How to fix weird behaviour in CharacterBody2D from velocity.bounce(...)?

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Godot Version

4.7

Question

Hello! I’m currently remaking Ping Pong as my first game and I keep getting this weird issue where the ball isn’t getting reflected whenever it collides with a surface.

This is what it does instead:

And this is what I did for the code:

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I checked the documentation and this seems to be the way to reflect vectors, so I’m really not sure what’s causing this issue.

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You are setting velocity to Vector2(SPEED, SPEED), thereby overwriting the bounced velocity from previous collision. Don’t do that in _physics_process().

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Thank you so much!! It works now!