[BUG] Can't exit Godmaster menus

[Waladil]

Any menus I enter in the Hall of Gods I can't exit. I play on keyboard with remapped controls. The game tells me to press E, (my healing/casting button) to exit and Space (my jump button) to continue. E does nothing, only four buttons have any input -- W and S to scroll the menu up and down, space and enter to confirm.

So basically anytime I open a challenge menu I'm locked into doing the actual challenge. Which isn't the end of the world, but it's kinda irksome when I realize "no wait I forgot to change char -- nevermind, fighting third pantheon again"

[Desticler]

I played with normal controls, and A (which is default spell button works) works.
I can also cancel using Esc, try that.

[Waladil]

Niether of those does anything. I've tried each key on my keyboard and have already listed the only 4 that have any impact on Hollow Knight. My choices are up, down, confirm, and confirm.

[Mr. Marville]

Same here. (Playing on Linux, with keyboard/mouse) Unable to exit those menus with either cast or escape key. (changing cast to some other letter doesnt help)

[Chika]

could you solve it?

[Deeked]

Same here. I'm using a controller, base controls, and the game wont let me exit the menus. Which is really annoying during those now painfully often times that I've wasted a couple hours making zero progress in the pantheons (cus I suck at this game) and on my way out my control stick nudges up ever so slightly (cus my controller also sucks), opens a challenge menu on one of the doors, and than wont let me leave. It's like "nope, screw you, your actually NOT leaving, you haven't screamed and suffered enough yet". Really starting to make me mad. Anyone find a fix yet?

[TheGCat]

So, all of you with problems are playing under Linux?

Is the steamlanguage the same as the system/keyboard-language? Just an idea.

I don't play Hollow Knight under Linux, but some games need to append a little command to the game:

LANG=C %command%
OR
LC_ALL=C %command%
OR
LC_ALL=C LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

The command resets the language. Try each one.

de_DE => German
fr-FR => France
etc

The codetable for your language.
http://www.lingoes.net/en/translator/langcode.htm

A problem that accurs, if the systemlanguage is NOT englisch. Few games have a problem with that under linux. Maybe it solve your problem, maybe not. Try it. If it doesn't work, delete the append command.

[Krpa]

Having the same problem on win10. It's not only linux.

[TheGCat]

I personally would exit all unnessary programs at first. The Keyboard Software too! U don't need it for the standard keyboard functions. If this would be a bug, all players must have this bug and not only a few people. Maybe it is the keyboard software. Maybe u had setup macros with a special key combination. Whatever it is, the problem seems to be your configuration. I tested by myself a lot to hope to get the problem. I hadn't success.

[Waladil]

This thread got necro'd pretty hard. It might be two separate issues at this point. I don't play HK anymore so I'm not sure if my issue got fixed or not, but I'm on Windows 10 with no keyboard-related software running.

Its weird that your logic is "well since not literally everyone experienced it, it can't possibly be an issue with the game!" because there are tons of possibilities. The most likely part is that the devs made a mistake and my remappings didn't apply to those menus properly, leaving the exit key unbound.

Please don't be so patronizing.

[TheGCat]

I was patronizing? I wanted to help you. But sorry, you are right, it was my fault to help you. I will not do it again.

[Drewsdaman]

It has not been fixed, and it's seems like it's the game. I am using Windows 10 and it's happening to me 3 months after this issue was raised. It's not a big deal, but definitely an annoyance when I am walking past stuff and it triggers on a random pantheon/God and I have to waste a minute killing myself to leave 5 or 6 times each time I play. No buttons work for me on either and when using keyboard the symbol it tells me to press isn't a key at all. It looks like if you took the Twitch icon and then cropped the left 2/3's of it out.

[Co.Hofmann]

I think i found a solution for this, when i bind the keybord it seems to bug the controls, if u restart to default settings it fix.

[He-Bear]

This happens to me on windows 10 with keyboard and controller. No button works other than the one to select a challenge/

[Liad]

I am on windows 10 and have also this issue. I am playing with a ps4 controller. No button from either the controller or the keyboard work. This is definitly a bug and it's very annoying honestly. I didn't find any workaround.

[GenSec39]

Welcome to the club