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TL;DR

Make main menu easily accessible when in remote view

What?

Add possibility to access main menu when in remote view. I see a possible solution as a seprate key-bind or mode, by pressing which you will open menu no matter if you are in real or remote view.

Why?

In SA, we're heavily utilising remote views. It is often such that we use them not only to quickly switch to another location, but to play there for a long time, as if we are physically there. But if we want to enter the main menu from remote-view, we can't, because no matter what key-binds are (*), it will first close the remote view. And only second press will open the menu. Not only you lose track of where you were remotely, you can also do it non-intenioally, because once you decide to open the menu for whatever reason (save the game, or adjust settings, or just pause the game (I personally have always used ESC for that, and not the Pause button)). you reflectively hit ESC, and instead of the menu itself, you realize you were in remote view. I could express my own annoyance by this as if you accidently close or rewind the video you are watching, and then have to rewind to where you were. Good for you if you know where you were

(*) I tried to make an alternative bind for "Main menu" as Shfit-` (so it does not intersect with ESC), but it also closes remote-view.

Related

I've seen some related discussions of such thing:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=115893
viewtopic.php?p=635972#p635972

Workaround

There is currently a workaround for this if you deliberately need to open menu (for example, to save the game, or just exit): first pause the game, and then hit ESC. In this case menu will open whithout closing remote-view.

I'm suffering this too, hope they fix it

I got "confused" in a loop trying to access the menu from remote view, while being in a vehicle at remote drive at the same time

Details:

remote view {A} Player/Passenger remote view at current platform: I was in a platform traveling to another planet.
remote view {B} Tank remote view at Nauvice: I used a Tank in (remote drive) at Nauvice, I needed to do something real quick, and I left it at that.
remote view {C} Third platform Remote view : I was working on. I got distracted re-working another platform for a while, I've decided it's time to stop.

case:
1 - while on remote view {C} I pressed [esc] to access the menu, remote view switch to the tank remote view at {B}
2 - I press [esc] again to access the menu but, remote view switch to passenger remote view at {A}
3 - I press [esc] again to access the menu but remote view switch to tank remote view as {B} (back to case 2)

and sense it been 45 minutes sense I used the tank while I am editing at {C} I kind of forgot about the tank and got confused.
the menu will only work if exiting the tank remote drive first.

A separate keybind would be great - I find myself often wanting to exit a menu, needing to press escape and few times, and then I end up in another menu. If I could set the settings/pause/exit menu to a different keybind that would solve my issues, but as it stands it's one key.

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