Since the Override season came out I and other people have been unable to exit vehicles on PC / keyboard mouse. The onscreen UI shows the EXIT key as unbound but it is bound and has not changed at all. I have tried to clear out the binds and reset them. Tried to change to other keys. It still always shows as unbound. This makes any vehicle basically unusable. Cannot exit in BR or other maps.
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What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
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Steps to Reproduce
Get in vehicle and then you cannot exit if you have this bug.
Expected Result
Should be able to set binds and exit vehicles.
Observed Result
Cannot exit vehicles unless it gets destroyed or goes in deep water.
Keybinds and mappings are broken for many chapter already. Many vehicles that worked fine (ex. Chapter 2) also started becoming broken after a while. Some Chapter 1 vehicles are still “safe” as of today.
As time passes, more and more problems and issues start happening, some examples are:
Unbound keybinds that are not shown on game settings for us to bound them
Incorrect and different keys being displayed on the “info” sidebar, with the actual action being assigned to a completely different key not shown there, causing confusion during usage
Keys conflicting without taking priorities into account (specially ones that mixes “short press” with “press and hold”)
Some accounts show some keybind options and others not (After tests, may be related to “account age”, since on the same computer but with two different accounts, on game settings entire categories or mappings were missing, impossible to configure)
Pressing “Reset All” causes ghost bindings, wrong mappings and/or does not apply to all keys on game settings (May be a side-effect related to some of the issues listed above)
I do occasionally play BR on mobile with the same account. Not sure if that could be a factor some how. I have done that in previous seasons with no issues as well but thought it might be worth mentioning.
I’m experiencing a similar vehicle keybind issue on PC.
The vehicle horn is permanently bound to the Right Mouse Button. In the settings, I can select a different key for the Horn action, and the new key appears to be assigned correctly, but in-game the horn still only responds to the Right Mouse Button.
I have tried assigning several different keys, but none of them work. The Right Mouse Button remains the only input that actually activates the horn.
It seems that the Horn keybind is not being properly applied, resulting in a “ghost” or stuck binding to the default Right Mouse Button.
Platform: PC Input: Keyboard & Mouse Issue: Vehicle Horn keybind cannot be changed from the default Right Mouse Button.
I think the binding conflicts (two actions bound to same key) is the only one 100% reproducible manually.
But like I commented, seems that all other issues are purely random. At least I also could not find a way to “force” them to happen or having a consistent result to report the steps.
One of my guesses is that it happens more frequently with older accounts that had non-default keybinds set many years ago. I assumed this due to two of my accounts (OldSprintermax and Sprintermax) behaving differently even with same settings configured on both.
I think that maybe the input logic changed over time in UE and that messed up how save data is stored, changed formats or anything, also maybe with the new modes added to the game and how the page “modifies” itself depending of selected mode, which that did not happened before, causing a conflict or some weird interaction internally…
I can’t confirm for sure, but this is what I believes be one of the factors that causes many of these issues…
Another update (v41.20), and more bugs related to keybinds…
The first thing I did when opening the game was glitched. Thankfully this time I could reassign the bindings on settings this time, and it got back working, but even the key hint was wrongly displayed, previous settings from my account got reseted/ignored and so on…
I have not checked other actions during gameplay to see if there is other things broken too, but will update this thread if I find anything more…
Not sure if it matters but I will also play on mobile in addition to PC. And other people with this problem had mentioned that they play on PC but occasionally mobile as well. Could be a connection but not sure. When I play on mobile I can exit using the touch interface fine.
I do use many custom key binds but in this case I do use the E key, but have tried to use other keys with no difference.
I did test by logging into a different account and exiting worked fine. Went back to my main account and it still does not work. Not sure how useful that info is but maybe it will help.
I’m wondering if there are any types of locally saved files we could share with the dev team to help track this down? I know it is account specific but maybe there is a local file that could help? I would think this would be really hard to fix if no one on the team can even replicate it on their testing accounts. Is there a way they can look into our specific bind files for the accounts that are having issues?
I will say this is very frustrating as a player and someone who has purchased different vehicles but also as a developer that can not test or use vehicles in any maps or at least not exit them in a normal way.
Accounts have server storage that gets downloaded upon launching game (it includes keybinds and all other related game settings) and automatically saves/syncs to epic cloud servers, so they can pretty sure already get it since is not something that get generated exclusively on our computer
I’m also having issues with my binds.
Back in August, my forward key was out of nowhere changed to S when going into Save the World. Then, it happened again yesterday. And today I’ve had my backwards key switching to W every time I launched a UEFN session. I didn’t even need to relaunch the game, it happened between me going to the lobby and joining a session.
