Bug: Free Look won't engage

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  • What is your character name in New World: Aymiia Darell
  • What server/world did you experience your issue on: Diranda
  • Describe the issue you are experiencing: Sometimes, holding the ‘Free Look’ button doesn’t allow you to free look while running.
  • Is this a bug or an exploit: Bug
  • (if a bug) How did the issue effect your gameplay: I can’t look behind me while I’m running away from something to see if it has stopped chasing me.
  • (if a bug) Were you able to recover from the issue: It seemed to reset itself after awhile, I didn’t have to log out of the game.
  • (if a bug) Please include a screenshot or video of the issue that you have experienced: n/a
  • What are the steps to reproduce the issue as you experienced: Can’t for sure reproduce it, it seems to happen when I’m auto running and something ‘hits’ me while I’m running, maybe even only if it applies some sort of debuff. I kept trying, even after the debuff went away, and it wouldn’t work. It eventually fixed itself, noticed it was working again when I was running down the road, after I had been in some camped combat for a quest. It’s possible attacking things resets it? I’ll try to do some experimenting if it happens again.

I’m using the default LALT binding for free look.

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This happens for me as well. Sometimes it kicks in but I haven’t managed to figure out what causes it to.

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Free look (LALT) doesn’t work at all for me when auto running. Mouse movement always changes direction irrespective of what I change that keybind to.

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I was able to fix this issue with restoring my keybinds and gameplay settings to default, as it also affected my targeted healing.

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Just happened to me. Malificarius of Ravenspurn EU

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I get this bug quite regularly and it puts me at a huge PvP disadvantage. Please consider fixing this bug. Thank you!

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Swapping out an equipped weapon for a different one in your inventory seems to fix it for me. Then you can just switch back to your main weapons.

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Shift+Tab to bring up the Steam overlay, then closing the overlay fixed it for me.

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Interesting, will have to try weapon swap or the steam overlay trick next time it happens. Thanks.

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Thanks, that worked right away. I just removed my weapons and re-equipped them.

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This worked for me. Thank you. Maybe it’s an issue with the steam overlay? Idk but it worked. :slight_smile:

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Just to add, it started working for me randomly after I left the settlement and has worked since

:man_shrugging:

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Got the same issue

  • What is your character name in New World: Torgul
  • What server/world did you experience your issue on: Naraka
  • Describe the issue you are experiencing: Sometimes, holding the ‘Free Look’ button doesn’t allow you to free look
  • Is this a bug or an exploit: Bug

I got around it by unequipping both weapons and equipping then back.

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I always fix it by clicking repair all button. So three workarounds has something in common - pressing tab. Maybe there is some problem?

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I can now confirm that just pressing tab fix it for me.

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Thanks so much dude, this worked for me!

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This is happening to me every time I log in currently. If I unequip and re-equip a weapon it fixes it for the session.

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The weapon swap worked for me too, thanks everyone!

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Same bug, weapon swap in/out worked for me too. EDIT: This issue, along with Auto Run, is being triggered by a bad Hemp node that won’t harvest. I existed the game 3 times, restarted my PC, back in the game and POOF as soon as I tried to harvest the bad node it broke my Auto-Run and Free Look again. Just FYI for devs. Bad node coords in image: NW bad hemp node breaking Free Look and Auto Run

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honestly thought this was going to be a troll, cheers worked like a charm