You used to be able to hold ALT, and your mouse would unlock and you could mouse over your abilities and read about them. You could also ping the map to communicate with teammates with ALT. You can still hold ALT and press the number keys to upgrade your abilities, but ALT doesn’t let you mouse over stuff anymore. You can still unstick the mouse with TAB, but that brings up the whole scoreboard UI. Why did Valve straight up remove a functionality from the game?

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    6 days ago

    Ok. And I’m telling you it ADDS functionality I was missing.

    Clicking the abilities wasn’t good UX, as it’s something you may have to do mid-combat, where you can’t interrupt aiming.

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      I didn’t say it doesn’t add functionality. I said it removes functionality. It can do both. You’re treating this like an argument, but I don’t see any disagreement except that we have differing personal preferences. A toggle would make us both happy.

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        I know. And it isn’t. I’m telling you there’s an upside, and a reason it was done this way. That it isn’t 100℅ “ass”.

        I’m not against a setting that’d make us both happy.

        I’m against calling it “ass”, hence painting a picture that there’s nothing here someone might want, and can be reverted in full without drawback.

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          This change coming without double binding for the affected functions was ass. Tab+1 worked, you didn’t have to click the abilities (it seems like you think you did)

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            No. My problem wasnt that you had to click the ability, my problem was that you’d lose camera input for a moment.