When you enter a map and your cursor comes up as two cursors and won't let you click, hit ` (make sure you have dev console enabled) to bring up the console. Type "teammenu" and hit enter, close the console, and hit ESC. This should bring you the MOTD, if you have it enabled, and let you choose your team!
I hope it works for everyone else!
Posted Aug 17, 2012, 6:51 PM UTC
Also, for those of you who may have an XBox 360 controller plugged in or wireless to your PC(not using it for playing the game) you can also push the "B" button to clear this error. I do it every time this happens and fixes it every time.
Never seen this happen. But coolio for future reference.
You can also type joinsplitscreen in the console.
When it happens to me, I just ALT+TAB real quick and then pull the window back up.
You're a life saver. I've just resorted to killing the process and starting the game again. I hoped there was a simple workaround like this.
YOU ARE A GOLDEN GOD. Wow most frustrating bug for me after a few good arms race matches in a row when you can't join a new team after you connect. I totally knew there was a console command too but my attempts were all retarded
You can bind your teammenu to M (which is the default button in Source), and then instead of going into your console and writing teammenu, you can press M to do the same thing.
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Didn't work for me. Maybe I hit the wrong button but now my game looks like this until I restart the client.
I could not open the console when it happened, but I could join spectator and afterwards join the team I wanted to be in.
Or press Enter
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Enter does not work.
Encountered the exact same problem several times, and I actually came up with the exact same workaround by myself. It is incredibly annoying though being stuck at the screen not able to click anything.