A new Sprint Bug that causes Character lockout

Koolio · May 2018

I have been having this issue where my character gets completely bugged out and can’t do anything. I don’t know what causes it exactly but it happens often. At least 2-3 times a day. It happens in fast paced combat more often. It can be in lag and in no lag.

It is fixed by sprinting again. But this bug isn’t noticeable until nothing works.

These are all animations from trying to heavy attack. As you can see it’s causes a strange character motion. Especially in video 1.

Please take a look at the videos for multiple instances of this happening.
@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

https://youtu.be/R1VqGkv2RVw

https://youtu.be/0tTJOUyl4OY

https://youtu.be/9X50tMzC7Ko

Koolio · May 2018

Just had this happen again. I can’t play when my character is completely locked out from doing anything.

Koolio · May 2018

This is now happening at least twice a day. Multiple characters. Sometimes 2-3 times during a fight. It is not lag like I originally thought it might be.

Koolio · May 2018

This is Happening every 15 mins now

https://youtu.be/KECmqTW8p-o

Koolio · May 2018

https://youtu.be/RL-_itgmtaU

ResTandRespeC · May 2018

Do you happen to be using outfits? I've been hearing a lot of bugs revolving around them lately that are usually fixed by simply removing the outfit. Just a thought.

Koolio · May 2018

ResTandRespeC wrote: »

Do you happen to be using outfits? I've been hearing a lot of bugs revolving around them lately that are usually fixed by simply removing the outfit. Just a thought.

In the most recent videos yes. But not all of them. And this was happening before outfits came out.

Koolio · May 2018

ResTandRespeC wrote: »

Do you happen to be using outfits? I've been hearing a lot of bugs revolving around them lately that are usually fixed by simply removing the outfit. Just a thought.

This also happens in Werewolf.

Yakidafi · May 2018

I can't pvp, really, I tried, but yea. can't use skills.

Ceepax · May 2018

Pls fix this

Spartabunny08 · May 2018

Also experienced this on ps4 pro NA. It hasn't been frequent and so far just a few times around the past month. I noticed the first time at sejanus I was trying to hit an enemy and I noticed none of my skills working at all and then LA and HA also wouldn't work. It's about 3 to 5 seconds long. My god if this bug grows.

TeIvanni · May 2018

Something similar was happening to me as well in PvE content. Happened in maelstrom, in Asylum Sanctorium, and Cloudrest.

My bars will just grey out, none of my skills are activatable, and i cannot do any sort of light/heavies/skills.

Please fix this.

frozywozy · May 2018

Please look into this.

LaRoseNoire · May 2018

Eight crashes from the same thing, still dont know what is doing this, but it is an animation bug. It is not only in Summerset, neither PvP nor PvE, it is happening in everywhere.

After tuesday patch, i got three more crashes.

Own · June 2018

I had this happen today. Stuck in sprint can't use skills. It's actually happened a bunch, I just thought it was lag..

@ZOS_GinaBruno

reActor1 · June 2018

Still happening every day, (more then once) every session, with every char.

The behaviour is easy to explain: it's like your shift button is being pressed and hold until you either finish your stamina or press (really) shift for a moment, releasing the "sprint". Meanwhile your char actually sprints and is not able to use any ability. When you are in combat and focused on the target, the feeling is you can't skill like when it's laggy and often it's too late when you find out what's happening.

Please @ZOS_GinaBruno give us a hope

Sharee · June 2018

HalfSaw wrote: »

Still happening every day, (more then once) every session, with every char.

The behaviour is easy to explain: it's like your shift button is being pressed and hold until you either finish your stamina or press (really) shift for a moment, releasing the "sprint". Meanwhile your char actually sprints and is not able to use any ability. When you are in combat and focused on the target, the feeling is you can't skill like when it's laggy and often it's too late when you find out what's happening.

Please @ZOS_GinaBruno give us a hope

Yep - basically its like the game registers you pressing down the sprint key, but not releasing it, leaving you in a permanent sprint mode until you manually press/release the sprint key again.

Sharee · June 2018

So i found out what is causing it. It is the stutter/micro-loadingscreens that plague Cyrodiil ever since Summerset got released.

In the following video, i am sprinting, then at the 2 second mark i get a micro loading screen. I released sprint when i got the load screen. From then on, i am no longer holding the sprint button, but my character behaves as if i still did: bar disabled, moving at sprint speed, and prisoner's set proccing it's magicka regen:

https://youtu.be/FZjlnPzoyBA

I suspect this happens everytime you get a "stutter" - sometimes the stutter is bad enough to actually show a load screen like in the video, but even if it doesn't, it still causes sprint to get stuck.

Koolio · June 2018

Sharee wrote: »

So i found out what is causing it. It is the stutter/micro-loadingscreens that plague Cyrodiil ever since Summerset got released.

In the following video, i am sprinting, then at the 2 second mark i get a micro loading screen. I released sprint when i got the load screen. From then on, i am no longer holding the sprint button, but my character behaves as if i still did: bar disabled, moving at sprint speed, and prisoner's set proccing it's magicka regen:

https://youtu.be/FZjlnPzoyBA

I suspect this happens everytime you get a "stutter" - sometimes the stutter is bad enough to actually show a load screen like in the video, but even if it doesn't, it still causes sprint to get stuck.

Definitely the same bug but this has been happening since January at least.

Sharee · June 2018

Koolio wrote: »

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Sharee wrote: »

So i found out what is causing it. It is the stutter/micro-loadingscreens that plague Cyrodiil ever since Summerset got released.

In the following video, i am sprinting, then at the 2 second mark i get a micro loading screen. I released sprint when i got the load screen. From then on, i am no longer holding the sprint button, but my character behaves as if i still did: bar disabled, moving at sprint speed, and prisoner's set proccing it's magicka regen:

https://youtu.be/FZjlnPzoyBA

I suspect this happens everytime you get a "stutter" - sometimes the stutter is bad enough to actually show a load screen like in the video, but even if it doesn't, it still causes sprint to get stuck.

Definitely the same bug but this has been happening since January at least.

Just to clarify: i saw these micro loadscreens before summerset, but very rarely. Usually only in one place - in the middle of nowhere, halfway when riding from bleaker to dragonclaw. I always assumed this was because of crossing some invisible "world seam".

After summerset however, they are everywhere. For example going from dragonclaw to bruma, i get three, just a couple of seconds apart.

inthecoconut · July 2018

Is this exclusive to PvP/Cyrodiil and Xbox?

I'm a PC player, and I swear I've experienced something similar to this in PvE. On numerous occasions, I'll be fighting stuff and I suddenly wont be able to do anything. Last night I was trying to level up Resto Staff by just auto-attacking and despite my attempts to mash my attack button my character was just doing some goofy looking animation, but I was still getting attacked and my movements were registering. Up until recently I just ignored it and wrote it off as lag until someone I was playing with voiced out in frustration that randomly they couldn't attack. They simply described it as "my character just stood there doing this stupid animation with his hands in the air but wouldn't attack."

I'll try to pay more attention and actually test if it completely disables my character like in these videos.

Koolio · July 2018

inthecoconut wrote: »

Is this exclusive to PvP/Cyrodiil and Xbox?

I'm a PC player, and I swear I've experienced something similar to this in PvE. On numerous occasions, I'll be fighting stuff and I suddenly wont be able to do anything. Last night I was trying to level up Resto Staff by just auto-attacking and despite my attempts to mash my attack button my character was just doing some goofy looking animation, but I was still getting attacked and my movements were registering. Up until recently I just ignored it and wrote it off as lag until someone I was playing with voiced out in frustration that randomly they couldn't attack. They simply described it as "my character just stood there doing this stupid animation with his hands in the air but wouldn't attack."

I'll try to pay more attention and actually test if it completely disables my character like in these videos.

Probably all platforms. Fengrush also made a video of this.

Ajantisz · October 2018

Dont know if it is the same bug expressed differently but have had many occasions where my characters get stuck in a heavy attack animaiton without actually doing the attack. Character freezes like they are at the end of the HA animation but cannot perform any other actions or skills. Blocking doesnt break it but bar swapping does.Should note it only happens on characters that have a channelled skill they use, which is practically everything for me (magplar, magsorc, bowblade).