Is there a problem with breaking free from fear?

LuminaLilly · August 2016

Even with 38k max stamina at full, you need to press LB+RB 3 or four times and you might break free from fear. Breaking from any other CC is easy but fear always had this stagnancy to it.

Solariken · August 2016

Yep. Fear and Reverb Bash are the worst offenders for CC locking me. It's like they force you to let the animation finish before break free is allowed or something. Sucks balls to try to recover from those.

GreenSoup2HoT · August 2016

I personally have issues with all CC's in high latency situations. Fear i believe gets a bad wrap because of its 4 second duration. Considering how many NB's are in pvp, it makes sense why this ability stands out. Once you lag or bug out, any cc could cost you your life.

I think Console players could use another action to CC break. Why does it have to be Left and Right triggers to break CC when you cannot perform any other action while CC'd?

I think CC breaking could easily be changed to R3 or even X. This would make it much easier.

On the other hand, we need performance fixes in pvp to make pvp feel more responsive which would help this issue.

Quick Tip: Hold left trigger and spam right trigger. Makes CC breaking very easy.

Skinzz · August 2016

Yeah i love running marathons before i can break free

Czirne · August 2016

Its probaly problem with lag. Sometimes i break free fear immediately, sometimes i cant. I can not tell for sure is there is problem with fear itself or with lag.

Draxys · August 2016

Solariken wrote: »

Yep. Fear and Reverb Bash are the worst offenders for CC locking me. It's like they force you to let the animation finish before break free is allowed or something. Sucks balls to try to recover from those.

This seems to be what's happening. Your character is completely disabled for a second as soon as you are affected by fear. This happened, whether by accident or not, in 1.6 I think. It has not always been like this.

Mac10murda · August 2016

It's been broke since I started playing on console

Lava_Croft · August 2016

Nothing particular to Fear. All CC is broken. All CC has been broken for a long time. ZOS is too busy filling up the Crown Store.

Draxys · August 2016

Lava_Croft wrote: »

Nothing particular to Fear. All CC is broken. All CC has been broken for a long time. ZOS is too busy filling up the Crown Store.

This isn't the normal problem with breaking CC, you also have the issue with fear, but there is another one specifically with fear and I think drain from vampire skill line. Even if break free is working in that moment in general, fear will not let you break free until a second or so of the animation has happened.

Armitas · August 2016

Yep got to go through two animations before you are free. It's half the reason people hate fear so much. By the time you break free from it, the damage has already been done.

Skinzz · August 2016

Dawnbreaker of smiting is sometimes harder for me to break out of than fear.

Lokey0024 · August 2016

Draining shot. I loathe thee

Makkir · August 2016

NBs will tell you nothing is wrong.

Kinda like fat people thinking a Grilled McChicken sandwich is good for you. Terrible analogy, but some fat lady just cut me off in traffic to pull into a drivethru and in still heated over it.

Makkir · August 2016

Gotta be the only MMO that has a fear mechanic that doesnt break on dmg.....

MalakithAlamahdi · August 2016

It's deffinately bugged. Also the uppercut stun seems to do it for me.

Beardimus · August 2016

Fear is the worst for it, only one like it for me the rest you can CC break. I half assumed that was intended and it had a different counter ha

Omgwtfbbq321 · August 2016

I am guessing it has something to do with the running away animation. I can CC break (In off-peak pvp) almost instantly with all skills but Fear. When using Fear on others, I feel I have a lot more time to dump damage before they break than say if I CC someone with a Crystal shard.

I have been on both sides of the table, and there is defiently something funny with fear. Other then that, all CCs are buggy in lag.

Master_Kas · August 2016

There's problems breaking free from basiclly every CC in the game sometimes.

newtinmpls · August 2016

GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »

Once you lag or bug out, any cc could cost you your life. .

yup (sigh)

I have the phoenix set - get caught in fear/cc, die, auto-rez, am still caught and then promptly die again.

Lettigall · August 2016

Almost all CC are broken. Soul tether, Incap strike, Dizzying swing, Dawnbreaker... To some of these abilities I have been on both sides- dealing and receiving unbreakable CC!

Dojohoda · August 2016

The only thing to fear is fear itself

Mojomonkeyman · August 2016

Master_Kas wrote: »

There's problems breaking free from basiclly every CC in the game sometimes.

Fear is especially bad this patch.

I have a delay of 1-2 seconds minimum actually breaking fear after I pressed the break free button, even when all other playing conditions are perfect (early mornings). Combined with the Stamblade incap party going on, those 1-2 secs delay can very easily lead to death.

That`s a bad combination for healthy pvp, which in my opinion has to be focused on with priority (compared to the other cc`s which have problems - i.e.: magnum shot into charge, or reverb).

The inresponsiveness of breaking out of fear is the main reason i run 5k more hp this patch than last one.

BR

reiverx · August 2016

The animation from Fear is like something from a Scooby Doo cartoon.

Armitas · August 2016

Yesterday it took me 3 seconds of spamming breakfree to get out of it while a zerg spammed CC buttons on me. A few months ago I broke the button of a brand new mouse just trying to break free in this game. The other anyoing thing is that break free has it's on animation cooldown before you can do something.

E-Zekiel · August 2016

Seems spotty with fear relative to other CC breaks (stun, knockdown, or dodgerolling for immobilization). I have this issue too sometimes. I largely wish game companies would stop putting fear in MMO's though. Conan did it best, I think - "fear" was just a stun with a unique animation.

QuebraRegra · August 2016

GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »

I personally have issues with all CC's in high latency situations. Fear i believe gets a bad wrap because of its 4 second duration. Considering how many NB's are in pvp, it makes sense why this ability stands out. Once you lag or bug out, any cc could cost you your life.

I think Console players could use another action to CC break. Why does it have to be Left and Right triggers to break CC when you cannot perform any other action while CC'd?

I think CC breaking could easily be changed to R3 or even X. This would make it much easier.

On the other hand, we need performance fixes in pvp to make pvp feel more responsive which would help this issue.

Quick Tip: Hold left trigger and spam right trigger. Makes CC breaking very easy.

I'm going to awesome you, because you suggested a simple and effective idea.

Why not just roll, to break out? Maybe ZOS will as a QT event to break out of CC next

Tankqull · August 2016

Master_Kas wrote: »

There's problems breaking free from basiclly every CC in the game sometimes.

from my PoV the problem seem to be tied to animations the character has to finish befor the breakfree animation can be started - as fear has one of the longest animations it seems to be especially prone to this behaviour...