ESC key closes inventory.

[Diemex]

C'mon guys... make this a thing.

[The Double-G_Wiggler]

just tab again no need to Esc

[Macros T. Black]

You can use autohotkey for that if it's an issue for you

[SkyKaptn]

This is a legit wish.

[Cougarific]

Using the ESC button to Escape from Inventory - like in every other game ever made? Don't be ridiculous.

Instead please learn and remember which screens must be closed with Tab and which screens must be closed with ESC - because standardizing the keypresses was too difficult.

[Atomsk]

This puzzled me to no end. The QoL changes in this game seem about frequent as there are Levithans.

[Tron]

Theres one key between the esc and tab key... dont think this is too important lol

[Diemex]

Muscle memory, instinct, trained behavior.... whatever you wanna call it. I play a lot of games and the majority of them ESC = back out of menu/context/inventory/etc... keep pressing it and you eventually get the Exit/Settings menu.... so naturally when I'm in my inventory I hit ESC and then find I have to hit it again to exit from the menu then tab out of the inventory.... its annoying. Small QOL feature... pressing ESC just closes whatever the heck is open and returns to game.... if in game and nothing open then it opens the menu instead.... C'MON... practically every other game has this... its a small ask. Pretty Please ?

[Andreas]

Originally posted by Cougarific:

Using the ESC button to Escape from Inventory - like in every other game ever made? Don't be ridiculous.

Seriously. What next will players request. A PDA voice that's easy to understand?!

/s

[Takoda]

Devs need to fix this. They haven't done jack to this game in too long. All they have to do is allow the ESC key to be bound in the secondary bind features. The problem is that when you try to assign it, that it just does what ESC keys do and exits you out of the keybind interface. In Subnautica you could assign ESC to a secondary bind. This doesn't have any impact on anything except for those players that use it. I wish people would quit trying to shame other fans of the game over this request.

I have been hoping and waiting for this feature since Below Zero's release. I tried to play around it, but it's just too immersion breaking and it's not fun for me to have to constantly come back to reality and think about how I have to hit a TAB key when muscle memory already knows to use the ESC to exit out of practically every single menu in the entire gaming world except for this one.

[Blackcat]

ESC closes inventory - yes please

[Takoda]

For years I've patiently (okay not patiently) waited for the the devs to use like half a brain cell and fix this. Just nothing. Game continues to be on my hidden list until they fix this. Yes I said fix. It's broke. It's impossible to bind ESC because when you hit it, it escapes out of the bind menu.

[0menX]

They made it worse with the recent patch. You were able to add the ESC key as a secondary key for the PDA so to be able to close it with ESC, and now that option is gone too.

This is sooo brain dead, because you have specific different ways in this game to escape a menu and especially in stressfull situations hit the wrong button making it worse with having 2 menus overlapping.

I guess the reason they will never fix it is because they made it so that you can open the ESC menu with the support function while other menus are open and so are able to make screenshots and what not of issues within menus while getting support/creating the support ticket. They designed/programmed themselves with that into a corner and would have to redesign this approach which is probably too much effort at this point.

[Leonicos]

Originally posted by Cougarific:

Using the ESC button to Escape from Inventory - like in every other game ever made? Don't be ridiculous.

Instead please learn and remember which screens must be closed with Tab and which screens must be closed with ESC - because standardizing the keypresses was too difficult.

This is a reminder you argued agaisnt basic intuitive controls thinking it was helpful/healthy for the game and or players.
Or in short, dumb.