#joypad bug

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hollow hemlock
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I had this same thing happen to me and had to resort to using my mouse to select the 4th skill. No idea what triggered the bug though so it's going to be annoying for the devs to reproduce.

hollow hemlock
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I discovered another bug. After banning two skill cards and rerolling twice with one remaining, I was no longer able to use the joystick, making rerolls and other actions impossible. Only the mouse worked. Of course, it was still usable in-game. The aforementioned skill selection issue.

warped swallow
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heyoo! Thank you for reporting this, everyone!

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warped swallow
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# warped swallow gabu, are you also using the Xbox controller? 😮

So, my situation is probably going to be your weirdest setup. I'm actually playing under Linux using Proton GE. As for the controller itself, it's a GuliKit controller and it's in the DirectX mode. Superficially it looks like an XBox controller, but I'm not sure under the hood if it's pretending to be an XBox controller or not.

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for the purposes of developers it's probably best to think of me as playing on a SteamDeck

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also I should point out this only happened to me a single time and didn't repeat. I was able to select the 4th option prior to this happening and was able to again after it happened.

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so it's something intermittent (which are always the absolute worst to debug), and I honestly have no idea what I might have done different in that singular occurrence that could have contributed towards this.

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I was prepared to just chock it up to Linux weirdness honestly until I saw someone else had reported the issue.

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# warped swallow Beata when this issue happened, do you see a cursor appearing on your screen whi...

I can't speak for Beata, but in my case, I did not see a mouse cursor until I moved my mouse. Initially it was behaving exactly like it normally did with the gamepad except that it refused to allow selection of the 4th option. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd option, as well as being able to select current abilities and the re-roll all worked as normal, but it was like as far as the game was concerned the 4th option didn't exist.

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my best slightly educated guess, is that internally there's an index tracking the currently selected ability and there's a check to make sure that index isn't exceeding the total number of skill cards being displayed. Somehow that max count used in that check is getting out of sync with the actual total number of skill cards (likely the result of a race condition).

hoary flame
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Just experienced another joypad related bug. After I banished a skill card my joypad is stuck in the top left corner where existing skills and evolutions are. I can move around between all of those but it won't let me select skill cards or the re-roll/banish/freeze buttons. Mouse is working fine, but if I didn't have a mouse I'd be softlocked at this point.

warped swallow
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Hemlaur! Thank you for all the details you shared, Gabu! It's very helpful aaa!!!

Alright I've relayed this to the team, and we will investigate this! I will be back if we need to ask you more info regarding this yes yes! Thank you very muchhh :>

hollow hemlock
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And there's another problem. The damage output isn't enough when using the poison skill, so as the number of mobs increases, the game occasionally freezes for more than 0.5 seconds while moving.

My PC: Intel Pentium Gold G6400 @ 4.00 GHz
16G, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, SSD, Windows 11 64bit

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After writing the report, I returned to the game and was looking for weapon upgrades. As shown in the image, I clicked the investment option to increase the recharge rate of the Garlic Hammer three times. However, the game didn't respond for a moment, then skipped the investment process and all three investments were made. In other words, there was a delay in the game. This phenomenon doesn't occur in my Tower of Babel Survivor game.

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hoary flame
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these might be better as a separate bug report rather than nested under the joypad bug report. That said, I have noticed that the UI is a little slow to respond at times. It's not a framerate issue, but rather I've seen where when I select some menu option (such as banishing a skill or freezing one) that there's a noticeable delay of around a second after the previous skills are cleared away before the new skills get drawn in.

hoary flame
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Got another gamepad bug. Banished two skill cards (so only 1 card left) and after banishing the second skill card the gamepad stopped functioning on that screen. Nothing appeared to be selected, and I couldn't select anything with the gamepad. I used the mouse to pick the skill card and after that it resumes working normally again. Something is definitely screwy in the code that tracks the gamepad selection on the skill selection screen.

hollow hemlock
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The issue resurfaced. I attempted to report the issue during gameplay by switching from the Steam window to Discord, then posting on Discord. When I returned to the game, the ESC key and other actions didn't work. The controller stick moved, but the buttons didn't work. After a while, I noticed that pressing the ESC key was delayed. After that, the game closed normally.

warped swallow
hollow hemlock
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When selecting a skill card, sometimes the joystick moves to the upper left. I wonder why it has to go all the way up. As I mentioned before, the attached video shows the problem where the highlight on the joystick moves up and then doesn't go down. I had no choice but to select the skill with the mouse. After that, I leveled up again and banned one of the skill cards. Now I can't select the skill with the joystick again. Also, why do only two cards appear when I ban a skill and reroll? I wish it would make it so that three cards appear again. * The time at which the video and symptoms appeared is as of now.*

hollow hemlock
# warped swallow Hmm regarding the occasional freeze, do you have any video of this showing the F...

I figured out how to display FPS in the Steam launcher, but unfortunately, the recorded video doesn't display the FPS. I've noticed that the FPS drops to 20 FPS during the lag period. It's possible that this is just a temporary number displayed on the monitor, and it may have dropped to the teens. Videos posted on Discord and forums show smooth gameplay. This seems to occur when using the poison skill in conjunction with the game. It could be due to the numerous effects that cover the screen.

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