CRITICAL BUG - Single abilities don't do anything until restart

kidgrit · Aug 21, 2025

glaca · Aug 21, 2025

Ok cool, I thought my keyboard was breaking. I have flight on Vindicta rebound to "C", and it was just not working in some fights, then it would happen randomly later, either on its own or when I hit "T" (parry button).

Boffins · Aug 22, 2025

kidgrit said:
Just collecting these all incase it's helpful,
here are all the instances I could find of people talking about this bug in the last few days
I saw a dev asking for matchID's so if anyone sees this and has had this issue please reply to this with match ID's and the hero you are playing
There's one there that has a match ID already (first entry)
The second on the list includes a video
My next match where I encounter (most matches) it I will post my matchID on this thread

https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/malice-not-working-at-all.75759/
https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/bebop-abilities-not-working-when-pressed.76406/
https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/cant-use-mirage-tornado.76552/
https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/vindicta-ult-bug.76549/
https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/ability-bug-–-input-shows-but-ability-won’t-activate.75658/
https://forums.playdeadlock.com/thr...-input-shows-but-ability-wont-activate.76504/
https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/awful-yamato-powerslash-bug.76456/
https://forums.playdeadlock.com/thr...naly-disabled-until-death-or-reconnect.76490/
https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/calico-cannot-turn-into-ava.75706/
https://forums.playdeadlock.com/thr...d-out-having-to-reconnect-to-fix-issue.75676/
https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/lady-geist-essence-bomb-bug-imput-not-working.75589/

Yep just had this happen with Lash in multiple games. I have the "flog" ability binded to 3 however sometimes in the middle of the game i can no longer activate flog. It only works after I either rejoin or die. This is the match ID where it happened last, I had to rejoin and only then it worked.

Match ID: 39249270

I also see that it is not a hardware issue because I see that the button icon "3" next to the flog ability is highlighted in the HUD when i spam it, but flogg is just not activating. Also reseting keybinds for the flog ability during the game doesnt help, only rejoining fixed it.

I hope this is fixed because it happened in multiple matches.

kidgrit · Aug 23, 2025

Boffins said:
Yep just had this happen with Lash in multiple games. I have the "flog" ability binded to 3 however sometimes in the middle of the game i can no longer activate flog. It only works after I either rejoin or die. This is the match ID where it happened last, I had to rejoin and only then it worked.

Match ID: 39249270

I also see that it is not a hardware issue because I see that the button icon "3" next to the flog ability is highlighted in the HUD when i spam it, but flogg is just not activating. Also reseting keybinds for the flog ability during the game doesnt help, only rejoining fixed it.

I hope this is fixed because it happened in multiple matches.

It happens in every match for me. Everytime there's an update I hope it's fixed but it's not yet. Going stop playing for awhile and come back after the 6 heroes have been release to see if it's been solved for.

cinex20 · Sunday at 1:44 PM

39514519 and 39519134 - Mina, couldn't use Rake bound to mouse4
38972468 - Wraith, couldn't use Full Auto bound to 3

chumblykins · Sunday at 1:52 PM

39518684, 39505372, and 39325244 - The Doorman - Could not use various character abilities or active abilities for minutes at a time. When one ability would become usable again, another ability would become unusable. One to three abilities would be unusable at a given time, starting a few minutes into the match. The only ability that was always usable was Hotel Guest.

MMG · Sunday at 2:01 PM

It happens across the character roster, it's not your key bindings or gear, it's a build issue.
It ignores player input (ability is ready and the indicator flashes when the button is pressed), and sometimes activates the "stuck" ability randomly in match.

chumblykins · Sunday at 7:01 PM

39555305 - Wraith - Full Auto unavailable at about 25 minutes. At about 27 minutes, Full Auto is usable, but Project Mind is unusable. For the rest of the match, Full Auto and Project Mind alternate between being usable and unusable.

jakobbiddlest · Sunday at 7:25 PM

this is happening to me every game. it starts out fine, and usually starts about 10 minutes in. Its unplayable like this

jakobbiddlest · Sunday at 7:38 PM

39558053- flight was broken as vindicta. started out fine, but then became broken early on. weirdly whenever i got stunned, it would make the flight automatically activate. but then i had no way to cancel the flight.

moody · Tuesday at 11:02 AM

this is happening to me as well almost every game. leaving the game and reconnecting fixes it. the icon is literally being pressed so it's not an input problem. match id 39682640.

also happened to me in match id:39695648 i also had another glitch in this same game where it would spam my 2 ability as soon as it refreshed without me pressing anything. (also lost this game because i couldn't leave and rejoin to fix because someone abandoned so leaving meant i couldnt reconnect)

eigenman38 · Tuesday at 12:16 PM

Happens every game for me. Looks like it's universal. Nothing like needing an ability right now and it is disabled until disconnect/rejoin.

glaca · Thursday at 1:20 AM

39989679 at around ~27 min. This is happening on multiple characters, in this case Yamato's Crimson Slash is not usable without a dc. It also then becomes unusable unless I hit my parry key (t) in which case it casts and then instantly slashes without charging. The same bug happens on Vindictas flight, both of these abilities are bound to the same key (c), but in Vindicta's case it doesn't cancel the flight, whereas with Yamato it seems to do the 2nd part of the Crimson Slash attack automatically (I might have input an attack while doing it, hard to tell because it pops up when I don't expect it). With Vindicta's flight, it has also happened where I've been stunned and it then auto casts way faster than I should be allowed to act after getting hit by a stun.

bloodfrost27 · Thursday at 3:49 AM

Have this issue every game as bebop on hook and bomb (never ult or uppercut). In training and bot matches this glitch does not occur and on my other characters (none of which have hero specific keybinds) I have 0 issues.

bloodfrost27 · Thursday at 1:15 PM

kidgrit said:
I genuinely wonder what is taking so long on this. Like it must be extremely hard to diagnose - either that or its just a numbers game.
they can't dedicate anyone to fix it because it effects 0.001% of players or something and just not as important as something much less game ruining but that effects all players kinda thing

for now we continue to be patient.

Its obviously not that crazy uncommon when its taking up a sizable amount of bug reports. I also think theres a clear commonality in symptoms. Do you use hero specific keybinds? I saw a few posts mention that and I am the same.

I think they have probably noticed but are just finding it hard to diagnose and fix.

kidgrit · Thursday at 1:33 PM

bloodfrost27 said:
Its obviously not that crazy uncommon when its taking up a sizable amount of bug reports. I also think theres a clear commonality in symptoms. Do you use hero specific keybinds? I saw a few posts mention that and I am the same.

I think they have probably noticed but are just finding it hard to diagnose and fix.

I do use hero-specific keybinds yes.

an interesting test would to actually turn off hero specific key-binds when the bug happens and see if that fixes it without restart.
omg what if turning it back on fixed it too. I need to at least test this.

kidgrit · Thursday at 9:07 PM

Just messaging an update because this is the biggest collection of people talking about this bug collectively

We might have made some progress on figuring out what is going on with this bug
If anyone here can take a look at this thread and tell us some of these details like what mouse you are using and when getting the glitch what buttons are those abilities bound to on your mouse.

M

Thread 'ability unusable even tho input works bug cause'

Wednesday at 10:59 PM

theres been a bug since the new map came out where the ability doesnt activate even tho you can see the icon being pressed such as the examples in this thread
after testing for a bit i think it only occurs for people who have abilities bound to their mouse buttons. also you can regularly replicate the bug by dying and pressing an ability thats bound to your mouse button before respawn. another thing i found is it doesn't happen on all characters as i wasn't able to replicate it...

CookieWizard · 2025-08-29T13:52:36-0700

match ID 40193603

Have been having this happen almost every game as wraith and Haze beginning with the big new update. I am using hero specific binds, both bound to Mb5, but rebinding doesnt stop the issue. relogging DOES fix the issue but cant really do that mid-fight now can ya. ive noticed that when you click the button to use the ability the game DOES recognize it as a little animation is played each time the button is clicked, However the ability isnt used.

Happens with mouse binding 5 but doesnt change when rebinding.
Using an OP1 8K mouse

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