Block is dropping, ultimates not cast, slow skills, and other bugs since patch, can we get an update

Jaimeh

Too many things seem to be broken or not working as intended right now, and it's really hurting combat:

1) Ultimates are not casting: the animation goes through, the ultimate points are consumed, but the ultimate never appears and doesn't have an effect

2) Block-casting is unreliable and seems to be a hit ot miss

3) Block gets randomly dropped even when holding block and without casting skills

4) Weapon swap is stuck: character cannot swap to alternate bar for minutes at a time

5) Casting skills feels slow, without input lag, as if their cooldown is altered

The above were encountered by myself as well as other group mates, and they still happened even without addons or libraries activated:

Please @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_Gilliam @ZOS_BillE, could we get an aknowledgement whether you are aware of these issues, and whether they are being looked at?

Also, if anyone wants to report similar findings, please keep the discussion civil and to the point, so the thread doesn't get locked.

vgabor

Block has problems and randomly dropped in PVE as well, guild mate tanks noticed that even if they hold block and the block animation is showing they get full damage from bosses unless they periodically drop block for a second and then reblock.

Jaimeh

vgabor wrote: »

Block has problems and randomly dropped in PVE as well, guild mate tanks noticed that even if they hold block and the block animation is showing they get full damage from bosses unless they periodically drop block for a second and then reblock.

I can second that, our tank in BRP earlier had the same issue, they got full damage through their block, even when they weren't casting anything else, and were just standing and blocking. It happened multiple times in our run, and made things very difficult.

Gaggin

They really need to revert the block changes, it did more harm than good.

technohic

An update would be nice

xWarbrain

Players - "Healers aren't relevant in 4man content anymore."

ZoS - "We broke block. You're welcome."

ZOS_GinaBruno

Hey all, just confirming we've seen these reports and are looking into everything.

Jaimeh

Thank you for the confirmation @ZOS_GinaBruno!

Thoragaal

This is on a 1 bar population (across all factions) : https://clips.twitch.tv/EntertainingKindAsteriskPeteZaroll on no CP campaign - Ravenwatch (PC / NA). Really makes me wonder what prime time is like nowdays in Cyrodiil.

technohic

Thoragaal wrote: »

This is on a 1 bar population (across all factions) : https://clips.twitch.tv/EntertainingKindAsteriskPeteZaroll on no CP campaign - Ravenwatch (PC / NA). Really makes me wonder what prime time is like nowdays in Cyrodiil.

Amazing

WreckfulAbandon

Might be time to dip out before they make the GCD every 2 seconds instead of every second and double the Battle Spirit damage reduction.

This is coming from the guy who YEAR AFTER YEAR was the ONE GUY in the discord channel telling everyone not to lose hope and leave, while everyone else complained about the direction the game is going in and still choosing to cut the cord.

Thanks for making Leap more clunky ZOS. Thanks for adding more cast times, since everyone loves them so much. Thanks for introducing sets that allow anyone to survive indefinitely if they have 2 functioning brain cells while constantly nerfing damage and reducing the amount of actions per second possible.

Thanks for preventing block cancelling of Volatile Armor while still allowing other abilities to be block cancelled like normal. Real consistent change there. I'm more convinced now than ever that a lot of your "performance" changes were really just stealth nerfs to playstyles and skills.

BuddyAces

Jaimeh wrote: »

Too many things seem to be broken or not working as intended right now, and it's really hurting combat:

1) Ultimates are not casting: the animation goes through, the ultimate points are consumed, but the ultimate never appears and doesn't have an effect

2) Block-casting is unreliable and seems to be a hit ot miss

3) Block gets randomly dropped even when holding block and without casting skills

4) Weapon swap is stuck: character cannot swap to alternate bar for minutes at a time

5) Casting skills feels slow, without input lag, as if their cooldown is altered

The above were encountered by myself as well as other group mates, and they still happened even without addons or libraries activated:

Please @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_Gilliam @ZOS_BillE, could we get an aknowledgement whether you are aware of these issues, and whether they are being looked at?

Also, if anyone wants to report similar findings, please keep the discussion civil and to the point, so the thread doesn't get locked.

Exact same problems that I have in every single bg. Only thing is that the bar swap thing happens less frequently than the others and seems to correct itself with a second button press. I said it in another thread but I'm going to repeat it here. A lot of times my skills will not work. They act as if I have no LOS of my target when I clearly do. I don't know how else to describe it. Crit rush and executioner are the worse offenders.

It's also just hilarious when I press leap and my dk jumps up in the air like a foot then plops back down.

Anyone have any clue what could be causing all of this? Something bad happen and now we're getting more input delay or is it tied to the block changes?

technohic

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Hey all, just confirming we've seen these reports and are looking into everything.

Is it going to be yet another week of terrible experience?

Noxeee

BuddyAces wrote: »

Jaimeh wrote: »

Too many things seem to be broken or not working as intended right now, and it's really hurting combat:

1) Ultimates are not casting: the animation goes through, the ultimate points are consumed, but the ultimate never appears and doesn't have an effect

2) Block-casting is unreliable and seems to be a hit ot miss

3) Block gets randomly dropped even when holding block and without casting skills

4) Weapon swap is stuck: character cannot swap to alternate bar for minutes at a time

5) Casting skills feels slow, without input lag, as if their cooldown is altered

The above were encountered by myself as well as other group mates, and they still happened even without addons or libraries activated:

Please @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_Gilliam @ZOS_BillE, could we get an aknowledgement whether you are aware of these issues, and whether they are being looked at?

Also, if anyone wants to report similar findings, please keep the discussion civil and to the point, so the thread doesn't get locked.

A lot of times my skills will not work. They act as if I have no LOS of my target when I clearly do. I don't know how else to describe it.

This too has been my experience (PvE Dungeons and Trials)

katanagirl1

I see these problems in Cyrodiil on Kaalgrontiid and we don’t even have the update yet. I don’t seem to have problems in PvE though.

Perhaps it’s all server related?

relentless_turnip

katanagirl1 wrote: »

I see these problems in Cyrodiil on Kaalgrontiid and we don’t even have the update yet. I don’t seem to have problems in PvE though.

Perhaps it’s all server related?

I don't think so... What ever I experienced prior to the patch in regards to unresponsiveness this is a whole new thing. It's hell!

flevi

Working in a software development myself, I know things can go wrong and I always tried to understand... but for us, to deliver so low quality is unacceptable. I don't know if you have a tester team [Snip], but if people do a smoke test before patch, you can tell that things are off...
Anyways, do we have an ETA on this, or can we simply quit? I tried to be constructive, but the last years were from bad to worse, even if this WAS the only playable MMO, 1998 engine games look pretty attractive now...

[Edited for bashing]

Frankoh

Since the last update at the end of the dungeons, while I'm fighting the last boss, the game kicks me out and I must logging in again. And this always happen to me.

Jaimeh

BuddyAces wrote: »

Jaimeh wrote: »

Too many things seem to be broken or not working as intended right now, and it's really hurting combat:

1) Ultimates are not casting: the animation goes through, the ultimate points are consumed, but the ultimate never appears and doesn't have an effect

2) Block-casting is unreliable and seems to be a hit ot miss

3) Block gets randomly dropped even when holding block and without casting skills

4) Weapon swap is stuck: character cannot swap to alternate bar for minutes at a time

5) Casting skills feels slow, without input lag, as if their cooldown is altered

The above were encountered by myself as well as other group mates, and they still happened even without addons or libraries activated:

Please @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_Gilliam @ZOS_BillE, could we get an aknowledgement whether you are aware of these issues, and whether they are being looked at?

Also, if anyone wants to report similar findings, please keep the discussion civil and to the point, so the thread doesn't get locked.

It's also just hilarious when I press leap and my dk jumps up in the air like a foot then plops back down.

Is the ulti also consumed when this happens? Because I've had this happening with other ultis, like incap and destro: the ulti goes off but has no effect and its points are consumed.

Ajaxcat

I thought it was just me like missing due to LOS or something. I see this in pve trials (I don't pvp).

technohic

Jaimeh wrote: »

BuddyAces wrote: »

Jaimeh wrote: »

Too many things seem to be broken or not working as intended right now, and it's really hurting combat:

1) Ultimates are not casting: the animation goes through, the ultimate points are consumed, but the ultimate never appears and doesn't have an effect

2) Block-casting is unreliable and seems to be a hit ot miss

3) Block gets randomly dropped even when holding block and without casting skills

4) Weapon swap is stuck: character cannot swap to alternate bar for minutes at a time

5) Casting skills feels slow, without input lag, as if their cooldown is altered

The above were encountered by myself as well as other group mates, and they still happened even without addons or libraries activated:

Please @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_Gilliam @ZOS_BillE, could we get an aknowledgement whether you are aware of these issues, and whether they are being looked at?

Also, if anyone wants to report similar findings, please keep the discussion civil and to the point, so the thread doesn't get locked.

It's also just hilarious when I press leap and my dk jumps up in the air like a foot then plops back down.

Is the ulti also consumed when this happens? Because I've had this happening with other ultis, like incap and destro: the ulti goes off but has no effect and its points are consumed.

I hid behind a tree at half health and hit remembrance. Ultimate was gone, I was in prayer stance and doing the full animation, but I got 0 health.

Barbaran

ZoS: we will be focused on preformance for the next patch

Also ZoS: Welcome to Greymoor!!

You can barely put out working content, how do you expect to fix any existing issues while working on new content?

Fix the lag and put the 'fix' behind a $30 pay wall, I'd rather pay for a working ESO with existing content, then Greymoor that doesn't work

SeaUnicorn

I too have experienced issues with skills not firing.
On the 2 linked videos I have same portion of the fight before and after the update. Shard used to consistently fire prior to update in the direction I wanted it to be (in this case it's where MT is). After the update I rotate the camera aim the shard and it does not come off CONSISTENTLY. It's not one off lag or button did not click, it's a consistent behavior now. Can we please have our skills work Y_Y

Before the update:
https://clips.twitch.tv/CleanAverageGorillaBatChest

After the update:
https://clips.twitch.tv/GloriousSmokyAubergineKevinTurtle

In addition to that we have a member of our GS prog crashing instantly upon login, other member crashes every 10-20 minutes.

On Monday in vCR my toon became invisible on one of the bars and kept casting circular ground AOEs either directly in front of the toon (i.e. 1m away only) or even behind the toon as if there was invisible wall. Very similar bug to BRP but in CR. Unfortunately I do not have the footage of this.

Warraxx

lighting patch 2.0

The_Lex

BuddyAces

Jaimeh wrote: »

BuddyAces wrote: »

Jaimeh wrote: »

Too many things seem to be broken or not working as intended right now, and it's really hurting combat:

1) Ultimates are not casting: the animation goes through, the ultimate points are consumed, but the ultimate never appears and doesn't have an effect

2) Block-casting is unreliable and seems to be a hit ot miss

3) Block gets randomly dropped even when holding block and without casting skills

4) Weapon swap is stuck: character cannot swap to alternate bar for minutes at a time

5) Casting skills feels slow, without input lag, as if their cooldown is altered

The above were encountered by myself as well as other group mates, and they still happened even without addons or libraries activated:

Please @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_Gilliam @ZOS_BillE, could we get an aknowledgement whether you are aware of these issues, and whether they are being looked at?

Also, if anyone wants to report similar findings, please keep the discussion civil and to the point, so the thread doesn't get locked.

It's also just hilarious when I press leap and my dk jumps up in the air like a foot then plops back down.

Is the ulti also consumed when this happens? Because I've had this happening with other ultis, like incap and destro: the ulti goes off but has no effect and its points are consumed.

Yep. It's kind of like DB which can get "eaten" by any bump in terrain: any object that isn't flat terrain. Trees have eaten ults since forever, just use to be a rarer thing. Now it's more common to have your ult absorbed by terrain than go off.

danthemann5

How about an update, @ZOS_GinaBruno? When can we expect to have a semi-playable experience in Cyrodiil? Next week? Next month?

DUTCH_REAPER

Following

Warraxx

i think perhaps the QA team lacks QA...

precambria

I've seen some strange goings on let me tell you whut, all of the above and throw in a little getting stunned while breaking free from a stun, people getting a full 2 bunny hops in after death, spells that just go off into space or the ground, ult animations and sound effects from ults that never occurred, no ult animations or sound effects from ult's that are occurring, health desyncro that is super obvious because 3-4 people will just flop dead with no animation.

It's all related to animations, the skills that get stuck, the ones that lag, the ones which cause CC breaks to not work, the ones which get double casted, block animations whatever is going wrong always happens when the animation starts EG:FEAR. summoning spells for necro, healing spells for warden, anything where their arms are gonna be doing something fancy it causes problems.

Gatdangmayne

Adding to this thread as well since i see an official response here, ps4 is experiencing the same issues as pc.

It seems the consensus amongst ps4 players is these issues started after the last small patch beginning of February, and personally it seems to be getting worse and worse every day.

Ive played eso a long time, i know lag is normal, but just like pc players say, this is different, skills misfiring, break free broken, etc