WHY IS UNDO SO GOD DAMN BROKEN?

Smol_Bat

SO, story time.

I was trying to defend Sejanus from EP on the PC NA kaalgrontiid campaign some days ago, I was trying my best to avoid damage and roll my way around the EP zerg on top of the keep like the [snip] AD stamblade that I am, my health was going down and things were getting desperate, and then it occurred me the greatest idea ever in those 3 seconds I was about to virtually die, why not use the UNDO ultimate? You know, THAT ONE ultimate from THAT ONE skill line that I slaved for 4 days to level up, you know, THAT ONE skill line that is only available if you OWN the Summerset DLC OR if you PAY A MONTHLY FEE to unlock the area with its quests. You know, THAT ONE ULTIMATE that is an unreliable mess and that its ONLY GOOD PURPOSE of existing is the passive minor protection (temporal guard). That one ultimate. So, I prayed to RNGesus and Saint Lagius the Fair for it to work, and LO and BEHOLD it worked, and oh it worked so well, I've never felt more bliss in the game than the moment i got UNDO to work in my favor during the split second it actually worked, I felt blessed and I felt good, I thought to myself "I CAN LIVE AND ESCAPE TO FIGHT AGAIN" but then disaster came. As I activated the ultimate an enemy sorcerer casted mages wrath on me and got me to execute range, as I was bending the law of physics to return to my previous position 4 seconds ago the strike of lighting numero dos came from the skies and struck me down WHILE I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ULTIMATE'S TELEPORT and killed me. I was shock (literally in the game), I was tricked by the game, backstabbed by the game, and quite Possibly, Bamboozled, I watched in disbelief as my Hail Mary failed SPECTACULARLY, and oh it was an spectacle to behold.

Getting killed that way was bad enough and all, but what happened next will shock you. As I was checking the kill resume I didn't help but to notice that something funky was going on; everyone around me was snared, I thought to myself "maybe there's an ally templar slowing them down" but there wasn't any allies alive on top of Sejanus, only reds, and every single one of them was moving at a snail's pace, Some were shaking, some were twitching, some tried to roll and couldn't, some tried to jump off from the keep, but they never made it to the ground, they just twitched and returned to the edge of the keep. "HUH, THATS FUNKY" i thought to myself "THE WAY I DIED AND THE WAY THEY ARE STUCK IN THAT WAY, IT WOULD BE REALLY FUNNY IF SOME TEMPORAL ANOMALY MUMBO JUMBO HAPPENED BECAUSE OF ME MESSING WITH TIME ITSELF AND DYING HAH" i hah hah... hah, no that was ridiculous... that's not even a game feature, but the seconds passed, and they were still snared. "FFS" I thought to myself after I contemplated the happening for a couple seconds more before I decided to test if that was reason, if I was the reason, so I decided to respawn on a nearby Forward Camp, and whatever happened it must have affected a larger area than I thought because the camp was still fine with only 2 ally AD players walking out of it, surrounded by a couple EP players, but the moment I re-spawned time took its course one again, everyone looked at each other for a couple seconds in confusion, trying to make sense of the situation, but it didn't took long before the red zerg finally dropped from the top of Sejanus and overwhelmed us for a final time.

I had my doubts of course "maybe my internet is just [snip]" I thought, before i contacted the sorcerer that had killed me in the beginning, and asked him if everyone on Sejanus was somehow slowed down or if it was my [snip] and craptop, but he confirmed to me that everyone was in fact affected until I re-spawned. I explained to him what happened and he was as confused as I was. UNDO stopped working for me for the rest of the night after that happened.

Fast forward to today to me chasing a different sorcerer streaking away from danger, i got close to him and was about to bop him with a mighty onslaught, but thanks to the lag my weapon was never switched and I casted UNDO once again this time by accident "oh wow now you work" i exclaimed as i had tried to make it work earlier in the day, but I don't know what dark magic I conjured instead but I kept spinning in place after the ultimate went off, I couldn't move and SOMEHOW and ally player got stuck WITH ME as if he was sucked by some weird vortex of lag, the sorcerer seemed to be affected as ell as he tried to hit us but nothing was happening so he ran away. After the lag "went away" I was finally free along with my ally and proceeded to chase after the sorcerer, but the lag just kept getting worse and worse until I couldn't cast anything and I was booted out of the game. I was done with the game and proceeded to put up a ticket about the bug before closing the game.

SO TL;DR:

UNDO is even more broken than before, I tried to use it, got killed while using it and caused a god damn Dragonbreak.

[Edit for minor profanity]

Saucy_Jack

Smol_Bat wrote: »

So, I prayed to RNGesus and Saint Lagius the Fair for it to work

Found the error; see my siggy for the correction

MashmalloMan

Sounds like lag to me.. To the servers point of view the Sorc hit you before you casted Undo. Simple as that.

Also, could only bare to read the first paragragh or 2. Who is this meant for? You realize you wrote a novel that makes it look like your screaming using caps lock at your computer. I doubt ZOS will read all of that.

Smol_Bat

MashmalloMan wrote: »

Sounds like lag to me.. To the servers point of view the Sorc hit you before you casted Undo. Simple as that.

Also, could only bare to read the first paragragh or 2. Who is this meant for? You realize you wrote a novel that makes it look like your screaming using caps lock at your computer. I doubt ZOS will read all of that.

Yes I realize its lag, its obvious, the thing is how the hell did it caused everyone around me to get snared? That's the issue. That's mentioned on the rest of the post and I realize is long af. Just trying to make it somewhat entertaining instead of the usual "SKILL SUCKS ZOS FIX IT"

ArchMikem

That actually sounded pretty funny. Your mid Temporal transit death tore the fabric of space time in a localized area.

dem0n1k

You are a time lord. Only acceptable explaination! XD

valeriiya

Smol_Bat wrote: »

SO, story time.

I was trying to defend Sejanus from EP on the PC NA kaalgrontiid campaign some days ago, I was trying my best to avoid damage and roll my way around the EP zerg on top of the keep like the *** AD stamblade that I am, my health was going down and things were getting desperate, and then it occurred me the greatest idea ever in those 3 seconds I was about to virtually die, why not use the UNDO ultimate? You know, THAT ONE ultimate from THAT ONE skill line that I slaved for 4 days to level up, you know, THAT ONE skill line that is only available if you OWN the Summerset DLC OR if you PAY A MONTHLY FEE to unlock the area with its quests. You know, THAT ONE ULTIMATE that is an unreliable mess and that its ONLY GOOD PURPOSE of existing is the passive minor protection (temporal guard). That one ultimate. So, I prayed to RNGesus and Saint Lagius the Fair for it to work, and LO and BEHOLD it worked, and oh it worked so well, I've never felt more bliss in the game than the moment i got UNDO to work in my favor during the split second it actually worked, I felt blessed and I felt good, I thought to myself "I CAN LIVE AND ESCAPE TO FIGHT AGAIN" but then disaster came. As I activated the ultimate an enemy sorcerer casted mages wrath on me and got me to execute range, as I was bending the law of physics to return to my previous position 4 seconds ago the strike of lighting numero dos came from the skies and struck me down WHILE I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ULTIMATE'S TELEPORT and killed me. I was shock (literally in the game), I was tricked by the game, backstabbed by the game, and quite Possibly, Bamboozled, I watched in disbelief as my Hail Mary failed SPECTACULARLY, and oh it was an spectacle to behold.

Getting killed that way was bad enough and all, but what happened next will shock you. As I was checking the kill resume I didn't help but to notice that something funky was going on; everyone around me was snared, I thought to myself "maybe there's an ally templar slowing them down" but there wasn't any allies alive on top of Sejanus, only reds, and every single one of them was moving at a snail's pace, Some were shaking, some were twitching, some tried to roll and couldn't, some tried to jump off from the keep, but they never made it to the ground, they just twitched and returned to the edge of the keep. "HUH, THATS FUNKY" i thought to myself "THE WAY I DIED AND THE WAY THEY ARE STUCK IN THAT WAY, IT WOULD BE REALLY FUNNY IF SOME TEMPORAL ANOMALY MUMBO JUMBO HAPPENED BECAUSE OF ME MESSING WITH TIME ITSELF AND DYING HAH" i hah hah... hah, no that was ridiculous... that's not even a game feature, but the seconds passed, and they were still snared. "FFS" I thought to myself after I contemplated the happening for a couple seconds more before I decided to test if that was reason, if I was the reason, so I decided to respawn on a nearby Forward Camp, and whatever happened it must have affected a larger area than I thought because the camp was still fine with only 2 ally AD players walking out of it, surrounded by a couple EP players, but the moment I re-spawned time took its course one again, everyone looked at each other for a couple seconds in confusion, trying to make sense of the situation, but it didn't took long before the red zerg finally dropped from the top of Sejanus and overwhelmed us for a final time.

I had my doubts of course "maybe my internet is just f*cking s*hit" I thought, before i contacted the sorcerer that had killed me in the beginning, and asked him if everyone on Sejanus was somehow slowed down or if it was my sh*ternet and craptop, but he confirmed to me that everyone was in fact affected until I re-spawned. I explained to him what happened and he was as confused as I was. UNDO stopped working for me for the rest of the night after that happened.

Fast forward to today to me chasing a different sorcerer streaking away from danger, i got close to him and was about to bop him with a mighty onslaught, but thanks to the lag my weapon was never switched and I casted UNDO once again this time by accident "oh wow now you work" i exclaimed as i had tried to make it work earlier in the day, but I don't know what dark magic I conjured instead but I kept spinning in place after the ultimate went off, I couldn't move and SOMEHOW and ally player got stuck WITH ME as if he was sucked by some weird vortex of lag, the sorcerer seemed to be affected as ell as he tried to hit us but nothing was happening so he ran away. After the lag "went away" I was finally free along with my ally and proceeded to chase after the sorcerer, but the lag just kept getting worse and worse until I couldn't cast anything and I was booted out of the game. I was done with the game and proceeded to put up a ticket about the bug before closing the game.

SO TL;DR:

UNDO is even more broken than before, I tried to use it, got killed while using it and caused a god damn Dragonbreak.

I'm sorry that happened but 10/10 storytelling, thank you for the laugh

JumpmanLane

Great story! I only hit undo by mistake. TWICE it actually saved me. Once in a duel. Once in Cyro. Every other time it’s bugged where I’m snared (lately). It’s never actually gotten me killed besides being a blown ulti and or my resources 4 seconds ago were bad so now they’re bad again lol.

Only slot it for minor protection lol. Otherwise it’s a useless skill. Trying to use it as it was touted as a great pvp repositioning skill is a great way to end up dead. Lol

geonsocal

well, at least undo made for a good story

Wing

I literally just made a thread that got closed for being "unconstructive"

don't make posts about things not working, they don't like it, expect to be closed or shuffled off to an obscure sub forum where nobody can see you.

just tried a second more constructive thread, we will see how it goes.

Smol_Bat

Hehe im glad y'all liked it, iy was rather fun when it happened but holy CRAP it is an annoying skill to use.

Wing wrote: »

I literally just made a thread that got closed for being "unconstructive"

don't make posts about things not working, they don't like it, expect to be closed or shuffled off to an obscure sub forum where nobody can see you.

just tried a second more constructive thread, we will see how it goes.

Hence the story.

Drako_Ei

I hate undo so much man, why is it so hard for them to fix it, they should rework it if the best they can give us with the "go back in time" nonsense is this buggy mess

precambria

The problem with it is that it does not do what it is supposed to do, the amount of times I used it and it did not put me back 4 seconds it just put me right where I was with the same HP ect, I thought maybe if you activate it while it is "undoing" you can come out of it early and I was lagging or double click but it actually just does not work 50% of the time which is a shame because it could have been used to pull sick plays.

My observation from PVP at least is, I see people use it to try and reset a fight but the problem is they are still themselves 4 seconds ago and the other guy is still the same guy who killed them so it just happens much the same but now you have no useful ult.

Veinblood1965

It's good for nothing else except this one thread.

dRudE

I was at sej at that time, it may have even been me that executed you! And yes that slow mo thing was weird, I was streaking off the stairs and it would take over 30 seconds to hit the middle plateau... couldn’t roll, couldn’t do much of anything, it was like everyone had permanent immovability from the heavy armour skill but just the snare, crazy! Then all of a sudden everything was fine and I’d forgot about it until now

Gilvoth

please fix undo skill.
it is broken

LadySinflower

Thank you for the entertaining story. You got a raw deal. But thank you even more for the knowledge that this is a useless ultimate not worth wasting a skill point on. If you ever decide to respec your skills I hope this one is at the top of the list to go!

technohic

I used to think it was a 50/50 proposition but lately I have found it either doesnt work at all, or it kind of does but you dont get the resources you had, or more likely, you wind up stuck in a rock or just the ground and any attempt to move and you keep rubber banding back for 5 seconds or so.

Makes me wonder how I see others make use of it so well. Just like when you are fighting in lag and cant get an attack to go of while taking a beating, go to heal and have to try it 4 times before it goes off yet drains your resources still.