WASD keys "sticking" occasionally

[N H H]

For the longest time I just assumed that I was getting hung up on the environment behind/to the sides of me where I'm holding a key but stopped from moving. Recently I noticed that holding the forward W key will rarely (maybe 1-5% of the time) stop functioning because it's super obvious that nothing is in front of me.

That prompted experimenting that sometimes when I've become stuck moving sideways or backwards it's the same thing, spinning to face that direction shows that there's actually no obstacle there. I can simply release and repress the key but it's constantly ended up in a huge damage intake if not outright wipe on many playthroughs.

Is this something many others have experienced? And if so does anyone know of any workaround?

[Bad Aim Bodyshot Barry]

its been happening to me since... well forever

[Maggie]

Same, game sometimes spontaneously starts ignoring movement imput even though I keep holding the key pressed. Thought that it was my fault initially, but have been noticing it more recently and it's defenitely not just me.

[N H H]

Alright so it's not just me. Not game-breaking by any measure but can be a pretty serious annoyance when it happens in the middle of an intense fight. Anyone know if the devs look at the forums here? I know that they're in Hong Kong but they are very active with updates which is really awesome.

[Maggie]

There is a dev account posting here sometimes, they probably log complaints like these.

[Gunfire Reborn]

Hello! If I get it right, It looks like in very rare circumstance, the character would stop moving even though you still hold the corresponding key? Can you remember in which case/level did you encounter this issue and the reproduction steps? And for holding the key, how long would your character keep moving before it abruptly stopped?

[Maggie]

It's been a while since the last time I played but I think it can happen in any level, usually in combat, and the game drops your input shortly after you press the button (<1s) or just ignores it altogether.

[Thunder Junk]

Originally posted by Gunfire Reborn:

Hello! If I get it right, It looks like in very rare circumstance, the character would stop moving even though you still hold the corresponding key? Can you remember in which case/level did you encounter this issue and the reproduction steps? And for holding the key, how long would your character keep moving before it abruptly stopped?

Having the same issue here as well. Seems to happen to me mostly "A" and "W" key presses. Sometimes both at the same time. Can occur at anytime for me, combat or exploration. I have never been able to make it happen on purpose and I have tried a myriad or button combinations and even used a key recorder and replayed the button presses back to test, which did not reproduce the incidents. I can run around for 10 minutes and have it not happen, or just hop into a game and have it happen in the first room. Doesn't matter the level or situation, it just decides it's time to stop using those keys and waits about 3 seconds or so to give them back. I can still use the other keys, move the mouse and jump while it occurs. I'm using a basic mechanical keyboard with 0 special keys or functions. I'm running the game at 3440 x 1440. I will give you some system specs in case that helps.

AMD Ryzen 2700x
B350 Mobo
GTX 2060
16GB ram @3200
1TB SSD

All drivers are updated to most current. Along with bios and firmware updates for Mobo and other peripherals.

[Gunfire Reborn]

Originally posted by Thunder Junk:

Originally posted by Gunfire Reborn:

Hello! If I get it right, It looks like in very rare circumstance, the character would stop moving even though you still hold the corresponding key? Can you remember in which case/level did you encounter this issue and the reproduction steps? And for holding the key, how long would your character keep moving before it abruptly stopped?

Having the same issue here as well. Seems to happen to me mostly "A" and "W" key presses. Sometimes both at the same time. Can occur at anytime for me, combat or exploration. I have never been able to make it happen on purpose and I have tried a myriad or button combinations and even used a key recorder and replayed the button presses back to test, which did not reproduce the incidents. I can run around for 10 minutes and have it not happen, or just hop into a game and have it happen in the first room. Doesn't matter the level or situation, it just decides it's time to stop using those keys and waits about 3 seconds or so to give them back. I can still use the other keys, move the mouse and jump while it occurs. I'm using a basic mechanical keyboard with 0 special keys or functions. I'm running the game at 3440 x 1440. I will give you some system specs in case that helps.

AMD Ryzen 2700x
B350 Mobo
GTX 2060
16GB ram @3200
1TB SSD

All drivers are updated to most current. Along with bios and firmware updates for Mobo and other peripherals.

When the issue occurs, is there any controller/input peripheral connected to your computer?

[N H H]

Originally posted by Gunfire Reborn:

Hello! If I get it right, It looks like in very rare circumstance, the character would stop moving even though you still hold the corresponding key? Can you remember in which case/level did you encounter this issue and the reproduction steps? And for holding the key, how long would your character keep moving before it abruptly stopped?

Every time I've had this happen it's been anywhere from the first few rooms in all the way to the end boss. Honestly it's both so random and rare that it's difficult to nail down any specifics. About the only thing I can say in my specific experience is that I haven't had any case where I'm moving in a direction just fine and then that movement suddenly stops dead.

It always seems to be the case that either I've stopped to line up a shot and then WASD refuses to respond or I'm moving with WASD while spinning in any direction when the movement stops suddenly and won't respond (in both cases until letting go of that key and repressing it).

Long story short, it seems to rarely happen as I'm pressing the direction key from a dead stop or spinning during movement rather than after I've held it for any length of time. Also it happens in plenty of fights but also during the downtime of shooting items for ammo etc.

[Thunder Junk]

Originally posted by Gunfire Reborn:

Originally posted by Thunder Junk:

Having the same issue here as well. Seems to happen to me mostly "A" and "W" key presses. Sometimes both at the same time. Can occur at anytime for me, combat or exploration. I have never been able to make it happen on purpose and I have tried a myriad or button combinations and even used a key recorder and replayed the button presses back to test, which did not reproduce the incidents. I can run around for 10 minutes and have it not happen, or just hop into a game and have it happen in the first room. Doesn't matter the level or situation, it just decides it's time to stop using those keys and waits about 3 seconds or so to give them back. I can still use the other keys, move the mouse and jump while it occurs. I'm using a basic mechanical keyboard with 0 special keys or functions. I'm running the game at 3440 x 1440. I will give you some system specs in case that helps.

AMD Ryzen 2700x
B350 Mobo
GTX 2060
16GB ram @3200
1TB SSD

All drivers are updated to most current. Along with bios and firmware updates for Mobo and other peripherals.

When the issue occurs, is there any controller/input peripheral connected to your computer?

I didn't have any controllers or other peripherals connected at the time.

[cal]

There's an interaction with Lightning Bombers that if you're hit by their explosion then it'll stun you and not allow movement

[Thunder Junk]

Originally posted by cal:

There's an interaction with Lightning Bombers that if you're hit by their explosion then it'll stun you and not allow movement

Yes but that is not what is happening here.

[Pu1$3]

Originally posted by Gunfire Reborn:

Hello! If I get it right, It looks like in very rare circumstance, the character would stop moving even though you still hold the corresponding key? Can you remember in which case/level did you encounter this issue and the reproduction steps? And for holding the key, how long would your character keep moving before it abruptly stopped?

I would like to provide some more information on this issue. For me it is not so rare. In fact it is every game I play recently. I never had this issue before until sometime in the past few updates. There was a break where I didn't play and reincarnation mode was not out yet so it has been going on since I came back to the game. It ruins games for me, solo is basically unplayable at least in co op someone can pick me up but it is still a big problem.

[Pu1$3]

I have been able to recreate the issue but I don't fully understand why still. It is very specifically the D key for me that does it. That is all I've been able to test. I tried various button tapping and holding combinations with each key individually and it was only the D key that was ever locking up on me. It wasn't perfect but I found that if I mash D and switch to a hold, that is when it tends to not register that I switched to holding the D key or something. That is what I have been able to figure out so far which doesn't feel like much to go on. Hope it helps.

[Pu1$3]

I have concluded that this specific problem seems to be a mechanical keyboard issue known as keyboard chattering. I have the Corsair Strafe Mx2 and it has the type of switches that are most prone to this problem. I noticed that as i was typing out my sentences as the problem worsened my d was registering as dd or ddd sometimes dddd in rare cases even though I was typing normally.

I suggest a test for this that I found to work was opening a wordpad (or anywhere you can type and just hit the key then the spacebar over and over trying to stay in sync, w then space, w then space etc, you will spot it right away if you pay attention and catch any time the specific key registers a multiple hit even though you're only pressing it once.

I dusted the keyboard and checked under the key but I wasn't overly thorough. It was under warranty so I just got it replaced and called it good. If you don't have any warranty to fall back on the other options you can look into is a deep clean of the keyboard and potential replacement of a switch.

Hope this helps.