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[LeoPhone]

you want to type something, you press T(or in anyother case you press T) and your units insantly retreat. in my last game ive accidently retreated my nebel, recrewed it, and retreated again. a mate of me(same game) retreated his entire call in.
this situation is LAME
can the shortcut by pressing T taken out of the game? or make a ''are you sure?'''button(like when you delete a bunker)

[chefarzt]

retreat : yes/no/perhaps
Unit dead
More smart suggestions pls

[LeoPhone]

ok, i didnt think about that. but im talking about full health units you accidently retreated. cant there be some safty feature that only works when you need it(like it askes ''ru sure?'' only if the unit isnt in combat, or deep inside own territory, or it can see itselve how much health the unit has left and askes if its alot)

[AmPM]

Why are you typing in a game?

How hard is it to see if the chat dialog comes up?

[LeoPhone]

it happens.
why? becouse the games are very intence, ur busey all the time and sometimes someboddy aint on vent or when you dont got a mic, you talk, and then you are being very fast while pressing shift and enter.
but i dont have to say all this. the fact is: IT HAPPENS AND IT RUINS GAMES

[Malevolence]

Sounds like a case of PEBCAK to me.

[LeoPhone]

PEBCAK is technical support shorthand (slang) for "Problem Exists between Chair and Keyboard". Generally this term is used by technical support personnel to describe a problem that was caused by the computer user as opposed to a technical problem with the physical computer equipment.
in other words: humans make errors, and they shouldnt be charged on it so hard, becouse its natural. and in this case it happens when you are working hard. so playing very fast and wathcing all your units and communicate at the same time is a bad thing?

and when you say your sherman to move out, but you didnt want to you can quickly press stop and everythings alright. why not with this?

[Malevolence]

You're the one hitting retreat, not the game. Don't tell the game devs to fix something that you specifically do wrong.

[Duckordie]

If you can't control if you have opened chat or not, how then can you control an army?

[LeoPhone]

thats what ive been keep saying 
you need to chat say something very fast, so you can continue playing. and when you do it fast, errors start happening

[EscforrealityTLS]

Leo I just think you need to pay more attention that's all. (Typing is a pain in the ass at the best of times.)

But it is probably not a good idea to demand that someone "fix" a problem that only you seem to have, particularly when it is there own free time just to suit you.

Unless you can prove that this is game breaking or afflicting at least a large minority of players I would suggest you please keep this issue to yourself.

[Nevyen]

I’m going to push a sometimes unpopular and often controversial thought out there,

this has never been an issues, interestingly there are a few other keys that can be used to initiate chat.....GASP  

I put the challenge out to all sentient beings to find them and help those less fortunate individuals out there overcome their big challenges in life.


In short we are not changing hotkey functions it’s so far down on the list of things we need to do i think i need a magnifying glass to look at it.    

There other hotkeys to use for chat learn to use them.

[LeoPhone]

well sorry for that i demand thing, i didnt want to say it like that. but as you see in my 1st post: my mate retreated his entire callin that game becouse he made this tiny error...

[chefarzt]

WEll im pretty sure after doing this a third time. It will suddenly stop happening.

[Killer344]

For fuck´s sake Leo, stop posting crap like this.

[Piotrskivich]

There are ways to cahnge the hotkeys yourself and still player multiplayer (I think)

Just like people have their own skin packs.

[Illegal_Carrot]

My only problem with retreating units is that the Decrew Weapon button is right next to the Cloak button on the PaK. Maybe the Decrew button could be moved to a different slot on he UI?

Also, when a PaK team is cloaked but is brought down to one man, he does not retreat. Even if you uncloak him, there's no Retreat button you can press, and hitting the T key does not work either, so you have you manually move the crew member to the spawn area and activate the 'move off map' button, which wastes a lot of time, and usually results in a dead crew that would have otherwise lived. Giving PaK crews their own Retreat button would solve this one.

[Malevolence]

OH PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
THATS WHAT IVE BEEN KEEP SAYING:::
YOU NEED TO DO IT FAST TO KEEP PLAYING AND THEN HUMAN ERRORS START

Okay, so let's say you don't hit enter and type the following message into "chat":

"Take the PaKs and go to the left flank please."

The following characters are now not allowed to be the retreat button due to your typo on initiating chat:

A, T, K, E, H, P, K, S, N, D, G, O, L, and F. Congratulations, your order has now invalidated 14 out of the available 26 characters that can be assigned to retreat. Perhaps your next sentence will invalidate 12 more characters, now nobody can have a hotkey for retreat because you're clumsy!

Fixing user error is not possible.

[RikiRude]

i think the pak decrew button could be moved. its right next to cloak, and on the RARE occasion ive retreated the crew rather then cloak the gun, and ive seen other people do it as well. its not really an issue just kind of annoying

[Illegal_Carrot]

i think the pak decrew button could be moved. its right next to cloak, and on the RARE occasion ive retreated the crew rather then cloak the gun, and ive seen other people do it as well. its not really an issue just kind of annoying

Yeah, it's not game breaking or anything, but it's damn annoying, but I'd assume pretty easy to fix.