WARDOGS · PC · version Season 01–02Movement keys stop responding mid-match
UnconfirmedReported as unpatchedUpdated
Players report that partway through a match their character stops responding to movement keys (only jump works) or freezes in place. Several reports link it to using text chat, including while driving. Switching weapons usually brings movement back, and one player says turning off the chat box stopped it. Team17 support said in September that other players had reported it and that the reports were sent to the team; players were still reporting it on October 22 and 23.
Lifecycle
Acknowledged · stage 3 of 5
48days open
Since first report
- Reported (reached)
- Confirmed (not yet)—
- Acknowledged (reached) · now
- Partial (not yet)next
- Patched (not yet)—
- Game
- WARDOGS
- Platform
- PC
- Affected version
- Season 01–02
- Kind
- Bug
- Confirmation
- Unconfirmed
- Patch status
- Reported as unpatched
- First reported
- Last updated
- Latest fix or workaround
- Workaround, : Switching weapons (e.g. to the monocular) makes the movement keys work again. 1 more post in the thread. Source
How we label issues
Kind
- Exploit: Repeatable and clearly advantageous to the player using it; essentially cheating.
- Bug: Everything else: crashes, launch errors, broken features, visual or audio faults.
Confirmation
- Confirmed: A developer or official account acknowledged it, an official known-issues board lists it, it appears in official patch notes, or 100+ corroborating posts on X were actually counted.
- Unconfirmed: None of the above yet. Press articles are reports and never confirm an issue on their own.
Patch status
- Unpatched: Known and open; no fix has been claimed.
- Reported as unpatched: Players credibly report it persisting, including after a fix claim that never appeared in patch notes.
- Partially patched: Official patch notes list a fix, but credible later reports say it still happens, or the notes only cover part of it.
- Reported as patched: A developer, official account or player says it is fixed, but no official patch notes list it.
- Patched: Official patch notes (a Steam news post or the publisher's patch notes page) list the fix, and nothing credible says it still happens.
Active means still affecting players: Unpatched, Reported as unpatched or Partially patched. Patched and Reported as patched issues are closed.
Estimated impact runs from 0.1 to 9.9 with one decimal. xploitr sets it from the rubric below. Factors: advantage to other players, reach, play blocked or progress lost, frequency, and whether a reliable workaround exists. Patched issues keep their historical impact.
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Impact bands
- 0.1–2.9 Low: Cosmetic, audio, text and UI glitches with no effect on play.
- 3.0–4.9 Moderate: Narrow gameplay bugs or small exploits, rare or with a workaround.
- 5.0–6.9 Elevated: Bugs most players in a mode notice: hit registration, desync, balance-breaking damage.
- 7.0–8.4 High: Widely abused competitive or economy exploits; crashes many players hit.
- 8.5–9.9 Severe: Launch blockers, widespread progress or item loss, exploits that break the game for everyone.
Each issue has a dated timeline of updates (report, acknowledgement, announcement, fix, workaround). Update summaries are our own words; quotes and excerpts are the source's words, or our English translation when marked.
Updates · 14
- Report
Sep 11: mid-drive, WASD stopped working while other keys (lean, brake, get out) still did; it worked normally again in the Firing Range.
Viperous Slayer · Steam · Forum thread ·
“I was driving a truck and mid-trip I lost all WASD functionality, literally. I could lean, get out, brake with space bar, drop pallets, etc but I could not move around at all. I tabbed out to make sure it wasnt my keyboard. When I left the server I loaded up in the Firing Range and everything …”
Viperous Slayer · Steam · Forum thread · Open source - Workaround
Turning off the chat box under Options › Interface stopped it for this player.
n0str4d4nu5 · Steam · Forum reply ·
“I had the same Problem. I turned off the Chatbox in the Options/Interface and it fixed it! Last edited by n0str4d4nu5; Sep 15 @ 11:23am”
n0str4d4nu5 · Steam · Forum reply · Open source - Acknowledged
Team17 support (Steam developer badge): it has received reports of chat disabling movement from other players as well and has sent them to the team to investigate.
Team17_Service · Steam · Forum reply ·
“Hello there Xeddow, Thank you for reaching out to us about the issue you are having with the chat disabling your movement in WARDOGS. Please know that we have received reports on this matter by other playes as well and we have now taken all the information from these reports and sent it all over …”
Team17_Service · Steam · Forum reply · Open source - Report
Couldn't open or see chat; it later popped open by itself.
Can'tTouchThis · Steam · Forum thread ·
“can't open or see chat either. Now my chat randomly popped up open. Seems like there's some kind of rare chat bug that causes chat to vanish?”
Can'tTouchThis · Steam · Forum thread · Open source - Report
Opening text chat right after leaving a menu can fail; the hidden chat keeps capturing keyboard input so the character can't move. 1 more post in the thread.
myra · Steam · Forum thread ·
“A bug keeps occurring for me where (i believe) when I leave a menu, if i quickly open text chat, the game freaks out and fails to open the chat, but in doing so, it still pulls my keyboard inputs, making it to where my key inputs are going to the non-loaded chat menu and not actually moving. …”
myra · Steam · Forum thread · Open source - Workaround
Switching weapons (e.g. to the monocular) makes the movement keys work again. 1 more post in the thread.
Comrade Meowman · Steam · Forum thread ·
“in that situation just switch weapons and it starts working again. i just switch from my primary weapon to monocular and the movement keys start working again.”
Comrade Meowman · Steam · Forum thread · Open source - Report
Oct 22: WASD randomly stops working, and players can't hold F to exit vehicles.
@itsScubby on X ·
@itsScubby on X · · View post
- Report
Oct 22: a player says it happened twice in Season 2, both times after using chat while driving; the arrow keys still moved them but WASD only changed equipment.
maceface72 · Steam · Forum reply ·
“I believe this is still an issue. It’s happened to me twice in season 2, and in both instances it was following using the chat while driving. Arrow keys worked for movement afterwards, but wasd just changed my selected equipment.”
maceface72 · Steam · Forum reply · Open source - Report
Asks the developers whether they know about a bug that stops players moving; it hit them and two others yesterday and again today.
@PabloZecone on X ·
@PabloZecone on X · · View post
- Report
Oct 23: a player says the bug is still very much an issue.
SooperBoomer · Steam · Forum reply ·
“This bug is still very much an issue.”
SooperBoomer · Steam · Forum reply · Open source - Report
Oct 26: a 300-hour player says some keys randomly stop working mid-match, WASD one day and the voice keys the day before.
Community report · Steam · Forum thread ·
“Today all of a sudden WASD stopped working. And yesterday J and K that I use for VoIP stopped working. But the other buttons still work fine.”
Community report · Steam · Forum thread · Open source - Report
Oct 26: another player sees it sometimes while driving or flying.
Community report · Steam · Forum reply ·
“Happens to me when driving flying sometimes.”
Community report · Steam · Forum reply · Open source - Report
Oct 26: a third player sees it after being revived.
Community report · Steam · Forum reply ·
“happens to mee to after getting revived”
Community report · Steam · Forum reply · Open source - Report
Oct 26: a player in the WASD thread says it just happened to them too, a month after the thread began.
Community report · Steam · Forum reply ·
“this bug just happened to me too.”
Community report · Steam · Forum reply · Open source
Sources · 141 Developer13 CommunityTeam17_ServiceSteam · Forum replyDeveloper+ 13 similar community reportsHide
“Hello there Xeddow, Thank you for reaching out to us about the issue you are having with the chat disabling your movement in WARDOGS. Please know that we have received reports on this matter by other playes as well and we have now taken all the information from these reports and sent it all over …”
- @itsScubbyView post
“@WARDOGS Yo there's a bug where you can't use WASD randomly and also you can't hold F to get out of vehicles can ya'll fix it please”
- @PabloZeconeView post
“Hey @Brammflakes @WARDOGS are you aware of a bug that causes players to not be able to move? Happened to me and 2 other guys yesterday and seen it happen again today.”
- Viperous SlayerSteam · Forum threadOpen
“I was driving a truck and mid-trip I lost all WASD functionality, literally. I could lean, get out, brake with space bar, drop pallets, etc but I could not move around at all. I tabbed out to make sure it wasnt my keyboard. When I left the server I loaded up in the Firing Range and everything …”
- Can'tTouchThisSteam · Forum threadOpen
“can't open or see chat either. Now my chat randomly popped up open. Seems like there's some kind of rare chat bug that causes chat to vanish?”
- myraSteam · Forum threadOpen
“A bug keeps occurring for me where (i believe) when I leave a menu, if i quickly open text chat, the game freaks out and fails to open the chat, but in doing so, it still pulls my keyboard inputs, making it to where my key inputs are going to the non-loaded chat menu and not actually moving. …”
- maceface72Steam · Forum replyOpen
“I believe this is still an issue. It’s happened to me twice in season 2, and in both instances it was following using the chat while driving. Arrow keys worked for movement afterwards, but wasd just changed my selected equipment.”
- SooperBoomerSteam · Forum replyOpen
“This bug is still very much an issue.”
- Community reportSteam · Forum threadOpen
“Today all of a sudden WASD stopped working. And yesterday J and K that I use for VoIP stopped working. But the other buttons still work fine.”
- Community reportSteam · Forum replyOpen
“Happens to me when driving flying sometimes.”
- Community reportSteam · Forum replyOpen
“happens to mee to after getting revived”
- Community reportSteam · Forum replyOpen
“this bug just happened to me too.”
- n0str4d4nu5Steam · Forum replyOpen
“I had the same Problem. I turned off the Chatbox in the Options/Interface and it fixed it! Last edited by n0str4d4nu5; Sep 15 @ 11:23am”
- Comrade MeowmanSteam · Forum threadOpen
“in that situation just switch weapons and it starts working again. i just switch from my primary weapon to monocular and the movement keys start working again.”