[The Bug Notes] Compendium of current Bugs / Exploits

Kronuxx

Hi @Xantaria , great post. Not sure if anyone else noted this as I did not see it in the bug list for skills/passives but:

Power Overload/Energy Overload skill is bugged where one cannot use the skill abilities in the bar. It occurs randomly but it also seems to occur consistently at times if I hold down on the Overload button skill. Once I have enough magicka to use any number of sorcerer class skills on the Overload bar, I cannot use them at all, despite having enough magicka to use the skills. In addition, my character will be in a weird animation loop where while trying to hold down on and activate the Overload skill ability, my character will not stick out his hands in front of him with electricity coming out, rather his hands are somewhat at his sides. When the fight is over with X mob, I cannot loot their bodies (in addition there will be no UI interface showing me the Key bind button that I need to press to loot the body). I also cannot interact with NPC's. This bug will reset if I switch out of the Overload ability and then switch back to it. Once I do this I can use the skill line abilities again on the Overload bar, in addition to looting Mob bodies and interacting with NPC's.

RoyJade

Kronuxx : seem like you are stuck in a heavy attack animation. Sopme other people have the same issue, try to block to stop the animation.

Autoexec : it's intended, sadly, because like you said these attack are dots and surge don't proc anymore on dots.

autoexec

RoyJade wrote: »

Autoexec : it's intended, sadly, because like you said these attack are dots and surge don't proc anymore on dots.

Personally I don't think its intended, its a side effect from disabling the heal on dots, but it makes no sense if one of sorc's higher damage spells, velocious curse, can't synergize with his ONLY heal.

Also, thunderous storm procs effects that specifically say "do not proc on DOTs" yet doesn't proc surge. Its such a mess i'm sure people at ZOS themselves don't even know what does what anymore.

willymchilybily

Thanks for all your hard work @Xantaria

DK passive, "mountains blessing" is not giving the minor brutality buff to self or allies when using an earthen heart abilites.

@MaxwellCrystal thanks for pointing this out to me.

lubzin

Hello , I realized that power surge is not joining with the ability entropy , is this normal?

Tallowby

Can you add the Guild Bank Bug to your list as well?

As it is now the Guild bank is unreliable -- Rarely does ALL items load - Most times no items show - Some times only a subset of items show (<5th)

Official response - this happens when adding/removing many items from the guild bank at once and to fix the issue you need to relaunch the client.

I can say the "many" can be as little as 2 items. And even with many posts this still has not been listed on the official Bug Post as an issue..

EDIT: Platform Xbox One
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Endless-Shogun

Tallowby wrote: »

Can you add the Guild Bank Bug to your list as well?

As it is now the Guild bank is unreliable -- Rarely does ALL items load - Most times no items show - Some times only a subset of items show (<5th)

Official response - this happens when adding/removing many items from the guild bank at once and to fix the issue you need to relaunch the client.

I can say the "many" can be as little as 2 items. And even with many posts this still has not been listed on the official Bug Post as an issue..

Confirming this.
All 4 of my Guild's Banks.
All 15 of my officers.

Xantaria

lubzin wrote: »

Hello , I realized that power surge is not joining with the ability entropy , is this normal?

@lubzin
Yes, because Entropy counts as a DoT effect.

Xantaria

willymchilybily wrote: »

Thanks for all your hard work @Xantaria

DK passive, "mountains blessing" is not giving the minor brutality buff to self or allies when using an earthen heart abilites.

@MaxwellCrystal thanks for pointing this out to me.

@MaxwellCrystal
@willymchilybily
I can only say it again: It works. Try using it while in combat

Xantaria

SLy_Kyti wrote: »

Not sure if this has been mentioned here but...
In IC specifically, but also occuring elsewhere,
Rapid weapon swaps will make using abilities become unresponsive. This can be worked around on PC by spamming Shift key several times. Horrible bug, reported in other forum posts as well. I've noted you can do everything but use those abilities keys including potions key!

@SLy_Kyti
This is a very known issue, yet I'm not sure wether rapid weapon swaps are the source of this. They definitely play a role but I think it's rather when a Weapon Swap and a Skill are initiated at the exact same time. This cancels the skill but it's still trying to cast which causes a permanent GCD on your abilities. You can only cancel this GCD by sprinting because sprinting cancels any spell animation (also stuck ones caused by this bug) as the game does not allow any casting while sprinting.

Do you think that this could be the explanation? It's just what I believe to be the root of the problem and if other people agree I'll add this.

mra4nii

Duration of effects from looted pots are is not increased by Alchemy Passive, Medicinal Use.
I'm not sure if this is a bug though.

Uriel_Nocturne

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Missing beams: We've actually seen a few sporadic reports of missing beam effects from abilities, and are investigating. So far, we're not able to reproduce internally as everything appears to be visible, but we're keeping an eye on it.

Also, we all enjoyed your image choices.

Please check the missing beams with a Vampire character.

I was in Cadwell's Silver last night (just started the Bankorai area) and I was running around outside of Evermore killing Reachmen. My Vampire Drain beam does not show.

I get the red aura around my character's torso that says I'm draining them, and the Healing performs as it is supposed to, but there's no beam.

Also; not sure if you're aware, but Essence Drain doesn't seem to Stun enemies as reliably as it used to before the IC patch. I'll Drain one enemy, and it will Stun just fine. When I go to Drain another enemy right after the first enemy, the Stun doesn't work and the enemy charges at me and starts hitting me while I'm draining them (which defeats the purpose of Draining them).

Also tied to this problem; if I use Essence Drain on an enemy, then battle with the same enemy for the next 3-5 seconds, then try to Drain them again, the Stun effect doesn't work. I can feed off of one enemy multiple times, but the Stun seems to be limited to either 1) the first Drain only per enemy, or 2) the Stun has been randomized or set at a percentile chance.

If #2 is correct, that's just messed up... because none of that change to the Stun effect was in the patch notes.

My Vampire Essence Drain is currently morphed as Invigorating Drain if that helps at all.

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Also, I know you guys aren't planning on reversing the Stamina Regen for Tanks right now, but I would plead with you to reconsider. For the DPS guys (like my Nightblade, Templar, and Sorcerer), we NEED those Tanks to be able to regen their Stamina while blocking. It allows them to keep the aggro (you know, actually BE a tank) and take the punishment while the rest of us do our various jobs.

Killing the Stamina regen while blocking for tanks effectively killed that entire generalized character build, and it puts every other character build in jeopardy when rolling through a dungeon.

But you guys need to realize that Tanks NEED that Stamina regen while blocking, it's what makes them a Tank.

great thread, very helpful. But please make sure that the issues with the Vampire Skills gets on the list please?

RoyJade

The drain give anti-cc, so if you drain an enemy with the white circle anti-cc effect, you won't stun him.

And tank can tank with control, or with their armor value. As a tank, I able to tank every dungeon (except wgt, but for an another reason) without permablocking. I don't even block for most pack, I just use eruption + talon + taunt, I have enough defense/resistance/life to resist.

Uriel_Nocturne

RoyJade wrote: »

The drain give anti-cc, so if you drain an enemy with the white circle anti-cc effect, you won't stun him.

And tank can tank with control, or with their armor value. As a tank, I able to tank every dungeon (except wgt, but for an another reason) without permablocking. I don't even block for most pack, I just use eruption + talon + taunt, I have enough defense/resistance/life to resist.

I haven't seen any "white circle", I just know that on Reachmen Bandits (all classes), the Stun effect of the Drain is now very sporadic. Some enemies it Stuns like always, everything else just runs through it as if it weren't there.

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.

Xantaria

mra4nii wrote: »

Duration of effects from looted pots are is not increased by Alchemy Passive, Medicinal Use.
I'm not sure if this is a bug though.

If we take only the information the tooltip provides, then yes I guess this is a bug. On the other hand it would make sense that you only gain longer duration on crafted potions ... I mean you pick up this Medicinical Use in the Alchemy Crafting Skillline.

Detector

Where is fix for long loadscreen and black players after load location? This problems appeared to DLC.

EgoRush

White Gold Tower last boss:

We attacked those 4 adds that shield her before she finished her speech. This resulted in one of them being on zero health before it was able to die, therefore it refused to blow up and we couldn't initiate the boss fight. We all had to wipe twice to reset it.

They should either be immune to damage until they can die, or simply blow up at zero health irrespective of Kena finishing her droll speech.

RoyJade

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.

ZOS_RichLambert

/lurk

Uriel_Nocturne

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?

Joy_Division

The Dragonknight Molten Armaments skill does not increase the damage of heavy channeled attacks by restorations and lightning staffs.

Darlgon

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.

P3ZZL3

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

/lurk

I can't help but feel, after reading through 5 pages, you felt like this:

mateoz

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

Xantaria

EgoRush wrote: »

White Gold Tower last boss:

We attacked those 4 adds that shield her before she finished her speech. This resulted in one of them being on zero health before it was able to die, therefore it refused to blow up and we couldn't initiate the boss fight. We all had to wipe twice to reset it.

They should either be immune to damage until they can die, or simply blow up at zero health irrespective of Kena finishing her droll speech.

@EgoRush
A similar issue is already added.

Xantaria

Detector wrote: »

Where is fix for long loadscreen and black players after load location? This problems appeared to DLC.

@Detector
The long loadscreens are not an ingame bug but rather related to server / lag issues. The black players are INTENDED to reduce load time (you will start loading character models after the laodscreen. This will help particularly in crowded areas)

Xantaria

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?

Robbmrp

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

Xantaria wrote: »

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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

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?