I can’t believe I have logged in after another 2 week break to find the strafe bug still in the game.
Seriously, this was a problem back in May the Blizzard devs called out in a blue post, confirmed it was an issue, and then fixed. And then it came back about 3 or 4 weeks ago, and it’s still not fixed.
This is literally game breaking for anyone that uses mouse 4/5 to strafe, and no, I can’t just switch, given all of my keybinds for every character I play revolve around this dynamic.
If anyone from Blizzard needs a refresher these posts should have all the information you need
To make matters worse, they appear to have introduced the bug into the WOTLK client with the latest update. Do they just want their game to be unplayable??? Movement is extremely important in this game and they are messing it up for everyone who isn’t a keyboard turner.
I installed “Key Remapper” software, re-bound my strafe in-game to F8, F9, then rebound my mouse buttons to F8, F9 and it works like a charm. The bug has something to do with the client creating its own Toggle Auto Run hotkey to Mouse Button 4 or 5 that doesn’t get overwritten effectively
Yup, the bug is still there in 10.2, and still no response from Blizzard on this since it resurfaced back in September.
For reference, below is Blizzard Blue’s acknowledgement of the issue back in May, and what appears to be a genuine desire to see it fixed … to the point where it did get fixed. But why they have gone radio silent since it resurfaced? I have no idea.
Obviously the fix has been documented by internal ticketing and CI build tools, so it shouldn’t take a big effort to track it down and reimplement … I mean, any solutions architect, senior developer, release manager, etc. should be able to do this in their sleep … Come on blizz.
