Here is the proof this bug is 10 years old. A post made on 2015…
Linux Client, Keys get stuck :: War Thunder General Discussions
For people do not know, for some reason, the keys you pressed becomes sticky. If you press A to roll left, you remove your finger, your plane still rolls forever. If you use Alt key for some reason, even for an alt tab, your Alt key gets stuck as if you are pressing it. All the actions assigned to that key are processed by the game server.
This becomes even worse when keys get stuck are also related to your flight-or blocking the flight controls. You are in ARB, your Alt key is assigned to Free Look and suddenly, Alt gets stuck and you can’t control your plane away from ground.
This is getting embarrassing for a large company like Gaijin. No, don’t tell me to open a bug ticket. It is already opened by others. This is just to increase pressure on devs via forums-if it ever works. But I reported RP getting lost bug in forums before and it is fixed recently.
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I’ve been having this bug somewhat consistently happen when I alt tab for the past year or so, but i haven’t had any other keys stick.
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Ah this explains why a week or so ago I would get matches where I’d just tap A or D to make a small left or right correction and my tank would just keep turning while I frantically mashed buttons to make it stop.
Bonus points for when it happened in front of the enemy.
I can confirm that not only modifier keys but all keys can get stuck. I even bought new keyboard or problem with USB port for this. I think there is some type of queue system in the game that key presses are put into. For some reason queue breaks and your last pushed button stays in the queue.
One way I found is pressing that same key again, it kinda cancels it. For example, I get radio message menu without pushing T or Y keys. Repushing makes key closed. Sometimes this happens when I type something in chat with T or Y, either starting or ending. That T and Y doesn’t go to chat but command queue if you get what I mean.
Lmao i thought my keyboard keys are getting bad so they are giving wrong input and getting stuck never knew that could be big for this lmaooo just howww???
Are you on Linux, because another bug could seem to be similar if you’re under windows.
On windows if you hold shift (Commonly throttle up in planes) and hit wsd and even b, they’ll do nothing but put the throttle up.
If you hold B, and press shift it does nothing.
I have this happen when im messing around on my second monitor. A quick alt+tab out and back into the game fixes it.
I am on windows things that get stuck is one w for throttle and roll keys and alt most of the times
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Oh yes I was about to get new keyboard then i started doing this so I was meh what a weird keyboard
Yea, different bug. Similar, but different.
Became noticable once they added that multi-menu for weapons.
I am actually on Windows. Gave the link just for proof that it is recorded in history :)
just died to this as well. peak
I made a thread about this very issue 2 weeks ago and it was ignored… lol
Can you actually link to that?
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/wQPEtibEUvEF
Because this one is more what I’ve been having recently.
I think I also found this ticket. But people are talking about different key lockings, not only Shift button. It is an accepted bug but not fixed yet…
Had 3 times, W in Tornado, D in Scimitar, and W again in SAAB105. THAT PUSH
No wonder when i type gg after a game ends it uses all my snoke grenades, sometimes even transfers into the next match to mess with me
I haven’t had this particular bug happen to me yet (Pop OS 22.04), but I do have the issue where opening the radio quick menu in Air AB (probably in RB and SB too?) does NOT mask the weapons buttons (if they’re attached to the top row numbers), meaning opening the radio and saying something will still fire the weapons.
This does NOT happen in Ground battles, and I haven’t checked naval.
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Bring up the scorelist with tab, and press g and you’ll fire your smoke grens too.
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THIS!. Using radio and shooting small guns in ARB…