possible solution found: problems with heavy attack animation

phlupp89

EDIT: i may have found a possible solution for the problem, although its really not a very good one. Described it in my third post, here is the original one:


As everybody knows heavy attacks will play a much larger role when morrowind hits the live servers. Many on the forums and in the game view this as a troublesome change, but for me it might be actually game-breaking.

Becaucse my heavy attacks just dont always work as intended (of course there is always the possibility that i am doing it wrong somehow!?)

Now here is my issue: when i long press my left mouse button one of three things will usually happen:

1. I will actually heavy attack. I honestly never used heavy attacks much, as a stamblade i just never saw any benefit in it. I only recently started to try to incorporate them into my playstyle in prepartion for the next patch. So i can't say if i have always lived with this bug or if it is more of a recent thing.

2. Instead of a heavy attack my toon will do nothing for about a second and then light attack. if i keep the button pressed, he will just continue to do so - nothing, then light attack. It disrupts the rotation completely.

3. And then there is the worst case senario: i try to heavy attack and literally nothing happens. My stamblade will just stand there, in the middle of combat, eating damage or something. Obviously not what you want.

Now for some context: i play on the north american pc megaserver. The bug/glitch rears its ugly head pretty much randomly (i certanly havent been able to detect any pattern). Meaning it has happend to me during overland contant in mutliple zones, in dungeons, trials and in vMA. I dont PvP so i cant speak to it happening in Cyrodill. It also doesnt seem to matter if there is an actual enemy in front of me. When i try to charge up a heavy attack, one of the three things mentioned above will happen. One doesnt happen more often then the other best i can tell.

Now i have searched on the forums and there was a thread about bugged heavy attacks in january of 2016. Since then nobody seems to have brought up the issue. Which leaves me wondering if nobody else has the same problem or if i'm actually making a mistake when attempting to heavy attack.

If i am too stupid to heavy attack i certainly deserve a spot in this (highly entertainging) thread:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/343404/do-you-remember-your-noob-moments-lets-hear-it

But if i am not i would certainly appreciate some help. i dont know how i will play this game without a reliable heavy attack come morrowind. And even though summer is here and i desperatly need a reason to get back into shape i would really hate to be forced to quit this game because of a bug. Because drastic changes or not, i do enjoy my ESO.

Thx for taking the time to read this,

phlupp

phlupp89

hm, dont know how to edit my post. one more thing to mention: it happens on both my duall wield and bow bar.

jjjozo

I experienced that too. I just grind some public dungeon for 30min and suddenly my character can do max 1/10 heavy or light attack i try to do. No matter if i press or hold left mouse button, my character just do nothing. I can only do abilities. And after next 10minutes everything is ok and i grind another 30min with no problem.

Koolio

This was made a long time ago but the issues are still here

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/289779/issue-destro-heavy-attack-targeting-misses-no-shuffle

phlupp89

@Koolio , @jjjozo

hey guys, thank you for your replies and sorry for getting back to you so late. after morrowind went live i came up with two things so that i could keep playing:
1. i made a light attack build. its not done yet and the damage isn't near what it used to be but at least i can sustain my rotation.
2. i found a work-around for the problem. as it turns out, you can bind your basic attack (any action in the game really) to a secondary key. when i do so and use that secondary key, my heavy attacks always go off as planned. it is not ideal, but it's something.

Obviously this is not an actual fix for the situation. after doing some more research on this and other eso plattforms i had to realize that gliltchy heavy attacks have been an issue forever. And not just on pc, but on the consoles too. Guess there will never be an actual fix by the developers.