Options Menu, Pause Menu?

[Cook66]

Is there any way to get into a pause menu with audio, resolution, graphics, controls, keyboard bindings, etc? Or simply a way to quit the game?

I've been trying to hit every key on my keyboard, but I've had no luck.

[artemoz]

Enter key and then Shifts/Ctrls to swap tabs

[Cook66]

Thanks, this game has one of the worst cases of direct translation of console controls to PC I've ever seen.

It's like the developers have never seen a keyboard or played a PC game before.

[dadrester]

Guilty as charged. We're looking to improve keyboard and mouse controls in future updates. Apologies, I'm a console peasant through and through so I'm happy to get some feedback. We did have mouse controls for menus but it was causing a lot of bugs because of a 3rd party plugin we were using and was cut quite late in the day.

Anyway apologies, and thanks for letting us know.

[Warlord]

The funny thing is, I have an Xbox controller plugged in and the game doesn't seem to recognize it. It's a third party one, but other games handle it just fine.

[dadrester]

Xbox One and 360 controllers should be handled correctly, as should generic PC controllers and PS4. One caveat is that the controller needs to be plugged in before the game is started. This is unlikely to ever be fixed as we need to do stuff with controller detection before the main game is loaded.

[Warlord]

Originally posted by dadrester:

Xbox One and 360 controllers should be handled correctly, as should generic PC controllers and PS4. One caveat is that the controller needs to be plugged in before the game is started. This is unlikely to ever be fixed as we need to do stuff with controller detection before the main game is loaded.

Well, it isn't for me. I keep mine plugged in all the time, and it uses odd buttons for a lot of things. X for interact (A is more common, perhaps you use X instead?). LT to fire second gun to the right. RT to fire primary gun to left. RThumbstick does nothing, cannot change direction ship fires in. Cannot access system menu while in the motherbase, have to press tab/enter on keyboard to get map/quit menu.

I'm used to K&M right now, but the lack of precision aiming and the odd choices for keyboard settings (IJKL for weapon select, not 1-4? really?) makes me want to try the 360 controller....

If you want me to take this to it's own thread, let me know. I hate hijackers myself.

[dadrester]

No problem. Can you give me details on which type of controller you're using? In all honesty we're unlikely to be able to patch in fixes for all generic controllers (though the ones we tested worked). KB&M will get remapping though so hopefully that will work better for you. We'll see if we can get more generic controllers added too, but that might not make the 1.02 patch.

[Warlord]

It, uh, is a Gamestop branded controller. Looks like a regular controller except for a "Gamestop" brand on the lower right part. I am trying to locate a store page or something, but they may not sell it any more.

A bit of googling and I found someone that describes the controller pretty well here: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/2a0a4x/gamepad_for_xbox_360_drivers_not_found_issue/

My controller does work for most games, but one or two have issues which I think were related to using a generic driver. It shows up on my Devices and Printers page as a "TSZ360 Pad", with a strange looking icon. Currently, it appears to be using the proper driver as it shows up in the Device Manager list as a "Xbox 360 Controller for Windows" under the "Microsoft Common Controller For Windows Class" category.

*shrug* I think I have a spare official microsoft wired controller somewhere, from when my sister passed away. I realize that my issue may be a one-in-a-million kind of thing (who uses 10+ year old gamestop brand controllers?), so I'll swap it out and check whether I still have issues. Thanks at least for talking about this. Hearing nothing from devs on forums sucks.

[DanDooDanDan]

The problem with the options menus is that the prompt to flip between different tabs doesn't always show up when you press start/enter - it's only through reading this thread that I even became aware of the existence of all of those other screens. This could be solved by having the prompt permanently visible in those screens, rather than disappearing after a couple of seconds or not showing up at all.

[dadrester]

@Warlord. Thanks for the info.
@E. Randy Dupre. But isn't it exciting when you find out there's a whole new set of menus, with more new ones unlocking all the time ;) It won't be in the next patch but we'll look at clearer signposting on the menus.

[dadrester]

Just a heads up and another apology. Rebinding isn't going to make the 1.02 patch as it's a ton more work to do it properly, and rather than sit on all the other stuff we want to get it out as soon as possible. We've made a start on it, but it'll need a bit longer.

[AesopRock]

ok 7 years later and most of this stuff still exits, found this trying to figure out how to quit the game without using alt + f4.... still unsure. Great game but controls kinda kill it.