L3 binded to open chat on PS5 (without pausing game)

General Discussion
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Logged in today and found my L3 is now binded to open chat. Im always clicking it accidentally on clutch moments which has rendered the game completeley unplayable for me. Is there a fix for this? Anyone else experiencing it? Thank you

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Its a game breaking bug. You gotta close the game and reopen and it fixes it until it happens again

Nearly lost me a game yesterday when a hero i was playing suddenly couldnt use an ability that i had binded to the same button cus it would just open the chatbox everytime mid match

AAA multil billion $ developer btw

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Canā€™t you remap that button? So itā€™s a bumper or something?

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Its un-mappable

The chat menu is only supposed to open if you click L3 when in the pause menu

With season 13 there is a game breaking bug which means anytime you press L3 it can open the chat even if you arent in the pause menu

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Are you sure. Because it should only do that when paused. Because L3 is jump for me and still is currently.

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How does a pause even work in a real time online game :joy:

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it would be nice if L3 could be bound to ping & teleporter so that players can ping and use teleporter without having choose between the two. which is unacceptable in 2025. as well as 2024.

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Why canā€™t you do that? It should be in the settings.

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My parents asked me that question ever since my first online multiplayer and they INSISTED there must be a way to pause it and that Iā€™m only too addicted, lazy, apathetic, uninterested and braindead (+ any other degrading unnecessary insults) to actually give in.

As far as I remember, they even once pulled the plug and gave me that classic ā€˜parent-to-child-talkā€™.

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if you bind L3 to [interact]
it removes L3 from [ping]
viceversa
proving that devs donā€™t play console at all.
it devs played console then maybe console would have actual aim assist for the first time ever. ow console = neglected.
if devs played console then a turn accelerator which could be activated with left thumbstick click allowing FULL turn speed, would be likely.

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Oh yeah you canā€™t double up really.

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you can if they code it to.
something such as that is inexcusable.
players shouldnā€™t have to chose between pinging players or using teleporter.
both are an L3 input. massive mindlessness. if OWL was console, it wouldā€™ve been done a half decade ago.

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Left stick is my TP button. But Iā€™m on PC. Mine hasnā€™t been changing my channels. Might be a console thing.

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you misread. i said:

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I just started getting this issue today. In-game, L3 is supposed to be my Interact button. But it is now opening the chat in the middle of gameplay as well. This has affected several matches so far. Given that the L joystick is for player movement, L3 can sometimes be triggered inadvertently in the heat of the moment depending on the fight. If it were Interact only, thatā€™d be manageable. But with it bringing up the text chat, it freezes me in place during pivotal moments, and takes me at least a second to realize what is going on before pressing Circle to exit the chat and try to regain momentum.