[PC] Companion ultimate bug

khyrkat

No matter the setting - auto cast on or off - companion (Bastian to be precise) does not cast ultimate ability. If I choose to command him to cast ultimate, when I hit the button, an error message appears that companion cannot use the ultimate right now, despite having way more ultimate than required. When set to auto cast he never fires off ultimate and most of the time he doesn't even get ultimates in combat. I read there was such bug on PTS, does that mean ZOS that again you let the bug to hit live server? Are you sure, at this point, that you do know how to further develop the game? Because I'm not sure if paying for bugs is what your customers are happy with.
Care to explain/fix/acknowledge?

EDIT:
Just noticed that when changing maps companion ultimate count goes to 0. is this intended? Our ultimates do not vanish. EXPLAIN PLS.

khyrkat

So, any information? Money paid, product does not work, EU has rather clear laws regarding this and it actually has a name which I won't put here because of "omg bashing omg omg".

phaneub17_ESO

Bastian's Ultimate has certain conditions that need to be met in order for him to cast. 1. He must be in melee range of his target, 2. he needs to be within range for at least 2-3 seconds. This is a change that was made intentional because before you could cast his Ultimate at any time which most of the time wasted it. He could cast with no enemies in range like while he's standing next to you THEN charges in to attack.

As for the second one, they build Ultimate faster than we do even have an ability that can generate instant 50 Ultimate combined with Haste can generate 100 Ultimate every 26 to 36 seconds depending on how much Quicken trait equipped. It's also intentional for them to reset Ultimate when you change zones, but they still keep it if you remain in the same instance like going to different wayshrines in the same zone or going through doors within a dungeon.

khyrkat

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

Bastian's Ultimate has certain conditions that need to be met in order for him to cast. 1. He must be in melee range of his target, 2. he needs to be within range for at least 2-3 seconds. This is a change that was made intentional because before you could cast his Ultimate at any time which most of the time wasted it. He could cast with no enemies in range like while he's standing next to you THEN charges in to attack.

As for the second one, they build Ultimate faster than we do even have an ability that can generate instant 50 Ultimate combined with Haste can generate 100 Ultimate every 26 to 36 seconds depending on how much Quicken trait equipped. It's also intentional for them to reset Ultimate when you change zones, but they still keep it if you remain in the same instance like going to different wayshrines in the same zone or going through doors within a dungeon.

Thanks for reply but this doesn't help. Even if he is in melee range all the time he does not cast ultimate and if I command him to, there is the same error message even if conditions are met.
Ultis disappear even if I port between wayshrines within the same zone. I am well aware of how fast companions generate ultimates and how to make them generate them faster with traits and Haste - the issue is, this sometimes, randomly, rng-based, doesn't work and Bastian does not generate any ultimates in combat.

ZOS support = epic fail.

phaneub17_ESO

Well all you can really do is leave Autocast Ultimate ON. If he's using a ranged weapon like a bow or non-frost staff, the chances of him casting it are even slimmer because it won't go off until he runs out of dodge roll charges and his target is right on top of him. It's not ideal, but rather than getting frustrated when you can't force him to do it, at least the game will do it when he's in the right spot when the game deems all conditions are met.