Alt-Tab still a thing! OMG no way!?

  • So, after losing any interest after the release, I tried to give this game another go today. It's a fine game with great atmosphere. However, I ran into a mermaid statue (turns out to be a Ruby), of which I knew nothing about. Tried to destroy it, without success. Alt-Tabbed to dekstop to study the topic online, went back to game, and jesus-effing-c****t-almighty the alt-tab still disconnects the game. I can not believe this ugly word for excrement! Lost all my treasures and progress. Pfff..... Due to this still being a problem, I will once again abandon this game, most likely for good this time. Maybe, perhaps, next year I'll check again, but this completely destroyed my interest to the game, again... Just some feedback to developers, thats all. SHAMEFUL DISPLAY!

  • 10
    Posts
    6.3k
    Views
  • @orccorp Just ask one of your crewmates to invite you back. I've got 2 screens and never had this problem but have heard it from friends who have just 1 screen (the Plebbes).

    If the worse a game can do is disconnect you because the engine can't handle alt-tabbing then that's not so bad. I've got plenty of games that do worse.

    Just enjoy the game, don't alt-tab.

  • @orccorp said in Alt-Tab still a thing! OMG no way!?:

    I will once again abandon this game, most likely for good this time.

    Maybe, perhaps, next year I'll check again

    So, which one is it mate? I'm sorry if this upsets you, I just thought it was pretty funny how you turned around 180 degrees within a single sentence. Brilliant!

    About the alt+tab issue, it could have been that you got unlucky. This hasn't been an issue since they did a lot of patching in the first few weeks. I can't really think of another occurrence in the last two months since then.

  • Yep I've had this issue since the alpha. It doesn't /always/ happen but sometimes it still does, especially if you're still in the menu and alt tab to perhaps accept an xbox invite or send a message.

    Just don't tab out, haha. :P

  • Quick question: could it be that you simply got a lazybeard error?

  • Had a similar problem recently when I reinstalled Windows 10. Turned out that it wasn't allowing certain programs to run in the background so every time I would Alt-Tab it disconnected me.

    Any chance it could be the same issue your having?

  • I think this is a fairly rare occurrence that only affects certain people, maybe open a bug report via a support ticket. It could help you / others in your situation. I've never had an issue alt tabbing from the game ever.

  • @orccorp
    Without actually knowing the beard error, there is no way of telling what the issue is.
    If you want this topic to go anywhere you should add the error message you got, a.k.a. the beard error. Could be that you've got the lazybeard for being afk too long.
    You just assume that it is Rare's fault, the alt+tab issue has been fixed quite a while ago.

    If you still experienced it the way it was before the fix, submit a bug report.

  • Honestly, the game isn't even worth troubleshooting. You should have a nice backlog from the Steam Summer sale anyway.

  • @towheadedtrash9 Welcome back to the forum matey!

    And thanks for the heads-up about the Steam Summer Sale... There's plenty of other games out there if this one doesn't take your fancy, and maybe they have a friendly community too :D

10
Posts
6.3k
Views
2 out of 10