Drain Life cancel not respecting hero-specific cancel key setting

[Crusher48]

With the new change to drain life, I wanted to change my cancel settings for Lady Geist to use a cancel key instead. As the spacebar is already used for, well, jumping, I also wanted to change the cancel key to a different key, so that I could still perform dash-jumps while draining enemies. However, it appears that the hero-specific cancel key setting does not work for drain life, instead using the default cancel key. If my default cancel key is set to spacebar and the hero-specific cancel key is set to F, the UI will show F as the cancel key, but F will not work, while the spacebar will work.

 

[wester162]

This isn't specific to just Drain Life, it seems like any channeled ability doesn't respect the hero-specific keybindings. Tested the same thing with Bebop's Hyper Beam and Kelvin's channeled abilities. Changing the default cancel key settings does work as expected.

 

[flashmozzg]

That's very annoying. Was wondering why my Life Drain was being canceled randomly and it turns out this was the reason.

 

[posnisir]

It also completely disallows the usage of Ability Key cancel mode, since starting one drain also stops the other. Life Drain should be changed in a way where it won't stop the old drain if you have a target, meaning starting a new drain shouldn't cancel the old one.

 

[Protein]

I came across this issue on Grey Talon. I have his Charged Shot set to the same bind as the default Cancel Ability and that prevents me from using Charged Shoot during Rain of Arrows.