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[SlicedBread]

Life is good

I'm planetside scanning some flora

Scanning some fauna

Taking in the sights and sounds of a lovely little jaunt from the ship

Oh look at that hideous creature

Wow!

Oh it's headed MY way

Okay, no worries, I have gun

Let's equip that gun, shall we?

It's my favorite gun and so I have it favorited

I'm pressing the hotkey for my gun

I'm pressing the hotkey for my gun

I'm pressing the hotkey for my gun

I'm now taking damage from Ravaging Blobulon

I'm pressing the hotkey for my gun

I'm dead

 

-A haiku by Constellation's Fool

 

 

Many times I have found myself handcuffed by the scanner. Many times baffled by the oversight preventing me from drawing a weapon at a critical moment because my scanner is open and there's only one way in and one way out, baby!--the scanner hotkey. Could a saint among us get code this poor fool a little something so that any weapon hotkeys (and maybe grenade throw for good measure) can auto-cancel scan-mode? Thank ya, kindly.

[sen4mi]

I think the escape key works.

 

And you can attack (with your cutter) in scanner mode.

 

But you are right, it would be nice if we could enable hot key use to swap us out of the scanner if the hot key item is incompatible with the scanner.