The issue is that the revive icon only appears when you're very close to the player, so that when you right click to do an action near them, not only do you have to wait for your latency to catch up to you, if it you were even standing in the right place in the first place, but if you miss, you'll end up firing a shot or at least being stuck in the attack animation even if the revive was successful.

A solution would be to increase the range that you can revive someone from, and making it more latency friendly.

Hello, my name is Lou-Cipher and i have died because of "x" (and my lack of skills, self control, and short attention span), please change "y" to make me not die anymore. KTHX.

Thats what Lou-Cipher said without this pathetic "its for greater good" cover. Another suggestion with a greed and selfishness at its base.

Solution? LEARN to play the game. Learn to aim. Ever heard of risk management? Decide if you want to rev someone NAONAO!!11oneone or wait a bit. Its all your fault.

I imagine the best option would simply to provide an option to assign the "action" command independently from other controls like attack and shield but still let you assign it to the same key as attack or shield if the player wants to.

I've definitely seen moments where, say, a player tries to revive another and accidentally sword swings into an active fire grate because the game didn't think they were close enough. Or that annoying moment where I ended up chatting to the sprite in FSC instead of fighting off the hordes of zombies.

I don't think just moving the command to the shield key is an ideal solution. It still can result in opening chats with NPCs if you're trying to shield bump, for example, although it does help in not getting stuck in attack animations if you miss a revive.

LOL.