The medallion is on cool down. It's not a bug.

It happens even if the Medallion is ready. I have to press Z twice sometimes. He just doesn't respond.

Eh... Well some times he do the animation of casting but i dont get any shield. However i have not had that delay.

I have also had "you cant do fast attacks" and some times you cant do strong attacks. The list of bugs i have found in the game is very very very very very very long =/

I believe that the problem has been largely avoided when I started to push the button and hold it slightly longer.
The percentage of zero response has decreased dramatically after I started doing that.

That might be the perfect place to implement vibration on the controller - don't let up until you FEEL it, lol.

I have the opposite problem - mapping that to a click of the analogue stick was a bad move. I used to hit it a lot by accident during combat. That stops you dead in your tracks and can be very, very bad news if badly timed.

Then your stick is under a loooot of pressure when you fight, lol. I usually have to push twice, not even because of the general unresponsiveness, but because I need to apply a lot of force with my little hands. Or the first try pushed the stick to a side and I need to make sure it is 90° before I push again. T'is hard for me to imagine doing it by accident. ;)

it hasn't happened much recently but yeah, I do tend to have a vice like grip on that pad!

I agree with the others that it has at least something to do with the animations. Try coming out of a roll and switching swords or throwing a bomb, you have to wait till the "roll - stand up" animation sequence completely stops to do just about anything. Same thing, really, for running away, turning and throwing a bomb (or switching weapons or doing just about anything) it feels like you have to wait for the animation sequence to completely finish. This is kind of frustrating because apparently it takes a long time for Geralt to go from running to standing completely still (pick up an item or go to the radial menu, and you'll be able to see how long the animation sequence really is).

There is a "switch swords while running" animation, but you have to be doing nothing besides running for it to work.

*spoiler I guess* This was most frustrating, as said above, during the "Operator" fight, because you have to keep switching between steel and silver depending on whether you're attacking the operator himself or the gargoyles, and Geralt never seems to respond to commands in a timely fashion.

I don't think the problems is with the animations, but something to do with keybindings/keytriggers. For example, the Q key (cast sign) always works, but the problem occurs with the individual signs shortcuts (5 to 9).

Like some one said before me, i can press the key for queen or yrden indefinetly and nothing happens, but if i hit the Q only once it triggers...

I'm going to join in and say that I experience this as well.

Press Q and he just stands there... Happens a lot and is very noticeable.

I learned to spam the key while I roll and run away. Whenever he decides to respond, then I turn and face my attackers, pick out an unlucky character and start slicing.


It is bad enough with how long he has to wind up to even throw the spell. sheesh

I can't decide if this is more or less annoying than the bomb throwing bug.

Problem is I can't get myself to play any other diff but Insane. Well, there's the reload-before-death trick if the bug attacks, cheap as it may be, until game is patched and issue is fixed, it's the least we can do. Dying on Insane due to a bug is like losing a level 90+ D2 Hardcore due to power shortage! Hurts a lot!

Well i have to agree this is making me go nuts, i am becoming better and better at the game so my fighting style is getting faster lol, i roll i slash i cast signs and bombs and... bugged Geralt everywhere xD, please fix this asap CDP! thanks for a great game :)