Every now and then my Shephard seems to get stuck facing in one direction. Mouse will move the character, but not my aim. Controls will move me relative to the character, so pressing "w" will move my forward in the direction Shephard is stuck facing rather than where I'm looking.Seems to resolve itself in about a minute, not sure if it's just time or me trying to move around. No specific key/key combination seems to do it.

@EA_Illium After playing some more i got the feeling that it is a error in the inertia code when turning the character around, that seems to get stuck at times and then unstuck after a short while again, it happens randomly.

@AugustsEve Are you using the default settings, or has anything been changed?

@EA_IlliumControl wise, no. I've got the difficulty on Veteran, squads set to auto level-up and to automatically use all powers instead of just defensive - those were the only settings changes made.I'm not 100% on this, but to my recollection every time it's happened I've exited an area with enemies still in it - maybe something with the transition from combat to non with enemies still in the vicinity?

I noticed this happening to my character in ME as well, also if the bug occurred while I was in the Mako, it would cause the Mako to just stop moving or shooting.

@AugustsEve It's possible can you test leaving an area after killing all enemies to see if this happens?

Controls Stuck - Relative to Char

14 Replies

EA_Illium
EA Staff (Retired)
5 years ago
@AugustsEve Are you using the default settings, or has anything been changed?
AugustsEve
5 years ago
@EA_IlliumControl wise, no. I've got the difficulty on Veteran, squads set to auto level-up and to automatically use all powers instead of just defensive - those were the only settings changes made.
I'm not 100% on this, but to my recollection every time it's happened I've exited an area with enemies still in it - maybe something with the transition from combat to non with enemies still in the vicinity?
Aveliexa
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I noticed this happening to my character in ME as well, also if the bug occurred while I was in the Mako, it would cause the Mako to just stop moving or shooting.
EA_Illium
EA Staff (Retired)
5 years ago
@AugustsEve It's possible can you test leaving an area after killing all enemies to see if this happens?
LightYagami245
5 years ago
@EA_Illium I'm not OP, but I've experienced this a few times (two or three after a battle and one in the Citadel walking around C-Sec or the Embassies [forgot which one]). For one of the battle situations, it was fixed after I left the area (I died in the other one because of it). The Citadel scenario was fixed after leaving the area.
UPDATE: I just encountered this bug again after a battle on grissom system for one of the side missions. When I opened and closed the menu screen, the problem was resolved. I didnt have to leave the area.
EA_Illium
EA Staff (Retired)
5 years ago
@LightYagami245 Did the remaining enemies seem to have any effect on the bug?
LightYagami245
5 years ago
@EA_Illium The only time the enemies impacted the bug was in the first battle I experienced the bug in (forgot which mission it was in, but it was not for the Grissom mission), where I was killed due to that.

Other than that instance, the issue occurred after all the enemies had been killed.
Sindrogo
5 years ago
I've had this in ME1 and ME2 so far. Seems to be after I snap from cover. In one occurrence, I could move but I couldn't fire (I had to reload the save). In ME2, I just tried going into the menu, codex, and exiting. That released the character control.
Default settings.
EA_Illium
EA Staff (Retired)
5 years ago
Thanks, everyone for sharing this information with me, I have shared this with our team to be further investigated.

For now, if you run into it, a quick save and reload should remove it in order to keep playing, however, once updates come out be sure to grab them and see if or how often this may continue to happen.

I will leave a link to Bioware's news and update page to make it a bit easier to check on any changes.

News & Updates

Thanks!
GALB
5 years ago
@EA_Illium it's not related to enemies still alive in area's, i got it at random everywhere in ME1LE and ME2LE, although less in 2.
I also got the same problem teporarily with not being able to fire my gun for a short while. Feels like the same kind of bug actually as the stuck direction/ not being able to aim bug.

It's randomly messing up the mouse controls for a short while, sometimes it's movement, sometimes it's unable to fire.
If it's movement, i can still fire, and vice versa.
The game seems to lose control of a part of the mouse.

But, it happens with the keyboard too, it also sometimes get unresponsive for like 20 seconds and then start working again.

The older versions of Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3 never had any bug with me, the Legendary Edition is riddled with bugs for me, crashes, control freezes, suddenly temporarily vanishing/teleporting NPC's.

It's obvious that it has something to do with porting the old code to the newer Unreal engine, probably some deprecated script commands that need to be corrected. Tell the devs to search for it in the controllers code.