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Anonymous
10 years ago
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Can't fire/attack.

Just bought this game yesterday and everything works fine except firing/attacking ingame. I've tried restarting my computer, repairing the game and even tried binding fire to a key on keyboard and s...
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    EA_David
    10 years ago

    @EsperEyes Thank you, that's interesting. 

    I have seen some rare issues where a game might interpret a keyboard as a gamepad, leading to all sorts of oddness. Can you unbind the rightmost value for Fire, which should default to gamepad trigger 2? In fact I'd go an unbind all the gamepad controls listed.

    Hopefully this will help, but if the issue still persists we're going to try reset the settings files. These can persist through a reinstall so could be the source of the issue. 

    Navigate to My Documents\PVZ Garden Warfare and make a backup of the Settings folder. Once this is done (and making sure the game is closed) delete the original copy and launch the game again. And this point I hope the issue will have ceased.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Neither of those helped.

Some odd things to note though: a shot automatically fires when the round begins, if I try to change keybindings of fire it fires a shot when changing the binding.

It also auto-fires a shot when exiting out of options in general.

I tried switching right and left click for fire and aim , aiming and any other action other than fire will work on left click. Fire will not work on any binding.

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EA_David
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10 years ago

@EsperEyes Thank you, that's interesting. 

I have seen some rare issues where a game might interpret a keyboard as a gamepad, leading to all sorts of oddness. Can you unbind the rightmost value for Fire, which should default to gamepad trigger 2? In fact I'd go an unbind all the gamepad controls listed.

Hopefully this will help, but if the issue still persists we're going to try reset the settings files. These can persist through a reinstall so could be the source of the issue. 

Navigate to My Documents\PVZ Garden Warfare and make a backup of the Settings folder. Once this is done (and making sure the game is closed) delete the original copy and launch the game again. And this point I hope the issue will have ceased.

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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    That worked, thank you!

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      EA_David
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      10 years ago

      Splendid, thanks for coming back.

      Just to be sure, which part worked, the unbinding keys or wiping the settings file? It's good to be sure of these things in case it pops up again for other users.

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        Anonymous
        10 years ago

        Deleting the settings worked.

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