[2021] Tools keep moving/swinging after you stop clicking

This works as intended, you're not supposed to hold until the end.

We will investigate how we can improve this for Update 9.5, but with the current backend code it wasn't possible to do it differently, the change was needed though, as it fixes several other annoying issues and a few exploits.

Please nontheless continue to give feedback in relation to it here, so we can see how many people actually hold until the end of an animation and hence are affected. Most people seem to just do clicks, so it was deemed acceptable, especially as you can retrain.

I know it should ultimately support any way of doing it, but for this Update that wasn't possible.

Originally posted by Monsieur Bébé™: Also the new hammer is so insanely fast and keeps swinging that I sometimes remove 1-2 tiles more than intended. Is there a way to instantly stop your tool from working after you let go of your left mouse button?

No, this is actually one of the many things fixed with this change, until now it was possible to interrupt animations so you could do up to 4x the actions in the time of what was intended for a single one.

Originally posted by MegaGame: even with only clicking I get 2 action.

I was chaning roofcubes to floors, left click to pickup and then right click to put it down, only to see it get pickup again.

I have tried this, but cannot reproduce it. Are you able to provide more details?

Well, I said that we acknowledge that ultimately it should work fine for every way you might want to use and we'll take a look to further improve this in 9.5, but for now that was unfortunately not possible. Depending on how complicated the fix is, as many of these require big refactors, it can also be possible that improvements come with an Update before 9.5.

But in general this is a change that felt good for many people, as it fixes several other shenanigans and the negative feedback we have received about this is quite limited, be that because most people do not hold or because people could adapt very fast - that does not mean it is not a problem, it is. But it unfortunately does mean that it is a problem that has a different priority to other problems.

That is a separate issue, I have logged it on our tracker.