Input drops

Harbinger195 · May 18

So like many of us who have been playing this game for a while. It's no new story that the game has always had questionable consistency with input drops. However, talking with my alliance mates there really seems have have been a massive increase in the issue pretty much since the AI issues initially started (you know the one where kabam openly said they had not touched the AI and that we as a community were tripping and then months later said "so yeah we have been tinkering with the AI for a while now and it has caused a few issues").

Now honestly if it was just the standard I think it would just be one of those things we take on the chin but seriously anyone else feel it's just getting worse and worse with every new event that gets dropped? I have had days where I start to play and after a few fights go, nope today is apparently not the day for this.

Is it just the fact that there is too much content being released and the game cannot handle it or is it literally down to bad programming or is it just a case of it's the same as it's always been just seems worse when looking at a small data pool like a single alliance?

So yeah, what the experience been like for the wider community ?

SecondSkriller · May 18

I failed 5 parries in a row in AW today. I’m a mysterium level player that has played for the last 9 years. The input issues are atrocious.

Harbinger195 · May 18

Do you find it's worse in certain modes or find just randomly triggers? For me I find there is no consistency with it, like say I go to play some act 8 and find it just impossible with the drops. I can go I to say area for example and not have a single issue.

ahmynuts · May 18

Harbinger195 said:
Do you find it's worse in certain modes or find just randomly triggers? For me I find there is no consistency with it, like say I go to play some act 8 and find it just impossible with the drops. I can go I to say area for example and not have a single issue.

I've seen no consistency. It's just random in every mode. Arena, aq, aw, bgs, etc.

Chuck_Finley · May 18

Battlegrounds yesterday… activated Venom’s striker, screen froze for a second, game came back just before the passive stun ended. I tapped twice as quickly as I could to continue a combo…. Venom just stood there. Then got smashed in the face.

Good times.

JT_Supreme · May 18

Marvel contest of dropped inputs

Harbinger195 · May 18

That's rough to happen in battlegrounds, I had not thought about the screen freeze but you are dead on that seem to happen about as much as the dropped inputs

DrZola · May 18

It happens all the time. I’ve had a rough bout of it in SoS today, and there’s really no explanation for it other than poor coding and poor server performance in my view. I’ve done everything I can on my end—I’m just a lowly consumer.

Dr. Zola

WayWorn2525 · May 18

While dodging bullseye sp1, I evaded the first 2 hits but, while trying to evade the 3rd hit, my champ is blocking instead of dexxing. It doesn't seem to register the swipe at all. It does whatever action it wants at times.

Terminatrix · May 19

Not trying to hijack your post or anything, but here's a link to a post I made about this months ago. So many complaints and experiences from players, but @Kabam still choose to remain quiet.

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/362069/kabam-whats-the-update-on-the-ai-issues-dropped-inputs-and-other-bug-fixes/p1

Moghazy · May 19

I have noticed alot of swiping misses since the last update. Very noticeable when fighting doom. You try to evade his sp2 and the last swipe somehow never registers.

Harbinger195 · May 19

@Terminatrix your good

, I just think it's good to keep posts like this going and live since as you say Kabam just seem to want to ignore the issue. So the more we as a community keep it in their face the less oppertunity they have to save face.

Musikmen · May 19

It's been very frustrating so far this month - so many missed dexterity moves plus what I feel to be non-activating specials or strikers. I think I've ended up restarting the most in recent memory.

jj_jj_9 · May 19

I've been getting lots of these

DrZola · May 19

I will add that it seems to me that the response area on the left side of my screen has shifted ever so slightly—I’m finding blocks that suddenly become light dashes, blocks that don’t block (even though they are just above the striker button). Same side, dexes are happening a tad slow (but enough to not dex).

New phone, sure, but same size as last one and my thumbs (as far as I can tell) haven’t grown.

Is it my imagination? Have I suddenly developed a chronic case of “lazy thumb” or “thumb drop”? Have I suddenly developed a real life case of reversed control?

I doubt it—just like I doubt the team is able to fix this or a dozen other similar issues. But it helps a little to come on here and see it’s not just me.

Dr. Zola

Harbinger195 · May 19

@DrZola I get you bud, I feel the same way when out of the blue I get days where I suddenly miss the special button. Made all the worse with the drops so even when I land it it does not activate and I get to the point of thinking...is my game just straight trolling me now?

BeastDad · May 19

Between the rampant cheaters and ever increasing bugs and non functioning controls, there’s not much to like right now.

PantherusNZ · May 19

As a note - it will SEEM like it happens much more in more competitive gameplay because it makes so much more of a difference there. If it happens in Arena is barely has an effect, but if it happens in AW (or even worse, Battlegrounds) then it means so much more and so is more noticeable.

BloodyRose · May 20

This is getting insane.

Lately when triggering Sp3 on different champs the game isn't registering when I tap and I am frequently getting "Too late!" and not getting the SP3 10-20% bonus. This one is new for me.

Also, I can be across the battlefield and while I am holding a tap on the left for a block it isn't registering and I get creamed. This happens several times a day.

Then, there's the randomly dashing across the screen into a medium attack while holding block Today, I forget which champ I was using, but I was fighting Thing and holding a block. Then, all of a sudden my champ goes flying across the screen as if I just swiped a medium attack. I've seen some people on the forum saying this is normal when fighting Magneto or Onslaught, but it's happening randomly at least once a day.

Lestat2499 · May 20

One of the issues I’m facing in all modes is when the fight starts and I go to parry. Same way I always have since the game started. But now it doesn’t register and I take a combo to the face. It’s not every time. But it’s often enough to know something isn’t right.

DocWest · May 20

The opening parry has been SO bad lately. There are so many times across many different modes where the opening parry at the start of the fight fails and I eat a 5 hit combo. Super frustrating.

I’ve also had issues with the stricker button not working lately. I’ll be mashing it while it’s glowing and nothing happens.

BloodyRose · May 20

DocWest said:
The opening parry has been SO bad lately. There are so many times across many different modes where the opening parry at the start of the fight fails and I eat a 5 hit combo. Super frustrating.

I’ve also had issues with the stricker button not working lately. I’ll be mashing it while it’s glowing and nothing happens.

Smashing the striker OR the SP button doesn't work a lot! You'll see it light up with each tap but nothing happens

IlociaM97 · May 20

My game said that my phone doesn't support higher framrate do I can't complain I guess, at least I still can play

WayWorn2525 · May 20

It so horrendously bad, swiping back, my player decides to dash forward, what kind of BS is this?
I hope I'm around to see the servers shut down.

WayWorn2525 · May 20

BloodyRose said:
This is getting insane.

Lately when triggering Sp3 on different champs the game isn't registering when I tap and I am frequently getting "Too late!" and not getting the SP3 10-20% bonus. This one is new for me.

Also, I can be across the battlefield and while I am holding a tap on the left for a block it isn't registering and I get creamed. This happens several times a day.

Then, there's the randomly dashing across the screen into a medium attack while holding block Today, I forget which champ I was using, but I was fighting Thing and holding a block. Then, all of a sudden my champ goes flying across the screen as if I just swiped a medium attack. I've seen some people on the forum saying this is normal when fighting Magneto or Onslaught, but it's happening randomly at least once a day.

Is it in Onslaught's kit to be dashing forward when trying to dash back? Probably didn't read carefully to notice reverse control.

DrZola · May 20

PantherusNZ said:
As a note - it will SEEM like it happens much more in more competitive gameplay because it makes so much more of a difference there. If it happens in Arena is barely has an effect, but if it happens in AW (or even worse, Battlegrounds) then it means so much more and so is more noticeable.

100% this.

Dr. Zola

Deacon · May 20

PantherusNZ said:
As a note - it will SEEM like it happens much more in more competitive gameplay because it makes so much more of a difference there. If it happens in Arena is barely has an effect, but if it happens in AW (or even worse, Battlegrounds) then it means so much more and so is more noticeable.

Absolutely this! Which is why I pushed for some sort of balance when it came to tokens won/loss. You can't guarantee an even playing field so there needs to be a good balance when it comes to the results of a loss because a lot of them are out of the user's hands. Dropped inputs, having your team picked for you sometimes .. the list goes on.

Calling it a "competitive" mode isn't accurate. It's not competitive more than it is luck of the draw.

Terminatrix · May 20

Harbinger195 said:
@Terminatrix your good , I just think it's good to keep posts like this going and live since as you say Kabam just seem to want to ignore the issue. So the more we as a community keep it in their face the less oppertunity they have to save face.

Absolutely! 👊🏽

Terminatrix · May 20

DocWest said:
The opening parry has been SO bad lately. There are so many times across many different modes where the opening parry at the start of the fight fails and I eat a 5 hit combo. Super frustrating.

I’ve also had issues with the stricker button not working lately. I’ll be mashing it while it’s glowing and nothing happens.

This happened to me earlier today in Act 8, and many times before. I knew I had parried, but the AI hit right through it as if they were unblockable. It wasn't in the AI's kit, and there was no disorient, block penetration, or any other node buffs that would allow that. NOTHING.

Same happened with the striker button and specials too. Mash it, nothing happens. And best believe that's when the AI will immediately counter and throw it's special.

Terminatrix · May 20

SecondSkriller said:
I failed 5 parries in a row in AW today. I’m a mysterium level player that has played for the last 9 years. The input issues are atrocious.

Now if THIS doesn't speak volumes, then I don't know what will. And Kabam is just going to keep on blatantly ignoring us.

Harbinger195 · May 21

It's a joke for sure but equally it brings me some comfort to know others are in the same boat

Input drops

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