[DEAD END] Cannot Switch Between Hosts

[Hellsender316]

I am in Act 3 of the game in which I need to repossess each of the hosts' body. I mistakenly chose the Companion in which I was supposed to choose the Butler first. Now I am unable to leave the Companion to switch to a different host. It is virtually impossible for me to complete the game now due to there being no function to switch hosts. Please fix this. I am playing this game on PC.

[Cheeseness]

Hi! Sorry to hear that you're having trouble. Can you describe in a bit more detail what's not working? Is the "Connect" button not on the objectives screen not working, or is the objectives screen not coming up at all? Are you able to select "Network" from the objectives screen and return to the virtual environment of the network?

[Hellsender316]

Originally posted by Cheeseness:

Hi! Sorry to hear that you're having trouble. Can you describe in a bit more detail what's not working? Is the "Connect" button not on the objectives screen not working, or is the objectives screen not coming up at all? Are you able to select "Network" from the objectives screen and return to the virtual environment of the network?

The objective screen works, but the "Connect" button nor any other button of function appears. No,I cannot select "Network" either as it doesn't appear.

[Cheeseness]

Would you be able to grab a screenshot of the objectives screen? Do A and D let you cycle between hosts, or is that unresponsive as well?

[Hellsender316]

Originally posted by Cheeseness:

Would you be able to grab a screenshot of the objectives screen? Do A and D let you cycle between hosts, or is that unresponsive as well?

Ah, never mind. After having to experiment with the keyboard, I found the key that opens the objective screen (I mistook it for "objective history"). The interface and information to the user is pretty flawed since they have no idea what to press to open addtional options.

[Cheeseness]

That key is introduced early in the game, though it seems that some players forget about it. I'm sure that there's room for a reminder later in the game.

Glad to hear you're sorted out. Hope you enjoy the rest of the game!

[Hypnoslave]

Yeah It would be a decent idea to add a reminder tutorial frankly.

[Glalev]

Hello, I found this thread earlier while having the same problem and the lack of specific help was a problem. I eventually found a solution so I'll be explaining the solution (and why I had trouble) here in the hope to help prevent my problem for others.

So, for some reason, on a french keyboard the objectives key is `, I'm not sure why, it's probably because on an english keyboard something else would be here. Either way, it was a massive trouble to figure out and the only thing in the controls menu (where I hoped to pick something better or at least get a reminder) only lets me change the aim sensitivity.

For anyone not using a french keyboard, the ` key is the one right to the left of the enter key.

[Cheeseness]

Originally posted by Glalev:

So, for some reason, on a french keyboard the objectives key is `

It's this in English locales as well - that's the key below Escape and above Tab. It's introduced early on in the game with a prompt that mentions the key binding, but after that, you're not required to open it again until you need to switch hosts.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, we've been considering adding a reminder later in the game to help prevent people getting stuck.

[Glalev]

Originally posted by Cheeseness:

Originally posted by Glalev:

So, for some reason, on a french keyboard the objectives key is `

It's this in English locales as well - that's the key below Escape and above Tab. It's introduced early on in the game with a prompt that mentions the key binding, but after that, you're not required to open it again until you need to switch hosts.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, we've been considering adding a reminder later in the game to help prevent people getting stuck.

I noticed the mention of that, though I wasn't aware that it was that on US keyboard too. It's just that I got to this thread, saw a 'fixed my problem' with no explanation so I felt it best to state what my solution was so that, if someone else gets the problem, they can look at my post and go 'so THAT'S how' and then move on rather than have to try every single button on the keyboard like I ended up doing.

[Offriender]

I had also completely forgotten about this menu and I had no idea how to leave a host.

[Carolus Magnus]

Same here. Needs a reminder or a key menu to refer to.

[worlebird]

Originally posted by Cheeseness:

Originally posted by Glalev:

So, for some reason, on a french keyboard the objectives key is `

It's this in English locales as well - that's the key below Escape and above Tab. It's introduced early on in the game with a prompt that mentions the key binding, but after that, you're not required to open it again until you need to switch hosts.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, we've been considering adding a reminder later in the game to help prevent people getting stuck.

I know that this is an old conversation, but I wanted to mention that I also had a lot of trouble with this. I looked and found tutorials talking about the "Objectives" screen, which I had not seen before. I recognized the term, though, from the pause screen, and thought that might be it, but of course it isn't.
Now that I see what it means, I do recall something being said about it early in the game, but I never got it to work then, because I had no idea what a "back-quote" was. I hit " and ', but those did nothing, so I just ignored it and moved on. I later found a message reiterating the "back-quote" thing, and I ignored it, because I knew it didn't work.
I think it would be MUCH more useful to describe it in the game as the "tilde" key, since that is what I believe most English speaking users know it as (English speaking users RARELY use the "back-quote/reverse apostrophe," but many gamers will be familiar with a tilde, as it is used in a number of games to access the admin console.

Also, I think it would be handy to include this in the pause menu under "Settings/Controls." I often go there on games when I have forgotten the key-mapping for some function. Even if you can't change the mapping, the reference is useful.

[Cheeseness]

Originally posted by worlebird:

I think it would be MUCH more useful to describe it in the game as the "tilde" key, since that is what I believe most English speaking users know it as (English speaking users RARELY use the "back-quote/reverse apostrophe," but many gamers will be familiar with a tilde, as it is used in a number of games to access the admin console.

Maybe! The "tilde" is the other symbol typically attached to that key (~), and there's an argument that can be made for using the technically correct name rather than a commonly held misconception. In the English-speaking circles I move in, people are pretty familiar with it (though in programming/*nix spaces it seems like "backtick" is more common than "backquote").

I recently discovered that neither backquote nor tilde are present at all on Italian keyboard layouts, and that feels like a bigger deal to me (it's Hypnoslave that makes the decisions here though).

Originally posted by worlebird:

Also, I think it would be handy to include this in the pause menu under "Settings/Controls." I often go there on games when I have forgotten the key-mapping for some function. Even if you can't change the mapping, the reference is useful.

FWIW, it is in the main menu's controls screen (along with all of the game's other controls) and it is rebindable.

[Wacyrn]

i had the same issue on German keyboard, the key was 'ö'. this must be a tutorial. i nearly thought i run into a bug and had to restart.

[Nooter]

Originally posted by Cheeseness:

Originally posted by Glalev:

So, for some reason, on a french keyboard the objectives key is `

It's this in English locales as well - that's the key below Escape and above Tab. It's introduced early on in the game with a prompt that mentions the key binding, but after that, you're not required to open it again until you need to switch hosts.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, we've been considering adding a reminder later in the game to help prevent people getting stuck.

omg I literally don't have that key on my keyboard no wonder I was stuck here.
I was trying every button I could think of, time to find a spare keyboard for this lmao. maybe add customizable buttons....