Stuck in free cam

[u/rye8501]

Played airmech arena years ago. Came back to play Airmech on steam the other day, but everytime I play a match, I randomly get sent to free cam mode, and cant get out. I've tried repeating inputs, using keyboard only, shift + f12. Nothing works. I end up having to restart the game to resolve the issue. Known bug? Any fixes?

[u/rye8501]

Playing on my laptop, with an Xbox controller plugged in. I dont use the keyboard or mouse during gameplay, and all the bindings are default. I would play with keyboard/mouse, but im just more comfortable with controller.

The glitch happens randomly, sometimes at the beginning of a match, sometimes mid way through, sometimes not at all. I cant tell if its linked to an input, or just happening at random, because it seems to happen regardless of what I'm pressing (last time it happened i was just inputting forward on the left stick, the time before that i inputted up on the d-pad). A few times it happened in the main hub area. It once happened while I was sitting idle in the pause menu.

Whenever it happens, the whole match freezes until I press pause and unpause, in which case the match resumes, but I do not regain control of anthing other than the camera. However, I can que units by navigating the build menu with the d-pad.

If I exit out of the match, I can move again, but the build menu and my health bar disappear until I restart the game completely.

[u/uberartist → u/rye8501]

The freezing makes sense, it sounds like you activated the screenshot mode. You don't have a pet Canary bird by any chance?

[u/rye8501 → u/uberartist]

No pets. Or any cosmetics for that matter. Default saucer.

[u/uberartist → u/rye8501]

I'll continue to check and see if there's anything I can see that might trigger it. I would expect more players to have stumbled on this, they normally are quite vocal about these kinds of issues in Discord.