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[YaoYaoYiffy]

Sometimes when I set my throttle by keyboard (inevitably Num0 for full speed) it sticks. By this I mean: I can do other things unrelated to my speed and I'll keep moving at full speed. Things like chat, open the scoreboard, or opening the large map. But sometimes doing any of these things causes my throttle to spaz out and drop back to 0. When this happens it happens for the entire match.

This is pretty annoying when I'm sprinting across the map to get to a point and I can't open my map to check positions without becoming a sitting duck. It's even worse when I run into an enemy lance under ECM cover and I'm trying to sprint away to stay alive and smash out "flanking left side" into chat without coming to a complete stop.

The issue is sporadic, I change nothing in options or how I play and maybe 1/3 matches the throttle won't stick.

[Xenon Megablast]

YaoYaoYiffy, on 11 May 2013 - 02:26 PM, said:

The issue is sporadic, I change nothing in options or how I play and maybe 1/3 matches the throttle won't stick.

For me it's far from sporadic, it's actually a 100% reproducible issue (with an easy manual workaround).

If you do a quick test, you might notice that opening map, chat, etc. will always reset your throtlle, _unless_ you previously moved both forward *and* backward manually (i.e. the default W/S keys). After you do that, the problem disappears for the rest of the match.

The next match, issue is back - you start with a throttle, open your map or chat, your mech instantly stops. You move forward/backward, engage your throtle - and voila, the problem is gone for the match.

I'm still ocassionally dying to this, when I forget the magic combination beginning each match, and realize only too late that I'm a sitting duck in the middle of an open field, while checking my map