Press A to continue

[Yosemite Sam]

So, I'm playing on the PC with the keyboard and it's saying press A to continue. It's been referencing controller buttons all the time and I can usually figure out which button the keyboard to hit, but I've hit every button the keyboard AND mouse and it will not continue. Nothing works...

I disabled the controller I have in the settings otherwise I would have just it that to hit A,(I don't play FPS with a controller) but as I said. Nothing seems to work. Not even ESC to get to the settings screen to re-enable the controller for this purpose.

I feel like I'm just going to have to use the task manager to outright kill the game.'

Anyone else have any idea?

btw, this happens when loading from a checkpoint.

[Cosmic_Hellstorm]

I've seen some people have this bug with controller disabled while having a controller connected.

[RZK]

You can disable the "Press this button to contiue"-screen with the following commands:
Right click DOOM Eternal, Properties, Set launch options and paste the following text into the window:
+com_skipKeyPressOnLoadScreens 1
and press OK.

You might as well want to use the skip-intro command:
+com_skipIntroVideo 1

[buckiesmalls]

I had some issues with my hud showing up even though they were enabled.. Try setting all you setting back to default and go from there..

Or unplug your controller...

[Greg]

Same issue. Just started it for the first time. Why am I not surprised there's a game breaking bug for something basic...

[the milk man]

Try disconnecting your controller. That fixes it for me.

[Tactics Precise]

Originally posted by RZK:

You can disable the "Press this button to contiue"-screen with the following commands:
Right click DOOM Eternal, Properties, Set launch options and paste the following text into the window:
+com_skipKeyPressOnLoadScreens 1
and press OK.

Thank you, RZK! Your solution works and saves me a lot of time having to disable my controller when I die just so the "Press Spacebar to Continue" instruction would pop up before re-enabling my controller.