Ability Bug – Input Shows but Ability Won’t Activate

[ExilityDragon]

Hey everyone,

I’ve been running into a frustrating glitch, and I’m wondering if anyone else has dealt with this.

At random times during a match, sometimes right after I respawn, sometimes just randomly, one of my abilities will stop working. For example, when I play Sinclair and press 3 to place her bunny, the UI at the bottom shows that I’m pressing the key, but the ability itself doesn’t trigger. Usually, the targeting circle pops up when you’re about to place the bunny, but in this case, nothing shows, and the ability won’t go off at all.

The only “fix” I’ve found so far is to exit the match and rejoin. That works temporarily, but the same issue happens again later in the game. Obviously, constantly leaving and rejoining is risky and ruins the flow of the game.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a known fix or workaround besides leaving and rejoining?

Thanks in advance. I hope this gets addressed, because it makes matches challenging to play when it happens.

 

[kidgrit]

I am having this exact same bug - it's always after I respawn and it's always a single one of my abilities (so far ive seen it mostly on 1 2 and 3)
same issue in every way
you can see the button depress on the UI but no activation
I have my binds between mouse buttons and keyboard buttons and both types can get this issue
it happens on all heroes so far

the only fix I have found is the same: exiting and re-entering the match.
I'm glad I'm not the only one because it's actually game-breaking - finding out in the middle of a fight that your big ability is just non-functional ect

I will add, only because it might help the devs troubleshoot and track down the bug:
There was one instance where my claw attack as calico was no longer working, and I was spamming it trying to get it to work before realizing what was happening. then like 6 seconds later in the fight I pressed my ultimate button and instead the claw attack ability triggered once. after that the claw attack ability stopped functioning like before.

hope this helps

 

[kidgrit]

I am running bootcamp (windows 10 on an imac) which can always create weird problems I find - are you also running bootcamp?

 

[kidgrit]

Oh one last detail that might help them track it down. If the bug happens and I exit/enter and its fixed - then it comes back - it can be on a new/different ability in the same match. hope that helps

 

[kidgrit]

Also I found at least 5 other posts of people complaining about this or something similar so it's clearly happening to alot of people

 

[kidgrit]

just following up on this for visibility - this bug is still happening today