Zealot dash ability is *still* broken

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Bugs
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Pressing F to activate Zealot dash is a crapshoot and it always has been since this game came out.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes it’s delayed by a little, sometimes it’s delayed by A LOT.

I actually stopped playing DT for months after about 600hrs because of this bug - among others, but after coming back for a further 1400 hours of trying other things and experiementing with the new skill trees I am quite disappointed to find that this bug is still a thing now I am trying Dash Zealot again.

If my ability is ready and I press F I expect it to work just like all the other abilities. Invis works fine, Book works fine, all the abilities on all other characters seem to work just fine.

Zealot dash has always given me issues for some reason, and I have found other people with anecdotal statements that lead me to belive I am not alone.

I have gone as far as replacing my Corsair K70 with a K95 recently just to try and rule it out, so now my enitre PC is completely different to the one I started having this issue with.

So let me set the scene, you’re pinned in a doorway by the squad of gunners in the next room. No worries, I got my butter knoife, my dash is up, I scream “Oi you fokkin wot mate!” into the comms and long press F at the first target, ZOOM-stab-stab-stab-stab Oh hey crits built me another charge! Press F again! ZOOM-Stab-stab-stab-stab Another charge! Press F again… I said PRESS F AGAIN… FFF FFFFFFFFFFFFFF FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. F my life as I can no longer reposition, gain toughness or make it across the room to the last gunner or two who are now lighting me up.

Panic mode. Dodge, slide, run sideways, breath in to become a smaller target - anything to get out alive and not face the embarrasment of being a dead knife zealot. Barely scrap out the door way to turn around to reasses the situation, when suddenly ZOOM Oh F my life again as it finally triggers from my previous F mashing and sends me straight back into the shite.

Seriously WHY does this happen? Why doesn’t it happen with any other ability or character? and WHY IS IT STILL A THING A YEAR AND A HALF LATER.

Steps to Reproduce (Required):

  1. Choose Zealot with Dash ability.
  2. Press F.
  3. Wonder if it’s gonna go off now, later, or not at all.

[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):

Yes, and I’ve tried disabling them

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Common (<50%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

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I want to add that yeah, there are other problems with the dash, the double activation, the activation without the dash but spending the charge, the activation with the tiny dash that stops immediately.

I have had all of these but they are not as frequent as the just straight failure to do anything for me. Once I can press it and have it activate reliably, maybe I can get some more seat time with the other problems and will make posts about those too.

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I believe this has nothing with the game but more something like a lost packet.
I get this sort of bug in any online game…
like phantom bullets are also a connection problem.

but may be wrong…

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If it was multiple things on a regular basis I would think it was, but it only effects pressing F on dash Zealot. I never had Chorus fail to go off in 200hrs.

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it is only the zealot dash that has a “problem”
Spends the ability, gives you effects, but doesnt actually make you dash after being hit by a enemy ranged shot at the same time as activation.
But I’m guessing it aint even an issue because your dash cancels when your toughness breaks, negating dash as a panic button, being the actual design.

General rule of thumb is dont activate dash under enemy ranged fire or risk it failing.

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Mine doesn’t do anything when it fails, doesn’t spend the ability, doesn’t give any effects, nothing. It just doesn’t register as even being pressed (the OS and everything else like on screen KB display with keylogger etc all state F is being pressed.)

When I press it and it goes off after the fact it works fine, just anything from 5 to 30 seconds too late.

I do know what you mean though and it sucks when it happens too.

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For me it’s sometimes triggering two dashes even if “F” was pressed once. Now that it was mentioned there might be something. Till now, I was just convinced I have twitchy fingers or something.

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Oh yeah, that too. Thats a definite thing. Half the time it’s me with the constant fear of F not working and pressing it multiple times out of habit, but it does go off twice on one press for me sometimes too.

The whole not going off at all is currently far more common for me though.

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Ogryn charge has the same problem.

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for me it activates, gives effects, and it also gives me a planck second of dash activation till i jus stand there having to immediately check if my toughness broke

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Ive had this happen a few times where ill click the dash button nothing will happen so i click it again then he dashes twice using both my charges, very annoying.

Its coz the game has horrific stutter problems. every 30 seconds (ish) there will be a stutter where if you click anything during the stutter it doesnt pick up your button clicks. It does it with swapping weapons aswell gets me hit so much i hate it. I try to quick swap back to melee and buttons dont respond. Or ill shoot my gun, the gun fires (animation wise) but i have a bullet still in the chamber and no enemies got hit.

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Never had this happen with dash, but I’ve had it happen consistently with chorus, generally locking out the skill. Maybe it is a general problem.

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Iv had this with Zealot Dash, Ogryn Charge and with Zealot Chorus.
I just put it down to lag but now Im wondering.

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Same is happening to me. Double activation, no activation at all (but spending the charge), or I get shot out of the dash.
I thought that this was because I play with 250-280 ping, but now I see a lot of people having this problem. And it’s a big problem, it can get you killed.

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