What causes input lock?

[Kurld]

And why does it always seem to happen when the $#!^ hits the fan?

[magnemoe]

15 hours ago, Kurld said:

And why does it always seem to happen when the $#!^ hits the fan?

Are you talking about the stupid window message about slow keys who come if you press the same button a lot of times? 

[Kurld]

No.  Though that can be annoying as well. There is a way to turn that off in windows under accessibility settings, if I remember right.

What I'm talking about when you're playing the game and at some point your keyboard stops working to respond to directional or other commands.  You can generally hit ALT+F12 and there is a menu under there where you can "clear all input locks" and restore it to working again.

There is some kind of bitmask displayed there that is totally not helpful for letting you know why your keyboard stopped working.

If you're hovering over the debug window itself, it will tell you that the debug window has locked your keyboard.  This is to keep your console input from registering as WASD or whatever in the game.

But it can happen at random times for no reason I can see.

I'll try to grab a screenshot later.