Sorcerer overload health desync

Daffen

This issue is brought up, once again. Overload is known for its desyncing capabilities and its almost as if its a feature now.

Lets begin with the basics,

What is overload?
Overload is a sorcerer ultimate that replaces your light/heavy attacks with more powerful lightning bolts

What is a health desync?
A health desync is when your character shows up as having 100% hp while you only have 10%. Other players see your real health while you only see yourself at 100%

What causes health desyncs?
There is alot of issues that cause health desyncs, some of them are: snipe (bow skill line), guard (support skill line), overload (storm calling skill line).

How do i know if i am desynced?
An easy way to tell if your health bar is desynced is by taking damage and seeing if your health bar moves or not, if it does you are good, if it doesnt you are not.

How do i get rid of my health desync?
Easiest way to fix it is to die, but noone likes dying and the only other way is taking enough damage so your health bar starts moving again.

Me and my friend were dueling on the live server a couple minutes ago and i got a health desync, so we tried fighting again while he was killing me to see if we could replicate the bug. The bug only happened when my friend was using the overload ultimate, without overload my health bar was working perfectly.

Heres the short video i made of my health desyncing from overload.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-7rV9o0d1Y

olsborg

Yes happens to me now and then when I play my nb and I've had whispers in cyrodiil that ppl get desynced from my overload quite often when I play my sorc. This is an old bug that ZOS dont rly have on their radar to fix, same as with shieldbug (when you cast your shield , but the shield doesnt really apply to you)

Wolfpaw

Thanks for the heads-up.

may want to @ a dev or cm

YandereGirlfriend

I am generally scared to even consider using Overload in PvP due to reading older threads that stated people got banned due to some esoteric exploit that players could accidentally trigger.

I don't even know what the exploit is/was but I've never wanted to run the risk.

Zer0oo

overload + elem weapon does cause hp desync every time

zvavi

YandereGirlfriend wrote: »

I am generally scared to even consider using Overload in PvP due to reading older threads that stated people got banned due to some esoteric exploit that players could accidentally trigger.

I don't even know what the exploit is/was but I've never wanted to run the risk.

Don't worry, their game monitoring went down a lot, just try sending a ticket, you will see what I mean.

Daffen

@ZOS_SarahHecker
@ZOS_GinaBruno

Any acknowledgement of this issue yet?
Do you know it is in the game and are you working on a fix?

Its very frustating to die when you have 100% hp because of a bug.

We know that it is overload + elemental weapon that is causing the health desync.

Grandchamp1989

Daffen wrote: »

This issue is brought up, once again. Overload is known for its desyncing capabilities and its almost as if its a feature now.

Lets begin with the basics,

What is overload?
Overload is a sorcerer ultimate that replaces your light/heavy attacks with more powerful lightning bolts

What is a health desync?
A health desync is when your character shows up as having 100% hp while you only have 10%. Other players see your real health while you only see yourself at 100%

What causes health desyncs?
There is alot of issues that cause health desyncs, some of them are: snipe (bow skill line), guard (support skill line), overload (storm calling skill line).

How do i know if i am desynced?
An easy way to tell if your health bar is desynced is by taking damage and seeing if your health bar moves or not, if it does you are good, if it doesnt you are not.

How do i get rid of my health desync?
Easiest way to fix it is to die, but noone likes dying and the only other way is taking enough damage so your health bar starts moving again.

Me and my friend were dueling on the live server a couple minutes ago and i got a health desync, so we tried fighting again while he was killing me to see if we could replicate the bug. The bug only happened when my friend was using the overload ultimate, without overload my health bar was working perfectly.

Heres the short video i made of my health desyncing from overload.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-7rV9o0d1Y

Desynch is a massive issue in this game.
It's a killer in endgame when you get desynch on your block.

This is pretty wild though.. Your character had a heart attack mid jump lol.

This game needs so serious help performance wise.

Ganj

YandereGirlfriend wrote: »

I am generally scared to even consider using Overload in PvP due to reading older threads that stated people got banned due to some esoteric exploit that players could accidentally trigger.

I don't even know what the exploit is/was but I've never wanted to run the risk.

I dont believe anyone got banned because of that. Still most of the sorcerers using that very well and you can see them everyday. Doesnt matter how many tickets you send.

Gilvoth

Daffen wrote: »

What causes health desyncs?
There is alot of issues that cause health desyncs, some of them are: snipe ....

Gilvoth

this thread information is outdated, this new patch fixed the snipe dysinc.
the snipe issue has been fixed.
snipe was re-writen and now performs without that dysinc.

randconfig

Gilvoth wrote: »

this thread information is outdated, this new patch fixed the snipe dysinc.
the snipe issue has been fixed.
snipe was re-writen and now performs without that dysinc.

Can confirm this is NOT TRUE, at least for the Focused Aim morph. Same issue occurs with Sorcerer's Power Overload ultimate's light attacks.

ZOS_GregoryV

Greetings all,

As this thread is rather old, we have decided to close it. Should others with to create a thread in regards to this topic, with more updated information, they are welcome to do so.

Regards,
-Greg-