much of a year later, after getting frustrated with the state of SS2, i decided to do an SS1 run.
figured, at least there would be bugs that it's possible for me to contend with, without all of the frustrations i'd been dealing with.
then i got this bug suddenly partway through a run: attempting to aim (with left trigger, as i play with gamepad) trying to bring up the tech tree screen no matter where i am. in settlement? attempts to bring up tech tree. out of settlement? attempts to bring up tech tree.
i have no idea what triggered this, as an earlier save (some time prior, due to being a survival run) doesn't exhibit the problem, but not knowing the cause of a failure like this just means it's going to happen again at some point even if i do roll back.
and why on earth is this flagged as solved, when there's no evidence of a solution in this thread?