Keyboard frequently stops functioning (in game only), especially after dying

[ph4yd]

Occasionally after dying (maybe once per game), my keyboard will stop registering inputs in game. It happens especially around dying, and I think could be related to use of the buy menu? I also notice that sometimes my keyboard stops registering while I'm using the buy menu, and I have to exit (with ESC) and reopen the buy menu for it to work again. I notice because "B" won't close the menu and it will stay open, but if I press ESC to close and B to open, it will start registering again.

This has been happening for at least several weeks, I think mostly since the major 6 heroes patch. It's quite annoying to spawn in and need to get to a teamfight or objective quickly and not be able to move. I usually ask a friend or teammate to pause.

The fix seems to be some combination of time/randomness/alt+tabbing. If I alt+tab in and out of the game a few times, usually it will start registering again. But it wastes usually 10-15 seconds and is very frustrating. Please look into these keyboard input issues! It does seem related to the buy menu in some way.

 

[hatsunearu]

This happens if I change keyboard layouts from English to another language I speak. Is it perhaps related to that?

 

[uczen502]

Happens to me, too. Not too often, but 1 in 20 games? I have to restart the game everytime. Doesn't happen anywhere else. I don't change language layouts

Wooting 80HE

 

[PaveMentman]

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Also seconding / n-th'ing having experienced this from time to time similar or perhaps even exact same scenarios
(the ones on the first post ones, that is).
And the workaround / restoration-method has been the ESC-menu spamming until control has been regained.

If this is somehow related to keyboard-layouts, I'll mention mine just in case:
- Roccat VULCAN 80 (roc12381bn)
-- Finnish Multilingual (SFS 5966)-layout
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[mihailiwanow2]

I also encountered this problem. Sometimes the store (b) key doesn't work in the game, and only pressing it multiple times helps. Now, in almost every game, during a fight, if I want to climb or jump, the spacebar doesn't work. Pressing it multiple times also helps. And only once did the WASD keys not work. Usually this problem lasts for a few seconds, and then everything is fine, but it's annoying.

 

[dougjbrennan]

I've also been having this issue for some time now, and it happens almost exclusively after I die (for the first time it happened at the very start of a game yesterday). I'm playing on a Wooting 60he if that helps at all.

 

[pauljuff]

For me a movement key can sometimes gets stuck registering even though I'm not pressing it, I have to press it again for it to stop registering

 

[raptor777777]

For me the esc button sometimes no longer shuts down the shop/build editor and I have to manually click 'esc' in the bottom right.

 

[uczen502]

For me the esc button sometimes no longer shuts down the shop/build editor and I have to manually click 'esc' in the bottom right.

You can also click "Build Browser" and esc from there, I've got the same problem sometimes

 

[PaveMentman]

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In relation to this issue, in the first minute of this match all character-interaction (movement, shooting, etc.) was disabled as soon as I pressed the "scoreboard"-button (which is "T" in my case).
Esc(ape)-menu spamming always restored the controls.
And as implied this "kink" no longer reproduced once ~60-seconds of the match had passed
(Vindicta / me also use the "Sorry / My Bad"-voice-clip to mark the issue having ended).

The control disablement (on me-Vindicta) is primarily noticeable whenever there is no longer or otherwise clear pauses in movement
( I personally try to always make sure to keep moving whenever interacting with menus, especially when upgrading abilities / skills and reordering the shop-queue ).

Match-ID: 44628458
https://statlocker.gg/match/44628458/summary
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[leonardo45562]

This can be recreated easily, when in a match hold a key to begin walking in a direction (W for example ), while walking press and hold the scoreboard button (for me its tab) then click an enemy portrait to ping a few times. when you release scoreboard (tab), the only input read is the direction you were walking, any further inputs don't register. If you let go of the direction your character will stand still and will be unable to move until you either spam esc or m1. This makes pinging mid fight a death sentence. hope they fix soon, also while they are at it merge "extra info" and "scoreboard" into one, allow us to ping teammate abilities and portraits. This is on game build 5,948 if that matters, also happens if you click on the incoming damage tab a few times.

 

[emun34]

ive got the same issue, like one of the comments above i also have a Roccat Vulkan Keyboard, spamming escape fixes this but i cant reproduce it on purpose, sometimes happens multiple times a match sometimes not once, really strange. I will make a new thread if i ever find out how to reproduce it

 

[diabolic355]

When the character moves to the left, I hold down the "A" key, make a right shift to "D" and hold down "A", and this happens
It seems to get stuck in the texture, but this is a problem with input
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