yeah, looks like a auto pressed shift key.
i explored such a behaviour on a friends pc. his keyboard was able to autotrigger keys and i somehow activated this for the shift-key.

adding to/creating controlgroups, no chatting (shift+enter doesnt work afaik) and shift-rallying are the logical result of this.

maybe your keyboard has such a function too, or its just broken(did the problem continue?).
you should refer your keyboard's manual if ur no sure.

Jackbo

Korea (South)102 Posts

May 03 2012 13:58 GMT

#23

Shift being held down automatically is a well known steam bug, I think, or at least my friends all seem to know about it and talk about if frequently when it happens to them. If you weren't using steam at the time, I don't know what to tell you, but if you were, this is most likely the cause. When it happens to me, I find that if I tap shift a few times it goes away. It also only seems to happen if you're using the Shift + Tab functionality of steam. I've started alt+tabbing to interact with my steam windows nowadays, and I never seem to get this bug any more.

Heweree

United Kingdom497 Posts

May 03 2012 14:00 GMT

#24

Happened to me as well, just in a different fashion. All my keys became "escape".

DexLy

Sweden34 Posts

May 03 2012 14:04 GMT

#25

Sounds that your Shift key got stuck, everything suggests that actually

ZenithM

France15952 Posts

May 03 2012 14:04 GMT

#26

I think it's like Shift is held down, it happened to me a few times. Everything you select with control groups then gets added to other control groups and all your commands are shift queued and you basically cannot do anything. I just spammed shift and caps lock like a madman while Alt-tabbing in-between :D

framtidenskrig

Sweden92 Posts

May 03 2012 14:22 GMT

#27

alt+tab, that works for me atleast

Louis8k8

Canada285 Posts

May 03 2012 14:26 GMT

#28

GrooveShark gave me this problem. Did you have your web browser open and some website open? I'd sometimes randomly have none of my keys work or do anything, both keyboard and mouse.

Belha

Italy2850 Posts

May 03 2012 14:33 GMT

#29

On May 03 2012 16:30 BreakfastBurrito wrote:
known bug where sometimes the game reads that the shift key is being pressed down, causing minimap pings and general chaos.

fixed by: alt tab, key spam, sometimes restarting game etc etc.
seen this thread at least 5 times in my tenure here and have experienced it myself (although not lately)

triggered by: ????

This.

Happened to me about 3 times since the release. Have no idea what triggers it, but every time i suffered it, that game is lost.

Rantech

Chile527 Posts

May 03 2012 15:42 GMT

#30

Yep thats really annoying, it happens when u press shift too many times, i think its 5 times. You can disable that though ! o,o !

Msr

Korea (South)495 Posts

May 03 2012 15:45 GMT

#31

thought they fixed this months ago really annoying bug, there is also a bug where you can't use your keyboard at the start unless you alt tab out and in.

Arachne

South Africa426 Posts

May 03 2012 15:48 GMT

#32

Something like that happens to me occasionally. Press the key that seems to be pressed. Like you you were selecting things into the same control group, it might have been "shift" stuck down into your keyboard.

Happens to my alt key every now and again, even on a new keyboard. Think its a game bug that occurs while loading.

SpeCtor

233 Posts

May 03 2012 15:56 GMT

#33

Do you use steam? because if you "alt+tab" out into the overlay, this happens. Tab shift or alt-tab again to fix it!

KimJongChill

United States6429 Posts

May 03 2012 15:59 GMT

#34

Had this too, I think it was stuck shift key?

LovE-

United States1963 Posts

May 03 2012 16:04 GMT

#35

It has happened a few time to me, maybe 3-4. I usually alt tab and let it sit for a second and it goes away. I don't really know why it does it.

On May 04 2012 00:45 Msr wrote:
thought they fixed this months ago really annoying bug, there is also a bug where you can't use your keyboard at the start unless you alt tab out and in.

That also happens to me A LOT. :|