Hotkeys Issue

[Pøläär §nøw]

For some weird reason, my "weapon" hotkeys stopped working. The keyboard is fine, tested it many ways. But 1 thru + and the F key itself won't work. Any one got any ideas?

[sdack]

Are your keys working at all? Did you install any mods? ...

[-=SOF=-WID99]

if your on a laptop .. yea consult your laptop manual .. the F keys have other functions

[Pøläär §nøw]

I don't use any mods what so ever. Refuse too. I was just doing some raider removal and all my hotkeys stopped working, even the F key, and the 3rd person view with the mouse wheel. I varified the game files, still nothing. I'm trying everything I can think of.

I'm on a desktop.

Quad Core i5 6500 3.20ghz 64bit
Twin Frozr R9 390x 8gb GDDR5
16gb Corsair Vengeance DDR4
OS is on an SSD
Game files are on a 2tb WD BLACK

[Pøläär §nøw]

I think I got it. Had to delete several save game files and load a save file from over night. Seems to be working now. Strange how it did that. Still wondering if this is something new or if people know a workaround for it.

[Winter]

Can you please describe what you did to fix this in a little more detail? I'm having the same problem as you!

[Pøläär §nøw]

Originally posted by Winter:

Can you please describe what you did to fix this in a little more detail? I'm having the same problem as you!

All I did was go back to a save that I knew the hotkey's were still working. Deleted everything newer and then re-varified the game files, did a reboot and then it seemed to fix it. I don't know what caused it, or what I did to fix it. Honestly I don't know.

Sorry.

[Beggsy]

I have the same Issue. I reloaded a save that I knew worked and it fixed it. I am sure it has something to do with putting modded weapons on your hotkeys. I have never had the issue because I was using vanilla weapons on my hotkeys for pretty much the entire time I played the game. I found a weapon that had been added by a mod that I really liked and put it on my one of the hotkeys and after a few minutes of playing I got the issue. Thats the only thing I think I can narrow it down to.

[Pøläär §nøw]

Originally posted by O C E A N - M A N:

I have the same Issue. I reloaded a save that I knew worked and it fixed it. I am sure it has something to do with putting modded weapons on your hotkeys. I have never had the issue because I was using vanilla weapons on my hotkeys for pretty much the entire time I played the game. I found a weapon that had been added by a mod that I really liked and put it on my one of the hotkeys and after a few minutes of playing I got the issue. Thats the only thing I think I can narrow it down to.

Just 1 problem with that logic. I have never used actual player created mods. I have nearly 4,200 hours in Fallout 4, never used a mod, don't plan on it. It has to be something else. Something everyone is over looking. Like maybe we hit a unique combination of keys thats causing it. Only I have no clue what combination of keys that could be. Funny thing, since I posted about this months ago, it's never happened again, so I'm confused at what the cause might actually be.

[Beggsy]

Yeah I get you. That was just my guess but I suppose it could have been down to something else. It is a strange thing to happen though. I was testing about and couldnt seem to re create the issue with modded weapons so I guess it was just an Idea. Hopefully I dont have the issue again haha.

[Timboh]

I just had the same bug described by OP; none of my hotkeys were working and I couldn't scroll out to third-person view. I also couldn't open the Workshop UI in my settlements. I don't know exactly when the bug appeared, only that I was in one of the subways in downtown Boston when it happened. I hadn't made any saves for a long time, so I was pretty desperate to find a fix for this. I tried killing myself, I tried running various console commands (such as DisablePlayerControls and ToggleFlyCam), I started mashing keys in sequence hoping it would un-freeze the hotkeys....

Then I entered an armor workbench, and suddenly the hotkeys and third-person view was fully functional again. I did some tests with the still bugged saves, and it seems like entering any crafting-type menu (weapon modding, cooking, chemistry, etc.) fixes the issue. The bug doesn't return when restarting the game, so it seems like doing this fixed it.

Hopefully that's the end of it. I have yet to find out whether this is going to be a recurring bug for my character or not...

[Xyzzy]

I had the same can't press F bug in Skyrim, fixed it today by deleting* Control Map custom ini.
*Cut to desktop.

[Beef]

Originally posted by Timboh:

I just had the same bug described by OP; none of my hotkeys were working and I couldn't scroll out to third-person view. I also couldn't open the Workshop UI in my settlements. I don't know exactly when the bug appeared, only that I was in one of the subways in downtown Boston when it happened. I hadn't made any saves for a long time, so I was pretty desperate to find a fix for this. I tried killing myself, I tried running various console commands (such as DisablePlayerControls and ToggleFlyCam), I started mashing keys in sequence hoping it would un-freeze the hotkeys....

Then I entered an armor workbench, and suddenly the hotkeys and third-person view was fully functional again. I did some tests with the still bugged saves, and it seems like entering any crafting-type menu (weapon modding, cooking, chemistry, etc.) fixes the issue. The bug doesn't return when restarting the game, so it seems like doing this fixed it.

Hopefully that's the end of it. I have yet to find out whether this is going to be a recurring bug for my character or not...

Yes, thank you! I love you, man!

[Ameno [LT]]

Originally posted by Timboh:

I just had the same bug described by OP; none of my hotkeys were working and I couldn't scroll out to third-person view. I also couldn't open the Workshop UI in my settlements. I don't know exactly when the bug appeared, only that I was in one of the subways in downtown Boston when it happened. I hadn't made any saves for a long time, so I was pretty desperate to find a fix for this. I tried killing myself, I tried running various console commands (such as DisablePlayerControls and ToggleFlyCam), I started mashing keys in sequence hoping it would un-freeze the hotkeys....

Then I entered an armor workbench, and suddenly the hotkeys and third-person view was fully functional again. I did some tests with the still bugged saves, and it seems like entering any crafting-type menu (weapon modding, cooking, chemistry, etc.) fixes the issue. The bug doesn't return when restarting the game, so it seems like doing this fixed it.

Hopefully that's the end of it. I have yet to find out whether this is going to be a recurring bug for my character or not...

Thanks man this helped

[WarpedFox]

Originally posted by Timboh:

I just had the same bug described by OP; none of my hotkeys were working and I couldn't scroll out to third-person view. I also couldn't open the Workshop UI in my settlements. I don't know exactly when the bug appeared, only that I was in one of the subways in downtown Boston when it happened. I hadn't made any saves for a long time, so I was pretty desperate to find a fix for this. I tried killing myself, I tried running various console commands (such as DisablePlayerControls and ToggleFlyCam), I started mashing keys in sequence hoping it would un-freeze the hotkeys....

Then I entered an armor workbench, and suddenly the hotkeys and third-person view was fully functional again. I did some tests with the still bugged saves, and it seems like entering any crafting-type menu (weapon modding, cooking, chemistry, etc.) fixes the issue. The bug doesn't return when restarting the game, so it seems like doing this fixed it.

Hopefully that's the end of it. I have yet to find out whether this is going to be a recurring bug for my character or not...

you can also use a stimpak and the hotkeys should return, this fixed it for me, accidental find since i needed to use one but it fixed the bug

[Alfred Dickcock]

Originally posted by Timboh:

I just had the same bug described by OP; none of my hotkeys were working and I couldn't scroll out to third-person view. I also couldn't open the Workshop UI in my settlements. I don't know exactly when the bug appeared, only that I was in one of the subways in downtown Boston when it happened. I hadn't made any saves for a long time, so I was pretty desperate to find a fix for this. I tried killing myself, I tried running various console commands (such as DisablePlayerControls and ToggleFlyCam), I started mashing keys in sequence hoping it would un-freeze the hotkeys....

Then I entered an armor workbench, and suddenly the hotkeys and third-person view was fully functional again. I did some tests with the still bugged saves, and it seems like entering any crafting-type menu (weapon modding, cooking, chemistry, etc.) fixes the issue. The bug doesn't return when restarting the game, so it seems like doing this fixed it.

Hopefully that's the end of it. I have yet to find out whether this is going to be a recurring bug for my character or not...

HE'S ACTUALLY DONE IT. Really doing anything that might involve an animation or player state change fixes the bug, I was in power armor when it happened, literally just got out of it and was sorted LOL. Thanks for the feedback and solution!