[The Bug Notes] Compendium of current Bugs / Exploits

Robbmrp · September 2015

mateoz wrote: »

There is a new exploit going on in IC. I wont disclose too much info since it is not allowed on the forum.
but yesterday a solo player killed a zerg by himself one shot 24+ players at 100% healt were all dead. no mobs, no sweeper, just 1 VS 24 with one skill. I think that ability bypass the 50% damage reduction since my friend got hit for 40k and the whole zerg he was running with died from him.
ZOS can private msg me if you want more info on it

The game has been running really weird since this weeks patch. On Tuesday we were running in Azura(NA PC) and were having all kinds of problems with spells not casting at all but we could do anything else. Ping was in the 100's so well within casting ability. FPS frames would dip a little into the 30's but that's still plenty. There also seemed to be people taking no damage as well.

Then last night, it seemed like people were hitting me with actual nerf bats doing little to no damage. I had even removed every single addon I had for this. I adjusted my CP but it shouldn't have made that much of a difference. I'm only at 218. I adjusted my shield but didn't really seem like I needed to use it at all as I was barely taking damage.

The ping spikes are back as well going from 100-999+ with no warning as well. I will see what happens when I log on today after work.

mateoz · September 2015

Xantaria wrote: »

mateoz wrote: »

There is a new exploit going on in IC. I wont disclose too much info since it is not allowed on the forum.
but yesterday a solo player killed a zerg by himself one shot 24+ players at 100% healt were all dead. no mobs, no sweeper, just 1 VS 24 with one skill. I think that ability bypass the 50% damage reduction since my friend got hit for 40k and the whole zerg he was running with died from him.
ZOS can private msg me if you want more info on it

@mateoz
This sounds very ridiculous, And there are not a lot of abilities I could see doing this. But let me ask one question ... was the zerg stealthed when it happened?

no, and the same guy using the exploit was running around killing lots of other players from solo to big group for awhile

Xantaria · September 2015

Darlgon wrote: »

No idea how long this bug has been around, but.. I am leveling my sorc. She casts Steadfast Ward and, instead of targeting my almost dead scamp, it targets me. Guess its Healing Springs spam to keep my familiars alive.. silly.

@Darlgon
Hmm the tooltip states that it targets an ally within 28 meters with the lowest amount of health. I have never really played around with pets ... are they considered allies? Do other abilities that state that they do something for your allies affect them?

Xantaria · September 2015

RoyJade wrote: »

Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »

As far as Tanking, I'm glad that your experience is the "Gold Standard" for Tanking. I've got a Guildmate who is having the worst time with it after the patch. He's used the free respec and paid for a couple more just trying to find a Skill combo that allows him to continue to play how he likes, but to no avail. (He's a sword-N-board DK)

I'm genuinely glad that your Tank is working just fine, but many other people are having the worst time trying to find legitimate Tank builds now.

I haven't say it's easy, I have to do some little adjustment (talon and heavy attack weren't on my cycle before, and I can't taunt all the mobs, just the most dangerous one), but it's not impossible. All the good tank I know were forced to adapt their build, but now they are fine even in trial hard mode, vet dungeon (with the two new one) and vet dsa. We just need some work, and some good dps (not the greatest one, but without dps a tank can't do anything now).
They will be good again with some time, I'm sure of it. And if they have too much difficulties, try a templar's spear and repentance, with only one (even a stam dps) we can permablock again.

Just a question, do you think it's useful to add memory problem on the list ? Actually, a lot of player need to /reloadui or reinitialize the ram used by the game every hour if they don't want to crash.

@RoyJade
Don't think I should add that as it is a technical issue. I recommend a little program called Memory Cleaner

Put it to Autostart. It will clear the system cache and trim processes' working set every 5 minutes.

Xantaria · September 2015

Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

/lurk

While I appreciate the creepiness of this, we need Stamina regen while blocking to come back.

Pretty please?

With cherries on top?

@Uriel_Nocturne
Most people are doing fine. We're having this change for a few weeks only on PC now and nobody has problems with it anymore. It was a good change necessary for the health of the game and I'm happy they did that.

Darlgon · September 2015

Xantaria wrote: »

Darlgon wrote: »

No idea how long this bug has been around, but.. I am leveling my sorc. She casts Steadfast Ward and, instead of targeting my almost dead scamp, it targets me. Guess its Healing Springs spam to keep my familiars alive.. silly.

@Darlgon
Hmm the tooltip states that it targets an ally within 28 meters with the lowest amount of health. I have never really played around with pets ... are they considered allies? Do other abilities that state that they do something for your allies affect them?

I am hoping someone with more experience with Sorc can say. Its silly, since the familiars are basically the mage pet in this edition.. They taunt and everything.

zatohonour · September 2015

Has anyone else noticed that when you throw caltrops down,when you sprint over them sometimes you'll gain super speed and run all over the place?

It's been happening to me in cyrodil,feel like i'm the flash,zooming around all the enmies and giving them slaps as i race by.

(PS4)

Xantaria · September 2015

zatohonour wrote: »

Has anyone else noticed that when you throw caltrops down,when you sprint over them sometimes you'll gain super speed and run all over the place?

It's been happening to me in cyrodil,feel like i'm the flash,zooming around all the enmies and giving them slaps as i race by.

(PS4)

This has only happened to me when fighting the floating jellyfish boss in darkshade caverns. It almost always happens there. I think this is connected to the reflect mechanic of the boss.

I've never heard of this happening in Cyrodiil. Added!

Molag_Crow · September 2015

Thanks! and also as ZOS already knows, here on console, so many spells are visually-bugged like light/heavy attacks from staffs not showing up, radiant destruction's beam not showing and the sound has changed

drain essence (no blood effects) etc etc

Uriel_Nocturne · September 2015

Xantaria wrote: »

Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

/lurk

While I appreciate the creepiness of this, we need Stamina regen while blocking to come back.

Pretty please?

With cherries on top?

@Uriel_Nocturne
Most people are doing fine. We're having this change for a few weeks only on PC now and nobody has problems with it anymore. It was a good change necessary for the health of the game and I'm happy they did that.

OK.

Just chiming in for a friend that isn't on the Forums himself. I'll probably look for some Templar/DK Tanking builds with the revised IC changes and see if any of those appeal to him.

I finally got the hang of the changes with my Nightblade and Vampirism, I just need my "beam" of blood to come back. lol

The ability just look weird without it.

RoyJade · September 2015

@Xantaria Don't worry, I have a similar program (who run on my Mac) ^^
But thanks !

Xantaria · September 2015

Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »

Xantaria wrote: »

Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

/lurk

While I appreciate the creepiness of this, we need Stamina regen while blocking to come back.

Pretty please?

With cherries on top?

@Uriel_Nocturne
Most people are doing fine. We're having this change for a few weeks only on PC now and nobody has problems with it anymore. It was a good change necessary for the health of the game and I'm happy they did that.

OK.

Just chiming in for a friend that isn't on the Forums himself. I'll probably look for some Templar/DK Tanking builds with the revised IC changes and see if any of those appeal to him.

I finally got the hang of the changes with my Nightblade and Vampirism, I just need my "beam" of blood to come back. lol

The ability just look weird without it.

To your friend:
Templar Tank probably has the hardest time now because he doesn't have any mechanic to gain Stamina back and can't permablock in long bossfights. Permablocking is not really necessary in almost every bossfight though. As a DK: build more Magicka and make use of your 5% Stamina back on using an Earthen Heart Ability Passive. Nightblades can gain their resources back from using their buff/toggle. Remember to Heavy Attack whenever the window opens (Boss casting an ability, Boss has very slow attack animations, etc.). For an easier start use the Magicka Taunt instead of the Stamina one. (Later on when you figured out how to deal with Stamina use the Stamina Meelee taunt for the extra Penetration though). Prismatic Enchants + Infused Trait are extremely strong. Histbark can save you a lot of Stamina.

Good Luck!

Uriel_Nocturne · September 2015

Xantaria wrote: »

Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »

Xantaria wrote: »

Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

/lurk

While I appreciate the creepiness of this, we need Stamina regen while blocking to come back.

Pretty please?

With cherries on top?

@Uriel_Nocturne
Most people are doing fine. We're having this change for a few weeks only on PC now and nobody has problems with it anymore. It was a good change necessary for the health of the game and I'm happy they did that.

OK.

Just chiming in for a friend that isn't on the Forums himself. I'll probably look for some Templar/DK Tanking builds with the revised IC changes and see if any of those appeal to him.

I finally got the hang of the changes with my Nightblade and Vampirism, I just need my "beam" of blood to come back. lol

The ability just look weird without it.

To your friend:
Templar Tank probably has the hardest time now because he doesn't have any mechanic to gain Stamina back and can't permablock in long bossfights. Permablocking is not really necessary in almost every bossfight though. As a DK: build more Magicka and make use of your 5% Stamina back on using an Earthen Heart Ability Passive. Nightblades can gain their resources back from using their buff/toggle. Remember to Heavy Attack whenever the window opens (Boss casting an ability, Boss has very slow attack animations, etc.). For an easier start use the Magicka Taunt instead of the Stamina one. (Later on when you figured out how to deal with Stamina use the Stamina Meelee taunt for the extra Penetration though). Prismatic Enchants + Infused Trait are extremely strong. Histbark can save you a lot of Stamina.

Good Luck!

I'll be sure to pass this along. Thank you!

melodeath · September 2015

-break free not working half the time as you can get stunned again while the break cc animation is going on
-after breaking free..cc immunity doesnt work against charge abbilities and when using retreating manouver.
-dodge roll is beeing affect by snares aswell.
-for some odd reason there happends to be alot of input lag that can happen for a long period of time.

Endless-Shogun · September 2015

Can we get a damn Hot Fix for the guild banks?
This is hindering my entire guild.
Over 400 people...

Its hurting our economy... and we cant even get upgrade materials out or make new sets for our members.

All the officers inventories are full... this is insane.

We have 4 guild banks that we use and we can't get into any of them.
Re-logging is only working 1 out of 4 tries.

AlienSlof · September 2015

Don't know if anyone's mentioned this but sometimes when my character is passing an npc, he starts taking little fast steps - same movement speed and no speed buff on or anything, just suddenly starts taking little steps. Same happens whether he's on horse or on foot.

This has only started happening since the IC patch.

Uriel_Nocturne · September 2015

AlienSlof wrote: »

Don't know if anyone's mentioned this but sometimes when my character is passing an npc, he starts taking little fast steps - same movement speed and no speed buff on or anything, just suddenly starts taking little steps. Same happens whether he's on horse or on foot.

This has only started happening since the IC patch.

My game has done that since it launched on the Xbox. I just figure that the game is having a bit of communication with the servers.

Does it need to be fixed? Sure.
Does it also lead to funny comments from my son? Absolutely.

My son looked up from the book he was reading while my big tough-guy Dunmer Vampire Nightblade was doing that run, and asked: "Why is your character running like he just crapped his pants?"

Lava_Croft · September 2015

Another annoying one: When weaving Restoration Staff light attacks with for example a skill like Strife (Funnel Health/Swallow Soul), eventually the animations will go out of sync. This results in the animations associated with the light attacks and Strife spam do not sync with the button presses, which breaks weaving.

SLy_Kyti · September 2015

AlienSlof wrote: »

Don't know if anyone's mentioned this but sometimes when my character is passing an npc, he starts taking little fast steps - same movement speed and no speed buff on or anything, just suddenly starts taking little steps. Same happens whether he's on horse or on foot.

This has only started happening since the IC patch.

Mine has done this since patch v1.7 (or 2.0) It reminds me of a toddler doing the potty dance.

Shoegarshack · September 2015

Cant Communicate with this player issue... People are unable to invite or trade with certain players. Been 5 days now with tickets sent each day. No fix, no reply....

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/218040/you-cannot-communicate-with-this-player#latest

VaxtinTheWolf · September 2015

Since this was so minor I forgot to at least mention it. According to several scrolling text addons and combat logs, Rally doesn't -always- grant the bonus heal when it expires on it's own. From what I can tell, it does work when manually activating again for a refresh.

Possibly may just work this way because I am out of combat and full health, but it usually grants the bonus healing on expiration.

silky_soft · September 2015

zatohonour wrote: »

Has anyone else noticed that when you throw caltrops down,when you sprint over them sometimes you'll gain super speed and run all over the place?

It's been happening to me in cyrodil,feel like i'm the flash,zooming around all the enmies and giving them slaps as i race by.

(PS4)

Happens in camp in cyro for me, gap closers activate it too.

Anyone noticed that ambush is the only gap closer that is interruptable?

Xantaria · September 2015

VaxtinTheWolf wrote: »

Since this was so minor I forgot to at least mention it. According to several scrolling text addons and combat logs, Rally doesn't -always- grant the bonus heal when it expires on it's own. From what I can tell, it does work when manually activating again for a refresh.

Possibly may just work this way because I am out of combat and full health, but it usually grants the bonus healing on expiration.

@VaxtinTheWolf
When does this happen to you? I always get the Healtick after it runs out (done a few tests).

Diamond_10 · September 2015

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

/lurk

Why dont you go /lurk in Thornblade around the AD emperor who exploits his way into keeps without damaging them to solo cap them. We all did tickets on Monday but you know how that goes, hes still at it and nothing ever gets done about cheaters in this game.

Asayre · September 2015

As reported by @Fat_Cat45, sorc pets damage is not increased by Elemental Expert or Elfborn. (http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/2252074#Comment_2252074)

It seems that pets only take the caster's crit chance but not crit multiplier.

Xantaria · September 2015

Asayre wrote: »

As reported by @Fat_Cat45, sorc pets damage is not increased by Elemental Expert or Elfborn. (http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/2252074#Comment_2252074)

It seems that pets only take the caster's crit chance but not crit multiplier.

Added!

Xantaria · September 2015

melodeath wrote: »

-break free not working half the time as you can get stunned again while the break cc animation is going on
-after breaking free..cc immunity doesnt work against charge abbilities and when using retreating manouver.
-dodge roll is beeing affect by snares aswell.
-for some odd reason there happends to be alot of input lag that can happen for a long period of time.

I don't know if the changes to dodge roll are intended.
Added the rest except for the input lagg which most likely has to do with their servers.

Sleep724 · September 2015

Night silence ignore movement penalty has been not been working for me since the update.

Geemarc · September 2015

Is Wrecking Blow bugged or intended to perma stun in PvP now?

Xantaria · September 2015

Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »

AlienSlof wrote: »

Don't know if anyone's mentioned this but sometimes when my character is passing an npc, he starts taking little fast steps - same movement speed and no speed buff on or anything, just suddenly starts taking little steps. Same happens whether he's on horse or on foot.

This has only started happening since the IC patch.

My game has done that since it launched on the Xbox. I just figure that the game is having a bit of communication with the servers.

Does it need to be fixed? Sure.
Does it also lead to funny comments from my son? Absolutely.

My son looked up from the book he was reading while my big tough-guy Dunmer Vampire Nightblade was doing that run, and asked: "Why is your character running like he just crapped his pants?"

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