Resolving radial menu problems

[jrista]

I purchased Ark during the Christmas Sale. My first dino tame was around a week later, and I found that I could not use the radial menu on the tame. I researched around, and found that many other people have had that problem with PCs. I use a very high end computer and am quite computer savvy, so the issue seemed like a bug.

Well, today, by chance, I accidentally figured out what the issue was. Hopefully this will help others who have had problems using some of the radial menus. As it turns out, the default interaction key/button on PCs for dino menu (and I think some other menus) blue/gold options (excluding Access Inventory, which has white text) is the "Fire" key. I usually remap my keys, as I like to localize all of my "movement" into my mouse (look obviously, as well as forward (left) and back (right) to the mouse buttons), and I then remap my fire and alt actions to the Ctrl and Alt keys.

What I did not realize at the time was that remapping the "Fire" key broke the default behavior of the tame radial menu. My right mouse button was no longer "Fire", so it never worked. I had also tried enter/return, space, and a few of the other action buttons. I guess I never tried Ctrl, my real "Fire" button, at the time. I accidentally hit Ctrl today, and lo and behold, I was able to drill into a dino menu (entirely without intention).

SO! If you remap your fire key to something else, and are unable to drill into the dino tame radial menus, point to one with your mouse...then press your fire key!

[Berra86]

Thank you so much for this!
Been looking for days now for a solution.

[jrista]

Glad someone found it useful! I was sure someone else out there would have a problem. ;)

[necaradan666]

So... as a tech savvy person you know PEBKAC? lol I couldn't resist.

[jrista]

Well, it is more than PEBKAC, which is only part of the problem. The other part of the problem is the radial menu key is not a configurable key in the game, and double-mapping or triple-mapping keys is a big usability problem.

This would never be an issue for people who remap keys if ALL keys could be remapped. Beyond that, when it comes to standard ui interaction, the mouse should be context aware, and should work properly based on context regardless. This game has plenty of these little ui/ux issues, though...

[dhoevenaar]

i have an other problem does anyone know how to fix if your radial menu dissapears way to fast?

[Lori37]

Originally posted by dhoevenaar:

i have an other problem does anyone know how to fix if your radial menu dissapears way to fast?

don't necro, make a fresh topic...