PS5 map cursor jumping is still here years later.

alternatelder · July 8

I don't know why you'd shut a thread down for an active bug that has been reported for years.

@ZOS_Kevin, If I reopen an old thread that is still relevant, and had your mods actually read the initial post and reply I made a year later, then maybe they wouldn't close it? It makes no sense.

When you open the map, sometimes the cursor jumps around by itself, I have to close it and then reopen to stop. It's now happening nearly every time I open the map. If you don't know what I mean: Normally like when the cursor gets close to a location, it auto jumps to it, well the bug is that the cursor jumps to random spots on the map and will move in whatever direction it feels like and keep moving by itself, jumping to any spot, not even a location, just an empty spot.

No, this is not a controller drift issue. This issue has been around for years now, even on PS4. I've had many different controllers since then.

Malyore · July 9

Sometimes you have to zoom in a bit for it to correct itself and regain control.

With that being the case, I wonder if the map somehow pre-loads something incorrectly to where it thinks it's at a different coordinate/zoom than what it actually is, then when you zoom it overrides that data which then corrects the maps confusion.

Malyore · July 10

Also I agree that @ZOS_Icy should not have closed your old thread. To my knowledge it was still entirely relevant, and seems arbitrary to close it when the information in the "new" thread does not need changed or adjusted for the passage of time, because the error is still the same.

I guess this doesn't apply to your own thread?

I suspect the mods simply don't play the game, and so they don't know which information is still valid and which is not. There are times I have to clarify on old threads that the information is still relevant and should not be closed.
Other speculations as to why they have such closure policy would likely tickle someone's "conspiracy theory" alarm.

Perhaps, rather than closing the thread, they should simply ask if the issue is still persisting the same way, and then decide whether there's enough change to start a new thread or allow the old one. Of course then, actually asking about the issue means they might have to actually do something about it too.