I have another point of view on the feature too. I find it builds up a bit of drama and sets the scene, so to speak. It shows a bit of perspective of where you are, from a couple angles. It builds up a brief moment of anticipation as if you’re just getting into your plane.
Hi Not sure but I think you should have a look at your internet capacity (Hope you will understand what I mean as being French my English is not on top). As far as I’m concerned it takes me 1’40/45
to get it all opened including the second part after pushing any key.
And you know this how? Every single game that has this “Press a Key” screen is either a console port or cross platform game. Why is it that you “know” its not for that reason in this game?
The entire GUI is an over-elaborate self-indulgence on the part of the developer. It could have been just as elegant with half the faffing about, but these days they can’t help themselves. Over-designed GUIs are, I’m afraid, here to stay. They could at least give an option to drop the nonsense and just go with a simple, clean text-based GUI.
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Is there anyway to also skip the videos? Maybe there is a command line argument or something? The loading takes forever. It would be nice to save a minute of loading times.
Agree to a point, but they could make the loading happen whilst showing the video.
Fair point, i guess it depends what server we’re connecting to (assuming its even accessing the server at the point) but i’ve 100mbps broadband so dont think it’s my line. It wasn’t this slow at loading during the beta.
I respectively disagree. I think this is one of the cleanest modern looking interfaces I’ve seen in a game. I really like it.
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I personally don’t get nor care for the press any key nor pre flight cinematics.
Yes - at least with the Steam version there is a “-FastLaunch” option…it bypasses the logo stuff, but not the “press any key” thing.
Imagine this would work for the .exe if added to properties?
Right-click on the game title under the Library in Steam and select Properties.
Under the General tab click the Set launch options… button. Enter the following :
‘-FastLaunch’ (without the quotes)
Close the game’s Properties window and launch the game.
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Yes - at least with the Steam version there is a “-FastLaunch” option…it bypasses the logo stuff, but not the “press any key” thing.
Imagine this would work for the .exe if added to properties?
Right-click on the game title under the Library in Steam and select Properties.
Under the General tab click the Set launch options… button. Enter the following :
‘-FastLaunch’ (without the quotes)
Close the game’s Properties window and launch the game.
Thank you kind sir! The “press any key to continue…” now show up after only 10 seconds!
Cleanest I agree, but the elements are unnecessarily huge and takes too much space.
I have yet another opinion on this matter, as I’ve encountered the alternative in various software before.
Any time you have what is expected to be a significant loading time, it is simply a matter of good design to prompt the user that everything is ready and you wish to start. They don’t know how slowly your rig will be loading the scenario.
And they did it in a nice cinematic manner, to boot.
And what do people do?
Complain. Make it a negative.
Today I m getting this problem, when I press any key, it goes back to the same thing over and over, what’s going on? And I keep pressing the keys, but i wont load, ■■■■!
What do you mean? Nothing is loading while the “Press any key” menu comes up.
I see what you’re saying now…That makes like no sense. Thats like giving a convict a day at a shopping centre half way through his sentence just to make sure he knows what hes missing on the inside. Loads half the assests, stop the load for a little break then load the other half…
Its really simple anyone who plays games here will have seen it a million times but pay no attention because most games loads 10x faster than this one.
The game loads, it then asks you to press any key before it loads any corruptible data. This is because its coming out on console. If a console player presses a button on their controller and nothing happens their controller is not plugged in hence they have no way to quit the game without a hard reset so it wont load the corruptible data until they prove they have an input device by pressing any key.
When a game is out on a PC and a console its simply easier to leave it in rather than cause headaches in the future. That’s it… If this was a PC exclusive it would not be there but its not so it is.
Hmmm I don’t know anymore. We could all be talking about different loading prompts for all I know.
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So, why does it not say PRESS ANY BUTTON? If they took the time to code a Xbox/PC controller/keyboard check they could have just branched off and continue loading on PC.
…Cygnifick you vex me i wont lie. Are you a gamer or a simmer? Have you ever played a console port on PC? I’m not being condescending I’m just trying to figure out why you are so defensively adamant that this has nothing to do with console? “Press any key to continue” has been a by-product of console/PC shared games for as long as i can remember I’m just struggling to understand your refusal to believe its something as simple as this? Especially when it makes no difference at all? Its not going anywhere and in the grand scheme of things means nothing but you religiously just don’t want to believe it.
But you dont know for certain if this key/controller check is done for that reason or just to halt the game just before a update check (or whatever reason). And can I be both a gamer and simmer? I’ve played 1000’s of games and lots of simulators. 
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You can indeed be both, im both too.
I promise you 100% that its console however I’ll leave it there, its not really important.
Just ask yourself this: Having that option serves a purpose on a console but literally 0 reason to exist on a PC. No PC exclusive has ever had this feature unless its emulated over or a console port as it serves no purpose on a PC at all. Just bare that in mind.
I hope your game is running well and you are not experiencing issues like many others on here.
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