Phoenix Icarus Dive hard to cancel

[Sled Dog]

OK so I know a lot of people are giving Phoenix a try since he's (it?) has come out and I want to know how many other people are having trouble cancelling the Icarus Dive mid flight. I've had heaps of trouble doing this even whilst spamming the cancel, and on the other hand I have pressed it once and it responded immediately and cancelled. I know being silenced will prevent it from being cancelled prematurely, so don't just say 'You were silenced nub". I have heard others have encountered this problem too so I want to hear what peoples thoughts are on this and if anyone has heard of Valve fixing it.

[Ghoul Chef]

yeah, i get this sometimes while running him, i would try and dive but the key doesnt work when i press it and either i die because i accidentally loop back or let someone escape me, no silence or anything.
This probably something that i would like to see fixed soon because yes phoenix is already awesome but having a skill that can fail you 5% of the time can still hurt a lot (especially when you're running away)

[Noppo]

Sometimes it happens, i think it's caused by lag or something.

[Chubblezap]

They really need to fix this, I have this problem too. Judging my how the beep sound (when you cant do something I.E. spell is on cooldown) still goes, the game recognizes that you hit the button, and just doesn't work sometimes. Speaking of glitches, they also need to fix Sun Ray not moving correctly on the enemy team when they have limited vision of you, and the now-infamous Blademail + supernova glitch.

[Renoir]

Originally posted by The Hamburger of Ages:

and the now-infamous Blademail + supernova glitch.

Not sure is a Glitch. Actually destroying the Supernova does 100% of Phoenix as damage to it, so, it also would reflect the Damage with Blade Mail.
They should remove it, true, but guess it's the way this have to be.

[Chicken]

i just use my ult then wait for that to finnish

[prngls]

try it in single player with cheats, if there really is something wrong with dive, report on dev forums

if there was nothing wrong, then 'you were silenced nub'

[Chubblezap]

Originally posted by pringles:

try it in single player with cheats, if there really is something wrong with dive, report on dev forums

if there was nothing wrong, then 'you were silenced nub'

That's just it, since it's probably lag-related or otherwise it's hard to prove it. I just tried, and I'm not getting the same results I do in an online match. But it's definately there and rather aggrivating when it screws up a play.

[achus93]

pretty sure it's lag-related, since the key works fine when i'm just playing around with bots, but takes like half a second to kick in when i'm online...

[Chubblezap]

It's definately only when online, but I'm not sure if it's lag. I hardly ever lag and it still happens fairly consistently. It either cancels late or not at all (about 20% of the time)

[achus93]

we might think that we hardly ever lag, but our mind is just already used to that half-second lag,

i know i am (based on years of low-specced laggy gameplay on my ♥♥♥♥♥♥ PC XD)