often in combat when not in combat anymore..?

Jayman1000

This is happening so often and it prevents you from doing a lot of things because "cant do that while in combat". But Im not in combat! And sometimes it just doesnt go away, and you can't even logout to fix it, because "cant logout while in combat", so only solution is to die. If you can find something to kill you. Else need to quit the game entirely. It seems like it has been happening very often lately, dont recall it happening so often? idk, is it just me?

validifyedneb18_ESO

Welcome to ESO, where common and game-breaking bugs are left unaddressed and unfixed in the game for years while literally everyone knows about them and suffer by them each day when playing.

CassandraGemini

There's been a similar thread a few days ago

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/504416/cant-report-stuck-in-combat-bug-because-im-stuck-in-combat#latest

I mean, I can't speak for anyone else regarding the time component, but for me it definitely feels like it has been happening a lot more lately - the last few weeks, maybe after one of the patches, can't quite say for certain. So, you're not the only one experiencing this. What platform and server are you on?

Mr_Walker

I've actually let tower runners in cyro kill me because I am so bored at chasing them around a tower I would sooner slam my gentlemanly parts in a car door than do one more lap around a tower, but if you wander off, you're stuck in combat for the next half an hour.

Catch-22 at its finest.

LoneStar2911

CassandraGemini wrote: »

I mean, I can't speak for anyone else regarding the time component, but for me it definitely feels like it has been happening a lot more lately - the last few weeks, maybe after one of the patches, can't quite say for certain. So, you're not the only one experiencing this.

I've been playing pretty regularly for the past few months, and it hadn't happened in a while.
......It happened to me twice today. (PC-NA)

BoraxFlux

The reason why someone gets stuck in combat eludes me, I suspect one of the reasons is sometimes being involved in defending or attacking a keep. As soon as the rewards for defending / attacking come in, I can hop on my mount again.

Nemesis7884

happens a lot to me for example after fighting dragons...what sometimes helps is to kill another creatures to give the game another instance to "end combat"

Ardan147

Yes. It is very, very, VERY ANNOYING.

Zer0_CooL

This is such an old bug, it has become a feature now

tigerborn62

Mr_Walker wrote: »

I've actually let tower runners in cyro kill me because I am so bored at chasing them around a tower I would sooner slam my gentlemanly parts in a car door than do one more lap around a tower, but if you wander off, you're stuck in combat for the next half an hour.

Catch-22 at its finest.

Same. O M G ..... same.

grkkll

Started with the last event for me. Kill the dragon (S. Elsweyr) and need to get to the next dragon but I NEED to mount and travel before the next dragon sheds it's mortal coils.... but no I'm in combat.... but the drago is dead

redgreensunset

grkkll wrote: »

Started with the last event for me. Kill the dragon (S. Elsweyr) and need to get to the next dragon but I NEED to mount and travel before the next dragon sheds it's mortal coils.... but no I'm in combat.... but the drago is dead

It happens constantly in S. E. for some weird reason. It seems to strike every pther dragon fight I have. Haven't encpuntered it much outside of there but SE? Ye gawds.

Gnortranermara

A few days ago, I went into Cyro for the first time in months. It lasted about 30 mins or so before I got the permanent stuck-in-combat bug. Tried porting, and that didn't clear it. So yeah, a major game mode is essentially unplayable right now.

Combat dev team: If you can't figure out how to properly and consistently end combat when combat ends, the very least you could do is implement a secondary, backup combat check (attached to some simple action like opening the game menu) to verify if the player is really in active combat or not. I understand it's probably a very hard bug to fix for a variety of reasons, but at least give us a reliable backup method of forcing a combat check and getting out of this bug.

LonePirate

For me, I am stuck in combat if I apply a DOT to an enemy and they are not killed within a minute or two. It also happens when I apply a HOT to an ally who is fighting someone and neither my ally or the enemy die within a couple of minutes. Neither of these cause the problem 100% of the time but the DOT/HOT skills seem to be likely sources of the problem.

svartorn

It's been this way for a long time and I think it's clear ZOS has no intention of actually fixing this.

I don't think they even know how to at this point.

xxthir13enxx

I’m waiting for them to implement the Jeopardy music during the Stuck in Combat so that we know when it ends....
https://youtu.be/HuABhumm6fY

Kagukan

There are times when it doesn't last very long and its like meh, whatever. Then I have had times where it was stuck on me for over an hour. I just went AFK to see how long I would be stuck in combat. Just a little over an hour before it finally cleared. That is a serious problem.

svartorn

On multiple occasions I've zoned into Cyrodiil in combat and then unable to use the transitus shrines.

This game was coded by apes.

Starlock

svartorn wrote: »

On multiple occasions I've zoned into Cyrodiil in combat and then unable to use the transitus shrines.

This game was coded by apes.

I'm glad to see you passed your evolutionary biology unit in high school. You remembered that humans are apes!

svartorn

Kalante

This bug has been here for the past two years. Welcome to eso.

grkkll

Interested to know if this is player specific. I used to play healer, tank or Stam DD and never experienced this in 4 years until I started play as a sorcerer dd

WreckfulAbandon

It used to be a Templar class passive but it seems to have infected them all

CassandraGemini

grkkll wrote: »

Interested to know if this is player specific. I used to play healer, tank or Stam DD and never experienced this in 4 years until I started play as a sorcerer dd

The two toons I have played the most over the past few weeks are a MagDK and a Stamden - both experience the issue equally often. It can, of course, be different for everyone, but I'm inclined to believe that things like class or resource pool have nothing to do with it.

From what I read it seems to happen a lot in Cyro, but I never pvp and I still get this bug regularly in normal pve overland zones. Really has been weirdly persistent lately, a few months back I would hardly experience this at all.

SeaGtGruff

My observations are that there are three things that can cause this to happen:

(1) You have attracted the attention of something and it's actively aggressive toward you. Even if you've run away and it's not close to you, it's probably still following you so it can get in one quick hit, turn around, and go back to wherever it came from.

(2) You were just in a fight and you are still taking DOT from something. Even if you killed everything, if you're still taking DOT then you'll still see a red border around the screen when you view your inventory, your character stats, etc.

(3) You're grouped with someone and they're in combat. Again, you'll see the red border around the screen even if you're far away from the fight and aren't taking any damage yourself.

To this we can add the other situation that was mentioned above:

(4) You were just in a fight, you used a DOT skill, and the DOT skill is still active, even if whatever or whoever you used it on is already dead.

If anyone else comes up with something, add it to the list.

LoneStar2911

Nah. I noticed I was in combat the other day. But I wasn't fighting anything. It was shortly after I helped kill a dragon.
So I ran around killing other stuff, trying to get out of combat. Didn't work.
I stood in place for over 4 minutes, stuck in combat, while I played on my phone.
Tried to wait it out. Got impatient, logged out, and switched characters.
It may be things you listed... sometimes... but other times, it's just a straight-up bug.

El_Borracho

Amber322 wrote: »

Nah. I noticed I was in combat the other day. But I wasn't fighting anything. It was shortly after I helped kill a dragon.
So I ran around killing other stuff, trying to get out of combat. Didn't work.
I stood in place for over 4 minutes, stuck in combat, while I played on my phone.
Tried to wait it out. Got impatient, logged out, and switched characters.
It may be things you listed... sometimes... but other times, it's just a straight-up bug.

This is a frequent occurrence in Southern Elsweyr. I don't know what it is. The one thing that seemed to help was not trying to mount immediately after looting the dragon. Other thing was running away for about 10 seconds.

Whatever the cause, its pretty annoying when you are trying to farm as many dragons as possible and you want to race to the wayshrine to hopefully get a few hits on the second one before he dies.

Xzysts

Happens to me a lot. I think I know why it happens.

Mayrael

Stop running with zergs. I run without group, even when I join some larger fights I'm usually out of combat pretty fast. It happens to me usually only when I get touched or I'll attack a ball group. In scenario like this I use suicide potions and 95% of times it solves the problem and can be even used as kind of teleport stone

SeaGtGruff

So add "bug" or "lag" or whatever to the list.

I've not experienced anything as bad as you've described, but I've definitely experienced lag during combat situations:

- Sitting on a bench in a delve beside where the boss is going to spawn, waiting along with half a dozen or more other players, all of whom (except for me) are continuously spamming their DOT AOEs on the spawn spot. Then *boom* the animation jumps to catch up with what's going on in RT and everyone but me is fighting the boss, who's dead before I can even blink let alone get in a hit.

- Fighting MOBs solo in a delve or public dungeon which is teeming with other players because an event is going on. I clear a MOB but I can't loot the glowing corpses. I have to go run off and find another MOB to fight, then return to the first group of corpses to see if I can loot them now. It's been suggested that this is a "placement bug" rather than lag, but I suspect that the "placement bug" is actually a result of lag (because often the person or thing that's not "really" at the spot where my screen shows it as being will suddenly "teleport" to its actual location due to the laggy messages finally getting through), and often when I'm trying to loot the corpses that can't be looted I'll suddenly find myself under attack by nearby MOBs who appeared to "teleport" to me due to lag.

For me, lag seldom occurs (or isn't bad enough to be noticeable) if I'm running around solo and fighting in sparsely-populated zones, because my main doesn't have any decent DOT AOE spammables, so I don't go around spamming skills the way other players do. It seems to be when I'm in a densely-populated zone, especially in a city, delve, or public dungeon, and there are a lot of other players nearby spamming their abilities while dueling each other or combatting MOBs, that I start to notice lag.

CassandraGemini

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

My observations are that there are three things that can cause this to happen:

(1) You have attracted the attention of something and it's actively aggressive toward you. Even if you've run away and it's not close to you, it's probably still following you so it can get in one quick hit, turn around, and go back to wherever it came from.

(2) You were just in a fight and you are still taking DOT from something. Even if you killed everything, if you're still taking DOT then you'll still see a red border around the screen when you view your inventory, your character stats, etc.

(3) You're grouped with someone and they're in combat. Again, you'll see the red border around the screen even if you're far away from the fight and aren't taking any damage yourself.

To this we can add the other situation that was mentioned above:

(4) You were just in a fight, you used a DOT skill, and the DOT skill is still active, even if whatever or whoever you used it on is already dead.

If anyone else comes up with something, add it to the list.

I seem to get it a lot, when I run past groups of mobs without actually engaging them, I just want to get past them. But then, even when I'm already far away from them and nothing is following me anymore, I don't have the red border that indicates a DoT is still in effect and the battle music has stopped playing, the game still tells me I'm in combat. Fortunately it mostly goes away by itself after a certain time, but sometimes that timespan can get pretty long and it has definitely happened more frequently.