Attacking Needs To Be The Highest Priority Action

[vonVile]

Going into Attack Mode should kick you out of any other Action that you are currently doing. I just had a game where I died because while I was in the process of building a pillar an invisible zombie snuck up on me, scratched my repeatedly and I couldn't attack him because I was still in Construction Mode. My character did the animation of swinging the weapon, but the weapon wouldn't hit the zombie. I had to press ESC for Attack Mode to work.

 

Another case to make my point is a similar situation happened, which I reported earlier, when I was transferring logs from a Container into main Inventory. The game won't cancel that action if you try to attack a zombie with just the swing animation happening. I was forced to slowly run away until the long transfer completed, which was like 10-15 seconds.

[Phesired]

I haven't had this problem my self but I can see how it would be stumbled across plenty of times, I agree, attack should be first priority action.

[silents429]

I think a better wording is to cancel actions.

Which really needs to be in the game.

[Dreadhawk177]

Some actions can't realistically be cancelled on a whim. For example, how would you handle eating?

[k12314]

Some actions can't realistically be cancelled on a whim. For example, how would you handle eating?

 

Drop whatever I'm eating, swallow/spit out anything in my mouth, proceed to beat the shit out of zombie. I mean, it would take you a few seconds considering you wouldn't have your weapon at the ready, but still.

[CliffExcellent]

Agreed. This should be implemented in general, not just for combat. I was taking some stuff out of a container, realised it was too heavy, and walked away from the container in the hopes that it would cancel the action. Nope, I was on the other side of the building and still somehow taking stuff out of the crate.

[ToastedFishSandwich]

Spit it out? Hell no! Surely one would simply begin to chew quicker?

[k12314]

Spit it out? Hell no! Surely one would simply begin to chew quicker?

 

Which is why I said swallow/spit out. Depends on how much you freak the fuck out. But yeah to just keep chewing is also a viable option.