Can confirm, movement gets locked until you press the key in which you're moving. Doesn't fix it all the time though. Movement locks in each direction, including diagonal. Happens entirely too often.

On a related note, occasionally movement is delayed a half second or so after pressing a movement key.

I've witnessed otherwise. I noticed this immediately when logging into .47, none of my hits with the fire axe were landing. It was useless for anything but being a massive can opener.

Same with the pipe wrench, baseball bat, and pickaxe. Got killed by a single zombie as a fresh spawn. I normally side-step zombies and attack after their swing. Even standing idle, the axe, pipe wrench, and baseball bat did nothing.

I did however find luck with a splitting axe that seemed to work perfectly, had no issues whatsoever while I had it.

Hopefully this gets fixed ASAP. I don't want to keep dying because a zed finds me before I find a working weapon. I can deal with buggy/clunky, but this major part of the game, is simply broken now.