Get Key Held on Start

Unity Engine
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I’d like to show a different scene on startup of the game if the user has either CTRL button held down when the first scene is loaded. Right now I have it checking for GetKey(KeyCode.LeftControl) and the same for the right in Start, however, it doesn’t seem to detect anything.

void Start()
    {
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftControl))
        {
            Debug.Log("START: Control Held");
            // Load Secret Scene here
        }
}

If I need to do it in Update, how do I make sure that if they press/hold CTRL it doesn’t load the secret scene after the first frames?

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At Time == 0 this might be tricky. You probably do need to wait a second or so. The button has to actually go down only after Unity’s engine is up and running for business. You could show a splash screen in that first scene to cue the user that they can hold CTRL, and then give them a second or two.

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Okay thank Kurt-Dekker! I’ll give it a try.