Medicines can be unresponsive during a fight

[Ordis]

Now, when you're not in a fight, there doesn't seem to be any issues, but when i get into a fight i've noticed that they can be rather unresponsive when i press the button, unlike the healing gourd which just happens immediately.

There are times when i spam the medicine button like a madman trying to cure whatever bane a boss does, and even holding down the button can be just as unresponsive.

This can be frustrating at times, especially during the yellow loong bossfight where i was desperately trying to get that electricity bane off me during the barely minuscule breathing room you get halfway/three thirds into the fight.

Hell, i even tried to immobilize him while he was in the air, about to do those lightning lunge strikes and i was spamming the medicine button throughout the whole spell's duration, and i only got it off at the end of the spell.

[NEKTAR]

Same thing happens to me.

[northdigg]

yeah its still happening don't feel like fighting the final boss because it just feels cheap because you cant use a fundamental mechanic when you need it and the encounter calls for it. definitely stole the fun

[Glorious Comrade]

not just in a fight, trying to eat 4 different piles right after the other out of combat sometime does not work. You have to press the key after the eating animation is done. Or it does not register. Hopefully it gets patched. some quality of life improvement.

[Baron01]

I noticed that at times I use medicine, I hear the sound and I also check the pill count was reduced but I do not get the bug. I wonder if this bug is just visual issue or you really do not get the benefit of the pill.
I have alraedy learnt that using medicines requires complete stillness and no other input from controller yet this bug can randomly happen during fight and randomly go away in the same fight, ie. I consume medicine and get the buff.

[KlimeN]

I beat the game, but unresponsive healing is annoying.

[Pnume]

Like Elden Ring and quite a few other game, they don't buffer the input for healing or buff in Wukong's case. If your character is not finished with an action, the healing input won't be registered and won't start when the action is finished. It's nothing new and it already annoyed me in Fromsoft's games.

[hwanzi]

its bc u have to be standing still which is dumb

[northdigg]

Originally posted by Pnume:

Like Elden Ring and quite a few other game, they don't buffer the input for healing or buff in Wukong's case. If your character is not finished with an action, the healing input won't be registered and won't start when the action is finished. It's nothing new and it already annoyed me in Fromsoft's games.

true but if the input and action is complete i should be able to use my next medicine in my hot bar and not have to spam the same action methodically while the boss builds up an attack and still don't get a response before i die.

I think it happens most between phases when there is the forced grab animations/boss buff.

[DLC💚TOO🤍HARD💔]

Chug chug is overrated

[Ordis]

Originally posted by hwanzi:

its bc u have to be standing still which is dumb

It is pretty dumb, because that's not the case with the healing gourd; you can use that just fine while moving around. Though i just resolved to just slap the flower primes soak on the gourd so i can just forego the whole bane medicine entirely

[Salty 13itch]

Originally posted by Ordis:

Now, when you're not in a fight, there doesn't seem to be any issues, but when i get into a fight i've noticed that they can be rather unresponsive when i press the button, unlike the healing gourd which just happens immediately.

There are times when i spam the medicine button like a madman trying to cure whatever bane a boss does, and even holding down the button can be just as unresponsive.

This can be frustrating at times, especially during the yellow loong bossfight where i was desperately trying to get that electricity bane off me during the barely minuscule breathing room you get halfway/three thirds into the fight.

Hell, i even tried to immobilize him while he was in the air, about to do those lightning lunge strikes and i was spamming the medicine button throughout the whole spell's duration, and i only got it off at the end of the spell.

Happens a lot with anything - dodges, meds, spells... I've stopped depending and building around them. The bosses can eat your focus build up too.

I'm not sure this isn't by design, the game uses a lot of cheap tactics to make it feel harder.

[master.yoda99]

Yep they need to improve the responsiveness of medicine. Many times I furiously tapped on the key to use medicine but monkey just stands there doing nothing.

[StarlightAsh♡]

Originally posted by master.yoda99:

Yep they need to improve the responsiveness of medicine. Many times I furiously tapped on the key to use medicine but monkey just stands there doing nothing.

I highly doubt you are just standing still pressing it, because all I see in this thread is people discussing their imputs being blocked by another action while not knowing that is what they are talking about.
if you are actively doing any action, be it dodging or attacking, you cannot use medicine and this game does not have imput buffering, it works the exact same way with your spells.

[Street Preacher]

Originally posted by KlimeN:

I beat the game, but unresponsive healing is annoying.

did you have input lag too?

[RDG]

Some fights I just manually do it from the menu, more reliable that way.