[GAME BUG] Sprint keybind stops working


(blonk) #1

This is a bit of a weird one. Sometimes at round start my sprint key (bound to “backslash”) will stop causing me to sprint. The game still picks up the key, I can type it in chat and in the console, but I can’t set it as a keybind after this starts happening. Changing key profiles, leaving/rejoining or messing around otherwise doesn’t seem to have any effect, usually meaning I need to restart the client. On rare occasions after enough mucking around it’ll start working again, but I’ve never been able to nail down a process for this. I can bind a different key to sprint and that key will work fine.

This happens just frequently enough for it to be really frustrating, particularly at the start of ranked games, it happens pretty much once a night. Otherwise it doesn’t seem to crop up so much.

Happy to do anything to help with diagnosing this :slight_smile:


(blonk) #2

I have found a symptomatic fix for this. Spamming the altfire, walk, crouch and jump keys repeatedly seems to solve it, at least for a little while…

But then (and this only seems to be since the last update) there seems to be a more serious variant of this where I suddenly can’t move, chat, change weapons or do anything that requires the keyboard. Opening the menu by pressing esc takes two presses to actually come up, and I can’t open the console.

Please help :frowning:


(blonk) #3

In case anyone else happens across this - the issue seems to be to do with having a keybind set to left alt. If this key is bound the issue described above can occur. Unbinding the alt key resolves the issue.

Hopefully that’s helpful to anyone pulling their hair out over this!