[7.1] Stuck notifications following piracy

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Calgor Grim
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[7.1] Stuck notifications following piracy

Post by Calgor Grim »

Had this during the 7.1 beta but also getting it on 7.1 normally. Weird minor visual oddity...

If an owned vessel is harassed by (usually SCA) pirates and the player for whatever reason does something with the menu or in my case directly teleports to the ship to assume command during the notification, it is possible in some circumstances the interface to have a stuck notification on screen with the flashing "Press F" (to respond). In the pic shown, my Shuyaku was harassed by an SCA Behemoth in Boron territory. I teleported to the bridge to manually take the controls and get it out of there but led to the flashing yellow anyway as the timer expired during the transition to command.

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Pressing F does nothing, the notification does not go away either and I cannot interact with anyone to respond to it but the notification flashing persists in the corner of the screen indefinitely. I also had a similar result some weeks ago (not captured) where I ignored an SCA pirate fighter and it left the white "Drop the Cargo" notification on screen in the middle of the UI.

It only seems to go away following a save and reload. Given it doesn't persist when loading I don't know how much good a save will do however attached anyway.

The save is from shortly after the incident where I'm heading in the direction of the offending Behemoth to delete it from existence.
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Re: [7.1] Stuck notifications following piracy

Post by Tranxalive »

The issue doesn't seem to be happening to me. Prometheus 003, in Antigone Memorial is usually harassed by pirates shortly after loading the save, so I tried taking control while the pilot was asking what to do.
It didn't stay on screen, and disappeared as intended.

Can you see if the issue persists in a future update?
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Re: [7.1] Stuck notifications following piracy

Post by Calgor Grim »

Tranxalive wrote: Fri, 23. Aug 24, 15:09 The issue doesn't seem to be happening to me. Prometheus 003, in Antigone Memorial is usually harassed by pirates shortly after loading the save, so I tried taking control while the pilot was asking what to do.
It didn't stay on screen, and disappeared as intended.

Can you see if the issue persists in a future update?
Thanks for taking a look. It's a very odd intermittent issue which I've struggled to replicate on demand but it does happen infrequently enough that something weird is going off.

I'll keep an eye on it with the next patches and will report back if I can find any further instances that have triggered it.
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Re: [7.1] Stuck notifications following piracy

Post by RubyRezal »

This same issue is happening frequently if I receive an interactive "Press F" notification while I have the map open and in the process of giving commands to other ships. It's not every time, but it remains until the game is reloaded or another interactive notification is received.
For example, this happened when I ignored the found ship notification when I sent my Yasur to find the abandoned Drill in The Void. [Edit] Correction, I was dragging the Fly and Wait order for the Yasur to look for the Drill, then I ignored the notification to give Yasur orders to follow the Drill.

https://imgur.com/fIvdVny
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Re: [7.1] Stuck notifications following piracy

Post by DaShrimp2025 »

Late to the party, but I found a simple solution to the stuck notification. Quicksave and reload that quicksave. No need to backtrack an old save.
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Re: [7.1] Stuck notifications following piracy

Post by Alan Phipps »

Please don't resurrect old Tech Sp threads from several game versions ago. The poster above your post had already said much of what you added anyway: ".. but it remains until the game is reloaded or ..".
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