[Tobias][1.1.42] All GUIs becomes unresponsive after cutscene with Tips-And-Tricks open

[Stringweasel]

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

1. 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
2. Run the command below
3. Open the Tips-And-Tricks window
4. Wait and watch the beautiful cutscene
5. Get stuck not being able to close Tips-And-Tricks or any other window.
6. 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)

[KeepResearchinSpoons]

(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

But there are also players that do not know of even `/admins` in mp let alone chat properly.
I suppose it won't be as nice for them (in a rare case they do join the mp world that has this bug).


ALSO, just in case it is an cheap-n-easy one-shot thing that can be done:
pls, add
> PRESS (console-key) to CHAT
popup/message in the freeplay's on_player_joined, pretty please?
(or smth along the little tutorial for MP games maybe? not sure.

Though NOONE EVER DOES OR READS TUTORIALS

:> The how-did-you-just? but-it-was-in-tutorial! is pretty much another meme when someone starts dropping things near their feet to pass them plates over, or collects each furn by open-and-click. also, that drop-fishes-or-coins-to-a-player-not-on-the-floor case... naaah not today)

Had a nice one this day just before. A player was bugging us around in a certain "newb world" and then actually written "chat" in 3x3 letters with WALLS twice! to get the classy "it's tilda, remap to enter in controls if you care" answer by the other party who understood them first.

The "tilda key" is memes already. Top of FAQ, (literally my first line in it <<You can chat with [~] ([`]); top left in qwerty, near q and 1; to change, go to settings -> controls -> ctrl-F -> "chat" -> edit "toggle chat" to set a new key>>, aside from time zones, car latency, how-toes and other stuff).
Not riding the other thread's "backseat" train, no. Just as a context of comparable "player-value" priorities example.

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).

[Tobias1595]

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.

[Stringweasel]

Great. Thanks Tobias!