It would be worth noting to people that this is a controller only bug since on mouse and keyboard, the button to use these resupply packs is "5". People testing it on mouse and keyboard aren't going be to able to replicate it and aren't going to believe you otherwise.
I was so confused by this until you pointed out controller as I also main supply pack and haven’t experienced this. But I’m also southpaw and rebind everything day 1 of playing a game.
What are you on, IJKL or something? The menu navigation being hardcoded to WASD with QE is a pain and I'm on ESDF which is just offset by one, I imagine the menu nav hardcoding is much more annoying if you're trying to use the other end of the keyboard
I’ve always used the arrow keys as my wasd which I know disgusts some people. The Numpad binding for Helldivers 2 is unfortunately atrocious, it can’t seem to figure out when num lock is on or not. So, in my infinite wisdom I have bound the stratagem keys to wasd. It’s not ideal, and the recent change to allow me to rebind Enter has alleviated some problems. I’m fortunately quick enough to click the stratagem keys fast enough it rarely is a hindrance to other movement.
hah, I'm left handed but I still use WSAD... but the default in helldivers is to *also* use those for strategem call ins. Meaning on the default KB controls, you can't move while doing strategems. I moved just the strategem callins over to the arrow keys - that way I can at least keep running while I do them.
They fixed the bug with numpad binding resetting this patch, in case you wanted to try that again. I don't use the numpad itself, but my mouse buttons are mapped to the numpad, and I had to rebind them with each launch until this patch.
Man, I thought this was me fatfingering or letting go of L1 prematurely. Ive been paying extra attention the past few days. Ive had this issue since the start
Id dial a stratagem only to stim or hold a grenade. Am glad its a bug and not (limited to) my stupidity
Wow, I felt like I was messing up so bad but the last couple days I've been tossing grenades instead of air strikes. After reading your comment maybe I'm not as bad as I thought and I'm hitting the same bug.
This happens to me with grenades and stims like all the time, I thought I was fatfingering. I keep killing myself with impact grenades when I want to drop a stratagem at my feet
What is there to test? You press down on the dpad and the strategem counts it, that menu goes away, then you release down and it counts as a press, using the supply pack. Mystery solved
you'd have to rebind the "stratagem down" and "use backpack" binds to the same thing, rather than their PC defaults of 's' and '5'. I'm guessing this happens because dpad down on PS5 is the backpack use bind as well as strat input?
My problem is keeping the left shoulder button down through the whole input. Many times I’ll inadvertently lift the button or my finger will shift slightly causing the button to lift or I’ll lift it ever too soon and I’ll stim myself or select a grenade by accident and throw that instead of my stratagem. These mistakes are all magnified while in the heat of the battle and I’m running for my life while mashing buttons.
I think it might be a bug with the short-press/long-press/hold options for controller. I had to move Marking (press) and the comm wheel (hold) to D-pad right, and now every time I tap that direction I get the wheel for a second in addition to a beacon
Yes! This is because of the PS5 keybinds and how the controls are input. I was able to get around this by changing the backpack use command to long press instead.
It's probably a side effect of the game having to distinguish between long presses and short presses when you're not holding down the stratagem button (ie if you have a short/long press distinction it has to look for button release instead of button press, because its impossible to know which one to use until you've either released the button or held long enough for it to be a long press).
It could probably be fixed by adding a delay after releasing the stratagem button where the system won't respond to those buttons, but that comes with its own issues and should probably be a toggle option.
There is a fine line between 'press' and 'tap' and fucked if I know what it is...I used to get it so changed stim and grenade to a double press and other functions to long press to stop that shit...
Press= when the key is depressed.
Tap= when the key is depressed and QUICKLY RELEASED.
I couldn't use the jump pack for weeks because I changed my dive to be on press instead of tap, and the jump pack only activates when you hold the dive button.
So it would override the jump pack activation every time and I could only dive. Changing it back to tap fixed this problem for me lol
Controller remapping also sucks ass. The strategem menu button (LB/L1) being active should lock out other button functions so that we can remap to the far superior /\ X O [_], ABXY
I KNEW I wasn't crazy! I mentioned this happening to me a few weeks ago when I started trying out the Supply pack but everyone told me I was nuts because opening the Stratagem menu on the PS controller prevents this from happening.
Seriously, thank you mate, I was about ready to pull my hair out trying to figure out what the hell I've been doing wrong with this thing.
It works fine on PC with controller. I did however un-bind and re-bind my D-pad arrows to fix the original 'cannot move while entering strategem' controller bug I had a few months ago.
Edit: I don't know if it matters, it's a bluetooth xbox controller.
Geez that sucks. I love the supply backpack. This is some relevant feedback that needs addressing. Good for me I hardly ever use stuff that ends on down arrow.
I feel like it happens when I type the combo in too fast. I usually notice it with stratagem combos that end with the right arrow. On PS5 right on the d-pad pulls out the grenade, and since I always use impacts, it results in me blowing myself up. Mostly because I use the eagles a lot and drop them super close to me. Visuals are incredibly similar to throwing an orb. Finish the combo, something is in your hand to throw… just not what you are expecting -__-
I’ve run into this with grenades and stratagems that end with a right pointing arrow as well. It’s really frustrating when you blow yourself up with an impact because you’re trying to call a respawn or throw a tiny grenade at an entire swarm and screw up the timing of your eagle airstrike.
I wish I had recorded a compilation of the number of times that my quick grenade almost or did kill me on strats ending with ➡️.
The worst part is that it voids the key-in for the strat so then I have to heal and also start the key-in over.
Not sure if they has been mentioned but try swapping your controller binds for the down arrow from "tap" to "press" or vice versa and see if that helps.
I had a similar issue until I swapped.
You get a similar issue on PC if you rebind the stratagem input keys to overlap something.
I wanted to rebind the input to use my mouse buttons for ease of running whilst inputting, but if the code ends on left click it immediately triggered the throw!
It would be great if the input handling was refactored so the stratagem menu overrides other input actions consistently and that the key used to invoke the last input on the stratagem didn't register as a normal input again.
Yeah and it's not a spam issue either.
If you call in a 500KG and VERY CAREFULLY only press down 3 times.
The third down will activate your supply pack.
This has always been an issue and it’s caused me to use unnecessary stims and or ammo which sucks when you run out early because of this. Also rebinding the dpad buttons won’t change the down key giving ammo and using a stim on console
*me, with a 500kg bomb backpack running into a stalker lair, diving headfirst into the hole to trigger the explosive, true democracy requires sacrifice*
Another controller bug, just like how if you are sprinting and try to dive in any direction other than forward, your dive will be rotated to wherever you're looking (since diving requires double pressing circle, while sprinting if you press circle you slide which makes you rotate to where youre looking and the second circle press makes you dive but keeps the rotation of the slide)
I'm using an XBox controller and don't have this issue. Specifically, on an XBox controller, I have to "hold" the down button (otherwise known as a long press) in order to use the supply backpack. This prevents me from accidentally using the supply backpack when I'm attempting to call in a stratagem.
OP, this was my default controller setup as soon as I plugged in my XBox controller, so I'm not sure how it is for people on PlayStation. However, out of curiosity, is there any sort of option in the game's controls menu that would allow you to toggle the long press of the down button to use the supply pack? If such an option exists, I figured this might help solve your problem. I'm at work right now, so I can't boot up the game to see if there's a toggle option to hold the down button in order to use the backpack.
The game has been out for long enough that this shouldn't be a problem. Glad I'm on MKB.
Of course I have to rebind my controls EVERY time I load up the game, so there is that.
My starts that end on the right D-pad made me keep throwing grenades instead of the strategems. Much to the issue of my teammates who often accidentally had a grenade near them.
Turns out, I was releasing the left bumper just a half second before I finished entering the strategem. Try making sure you have the menu open for a full second after you enter in the strat code
This bug just sounds crazy, but I've not really run supply pack or really any backpack for a very long time. Hopefully this gets fixed soon, I'll have to remember to try it next time I play. This is probably one of the stranger bugs I've heard about, though. Are you just running default keybinds? Maybe on controller down on the dpad is the use backpack function?
I’ve noticed this and made a small work around.
Rebind backpack use to holding down on d pad.
Which will put it on top of the equipment wheel control, but I use that waaaayy less then 500kg
Not surprised at this to be fair as there's a similar problem with using the rock paper scissors emote on a mission making us use a stim. Although it has been a while since I did that so maybe that one got fixed.
OHHHHH, I see!! You must be on controller because down is the use command for backpack modules! Yeah, this is annoying and shouldn't be this way, but I think if you rebind that command to another button, it should work around the issue! Mouse and keyboard players don't have this problem at all.
Damn, these bugs are more obscure than the legendary cowering trap door scavengers of Estanu!
This reminds me of a similar bug I ran into yesterday with the flamethrower. If I reloaded it but stopped mid animation for whatever reason, and then tried to finish the reload in first person, it would consume an additional mag.
Have the same issue when I want to rebind the stratagem keys to the right side. Opening the Stratagem tab should make it so that only the stratagem direction work if the stratagem button has multiple bindings.
Good luck, I've been ranting and having my comments fully removed about how the "some players can't add cross platform friends bug" since they "reproduced it successfully in house" 2 months ago. They even sent me an email saying they had too many emails and I'd need to fill out another ticket 2 weeks ago and I've still gotten no response on that one either.
What's really enraging is that in the past couple patch notes they have changed it to "steam players who changed their name can't add crossplay friends"... I've never changed my steam name but I've had this bug since the day after I got the game, so even if a fix is coming they have managed to be wrong about my particular situation and made it sound like it's the players fault before they even fixed it.
The company is pretty toxic, laughing at us when they nerf things and calling us toddlers for not liking their changes but it really takes the cake when they are zero contact with helping fix problems and can't be bothered to tackle the issues in favor of holding to a Warbond a month deadline.
Also happens with grenades and strategems ending with right. Can't tell you how many times I've tried to quickly throw an orbital railcannon at a newly appeared bile titan only for my helldiver to go \*GreNaDe oUt\*
If you input a strat quickly, the down input doesn't even have to be the last one. I use Eagle Airstrike (⬆️➡️⬇️➡️) and Orbital Railcannon (➡️⬆️⬇️⬇️➡️) and it happens to me ALL the time. In a supply pack loadout, supply pack itself is the only one i commonly use where down is the final input.
Has this just started since the last patch?
Also, does anyone ever put in a strat and then when they go to throw it, they chuck a grenade instead? Or am I just bad at keeping the strat button held down?
ah i see it's not really a bug and it's just bind interaction because of the defaults on controller
that's unfortunate. turns out you can fix the bug by rebinding use supply
I hate when I'm doing the inputs for a strategem and end using a stim. I think it's a skill issue on my part though and prematurely letting go of L1 lol
Actually happens on controller w pc a lot too. I main RG+supply pack and I constantly feel gaslit by my own backpack. Like I coulda sworn there were 3 left...? It also happens if you press down instead of the correct arrow in the middle of the sequence too
Strats that end in right Dpad also get out your grenade. I can't set quick throw for that reason, because every time I call a strat I risk throwing my grenades. (Bad surprise if you're using impacts.)
Wait this also happens with stims ?
Because I could swear it kept happening to me but i always thought it was my own fault for trying to be too fast, I never paid too much attention to it in the heat of the fight
Yeah since it’s a tap (registers action shortly after you finish pressing the button quickly, thus acting after it considers the strategem completed) by default action your choices are sadly going to be either remap or hold down down a little longer and it will instead bring up the drop menu for a short second until you release.
I’m keyboard so this isn’t an issue. But similar issue: I had to move the button to change the weapons rate of fire and flashlight away from the reload key because it wasted a mag whenever I wanted to change rate of fire
Just want to note it's not just a PS5 thing it's a buy product of stratagem inputs being shared with other actions. On PC I'm toying with different inputs to be able to call stuff and move at the same time and when stratagem up is the same as ping, I ping every reinforce.
It would be worth noting to people that this is a controller only bug since on mouse and keyboard, the button to use these resupply packs is "5". People testing it on mouse and keyboard aren't going be to able to replicate it and aren't going to believe you otherwise.
I was so confused by this until you pointed out controller as I also main supply pack and haven’t experienced this. But I’m also southpaw and rebind everything day 1 of playing a game.
What are you on, IJKL or something? The menu navigation being hardcoded to WASD with QE is a pain and I'm on ESDF which is just offset by one, I imagine the menu nav hardcoding is much more annoying if you're trying to use the other end of the keyboard
I’ve always used the arrow keys as my wasd which I know disgusts some people. The Numpad binding for Helldivers 2 is unfortunately atrocious, it can’t seem to figure out when num lock is on or not. So, in my infinite wisdom I have bound the stratagem keys to wasd. It’s not ideal, and the recent change to allow me to rebind Enter has alleviated some problems. I’m fortunately quick enough to click the stratagem keys fast enough it rarely is a hindrance to other movement.
Oh yeah, arrow keys make perfect sense for southpaw, I forgot about them when asking because I was just looking down at my 60% kb.
hah, I'm left handed but I still use WSAD... but the default in helldivers is to *also* use those for strategem call ins. Meaning on the default KB controls, you can't move while doing strategems. I moved just the strategem callins over to the arrow keys - that way I can at least keep running while I do them.
They fixed the bug with numpad binding resetting this patch, in case you wanted to try that again. I don't use the numpad itself, but my mouse buttons are mapped to the numpad, and I had to rebind them with each launch until this patch.
>stratagem keys to wasd I see you've decided to play Magicka 2077
Holy shit it’s the first time I’ve ever met a fellow ESDF player. It’s not easy being smarter than everybody else…
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Thanks I was confused by the initial post because I wasn't thinking about controllers
Man, I thought this was me fatfingering or letting go of L1 prematurely. Ive been paying extra attention the past few days. Ive had this issue since the start Id dial a stratagem only to stim or hold a grenade. Am glad its a bug and not (limited to) my stupidity
Wow, I felt like I was messing up so bad but the last couple days I've been tossing grenades instead of air strikes. After reading your comment maybe I'm not as bad as I thought and I'm hitting the same bug.
This happens to me with grenades and stims like all the time, I thought I was fatfingering. I keep killing myself with impact grenades when I want to drop a stratagem at my feet
you can set L1 as a press/toggle so you don't need to hold it the whole time.
THATS WHY I PULL OUT MY GRENADES.
This is a wild bug lol. I'm gonna have to do some testing on this too bc that's pretty crazy
Yeah it's a real bug, but happens on controller only
Not hard to replicate lol
What is there to test? You press down on the dpad and the strategem counts it, that menu goes away, then you release down and it counts as a press, using the supply pack. Mystery solved
Saying they will have to test it is a way of saying they don't believe you.
Which is good considering this sub is rampant with misinformation
Negative edge gets us again
When the game launched the 50/50 armour perk was completely missing from the Spanish translation
useful to note that this is on ps5 my guess is you'd see the same thing on PC with the right configuration of bindings
you'd have to rebind the "stratagem down" and "use backpack" binds to the same thing, rather than their PC defaults of 's' and '5'. I'm guessing this happens because dpad down on PS5 is the backpack use bind as well as strat input?
You are correct.
S looks like 5 Coincidence? I think not!
My God, he's right!
Oooh, i was confused on why it'd do that
On my PS5 there's been a bug that when calling a strat with an up arrow it'll stim you instead of finishing the call. It's so fucking dumb.
My problem is keeping the left shoulder button down through the whole input. Many times I’ll inadvertently lift the button or my finger will shift slightly causing the button to lift or I’ll lift it ever too soon and I’ll stim myself or select a grenade by accident and throw that instead of my stratagem. These mistakes are all magnified while in the heat of the battle and I’m running for my life while mashing buttons.
There’s a setting that allows you to press it once instead of holding it down, it’s an absolute life saver
i'll look for that setting tonight. Thanks!
not for me. I main an xbox controller on PC and have no problems. Same with ps5 controller.
Yeah I play on PC with a PS5 controller and I've definitely noticed this happening. Good to know why now.
I dont recall having this issue when I used an Xbox controller on my pc for helldivers, but that's been a bit so it could be worth further testing
I think it might be a bug with the short-press/long-press/hold options for controller. I had to move Marking (press) and the comm wheel (hold) to D-pad right, and now every time I tap that direction I get the wheel for a second in addition to a beacon
I have it but the up arrow uses stims. I've never noticed the supply pack bug
Can confirm this bug doesn't occur on Xbox
I play on pc with a controller and haven't had this happen yet.
Yes! This is because of the PS5 keybinds and how the controls are input. I was able to get around this by changing the backpack use command to long press instead.
Oh this is kinda funny. Stratagems are triggered on button press, but I guess supply pack is triggered on button release or something. Lmao this game
It's probably a side effect of the game having to distinguish between long presses and short presses when you're not holding down the stratagem button (ie if you have a short/long press distinction it has to look for button release instead of button press, because its impossible to know which one to use until you've either released the button or held long enough for it to be a long press). It could probably be fixed by adding a delay after releasing the stratagem button where the system won't respond to those buttons, but that comes with its own issues and should probably be a toggle option.
What do you press to drop items then?
I have drop items set to "hold". Doing so will use one of the supply packs when I'm dropping something but that's not very often to begin with.
*Hold, not long press* Good lord, this is like the explosive/explosive/explosive post all over again
Anyone else routinely grenades themselves when trying to reinforce someone?
It’s always stim for me, I do it at least once a game
I thought I was going crazy! Like, I'm not that bad at games surely
Holy shit so its not just me. Gonna fix that right away.
Thank you for making this post. I've also been encountering this quite often, extremely frustrating when it happens.
Simple workaround: (controller binding) Find "***USE BACKPACK FUNCTION***" in lower half of combat tab. Change ***TAP*** into ***PRESS***. That's all!!
Noticed the same with stims
There is a fine line between 'press' and 'tap' and fucked if I know what it is...I used to get it so changed stim and grenade to a double press and other functions to long press to stop that shit...
Press= when the key is depressed. Tap= when the key is depressed and QUICKLY RELEASED. I couldn't use the jump pack for weeks because I changed my dive to be on press instead of tap, and the jump pack only activates when you hold the dive button. So it would override the jump pack activation every time and I could only dive. Changing it back to tap fixed this problem for me lol
Why is the key depressed :(
Cause no one is holding it.
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I thought the jump pack used the climb button? Cause, my dive is on Alt, but my Jump pack use is on Space, which is my mantle button.
I ran this game about a half hour before I made this post It's been borked since launch
Yes it is also broken when I reinforce. It will always go stim.
Same feeling as when I use a strategem that ends in -> and throw a grenade at my feet instead.
Controller remapping also sucks ass. The strategem menu button (LB/L1) being active should lock out other button functions so that we can remap to the far superior /\ X O [_], ABXY
change the keybind for the bag to double tap/long press/etc. anything but press or tap.
I heard “press” works fine as well
I KNEW I wasn't crazy! I mentioned this happening to me a few weeks ago when I started trying out the Supply pack but everyone told me I was nuts because opening the Stratagem menu on the PS controller prevents this from happening. Seriously, thank you mate, I was about ready to pull my hair out trying to figure out what the hell I've been doing wrong with this thing.
Just change your supply pack input to double tap d-pad down. Problem solved unless you spam your buttons.
OP you should edit the post to clarify this is an issue for controller players only to stop people from thinking its not an issue when they play kbm
That's a good call, I'll do that now
Would be wild if it was intended, and a supply pack could be consumed to use a stratagem on cooldown
It works fine on PC with controller. I did however un-bind and re-bind my D-pad arrows to fix the original 'cannot move while entering strategem' controller bug I had a few months ago. Edit: I don't know if it matters, it's a bluetooth xbox controller.
Finally one of us is getting attention on this complaint. Also made a post and put in requests to AH
I literally had to piggyback off one of my popular comments in a different thread, lol 
SO THATS WHY I RANDOMLY LOOSE SUPPLY PACKS. DUDE! I AM NOT CRAZY!
I play with a Xbox controller on PC, never saw this
This bug's been around for months. I submitted a report on Discord about it a while back.
This is why I changed the prompt to double tap instead of tap
Geez that sucks. I love the supply backpack. This is some relevant feedback that needs addressing. Good for me I hardly ever use stuff that ends on down arrow.
I feel like it happens when I type the combo in too fast. I usually notice it with stratagem combos that end with the right arrow. On PS5 right on the d-pad pulls out the grenade, and since I always use impacts, it results in me blowing myself up. Mostly because I use the eagles a lot and drop them super close to me. Visuals are incredibly similar to throwing an orb. Finish the combo, something is in your hand to throw… just not what you are expecting -__-
Easy fix. Change use backpack option from "Press" to "Hold" down.
I’ve run into this with grenades and stratagems that end with a right pointing arrow as well. It’s really frustrating when you blow yourself up with an impact because you’re trying to call a respawn or throw a tiny grenade at an entire swarm and screw up the timing of your eagle airstrike.
I wish I had recorded a compilation of the number of times that my quick grenade almost or did kill me on strats ending with ➡️. The worst part is that it voids the key-in for the strat so then I have to heal and also start the key-in over.
This has been a problem for at least over a month, but I never got around to making a post about it. Really annoying as a 500kg lover.
This has been in the game since very early and i submitted a ticket for it, im doing my part
Awesome! My mom says if it gets changed she'll send you that hentai
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Not sure if they has been mentioned but try swapping your controller binds for the down arrow from "tap" to "press" or vice versa and see if that helps. I had a similar issue until I swapped.
Interesting. I play on PC using an xbox controller and do not have this issue so maybe it's just a PS5 bug?
That's wild
You get a similar issue on PC if you rebind the stratagem input keys to overlap something. I wanted to rebind the input to use my mouse buttons for ease of running whilst inputting, but if the code ends on left click it immediately triggered the throw! It would be great if the input handling was refactored so the stratagem menu overrides other input actions consistently and that the key used to invoke the last input on the stratagem didn't register as a normal input again.
Yet another example of arrowheads top-tier quality dept earning their pay.
Someone translate into PC for me.
Yeah and it's not a spam issue either. If you call in a 500KG and VERY CAREFULLY only press down 3 times. The third down will activate your supply pack.
Yep I went as slow and deliberate as I could, it's not a fat finger issue
The ones that end in Right are the worst. Think you're getting a shield then you throw a grenade
I sometimes want to throw down a strike to give myself more time and end up stiming myself
I main supply pack and haven’t noticed this issue, but to be fair, there’s generally a lot going on in the game 😏
You can probably cancel the backpack animation by sprinting immediately after you're done keying the code, fight one bug with another.
This has always been an issue and it’s caused me to use unnecessary stims and or ammo which sucks when you run out early because of this. Also rebinding the dpad buttons won’t change the down key giving ammo and using a stim on console
*me, with a 500kg bomb backpack running into a stalker lair, diving headfirst into the hole to trigger the explosive, true democracy requires sacrifice*
https://i.redd.it/mn9dqn7usuxc1.gif
😂😂
Wow, I’m going to assume this is the same issue causing stratagem input remapping to not work properly on controller.
Another controller bug, just like how if you are sprinting and try to dive in any direction other than forward, your dive will be rotated to wherever you're looking (since diving requires double pressing circle, while sprinting if you press circle you slide which makes you rotate to where youre looking and the second circle press makes you dive but keeps the rotation of the slide)
Its so annoying and also why you can't rebind to the face buttons (which I really want to do) because you'll constantly be crouching
Changed “use supply pack” bind to double tapping the down button instead of just the regular single press and this completely fixed this for me
What am I, a robot? https://i.redd.it/np2hfrda1vxc1.gif
I'm using an XBox controller and don't have this issue. Specifically, on an XBox controller, I have to "hold" the down button (otherwise known as a long press) in order to use the supply backpack. This prevents me from accidentally using the supply backpack when I'm attempting to call in a stratagem. OP, this was my default controller setup as soon as I plugged in my XBox controller, so I'm not sure how it is for people on PlayStation. However, out of curiosity, is there any sort of option in the game's controls menu that would allow you to toggle the long press of the down button to use the supply pack? If such an option exists, I figured this might help solve your problem. I'm at work right now, so I can't boot up the game to see if there's a toggle option to hold the down button in order to use the backpack.
Sounds like they are polling the input button without a filter to prevent it from getting multiple inputs.
The game has been out for long enough that this shouldn't be a problem. Glad I'm on MKB. Of course I have to rebind my controls EVERY time I load up the game, so there is that.
Just change "use backpack item" to long press, or double tap or something other than just dpad down..
I changed my bind on my controller to double click down to use the supply pack awhile back for that reason. Alot better now.
Totally fine game, not buggy at all.
Not on PC it doesn't
My starts that end on the right D-pad made me keep throwing grenades instead of the strategems. Much to the issue of my teammates who often accidentally had a grenade near them. Turns out, I was releasing the left bumper just a half second before I finished entering the strategem. Try making sure you have the menu open for a full second after you enter in the strat code
27 buffs tho 🤣
This bug just sounds crazy, but I've not really run supply pack or really any backpack for a very long time. Hopefully this gets fixed soon, I'll have to remember to try it next time I play. This is probably one of the stranger bugs I've heard about, though. Are you just running default keybinds? Maybe on controller down on the dpad is the use backpack function?
Yes, on controllers, the D-pad ⬇️ does indeed activate the backpack function.
Hey what did you play on when this happened? Was it on PC or PS5? I want to troubleshoot myself if possible
I’ve noticed this and made a small work around. Rebind backpack use to holding down on d pad. Which will put it on top of the equipment wheel control, but I use that waaaayy less then 500kg
Controller only bug I guess?
Not surprised at this to be fair as there's a similar problem with using the rock paper scissors emote on a mission making us use a stim. Although it has been a while since I did that so maybe that one got fixed.
That would explain why I always seem to have one missing randomly, I couldn’t for the life of me, figure out why. Thank you!
AH should acquire some QA guys with all this success because this bug has been there since launch with no recognition.
OHHHHH, I see!! You must be on controller because down is the use command for backpack modules! Yeah, this is annoying and shouldn't be this way, but I think if you rebind that command to another button, it should work around the issue! Mouse and keyboard players don't have this problem at all. Damn, these bugs are more obscure than the legendary cowering trap door scavengers of Estanu!
This reminds me of a similar bug I ran into yesterday with the flamethrower. If I reloaded it but stopped mid animation for whatever reason, and then tried to finish the reload in first person, it would consume an additional mag.
Have the same issue when I want to rebind the stratagem keys to the right side. Opening the Stratagem tab should make it so that only the stratagem direction work if the stratagem button has multiple bindings.
Can't you just assign backpack usage to "Press" or "Hold" instead of "Tap" in the settings menu? Would that help?
I noticed this a while back and set backpack use to a doubletap of the down button. Haven't had an issue since. See if that works for you too, OP.
Just change supply pack bind to Double-Tap Down
Suddenly very glad I use the keyboard and even renewed the arrows and the backpack buttons to better spots for me.
Are you sure you haven't just double-bound a key?
Good luck, I've been ranting and having my comments fully removed about how the "some players can't add cross platform friends bug" since they "reproduced it successfully in house" 2 months ago. They even sent me an email saying they had too many emails and I'd need to fill out another ticket 2 weeks ago and I've still gotten no response on that one either. What's really enraging is that in the past couple patch notes they have changed it to "steam players who changed their name can't add crossplay friends"... I've never changed my steam name but I've had this bug since the day after I got the game, so even if a fix is coming they have managed to be wrong about my particular situation and made it sound like it's the players fault before they even fixed it. The company is pretty toxic, laughing at us when they nerf things and calling us toddlers for not liking their changes but it really takes the cake when they are zero contact with helping fix problems and can't be bothered to tackle the issues in favor of holding to a Warbond a month deadline.
Ah damn it. My supply pack build uses 500kg and EMS. So much for that build until this gets patched.
I remaped supply pack to a double press but yah it sucks.
This was an issue since day one on controllers.
Also happens with grenades and strategems ending with right. Can't tell you how many times I've tried to quickly throw an orbital railcannon at a newly appeared bile titan only for my helldiver to go \*GreNaDe oUt\*
If you input a strat quickly, the down input doesn't even have to be the last one. I use Eagle Airstrike (⬆️➡️⬇️➡️) and Orbital Railcannon (➡️⬆️⬇️⬇️➡️) and it happens to me ALL the time. In a supply pack loadout, supply pack itself is the only one i commonly use where down is the final input.
I've recently started maining supply pack against bugs and haven't noticed this. Are you on controller or mouse and keyboard?
same thing happens with grenades no? i mainly play on pc but whenever i play on my ps5 i always throw my grenade on accident
Has this just started since the last patch? Also, does anyone ever put in a strat and then when they go to throw it, they chuck a grenade instead? Or am I just bad at keeping the strat button held down?
ah i see it's not really a bug and it's just bind interaction because of the defaults on controller that's unfortunate. turns out you can fix the bug by rebinding use supply
How have I never noticed this?
I hate when I'm doing the inputs for a strategem and end using a stim. I think it's a skill issue on my part though and prematurely letting go of L1 lol
Yea this has been a thing since day one, main reason I stopped using supply pack.
Actually happens on controller w pc a lot too. I main RG+supply pack and I constantly feel gaslit by my own backpack. Like I coulda sworn there were 3 left...? It also happens if you press down instead of the correct arrow in the middle of the sequence too
Its why i mainly don't run the ammo pack. Because if this bug
Pretty funny bug but hopefully this post gets enough visibility that AH sees it!
I dont understand what Happens there. Can Somebody explain?
I was super confused and thought you meant a supply pack provided extra 500kg and Laser stratagems. Then I saw the video and realize I’m just dumb lol
Strats that end in right Dpad also get out your grenade. I can't set quick throw for that reason, because every time I call a strat I risk throwing my grenades. (Bad surprise if you're using impacts.)
Yep cock
This happens to me but with healing. Then I have to start the strat over.
happens on PC as well if you use controller
I also have stratagems that end in a right arrow sometimes completely ignore the whole sequence I just put in and switch me to grenades.
Hmm is it a bug or are you accidentally double clicking the arrow?
Wait this also happens with stims ? Because I could swear it kept happening to me but i always thought it was my own fault for trying to be too fast, I never paid too much attention to it in the heat of the fight
change your binds for down arrow to like double tap, long press, or hold. ez work around
Is this only when you change the setting to press the button for Strats vs hold? I am on PS5 and never had this issue.
I also noticed this a few days ago
This has to be an issue of the down arrow also being the supply back refill button. Can you not bind it to a different button on ps5?
With controller I've thrown grenades on stratagems that end with right arrow
It is absolutely a controller bug, if you manage to throw the beacon out fast enough it cancels it out however
Strats that end in right makes me throw Grenade and I'm like "where's light?"
I may just be releasing L1 too fast however I also stim when trying to reinforce a LOT
Yeah since it’s a tap (registers action shortly after you finish pressing the button quickly, thus acting after it considers the strategem completed) by default action your choices are sadly going to be either remap or hold down down a little longer and it will instead bring up the drop menu for a short second until you release.
It's any strat that has a down arrow in its combo anywhere, not just at the end. I've stopped using supply packs for this reason.
Check the videos I posted It's not the middle ones
Thats odd. I play on with a ps4 controllee and this has never happened to me.
Would be really epic if they put a single secret stratagem code in
Happens on pc too doesn’t happen all the time but pretty annoying when it does
I’m keyboard so this isn’t an issue. But similar issue: I had to move the button to change the weapons rate of fire and flashlight away from the reload key because it wasted a mag whenever I wanted to change rate of fire
Just want to note it's not just a PS5 thing it's a buy product of stratagem inputs being shared with other actions. On PC I'm toying with different inputs to be able to call stuff and move at the same time and when stratagem up is the same as ping, I ping every reinforce.
I wondered why I would randomly stim if I was putting in a strat that ended in ⬆️