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Started a 2d Game project and I'm using KeyListener for the input/movement.
What I realised is, that vertical movement has priority over horizontal movement.
Holding W or S and then pressing A or D does nothing, the other way around though Holding A or D and then Pressing W or S does change the direction.

Put my code in chatgpt and bro says there is nothing wrong about my code and KeyListener is like that. Anyone got experience?

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If im not wrong you are listening only for one key press so it just takes the latest key press and not multiple key presses so
track which keys are pressed using a Set or `boolean[]`.
Check that set during your game loop to handle multiple simultaneous key presses.

If this doesn't make sense just drop my text in gpt it should guve a more concise explanation

Drop the code using the </> icon but it sounds like you are using keytyped instead of keypressed or sthm

Probably a if else statement problem, I imagine that you check for W first in the code before A S and D so W is default. I don't know what your intended behaviour is tho. Like if a player pressed all W and A at the same time what do you want to happen?

Seeing the code would be useful, as I'm not sure why one of the keys would override the others, If you checkout https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/awt/event/KeyListener.html it includes an example that you can run (also found at https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/examples/events/index.html#KeyEventDemo) that shows the info received from the keylistener, and even in the official example this problem does not exist.

EDIT: if you are using keyReleased at any point to stop movement you may be creating a state issue in your game that causes one direction to be overridden until a keyReleased event occurs.