Does pressing dodge not work sometimes or am I just bad :D

I’m really new to the game, about 3 hours in.

The major issue that I have is sometimes when I press dodge, it just doesn’t work, I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or not, but it’s really frustrating.

I was recently playing Hades which had a faster combat, so this game seemed like a good challenge with how I need to time my attacks and how many I can get in before I need to dodge, but sometimes it feels like my inputs register more than I intended to.

For example, I get two hits in, and I panic and press dodge twice when in dodging animation or close to the end I press attack but what I get is another dodge that I didn’t intend to do.

And sometimes the dodge doesn’t happen at all, as mentioned above.

It’s really sucking the fun out of the game for me.

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what method of input are you using? I find that this issue occurs across most modern games, especially when I’m using my controller. If you are using a controller, try swapping out the cable you’re connecting to your pc with for a shorter one, or a newer one. Changing my cable has fixed a lot of issues for me in the past

I’m playing with mouse and keyboard.

As suggested by @RomoloHero it might indeed be that I’m expecting a dodge on key release since that’s what I’m used to from other games as well.

Also most cheap keyboards do not recognize it if you press more than 3 or 4 keys at the same time. It’s also going to matter which exact keys you are pressing as certain groups of keys are wired together physically.

The decent ones have a max of 6. “Gaming” branded keyboards are usually advertised as NKRO (n-key rollover) that allows unlimited simultaneous key press recognition. This has a good rundown of it in terms of how they impact games: https://landing.coolermaster.com/faq/nkro--n-key-rollover/

You could try checking yours at Online Key Rollover Test - Mechanical Keyboard and press the keys like you normally would.