[2020] Mining Helmet Flashlight not working?

I feel your pain. I like the tacticool look of my black compound crossbow with a laser sight. Unfortunately when equipped, F toggles the sight on and off instead of my night vision goggles.

Originally posted by Ming:

Originally posted by Crater Creator: I feel your pain. I like the tacticool look of my black compound crossbow with a laser sight. Unfortunately when equipped, F toggles the sight on and off instead of my night vision goggles.

I am assuming you are aware that you can Hold F and will be given the choice of what to turn on/off? I know its not as fast as just hitting F once, but it does work.

Yes I’m aware, but thank you anyway. I flip my night vision goggles on and off a fair number of times when questing with my stealth build, and it wasn’t worth the extra effort to access the radial menu all the time, just for the sake of a cool-looking laser sight that didn’t do much. So in the end, I just removed the mod.

Originally posted by CoinSpin:

Originally posted by Sanguine: Ah more pointless modifications. Fair enough and thanks

I was a little annoyed by this at first, but there's logic behind the decision that made sense to me later on.

If, for example, you are wearing night vision goggles, have a helmet lamp, and are wielding a weapon with a flashlight or laser pointer attachment, F is the toggle for each one of those items. If you press F, which one do you want to toggle? Do you want to do a "keep tapping F until you get the exact right combination of what is on or off" dance? Or just hold down F, easily click to toggle items on or off, and continue about your merry way?

In the long run, using a radial menu makes more sense. Not only for convenience, but also to just match other similar UI features and selectors in the game.

I have a better idea, I think. When you use the radial menu to toggle one of these, the game remembers which one you last changed. Then after that, pressing F toggles just that one, over and over again, until you hold F to get the radial menu again and choose a different one.