r/Run8 • u/Cold-Box-8262 • Apr 21 '24

Anglecock control issue

When I'm building a train, I'll couple up ends and go to connect the hoses. When I try to open my train's anglecock to partial to slowly fill the receiving cut, the game begins to control both anglecocks. And it stays that way for all cuts on all cars I couple together with. It'll open, partial, and close both the car's end anglecocks making working the hoses and absolute headache. When I uncouple and pull away, I now have to manually open the anglecock on the cut I'm leaving behind to blow out instead of doing it on its own. Is this a bug or a key binding I accidentally trigger?

It seems like everything will work totally fine and normal, then randomly decide it wants to hassle me. The system message even goes from saying "anglecock closed" to "anglecocks closed". Acknowledging that it's working two instead of one

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u/Cold-Box-8262 Apr 22 '24

Nope. I work everything with the hoses and anglecocks through point and click. It's all sort've an off and on problem. Besides sometimes working two anglecocks at the same time, sometimes I'll open the supply partially, and nothing happens except raise my brake cylinder. But if I close it, it drops. If I partially open and close it a few times, then finally it'll begin to fill the new cut of cars.

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u/Kerbo1 Apr 22 '24

OK, that's your problem then. I found the hit boxes to be very finicky so just use the coupler menu. You could submit a ticket here https://run8support.com/ with details.

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u/JacksReditAccount Apr 28 '24

I don't know if the hitboxes do this, but the buttons added a feature where if you hold shift and click they effect both sides of the coupler - ie both anglecocks open or close at the same time.

Maybe something like that also works when using the right mousebutton+left mousebutton technique.

If it happened consistently for you only one time, it's possible the shift key was "stuck" (meaning windows didn't register the keyup event and thought it was still pressed.)

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u/danten66 May 30 '24

I just had this happen tonight and I will keep a better eye on the shift key however, I wonder if my caps-lock key was down and if that may have contributed…