Does anyone have a problem with abilities not going off like i have to press multiple times to actually cast that. Happend with azmo’s d and e bw’s w.
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Do you have ‘on release’ turned on for their quickcast options perhaps? It can throw you if you have that set when you usually have it just on.
I’ve had that forever with Divine Palm (Kharazim, R) and occassionally with Brightwing (W), with Quick Cast on. I have to press the key multiple times for the client to realize I want to do it.
They do have a minor cast time though, but that’s not the problem, sometimes the cast order itself is ignored.
It happens more often during fights with multiple units on the screen at once (never in Try Mode).
It’s hard to reproduce though so it’s difficult to submit a bug report about it.
It might also be a keyboard or Windows problem. I frequently have to ctrl+C something multiple times for the copy to actually work, especially within browsers. If I do it once, it occassionally copies nothing or has the previous text copied.
It appears to have happened to a lot of people over the years.
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Sometimes because i alt-tab alot i get unresponsive abilities every now and then, it doesn’t happen often but it usually solves itself when i alt-tab out and in again.
I’ve had this issue forever, though sometimes even if I didn’t alt tab.
I just assumed some heroes are coded sloppily and there is no real fix for it.
Sometimes I must also press Q many times as Abathur to symbiote a player. If I press once the first time doesn’t register. Even if I hadn’t symbioted anything for a long time.
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I thought it was my keyboard that was dying. But it happens only with hots so… Mostly of the times to me happens with Fosky’s E.
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When I play Tyrael, it’s impossible to use my E in time.
It’s so delayed it’s not even funny.
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Same problem here. It started not so long ago though as it never happened before.
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it only really happens with on-release skills for me. Thats why i have almost every ability on quick cast.
You’re not the only one. The only way to play is to spam the keys until the ability goes off.
It feels like the game is eating inputs but at the same time, the game doesn’t feel like queuing / buffering the inputs. So if you want a skills to come out as soon as the other ends, spamming is the way to go.
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You’re right, I have to spam it multiple times in a teamfight so I can give speed to my allies. But Hots wiki says:
Smite: Cast time: Instant
[laughing John Cena meme]
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The only time I’ve experienced this is with the Butchers Brand. I’m not sure if it’s a me problem though, rather than a technical one.
I don’t think I’ve had this problem before. I’ve only had latency issues where a button pressed took more time than expected to respond.
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Generally - I have more trouble hitting abilities since I’ve switched away from click-to-cast. Maybe it’s just more visible. Anyway, abilities aren’t cast the way you’d intuitively think. Casting Kael’s living bomb can go on a totally different target, based on where people are on the server when the command is getting there. Using point and click abilities is more of a lottery for me.
High latency - like playing in the US from EU - increases the visibility of the issue. It’s super obvious with Rexxar, when I command my pet to go back and attack a minion behind me and it suddenly charges a tower in the opposite direction. I mean, poor hand-eye coordination is a thing but those cases are a little beyond that. Less visible with typical point and click because you can’t really use Lightning Shield on an enemy tower. Since playing cross-region I developed this habit seen with RTS players, 3-500 APM but it’s just repeating the same command over and over and over. Like right clicking the same enemy 5 times per second. Similarly I usually press W on Rehgar 3-7 times to get it off. The presence of a teammate/enemy around the location can mess it up. Most visible with point and click because usually it’s a busy fight, i.e. shield goes on the tank.
It is a possibility that the core design of the game is click and cast and using quick cast still does two round trips (prepare & release), causing these shenanigans. With a ping of 200 to the US that adds up quite nicely.
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Could it just be ghosting on your keyboard? Assuming you might have some custom keybinds as it would be somewhat hard to land an awkward combination of key presses, even on accident.
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it might have just been cold hands today but i was playing Mei in aram and i noticed most of the time i’d use ice slide i’d hit again to cancel it early and it wouldn’t cancel.
but like i said my hands might just be cold and i’m not pressing the key down far enough XD
If you ask me - not sure due to the edit - it’s unlikely.
I don’t have anything fancy set up.
D3 and WoW are/were also a bit problematic cross-region. 150-200 ping is very noticeable and you can move the mouse a lot in that window. Also players can move away. With point and click you actually need to hit. It just doesn’t fire instead of a miss.
I have no issues in other games, except in case of latency / stuttering.
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Doesn’t need to be anything fancy, for example if I press down QW or QA my R becomes unresponsive and won’t register at all until I release something that is already pressed. Especially with how the default layout is set up, this is entirely possible with some heroes.
^This. I just checked and yes, anytime my brand had activated late was a latency issue. It’s only has to be a very spike to slow the input.