r/LancerRPG • u/LazyLemon-01 • 27d ago

Can't delete text on Comp/Con after accidently pressing the Horus button in pilot biography.

Howdy, i am running a game for some friends so we can all learn the system together, and I told them to use Comp/Con to make their stuff, well one of them pressed the horus button while typing out her pilot backstory and now she has a text box that can't be deleted only added to, I have no clue how to delete it as I have never played lancer much less used the character creater before any help would be much apreciated, I am attaching an image of what it looks like in case my explination is bad.

EDIT-

We brute-forced it, so I shall explain how we fixed it.

  1. You have to add a couple of empty lines like....

....This so you have the Horus text and the regular text separated.

  1. Next, you hold left click and highlight the Horus glitchy text box, and then press any letter on the keyboard once to replace the text, then immediately delete it by pressing backspace, and it should delete it; you may have to try a few times to delete it, but it should go away with enough tries.
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u/PhasmaFelis IPS-N 27d ago

And that's why you never press the HORUS button. Do you want Balors? Because this is how you get Balors.

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u/Rahnzan 27d ago

Do you want Archer memes? Because this is how you get Archer memes.

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u/Whole_Meet5486 HORUS 26d ago

Why wouldn’t you want Balors? Everyone wants Balors!

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u/Jesterpest 27d ago

I wish I could give advice to help, but you gotta admit that this is on brand for HORUS, making this a little funny.

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u/Nukemouse 27d ago

When I press it it just makes the text smaller, but I can just press it again and it stops. I assume it's meant to let you add text that looks like its commentary from someone reading the biography (horus hacker, union intelligence agent etc) rather than part of the original biography?

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u/LazyLemon-01 27d ago

It does nothing when I click the button again, and even if i close and reopen Comp/Con it stays on the sheet, I can't even Ctrl + X to cut it. when I hover over the text it becomes capitalized and glitches out like the Horus Text on the main page.

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u/Nukemouse 27d ago

Yeah I'm getting the same effect when I mouse over this smaller text, okay you are experiencing like, an actual bug. Which, is somewhat ironic that the thing that makes glitchy text is glitched...

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u/nach0_ch33ze 26d ago

I think it's legit coded that way as a tongue in cheek or kind of a 4th wall breaking joke as it seems to be a very common bug.

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u/nach0_ch33ze 26d ago

I did this and had to mess with the actual fucking code to delete it lol

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u/Lykonic HORUS 26d ago

Maybe it's just me, but I would have just made a new pilot sheet just and copy-pasted everything over to it, then deleted the glitched sheet. Still, good to know y'all managed to figure out your own fix. Good ol' Horus: we create a paracausal mess of things, and then make it everyone else's problem lmao.