shift tab

[Mr Pond]

Insanely stupid and annoying how shift tab is the default for steam to pop up. So many games use these keys. Why would anyone choose this and think this is a good idea? Even if you did have a potato for a brain and pick those keys you could have had it double tapped or hold it for 3 seconds or something. Shame on you for wasting my time and everyone else's time, ruining moments and ruining play sessions by your stupid menu that no one wants to use anyway, ever, pops up.

[Mr Pond]

I was just going to post that and never come back but I just went to settings to change it and "Enable the Steam overlay while in game" is NOT enabled. WTF? So how did it even pop up when I was playing? Either way, I changed it. What a joke.

[Zarineth]

Shortcut set god know how many years ago is interfering with recent games. How couldn't they predict that?

[Pscht]

Depending on what you play, the Steam overlay with its key combination is much older, so blame the games using it.

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by Mr Pond:

Insanely stupid and annoying how shift tab is the default for steam to pop up. So many games use these keys. Why would anyone choose this and think this is a good idea? Even if you did have a potato for a brain and pick those keys you could have had it double tapped or hold it for 3 seconds or something. Just completely idiotic and embarrassing. Shame on you for wasting my time and everyone else's time, ruining moments and ruining play sessions by your stupid menu that no one wants to use anyway, ever, pops up. Cross-eyed halfwits.

Originally posted by Mr Pond:

I was just going to post that and never come back but I just went to settings to change it and "Enable the Steam overlay while in game" is NOT enabled. WTF? So how did it even pop up when I was playing? Either way, I changed it. What a joke.

You should be complaining to the games designers for putting that key combo in... the Steam overlay has been around since 2003.

Also more then likely the game has the ability to change the keys to stuff.


And one last thing.... did you bother to check to see that you can change the keys in steam before making this silly rant?

[Crazy Tiger]

What games use that combination for something? I honestly can't think of any right now.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

Since it can easily be changed, I don't really see the issue.

I've set it to a 3 button combination for that reason.

[aiusepsi]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

You should be complaining to the games designers for putting that key combo in... the Steam overlay has been around since 2003.

This sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole to try and work out when it actually came out, and it was actually September 2007 that the overlay (and Steam Community!) was added to Steam. Still a long time ago.

[Ben Lubar]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

What games use that combination for something? I honestly can't think of any right now.

only programs I can think of that uses shift+tab would be text editors and web browsers. can't think of any video games that require shift + any non-alphanumeric key

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

What games use that combination for something? I honestly can't think of any right now.

Likely Helldivers 2 as it's default controls has shift to run and tab for map, both of which can be changed in game.

[Sleepy Yoshi]

Overlay can be turned off altogether in settings or by individual game.
Hotkey can be changed to whatever key(s) you want in settings.

But yes how dare they waste those precious few seconds it takes to do either. You're that much closer to the grave and that's time you'll never get back. I hope it keeps them up at night.

[Ben Lubar]

Originally posted by Sleepy Yoshi:

Overlay can be turned off altogether in settings or by individual game.
Hotkey can be changed to whatever key(s) you want in settings.

But yes how dare they waste those precious few seconds it takes to do either. You're that much closer to the grave and that's time you'll never get back. I hope it keeps them up at night.

The good news is that the reduction in stress will likely give you those seconds back on your life expectancy.