Mac Mouse Bug Workarounds Guide!

Hi

I've been on these forums for a while now and there's quite a bit of people having the notorious mousebug.
As I have no clue when they'll fix it and people ask for workarounds daily, I thought it might be interesting to list them.


- Clicking mission doors:
There's 2 options, (a) put your cursor next to the door and rotate with q/a or d/e untill your cursor is on the door and left click the door.
(b) approach the door with your cursor and right click like mad untill you reach over the door, once the coordinates reset* left click the door.

*note: right clicking ingame makes your cursor reset on the last rightclicked location.

- Talking to contacts, interacting with objects:
You can take point (a) mentioned above with mission doors or you can take point (b) aswell, but instead of left clicking after you reset on the character, keep rightclicking him - when you rightclick a character you can select chat (press c on your keyboard), objects you can select interact (press i on your keyboard).

- Enlarging your chatbox, other windows:
Same principles apply as above (your mouse will be resetted on last rightclicked location), so just rightclick your way to the border till you can enlarge it.

- Enhancement slotting:
The toughest one of all in my opinion: the problem is that whenever you're hovering over an enhancement in the management menu, the mouse will be reset. So you want to navigate your mouse towards the wanted enhancement and quickly click it while your mouse is still over it. IMPORTANT: keep your left mouse button clicked as releasing it will release the enhancement and you have to go through the proces all over again. This takes about 1-... tries. Depending on how fast you move, click,...

- Selecting locations on a map:
Another nightmare process. If you know where you need to click on the map without seeing the actual map already place your cursor into position, press m, select location. If you don't know it however you can use the rightclicking method. However you'll have to start rightclicking on your way to the map. (Rightclicking on the map adds a "thumbtack" or an extra location in other words) Rightclick/Thumbtack your way close to the location you needs, when you're close to the "bubble" of the location you want to click simply left click it. (This works when the thumbtack is close to it).**

**note: If you want to select a contact - I advice opening the contacts menu instead of the map and simply select the contact from the contacts menu.

- Exit fullscreen mode:
I have always used cmd+enter and it has worked for me wihout problems. But I read that alot of people used cmd+<other key> which don't work anymore. (Also note: cmd+q to exit the game no longer works, you'll have to go to menu-> quit to desktop)

Extra: Dragging inspirations or skills to another inspiration/skill slot your mouse will also reset. The simple workaround is: left click the skill and keep it left clicked as you would do when dragging it from slot to slot. IMPORTANT: do not release your left mousebutton. Let your mouse reset, and then drag the skill or inspiration to the appropriate slot.

Extra 2: on your chatbox to change the place where you type ( the L,B, T,S,... buttons (local, broadcast,..)), start on the left side of your screen (given that your chatbox is in the bottom left corner) and move your way down to the buttons on the left side of the chatbox, whilst going to the buttons, go over the tabs and do NOT go over the line that divides the chatbox in help/combat and chat. If you go over the tabs the mouse wont reset, if you don't go over the tabs the mouse will reset as you'll "touch" an extendable windowborder.
Note: a much easier way is to just rightclick in your chatbox and select the channel you want to type in.

This is all that springs to my mind at the moment.
I hope this will help alot of people untill this is fixed and an easy to find thread. I hope however that this issue will get fixed asap as it's annoying to play a game with tons of workarounds.

Thanks to CuppaManga for giving some of the workarounds, other mac community users for sending in the petitions, finding workarounds aswell,...

If I forgot anyone and (s)he's hurt by it, let me know, I'll include you in the post.

If you want anything added - just post it and I'll paste it.

p.s.: I haven't bothered using the mission architect since the bug kicked in, if you have a workaround for the issues there, feel free to post it.

p.s. 2: Some people apparantly have problems with the tailor aswell - I personally don't have these problems, so I don't know a workaround for it either. Again: if you have a problem with it and have a workaround, feel free to post it.

Thanks for the tips!

Hey. I have been having the same problems with my mouse. I heard from somebody player that they said that it coh has advanced in graphics and the macs arent good enough to play coh. Is that true?

I have been have problems clicking the lvl up button after talking to the trainer. Any one have any tips on how to do that because its taking longer to click it then it is to get the lvl.

This is a big enough bug to consider cancelling my account. Have the developers acknowledged this bug? Said anything about a fix coming for it?

I still haven't heard back from anybody with the Intel card whether or not /compatiblecursors 1 fixes the problem in game. Have you tried that yet before going on your personal vendetta?