When did they break pets?

soulclaw

I came back after a break and have found that my clannfear only fights about half the time now. Way too often it just stands there and does nothing while I am in combat and I have to dismiss and resummon it get it back into action.

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO

My pet has been like that since I started my first Sorcerer a couple of weeks ago.

"Come on, help me out here?"
"Sorry boss, there's a small rock right in front of me, and I don't know how to get around it."

"Attack!"
"Attack what? You are standing in the way, so I can't see it."

"How about now? Nothing blocking you this time!"
"Oh, look, a butterfly!"

Half of the time, that clannfear is just stupid, but it fits the character. Summoned Daedra are not loyal, and they absolutely do not care whether you live or die.

AlexDougherty

First call them Familiars or Summons, or someone will confuse them with you know pets (mudcrab, monkey, etc)

Second, press Y and right click, it will attack whoever you clicked on.

Lauradana

AlexDougherty wrote: »

First call them Familiars or Summons, or someone will confuse them with you know pets (mudcrab, monkey, etc)

Second, press Y and right click, it will attack whoever you clicked on.

Second, errr nope that most certainly does not work, my Familiars just stand there and do nothing no matter how often I hit the Y button while having the target I want attacked locked.

They [snip] it up again like most of the stuff they have done of late, yes lag I am looking at you.

[Moderator Note: Edited per our rules on Cursing & Profanity]

indigoblades

Ocassionally my clannfear stops obeying commands .... i resummon him and he will obey. I rarely have a problem with my main char. The other day my alts Clannfer kept going stupid, i would unsummon/resummon and 2 fights later we was not working .... i think later he worked fine, but ill try to remember if logging in and out helps. May certain areas he thinks he is still in combat.

soulclaw

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO wrote: »

Half of the time, that clannfear is just stupid, but it fits the character. Summoned Daedra are not loyal, and they absolutely do not care whether you live or die.

sorry, but stupid excuses for buggy programming are stupid.

MAOofDC

Well the command to attack that was posted it wrong. To attack it is Y and left click to stop attacking it is Y right click.

AlexDougherty

MAOofDC wrote: »

Well the command to attack that was posted it wrong. To attack it is Y and left click to stop attacking it is Y right click.

whoops, thanks for the correction.

RedMiniStapler

i'll just simply quote myself from my previous post

RedMiniStapler wrote: »

this happens quite often.

*aggro'd a group of mobs*
me : Clannfear? I'm getting hammered here!
Clannfear : I just stubbed my toe on that rock back there, it really hurt...
me : I'm dying!
Clannfear : give me a moment!!
me : screw you! Storm Atronach, SAVE MEH!!!!
Storm Atronach : ya know,i would love to, but uh.... do you see that ultimate box? and how it's not flashing? can't help ya there, call me back when you built up ultimate.
me : you sunnuvuh.... *dead*

*resurrected and spawns Clannfear*
Clannfear : I'll avenge you! CHARRRRRRGE!
*aggro's same mobs*
me : I... HATE... YOU!

MAOofDC

AlexDougherty wrote: »

MAOofDC wrote: »

Well the command to attack that was posted it wrong. To attack it is Y and left click to stop attacking it is Y right click.

whoops, thanks for the correction.

NP man anytime

Sapphy24

RedMiniStapler wrote: »

i'll just simply quote myself from my previous post

RedMiniStapler wrote: »

this happens quite often.

*aggro'd a group of mobs*
me : Clannfear? I'm getting hammered here!
Clannfear : I just stubbed my toe on that rock back there, it really hurt...
me : I'm dying!
Clannfear : give me a moment!!
me : screw you! Storm Atronach, SAVE MEH!!!!
Storm Atronach : ya know,i would love to, but uh.... do you see that ultimate box? and how it's not flashing? can't help ya there, call me back when you built up ultimate.
me : you sunnuvuh.... *dead*

*resurrected and spawns Clannfear*
Clannfear : I'll avenge you! CHARRRRRRGE!
*aggro's same mobs*
me : I... HATE... YOU!

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO wrote: »

My pet has been like that since I started my first Sorcerer a couple of weeks ago.

"Come on, help me out here?"
"Sorry boss, there's a small rock right in front of me, and I don't know how to get around it."

"Attack!"
"Attack what? You are standing in the way, so I can't see it."

"How about now? Nothing blocking you this time!"
"Oh, look, a butterfly!"

Half of the time, that clannfear is just stupid, but it fits the character. Summoned Daedra are not loyal, and they absolutely do not care whether you live or die.

OMG sooo funny. Thankyou for brightening up my day.

DogFaceInBananaPatch

soulclaw wrote: »

I came back after a break and have found that my clannfear only fights about half the time now. Way too often it just stands there and does nothing while I am in combat and I have to dismiss and resummon it get it back into action.

Is this a known bug? My Clannfear is constantly doing this.

Robbmrp

Ah the clan fear..... ESO's version of cats..... attack or nap.....go away and don't bother me....when I want to help I will.....maybe....

Nestor

Lauradana wrote: »

Second, errr nope that most certainly does not work, my Familiars just stand there and do nothing no matter how often I hit the Y button while having the target I want attacked locked.

My Pets attack who I say to attack.

The first thing to figure out is, can your Clanfear even see the enemy you are targeting? This does not mean your character, and this does not mean you from your camera view, but the Clanfear. If you do not have line of sight from the Summoned Pet to the target, it can not attack them. This includes objects that may be in the way, so move to the left or right, get a clear path for the Pet, then Y and Right Click (IIRC you can use Y and Left Click, I did last night anyway)

DogFaceInBananaPatch

Nestor wrote: »

The first thing to figure out is, can your Clanfear even see the enemy you are targeting?

Irrelevant being I decided to run for about an hour *after* the clannfear stopped attacking to see if it was something else, a certain area, or was truly a bug. After about 40-50 mobs it never *ran up* and attacked. NOW it did attack if I pulled the mob to the Clannfear but only sometimes. So out of ~45 it attacked ~5 out of ~20 I pulled to it. The remaining amount that I did not pull directly in front of the clannfear it never engaging in battle at all.

Prior to this testing the clannfear has decided to do this approximately 20 times over the course of leveling 1 - 18.

Desummoning and Rersumming fixes the problem every time and the Clannfear will go back to acting/attacking normal but that is not a permanent fix being the bug will happen again within minutes (up to 30 minutes).

So yes, the Clannfear can see the target but chooses to do nothing.

Nestor

DogFaceInBananaPatch wrote: »

So yes, the Clannfear can see the target but chooses to do nothing.

That is really weird as I was using my Pets last night just fine. I would send in a /help or /feedback on this.

I just started using my Pets again last night after a several month hiatus of not using them. I was curious about the new pets was the reason why. They attacked whatever I targeted. I use them to great effect with Lightening Splash, send in the pets, drop puddles of lightening, profit.

Are you on the NA server in the AD Alliance? If so, we could run a little tonight and see if our pets react differently or not.

DogFaceInBananaPatch

I am on NA and I am also playing on AD (but as a Dark Elf).

Though we already know our pets act differently. Your pet is always fine and mine always breaks [eventually].

Psychobunni

soulclaw wrote: »

I came back after a break and have found that my clannfear only fights about half the time now. Way too often it just stands there and does nothing while I am in combat and I have to dismiss and resummon it get it back into action.

When they created them.

Nestor

DogFaceInBananaPatch wrote: »

I am on NA and I am also playing on AD (but as a Dark Elf).

Find me tonight in the game, I will be on after about 6PM and let's go try some things. I am really interested in what is happening here. I had issues back in the beginning getting my pets to attack, until I tried some different things.

Send me a message @Nestor if your logged on tonight.

Kreetar

oh god, thank you to the person who stressed that they should be called familiars/summons, because here I was shaking my head thinking "what the heck, my mudcrab doesn't do jack sh*t!".

angelyn

Psychobunni wrote: »

soulclaw wrote: »

I came back after a break and have found that my clannfear only fights about half the time now. Way too often it just stands there and does nothing while I am in combat and I have to dismiss and resummon it get it back into action.

When they created them.

yep, mine have always been like that. They also have a habit of being invisible when summoned. For some reason my magicka drops as if I've successfully summoned.

Then nothing appears- even if you fight an enemy. The enemy doesn't take damage unless I personally inflict it, therefore I know that it's not just invisible to me- the summons didn't work and wasted my magicka.

I've been playing since beta..and did so without pets until 1.6 hit. I'm still figuring out my new build.

There was a YouTube video about showing this happening. Basically the pet had to be summoned like 5 times and then just tried to stare the enemy to death

phairdon

My pets work as intended the majority of time. Once in a while they decide not attack. This problem was around a year ago too.

pugyourself

soulclaw wrote: »

I came back after a break and have found that my clannfear only fights about half the time now. Way too often it just stands there and does nothing while I am in combat and I have to dismiss and resummon it get it back into action.

This happens to me once in a great while. If you back away through the clannfear, it will tank whoever is chasing you. Then you can just turn around and re-join the fight.

nightwalkerrobin_ESO

RedMiniStapler wrote: »

i'll just simply quote myself from my previous post

RedMiniStapler wrote: »

this happens quite often.

*aggro'd a group of mobs*
me : Clannfear? I'm getting hammered here!
Clannfear : I just stubbed my toe on that rock back there, it really hurt...
me : I'm dying!
Clannfear : give me a moment!!
me : screw you! Storm Atronach, SAVE MEH!!!!
Storm Atronach : ya know,i would love to, but uh.... do you see that ultimate box? and how it's not flashing? can't help ya there, call me back when you built up ultimate.
me : you sunnuvuh.... *dead*

*resurrected and spawns Clannfear*
Clannfear : I'll avenge you! CHARRRRRRGE!
*aggro's same mobs*
me : I... HATE... YOU!

Everything is AWESOME, when the game is working as intended....

nightwalkerrobin_ESO

Nestor wrote: »

Lauradana wrote: »

Second, errr nope that most certainly does not work, my Familiars just stand there and do nothing no matter how often I hit the Y button while having the target I want attacked locked.

My Pets attack who I say to attack.

The first thing to figure out is, can your Clanfear even see the enemy you are targeting? This does not mean your character, and this does not mean you from your camera view, but the Clanfear. If you do not have line of sight from the Summoned Pet to the target, it can not attack them. This includes objects that may be in the way, so move to the left or right, get a clear path for the Pet, then Y and Right Click (IIRC you can use Y and Left Click, I did last night anyway)

So what you are saying is that the Daedra a Sorc can summon have all be lobotomized?

DogFaceInBananaPatch

It's very hard to get a screenshot of this problem but here's the best I could do to prove this happens. My Clannfear has just been standing far behind me doing nothing. The strangler even used it's power to "pull" the Clannfear within melee proximity but it didn't even budge the pet.

This was happening for 20+ minutes before I took these two screenshots.

The water is *not* what's doing it. It was bugged out long before I crossed the river.

Folkb

The volatile familiar does bug out a lot and just stand there, I've had to recast it a lot. With that said I did submit it with the bug report feature.