Found a way to fix unresponsive hotkeys

[VakarisJ]

Every so often while playing the game, hotkeys just stop working. I hear there were issues about this prior to release, but none of the solutions, like opening/closing certain interfaces (inventory, map, assemblers) fixes the issue.

Well, as it turns out, the problem is Windows. Pressing Shift+Alt causes the keyboard language to switch from English to whatever else you might have set up there. This causes the numbers keys (123456790) to be replaced with special characters (ąčęėįšųū90), that the game isn't configured to recognize as equivalents to hotkeys!

Simply put, pressing Shift+Alt until Windows keyboard settings go back to English fixes the issue.

[Zak]

No, that's not it, maybe for you, but there is a bug for sure. This is an old bug that's been around since Update 7 probably.

I never press Shift-Alt while in the game to start with. Why would I press Shift-Alt in the game? The other language shortcut is Win-Space, by the way. And even if I do (I just tried) my language switches from US EN to PL and the Hotkeys still work because keys 1-0 are the same in US EN and PL layouts. Yet, my hotkeys randomly stop working sometimes.

So that's not it.

[VakarisJ]

Why would you press Shift+Alt? If you want to cycle your hotbar while sprinting for one. There are many conceivable scenarios where you hit the key combinations by accident.

It's strange to me that when using the hotbar the game checks not for the key pressed, but for the symbol typed. I've never played an other game that had this issue.

This is a bug that causes hotkeys to be unresponsive. Even if it's not in the way you had hoped.

[Zak]

But I told you that even if I do press Alt-Shift this does not happen to me. My language switches but my hotbar keys till work. So that can't be it. This could be a separate issue with your particular keyboard layout, but there is likely another bug that cause this, because I still experience this bug from time to time so it can't be due to language switching.

[Xaltee]

I had to exit to the menu and reload my world. Only thing that worked for me.

[JeanDeaux]

Running into this frequently as well. This time right after a fresh load of a saved game, I've had to shut-down and restart to get mine to "usually" clear, didn't work this time.

Alt-Shift didn't fix anything for me. Used the Alt-ScrollWheel to change between hot-bars, but that didn't fix things either.

I think it might be tied to using the Copy-Paste feature. I find using Ctrl+V to paste will often lead to a loss of the hotbar feature.

[VakarisJ]

If you're having trouble with things like Alt-Tabbing or Copy-Pasting causing the game to work in weird ways, you can always try the good old debugging method: press every modifier key in sequence. Maybe they got stuck active.

Just press Shift, release, then Control. release, Alt, release.

It's the same when your hoverpack seems to be stuck going up: press Space and release.

[Just_A_Guest]

THANK YOU. I've been trying to find this problem for a while now, and this fixed it. Also nice surprise to see a Lithuanian keyboard as an example.