Randomly Can't Interact with Anything

[Alec]

Been having an issue for the last few days playing the game and can't seem to figure it out. Every few minutes or so, I will be walking around in game and realize that I can't interact with anything. Can't open storage containers, can't setup any machines, can't do anything except build and remove stuff. Only way to fix it is save and reload the game. Even when I do that it only works for a few minutes and then not able to do anything again. Anyone had this happen before?

[Maehlice]

Yep. Sort your inventory. Cycle your weapons. Build and delete something. Just do anything; whatever the game lets you.

IDK what causes it or what the exact fix is, because it never seems to be the same thing.

It's like the game code gets stuck inside of some function waiting on a Break/Exit/Return command. Until you get back in that function and escape from it, much stuck.

[RoadHouse]

Maybe you're entering console mode the ` key left of the 1 button. Happens to me sometimes. Need to hit escape to get out of it.

[Alec]

Originally posted by Maehlice:

Yep. Sort your inventory. Cycle your weapons. Build and delete something. Just do anything; whatever the game lets you.

IDK what causes it or what the exact fix is, because it never seems to be the same thing.

It's like the game code gets stuck inside of some function waiting on a Break/Exit/Return command. Until you get back in that function and escape from it, much stuck.

I have noticed this before and thought the same thing, sometimes the game will glitch out when you go to open something and I have to press it another time or two to get it to open. After I go to a new container, it stops working and I have to reload the save. Just like you said though, sometimes it starts working again without having to reload the save, I just have to do something, but I am not sure what. It's happening so often to me that it's almost unplayable, almost impossible to get anything done without having to deal with this. I would think this would be a simple fix for the devs but I guess not...

[Alec]

Originally posted by RoadHouse:

Maybe you're entering console mode the ` key left of the 1 button. Happens to me sometimes. Need to hit escape to get out of it.

I thought this too but it does not seem to be the case.

[helmey112]

I have never had this problem in over 180 hours since update 5. I read this thread and now
i had this thing for the first time.

[Neves]

It keeps happenig to me too, its been really annoying..

[Shodan]

I have this problem, it happens often in both coop and single player. It happens randomly, I have found no reliable way other than quit and reload. That is super annoying because you lose location of last death chest !

[Kitet]

I noticed some functions have more than one way out (resign from). Take for example driving a tractor - you press Q while boarded and hit ESC to close the menu without doing anything. After that you need to press Q twice to get that menu open again. If you both open and close with Q you don't have that problem.

My point is, next time you have that issue try remembering what menu you opened most recently that's not building (since you say it works anyway) and repeat that thing but don't hit ESC.

[bonesbro]

This has been driving me nuts too. Wasn't a problem in v4.

[Shodan]

My keyboard, a logitech g613 wiith mechanical keys, haas a tendency of doing double keypress. This would happen lesss if I had installed the logitech app, but I didn't. I suspect one of these double keypress is causing it but not sure why. I think maybe related to the jetpack but not sure (may be spuriious association just becaause I use the jetpack a lot)

[JUICE]

Originally posted by Maehlice:

Yep. Sort your inventory. Cycle your weapons. Build and delete something. Just do anything; whatever the game lets you.

IDK what causes it or what the exact fix is, because it never seems to be the same thing.

It's like the game code gets stuck inside of some function waiting on a Break/Exit/Return command. Until you get back in that function and escape from it, much stuck.

Sorry, but I'll necro this post as its still an issue today. Party member got that issue.

The fix was exactly how you described it.
Go to whatever has caused it and somehow get into that menu and exit again. For us it was the tinkering Workbench.

[Shodan]

Don't worry necroposting isn't a thing, it's what evil moderator say when their OCD acts up.
If this is the thread about the topic that comes up in the search, this is the place to post it.

You can't win with moderators, they'll cry about necro posting if you post in the right thread, they'll tell you to post in a new thread but then if you post in a new thread they'll close it, saying there's already a thread about this ! And then if you insist, they'll lock the thread.

And of course this isn't necessarily about the moderators here, I have no idea how they are, but general internet moderator culture is evil like that !

[Deadly-Bagel]

Had this with a toolbox and now with a crafting bench. Can't interact with anything, can deconstruct everything except the crafting bench. Something screwy going on =/

[Glorb :3]

Originally posted by Kitet:

I noticed some functions have more than one way out (resign from). Take for example driving a tractor - you press Q while boarded and hit ESC to close the menu without doing anything. After that you need to press Q twice to get that menu open again. If you both open and close with Q you don't have that problem.

My point is, next time you have that issue try remembering what menu you opened most recently that's not building (since you say it works anyway) and repeat that thing but don't hit ESC.

This genuinely solves it and still fixes the issue to this day

[Lynx]

Anyone in 2024 who finds themselves here looking for answers to this. Be advised in dialogue or interactions, sometimes the game wants 'E', other times 'F', then for lulz it will decide on LMB and then when the game thinks you're getting the hang of it, only 'space' will initiate the interaction you seek. Coders looked at the interaction coding guide and said F that shi, we'll do it differently for every module.