Bug: Esc key no longer brings up the menu w/ 1.02 patch.

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Just installed the patch and now the ESC key doesn't seem to bring the menu up like it did in the previous versions of the game, you have to click the menu to get it to show up now.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Its mapped to F10 for some reason now... ;p
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Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
I take great delight in imagining the number of people who are going to cuss up a storm on account of not being able to access the menu anymore. Hundreds, thousands of them!
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
They mapped it like warcraft/starcraft. F10 is menu, ESC key is used to go back a selection menu only. That way you can barrage the ESC key to go back to main/first selection items.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
First game I played I hit F10 and wondered why nothing worked, ESC is such an archaic mechanism for RTS Menu selecting.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
lol my bad....I still prefer the ESC key over F10 though, it just comes natural to me to tap ESC to get out of a game.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
90% of RTS games since Starcraft have used F10 to bring up the menu.

One exception was Supreme Commander which to my horror, for SOME fucking reason BOUND 'RESTART MAP' TO F-10. AAAAAAAGH.
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
I personally find the ESC-binding more natural. Never liked that F10 thing. :p
Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top
I see why they re-bound it, but they should introduce an option to switch back if the user would like. It wouldn't hurt anything, and would make those who prefer the Esc key happy.
Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top
Always preferred the Esc key over F10 for the simple reason that F1-F12 are often mapped to some feature I don't want to activate by accidentally hitting the wrong key when in a hurry, whereas Esc is sitting quietly by itself in a corner far, far away from anything that could ruin your game. Probably won't disturb Sins much since it's fairly slow paced but since most RTS games are twitchy these days, it can get incredibly annoying.
Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top

lol my bad....I still prefer the ESC key over F10 though, it just comes natural to me to tap ESC to get out of a game.
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I prefer the ESC also, not sure why it was ever changed to F10 (I mean the RTS genre in general, not just Sins)
Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top
i think becuase esc is used for deselecting units?
Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top
Yes, I dislike the change also, especially since it doesn't appear to be remappable.
Reply #18 from Sins Forums Top

90% of RTS games since Starcraft have used F10 to bring up the menu.

One exception was Supreme Commander which to my horror, for SOME fucking reason BOUND 'RESTART MAP' TO F-10. AAAAAAAGH.
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A lot of RTS games I've played over the years have used Esc to get out of things/back to the menu.

Reply #19 from Sins Forums Top
First game I played I hit F10 and wondered why nothing worked, ESC is such an archaic mechanism for RTS Menu selecting.
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Despite the fact that 99.9% of RTS games use it.