artao Posted September 19, 2024 Posted September 19, 2024 I was playing a campaign mission yesterday, in VR, and opened the ESC menu to check on a key binding. I accidentally hit Quit instead, immediately dumping me out of the mission I'd been in for over 30 minutes already. "Quit To Desktop" has a confirmation dialog. Pretty please add one to the "Quit" as well. I just sat there with my face in my hands for like 10 minutes afterward. This isn't the first time I've done this, but it's the worst time. 1
draconus Posted September 20, 2024 Posted September 20, 2024 https://mouseaccuracy.com/ 2 Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX4070S Quest 3 T16000M VPC CDT-VMAX TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria
artao Posted September 20, 2024 Author Posted September 20, 2024 9 hours ago, draconus said: https://mouseaccuracy.com/ Ha ha. A lot of times I have to wiggle the mouse to get it to move or even appear, and I accidentally hit the left mouse button while it was over "Quit." 1
cfrag Posted September 21, 2024 Posted September 21, 2024 On 9/19/2024 at 3:13 PM, artao said: Pretty please add one to the "Quit" as well. Goodness, please don't, or make a confirmation dialog optional. I'm purely selfish here, since confirming that I really want to quit is not something that I feel should be especially safeguarded against and adds one more step (in VR especially). I'm quitting missions a lot (I spend a lot of time designing and testing missions), and accidentally quitting missions has happened to me (since it's such an automatism: ESC-look at quit-click), but not so often that I would want to add another layer of actions. Yes, you can lose some of your mission playtime that way, and I feel for you. But adding some safeguard that affects all and prevents an edge case seems excessive to me. The kind people at ED seem to be quite heavy-handed at UX, and I prefer they keep their attempts at user interaction at a minimum. For a quick demonstration at just how poorly DCS implements user UX, look at the CH-47 cargo interface. "Abysmal" would be a shocking compliment. 2
MAXsenna Posted September 24, 2024 Posted September 24, 2024 On 9/20/2024 at 12:20 PM, draconus said: https://mouseaccuracy.com/ Well this was kinda funny, and I bet we all have been there. @artao I use VoiceAttack, and I never miss.
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