You remember that goddamn menu that pops up when you are in spectator, on the bottom of your screen whenever you press the crouch button? And usually you cant close it with the same key? ...forget it! NO MORE SPECMENU!! That thing called SpecMenu panel, got me really annoyed today So I decided to basically get rid of it Put into autoexec.cfg in your ...\steam\steamapps\common\empires\empires\cfg\ If you use SHIFT as a crouch (I do): Code: unbind SHIFT alias cyclerx "specmenuon" alias specmenuon "showpanel specmenu; alias cyclerx specmenuoff" alias specmenuoff "hidepanel specmenu; alias cyclerx specmenuon" bind "i" cyclerx bind SHIFT "+duck; hidepanel specmenu" If you use CTRL as a crouch: Code: unbind CTRL alias cyclerx "specmenuon" alias specmenuon "showpanel specmenu; alias cyclerx specmenuoff" alias specmenuoff "hidepanel specmenu; alias cyclerx specmenuon" bind "i" cyclerx bind CTRL "+duck; hidepanel specmenu" Your crouch key will work flawlessly. ok, I have a soft heart.. Iam still giving it a chance under the "i" key. But its removed from the crouch key. Its still useful if you want to select somebody specifically. However it will still not close 80% of the time while on "i" key Whenever it opens and not closes, from that moment no bind is working at all. Its as if it took the focus completely on itself or what. --- Of course, huge issues making the bind stay permanently Empires has absolutely strange ways of keeping binds....or not keeping. And not sure what Clouding is it doing when I got no clouds turned on, lol ( in fact Iam currently in offline mode ) So as my autoexec.cfg is getting overwritten after creating a game/joining for some empyrean reasons. I had to change the bind ALSO in config.cfg AND emp_config.cfg Think emp_config.cfg was most probably overwriting it. I will only write in SHIFT for DUCK, if you use CTRL just replace. emp_config.cfg: Find "+duck" Replace the line with: Code: bind_infantry "SHIFT" "+duck; hidepanel specmenu" Turns out, there was a lot of outdated shit overwriting my binds here. So I removed some. config.cfg: Find "+duck" Replace the line with: Code: bind "SHIFT" "+duck; hidepanel specmenu" Just to make sure. Iam guessing emp_config.cfg is the ingame controls menu? If you know of any other places where empires hides its shit, please let me know. ProTip: Noticed squadleader.cfg? Check it and decide if you really want to have "Q" key overwritten by a bind everytime you become a squadleader.