Cannot emote in safe areas | Forums

[Red_Nose4]

Emote menu will not open while inside safe houses, BoO. This was not happening prior to most recent update.

[Ubi-Redbeard]

Hey Red_Nose4,

Are you still experiencing this issue?

Are you able to provide a video for investigation?

[Maxx_thor]

Same. im trying the get the peacock award coimmendation
emote down stick wont open neither on settlements or safe house. works fine out on the open
BTW im on PS4

[Ubi-Redbeard]

@ Maxx_thor - are you able to provide a video of this for investigation?

[MexicanZenith]

@ Ubi-Redbeard

I am having the same issue. Unfortunately, there is no video of it, unless you want to see our thumbs pressing down on the controller d-pad and then show the screen not reacting. I'm not being a smart ***, but all it is is when you hold down on the d-pad, it brings up the emote menu, as it should, but it doesn't in Base of Operations or any Safe Houses for us. If you go even one foot outside of a safe area, when you carry your weapon, you can load the menu no problem, same action. For one of the projects, I had to join another's map and emote out in the open areas to complete the project, and the emote menu was still locked in other person's safe areas. For some reason, for some people, it is "locked" when in safe areas. It was working before the Title Update, 100%, used to emote with people all the time. Now I can't. Randos wave or salute or other emotes to me and all I can do is walk/run/move around. It will not bring up the menu, no matter what buttons I press, hold down, use in combination, etc. I even deleted then re-downloaded and re-installed the game on PS4, it still is not working.

So please send word up the chain of command that there's a new invisible glitch that is somehow locking people's emote menus in safe areas. It works completely fine and as intended out in the open world, but not in any safe area.

[MexicanZenith]

@ Ubi-Redbeard

https://streamable.com/tf8zpt

Alright, so I recorded a video on my phone to show what I can. It's not the best quality so work with me here. Here's the play-by-play:

I am at the top of the stairs in the building where The Shop safe house is in West Potomac Park, what is considered "open area/world." My character just happens to be logged there. I hold down on d-pad to open emote window and use the "Peace Out" emote that you see my character gesticulate. I open the emote menu back up and scroll to other emotes and close emote menu. I back up going down the stairs where I am in the "safe area" zone of the safe house. I am trying to hold down on d-pad but nothing is happening. I go back up and into open world, re-open emote menu a few times, using same buttons. Nothing has changed; it works outside but not inside. I go back downstairs and try again and nothing happens, video ends.

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Now what I think has happened, if I had to wager one way or the other, is that something happened in-game or broke from the title update where the game sees the emote menu being opened as a weapon or skill, so when I go back into safe area zone, when the message pops up "Entered Safe Zone. Weapons and skills not allowed," it is mistaking or conflating or error'ing out the emote menu. Maybe it's something else entirely, but that's my deduction of it.

[MexicanZenith]

Still waiting on reply for this.

[MexicanZenith]

@ Maxx_thor - are you able to provide a video of this for investigation?

Any word on that video I linked a few posts up?

[Eltufo10]

Same issue on Xbox...can only access the recommended activities, and can not get that off the screen