Delayed or non-casting of abilities - serverside delay?

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I'm sure most of you will have noticed that quite frequently when you try to change from pressing one button to another - say holding down block and then releasing that and taping a heal then going back to block.... that in this case the heal just doesn't happen at all.

I was wondering if this could be caused by the keypresses being sent to the server to check if it is a valid request before the ability can be used?

So again in my example, the serve won't let the heal happen because it still thinks that I'm blocking...due to net lag.

It's just a guess really....but it's rather annoying to die because when you pressed block shortly after casting something else...that the block just doesn't happen and you have to release the key and press it again.

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For the first case (block cancels action), I think this is due to the action's Activation time and the fact that Block cancels pending actions so you get the block up as soon as possible.

For the second case (block does not come up even though the block key is down), this usually happens to me when I'm disabled and the keydown for Block gets discarded while disabled. There are definitely some lag issue here where what you seen on your screen is not what is happening on the server. For example, quite frequently I'll see myself in the "held press Z" mode, but I'm still attacking.

The third case I've noticed is caused by the Slot delay for Power Armor slots. This is most noticeable when trying to fire off Power Gauntlet immediately after Blocking. There is a about a 1 second delay where the Power Gauntlet keydown will be discarded where other (non-PA slot) skills would not.

Much of this comes down to learning the delays and activation times, but I do hope the devs will continue to work on making the keybinds and UI smoother.

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I have the same problem but not related to block.

It's just a general issue in duel and often in PVE too. Everytime I press an ability, it will get a yellow square around it telling me it is indeed being pressed.. but it's not going off and it can very take 2-3 sec before it finaly works... Which is insanly long when you have to heal between to knock in duel.

All of my abilities have that problem, I'll try to kick in Lock n' load followed by sonic device, and none of them will be activated. Outside of a fight they are instant, no need to hold, so I'm pretty sure it's a server related issue and not a feature at all.

Fighting against Might and heavy weapon as a ranged would be much less of a pain without that lag... Please fix this.

PS: and like I said, totaly unrelated to block for me, since I barely ever block in duel due to always being under effect of crippling challenge anyway. And you can't realy get used to the delay, since it's just preventing you from using those abilities between two stuns and the like.

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madmanmind wrote:

I have the same problem but not related to block.

Wow, talk about a necro. the thing is getting close to 2 years since it was last updated.

I used to have more problems with this "back in the day." However even now I'll sometimes get denied a Power Armor toggle.