for terminating processes and programs. Maybe it's old-fashioned design, rather. You don't see a lot of games doing that these days, so that's why you're feeling this way.

[Herobrine]

Първоначално публикувано от Mackeriv:

I'm not sure this is considered "bad design", and by what standards, but maybe you guys are reading too much into this. Esc is for "Escape", and has been used in computing for a long time for terminating processes and programs. Maybe it's old-fashioned design, rather. You don't see a lot of games doing that these days, so that's why you're feeling this way.

He just didn't implement a pause menu and left the application termination process on default, so yeah. This thread is from 9 years ago and should probably stop being resurrected. If forums moderators actually watched here still then this thread would have been locked by now.

[sussy wussy]

Първоначално публикувано от Ganondong (King of Evil):

Първоначално публикувано от Mackeriv:

I'm not sure this is considered "bad design", and by what standards, but maybe you guys are reading too much into this. Esc is for "Escape", and has been used in computing for a long time for terminating processes and programs. Maybe it's old-fashioned design, rather. You don't see a lot of games doing that these days, so that's why you're feeling this way.

He just didn't implement a pause menu and left the application termination process on default, so yeah. This thread is from 9 years ago and should probably stop being resurrected. If forums moderators actually watched here still then this thread would have been locked by now.

They shouldn't

[Herobrine]

Първоначално публикувано от sussy wussy:

Първоначално публикувано от Ganondong (King of Evil):

He just didn't implement a pause menu and left the application termination process on default, so yeah. This thread is from 9 years ago and should probably stop being resurrected. If forums moderators actually watched here still then this thread would have been locked by now.

They shouldn't

They should, because its annoying.

[Manimaniac]

Първоначално публикувано от Ganondong (King of Evil):

Първоначално публикувано от sussy wussy:

They shouldn't

They should, because its annoying.

not really, just turn off notifs or scroll past it 💀