Game Cursor Constantly Breaking/Glitching/Switching Mode?

Age of Mythology: Retold Report a Bug
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Game Version: 17.27932
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 11

Issue:
This did not happen to me in either of the Betas, but playing the full version of Retold, almost every time I boot the game, sooner or later my cursor breaks.

After around 5 games, and sometimes only one or two (solely in the Campaigns and Random Map so far) my cursor will change from the normal pointer to a little grey triangle, and if I am in a game, zoom my view pretty much straight to one of the map edges if I try to move it. It seems to be a quick-navigation tool but I swear I’m not pressing anything to bring it on (I’m too cack-handed for hotkeys as I have my keyboard way off-centre to keep a drawing tablet on my desk).

Most of the time it has thankfully only happened after a game is finished but it also persists into the main menu so if it is an in-game tool I don’t think it’s working correctly anyway! I have not played any online matches yet but do want to soon and this could be a real problem there.

Trigger Event:
Unclear - has happened most frequently after finishing a Campaign mission, to where I thought it might be a memory issue after playing for over a couple of hours, but now also occured in the middle of a Random Map skirmish after playing for 30 minutes.

[I tried to take a screenshot then discovered Steam apparently doesn’t record the cursor in screenshots so you can’t see it -_-]

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this happened to me too, only way to get rid of it is to restart the whole game.

It blocks unit commands (so they dont move or move very little), its somewhat ok in SP as you can just save and reload after restart but in MP this pretty much eliminates you from match.

I have seen other threads about cursor getting stuck with certain action (e.g. it showed only the food delivery icon) somewhere or steam or maybe even here.

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Yep, can confirm this happens to me and all of my friends

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The problem is caused by a very hidden hotkey:

Settings: Hotkeys: Camera Navigation Hotkeys: “Move Camera With Mouse” unbind (so can’t be activated)

To be 100% save you can also Settings: Game: “Click Drag Panning Speed” to 0 (So the navigation via right click on mouse won’t work at all.

I personally use the navigation to send the cursor on the edge of the screen, but the navigation with arrow keys is also possible with this option.