Character "<" is no longer allowed to be used as hotkey - gets unbound to ? after saving

Age of Empires II: DE II - Report a Bug
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:arrow_forward: GAME INFORMATION

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  • GAME BUILD #: Latest DLC patch Victors and Vanquished
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

:arrow_forward: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

Character “<” is no longer allowed to be used as hotkey - gets unbound to ??? immediately after saving and leaving the hotkey setup window

:arrow_forward: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

  • 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

:arrow_forward: REPRODUCTION STEPS

Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Bind a hotkey to <
  2. Save the options
  3. Reopen the options, notice it gets changed to ???

:arrow_forward: IMAGE

The < character is a common one on left side of keyboard, used on german and south slavic (croatia, bosnia…) keyboard layouts

It is located below the A key, between Left Shift and Y

Croatian layout example below:

Croatian_keyboard_layout
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Hi @Harooooo1
This is already tracked, thanks for the report.

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