Pressing Z to quick throw TNT doesn't always work. Often does nothing.

[ribs]

When I press Z to throw TNT, sometimes TNT will be thrown, and sometimes nothing will happen. I'm not sure if I missed something that says you can only throw TNT while holding certain weapons or under certain conditions, or if this is a bug.

[vermis]

the key changes depending on how you say "z". try using the other one

[Jasozz]

Quick-Tossing should be pretty consistent - about the only times you can't do it would be:

- If you're out of TNT
- If your player is currently in a "busy" state - reloading, switching weapons, or off-hand is busy (lighter)

This'd be the first time I've heard of this happening so I'd probably need some replication steps to be able to dig into it much further! You might also double check that your Quick Toss key isn't double-bound to any other actions, and try binding it to a different key in a different zone of your keyboard to ensure keyboard ghosting isn't occurring.

[ribs]

Sorry I didn't see this until now. I loaded up a save to check it out again. It's one from the start of The Crypts. Sure enough pressing Z does nothing, so I looked at my keybindings to confirm it wasn't double-bound, and it wasn't, but just looking at that menu seemed to fix it temporarily. Exiting to desktop, and then reloading the game caused the bug to reappear. I tried exiting and reloading a few times, but looking at the menu didn't work every time. I tried binding it to another key, P this time, and it pretty much had the same behavior. Looking at the menu would only sometimes cause the key to start working.

I made sure my controllers were unplugged as well, and that didn't seem to have an effect on the bug either way.

The map starts with all of your weapons holstered, and drawing a weapon seemed to usually enable quick toss to work, but 1.) that's not one of the conditions you listed for quick toss to function and 2.) I know that quick toss would suddenly not respond even in the middle of combat.

I'm sorry I wish I could give you more reproduceable steps. I could upload a save and list off my hardware. I do use a custom mechanical keyboard so idk if that has an effect on it, but that would be the first time it has caused any sort of issue like this.

[Jasozz]

You're correct that you can't throw TNT when no weapon is selected, since the "unarmed" weapon doesn't have an off-hand state for Quick-Tossing (and you'd be unable to detonate the bundles)

Without reproducible steps or a video of the issue in action, there's not really much I can do I'm afraid. I would maintain that this still sounds like a hardware issue - you might do a ghosting check using some of the keys you'd commonly use during gameplay. For example, hold down two movement keys (W+S), and Shift, and then Z, and see if all of the key inputs are recognized at once:

https://www.microsoft.com/applied-sciences/projects/anti-ghosting-demo