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Posted: **Thu Nov 04, 2021 5:17 pm**

This is a kind of obscure bug that a player came across. It's relatively easy to work around this in the mod, but thought I would let you guys know.

What happened?

When turning of game_view_settings.show_controller_gui and then viewing a cutscene while Tips-And-Tricks is open can cause all GUIs to become unresponsive. Even the ESC menu can be opened but not interacted with at all.

What did I expect?

Open Tips-And-Tricks, watch cutscene, finish cutscene, and still be able to interact with GUIs.

Reproduction steps

Start a new multiplayer world with no mods. It needs to be a multiplayer game so that the game doesn't pause while the Tips-And-Tricks is open
Run the command below
Open the Tips-And-Tricks window
Wait and watch the beautiful cutscene
Get stuck not being able to close Tips-And-Tricks or any other window.
Force close Factorio

This only works with the Tips-And-Tricks window. The other guis (like Train or Bonusses, etc) seem to close as soon as a cutscene plays, so it doesn't cause any issues.

Code: Select all

/c
local player = game.players[1]
player.game_view_settings.show_controller_gui = false
script.on_nth_tick(5*60, function()
    player.set_controller {
        type = defines.controllers.cutscene,
        waypoints =
        {            
            {
                position = {10, 10},
                transition_time = 60*1,
                zoom = 1,
                time_to_wait = 0
            },
        },
        start_position = {0, 0},
        start_zoom = 1
    }
end)

Posted: **Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:43 pm**

(full read w/ spoiler est. 3 min)

A tiny bit more info

First hand details:
...
Here, "unresponsive" actually means:
[x] in the corner still has the "esc/e to close" caption on mouseover.
However ESC actually brings the usual Resume-settings-etc menu, which does nothing.
BTW, u also have the tips-ant-tricks top layer on the screen, (you need to manually drag it over to even see the esc menu)

A player in no event ever should be unable to quit the game, they joined.
imo, this is unacceptable and should be fixed.
Ofc "soft-locked"/hanged/freezed case like that is not the top priority one since alt-f4, taskkill, kill -9 etc.

but remember there are newbs

A somewhat working workaround is to force-open another modal gui window.
The nearby gate-car's (enter to teleport) inventory did the trick back then. ~~The usual E should have been perm-restricted since lobby surface, iirc.~~
The window goes off, and you are able to EXIT the game now.
(minor issue is you seem to no longer be able to open ticks-and-tricks apparently).

Posted: **Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:01 pm**

Thanks for the report. The issue will be addressed in the upcoming release.

The Tips & Tricks window will close when a cutscene starts, like most other windows.

Posted: **Sat Feb 19, 2022 7:52 am**

Great. Thanks Tobias!