Perk select not working. The text under my health bar says “perk select not bound”. When I go in to option, it is bound to lalt by default. Tried unbinding and binding it again, also tried different key-bindings. Same result. Can’t select perks.
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I have the same issue. I noticed that changing other key binds is also not working. I had previously used Left Alt for my voice chat toggle, and when I unbound that it still kept toggling voice chat, so I think key binds are broken in general right now.
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It seems to be related to custom key binds, if I use a character that doesn’t have custom key binds they do work.
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I also have this issue, sometimes it works for me by switching keybinds, other times i need to switch hero and re-earn the levels for it to work. I´d hoped to get into comp today but I´ll have to wait.
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something to do with heroes with custom binds. select them in controls, it will have bound the perk menu to lalt on them too by default. should be able to rebind from there.
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So I actually had to go through and change all the heroes with custom settings individually. So like all my supps have custom keybinds, like crouch is on my mouse, etc. But all the heroes with no custom settings work just find with LALT as default. If that helps, at all…
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They seriously need to fix the custom binds per-character in general. It’s annoying as hell the way it has worked.
In general, ANY CUSTOM keybind on a per-character basis will disable ALL inheritance from the “All Heroes” settings. So when new features arrive that need keybinds, they really should propagate from “All Heroes” settings page, and “All Heroes” propagating from some default chosen by the devs (if not already used by the player). But instead, sadly, any cascading of all other keybind settings is disabled entirely for that hero. It’s super annoying and ridiculous. It will act as if EACH and EVERY keybinding is individually overriden even if you only override a single unrelated one.
Additionally, there seem to be several other bugs in effect here. I was not able to get Mercy to work even after undoing her supposed overrides for the new features from the Options menu within a match, so I got out of the match and did it again as suggested by comments here, but that still failed. I tried like 4 times and finally gave up and quit the game. So I think in addition to the bad design, it’s just bugged on top of it to no end. Hopefully they will fix.
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I am having this problem too.
Previous I have Lalt bound to crouch globally for all heros. (not specific heros) Dont know if that caused the initial problem or not.
Currently I’ve tried to set crouch back to L control, and set perks to Lalt. This still doesn’t work.
I’ve also tried setting crouch to Lalt, and perks to L control. This doesn’t work either.
This should fix the issue
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Okay, so I had the same issue and none of the other options resolved it but this did.
I found out I had LALT set to another control option (in my case Push-to-Talk/PTT) but it seems when they set the new perk select option to LALT they failed to put in any check for whether that key was already used. It also appears to bypass the check entirely because even though LALT was used by PTT changing the keybind off of LALT to something else (like 1 or 2) and then changing the setting back to LALT still doesn’t act the normal way and remove the other keybind from that key.
TLDR: You have LALT set to another keybind SOMEWHERE in the settings. Find it and kill it.
Edit: Also, even after fixing this, I found that for some reason the LALT for PTT control was selected as an override setting on some characters with control overrides. Once I went and scrubbed that setting from the overrides, everything worked properly.
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This worked, thanks! Super irritating that I had to do this one hero at a time when “All Heroes” should take the priority. 
I suspect previously having LALT bound to something else when this update began created the problem. I was using LALT for crouch. Hope that helps blizzard.
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This fixed it for me too. Thanks.
is there a fix for this? any update?
I tried to bind it with other keys, still not working
I had this bug and fixed it.
I had Lalt bound to a voiceline since OW. Just resetting to default fixes the issue and fully unbinds Lalt.
Just remember to screenshot your settings before restoring defaults.
This 100%. Out of fear of this breaking of inheritance I’ve had to avoid changing keybinds on some characters that I would have otherwise wanted to.
I had this issue also and keybinds would not stick mid match either, my issue in particular
was it was bound to my in game coms push to talk, worked fine until i joined chat then it would bug out, changing push to talk to something else solved the issue
It’s amazing how this thread is now 4 days old and it still is not fixed.
You guys at Blizz introduce shiny new feature, and literally, it does not work, because You can’t figure out how global setting interacts with custom heroes binds.
I came back to play OW after mostly playing Marvel recently, because I love that game and wanter to check out new feature.
The very first thing I was greeted with was: “choose perk button not bound”.
So i did bind it. And then couldn’t use it. So I restored it to default. And still it didn;t work. So i bound it to various buttons… and it didn;t wortk.
That is a pinaccle of bad experience.
Literally, HOW, did You allow this to happen?
A company bough for 60 billion, that can’t even do basic testing before release of major feature? WTF is that?
And now, You know of it for 3 FULL DAYS. and it’s still broken?
what a joke.
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I have issues with it, and im sick and tired of the annoying prompt.
A person has to turn off the game volume and turn off the hud so they can play the game. that is how bad it is.
Either that or they can do what ALL programmers do and ASSIGN a default button to it or REMOVE IT from the game.
—I personally don’t care about perks. W/e. if people use them, awesome. Not my deal.
The most funny part is that if LALT(perk menu) doesn’t bind successfully perk 1 and perk 2 binding doesn’t work either.