Charge Bug

Poxheart

I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but it seems that ever since the FPS issue was fixed, there has been a noticeable increase in most (if not all) charge attacks bugging out. I'm talking about you use a charge skills, your character starts doing the Scooby Doo run animation, but doesn't actually move toward your target so you're free to move around. HOWEVER, while stuck doing the Scooby Doo your ability bar is greyed out and you can't make any attacks. Eventually (anywhere from a few 5 to 20 seconds later) you're character will warp to where target was when you originally activated the skill. (By that time your target is long gone).

It seems to happen in both large and small scale fights and is really annoying.

frwinters_ESO

This happened to me once with Shield Charge on a boss in Riven Spire. I had to keep running away from him stuck in the animation. I tried to reloadui when i got a chance and that didnt work. The only thing that worked was me spanning shield charge over and over until it finally executed and I was back to normal.

JamilaRaj

This used to happen even before fix and during The Great FPS Issue templar charge was completely unusable as it bugged out in nearly 100% of cases. And still happens occasionaly.
I have already sent a /bug.

Halrloprillalar

bolt escape bugs out on a regular basis

Rebel248

Yeah, I ended up just taking shield charge/Invasion off my skill bar because of this. This bug happens to me 95% of the time lag or not,... the skill is rendered useless now and this issue really needs to be looked into.

DigitalHype

Idared wrote: »

This used to happen even before fix and during The Great FPS Issue templar charge was completely unusable as it bugged out in nearly 100% of cases. And still happens occasionaly.
I have already sent a /bug.

Agreed. This started happening to my Templar, after the 1.2.3 patch that introduced the FPS issues. And, it has been getting better (happening less often), since then.

ferzalrwb17_ESO

I get bugs like that but more annoyingly I've had the "can do nothing" bug constantly today in Cyrodiil. I start off with an attack or two then my character can do nothing. Can't swing a basic attack, I can't even Esc-Esc. I can still move around though and watch myself getting smashed. It fixes itself on death.

purple-magicb16_ESO

Not sure if this is the same issue, but I experience something similar with DK when using Critical Charge from time to time. It's very embarassing. He does his war cry, holds up his weapon (for me its warhammer) and does this Roadrunner/Coyote wind-up run (similar to your Scooby-doo run I think) but doesn't actually charge at the target or hit him. -and here's the really embarassing part - I stay stuck like this for up to a full minute or so-just holding up my warhammer in a threatening fashion but not actually having the cahones to use it. I guess after a minute or so it finally wears off and I can put my weapon away albeit sheepishly. Never expeienced rushing in to find no one home tho. I'm sure this gets other players frustrated with me as while I am like this I am totally useless and defenseless despite the fact that I can move around quite freely. Sounds pretty funny eh? Well it gets me real cranky after a while and I'm not thinking it's so funny now, so I know how you feel.

purple-magicb16_ESO

If I could, I would make my DK crawl under a rock when this happens. Lol!

purple-magicb16_ESO

...perhaps there could could be a commandline exit for this? /cancel? Better yet a hotkey we can define so its quicker. Just so it's not preventing someone from attacking and defending. Devs? Just a thot.

purple-magicb16_ESO

ferzalrwb17_ESO wrote: »

I get bugs like that but more annoyingly I've had the "can do nothing" bug constantly today in Cyrodiil. I start off with an attack or two then my character can do nothing. Can't swing a basic attack, I can't even Esc-Esc. I can still move around though and watch myself getting smashed. It fixes itself on death.

When this one happens to me I log out and when I do, I get an error. With this bug, I can move, but can't do anything like use interactables, attack, defend or talk to npcs. Then when I log back in, I'm at the same location where the bug started despite the fact that I may have travelled a long way while under the influence of this bug.

Durham

This usually happen when target dies before i get there.... or bad terrain.... or lag.

Spawn

The same thing happened with sprint getting stuck and can't do anything, in the case when sprint gets gets stuck normally hitting your shift key key again will fix it their is a chance sometimes work around might work with abilities, hitting esc once or twice can also help

Perphection

Hmm, this may also explain why I find my character unable to weapon swap or use abilities.

I'm currently playing a healer and get focused regularly and I find myself with a grayed out bar constantly. Perhaps the charge animations aren't going through on my end either and my character should actually be knocked down when I'm experiencing this.

Poxheart

purple-magicb16_ESO wrote: »

Not sure if this is the same issue, but I experience something similar with DK when using Critical Charge from time to time. It's very embarassing. He does his war cry, holds up his weapon (for me its warhammer) and does this Roadrunner/Coyote wind-up run (similar to your Scooby-doo run I think) but doesn't actually charge at the target or hit him. -and here's the really embarassing part - I stay stuck like this for up to a full minute or so-just holding up my warhammer in a threatening fashion but not actually having the cahones to use it. I guess after a minute or so it finally wears off and I can put my weapon away albeit sheepishly. Never expeienced rushing in to find no one home tho. I'm sure this gets other players frustrated with me as while I am like this I am totally useless and defenseless despite the fact that I can move around quite freely. Sounds pretty funny eh? Well it gets me real cranky after a while and I'm not thinking it's so funny now, so I know how you feel.

What you've described is essentially the same bug. I think there are probably two contributing factors to whether or not a character experiencing this bug will warp to the enemy: 1) amount of time stuck in the charge animation and 2) how far you've moved from the spot where your target was when you activated the skill.

Regardless, it is super annoying.

JamilaRaj

Perphection wrote: »

Hmm, this may also explain why I find my character unable to weapon swap or use abilities.

I'm currently playing a healer and get focused regularly and I find myself with a grayed out bar constantly. Perhaps the charge animations aren't going through on my end either and my character should actually be knocked down when I'm experiencing this.

Probably not (always) the case, as grayed-out bar may last anywhere from a few seconds up to a few minutes, which can hardly be explained as not displayed chain of knockdowns, especially with full health and no enemies near.

The problem here is generic and while charge-type skills can readily trigger the bug, one can end up with grayed out abilities on other occasions too, be it after being CCed or just running around. Apparently some animation should play at some point, it does not or does not complete and further event processing is stopped until something times out. The more people around, more readily abilities stuck.

Another nasty issue which I believe is caused by animation not loading is when avatar is not blocking. One can mash button all he likes but no, avatar won't block, unti after some seconds or minutes finally block comes up.