Game breaking bug: Skills fail to activate, stamina is suddenly near zero

fred4

Encountered on: Stamsorc in CP Cyrodiil, PC EU, randomly every 20 minutes or so. Character twitches, start of skill animation shows very briefly, but nothing happens. Resources do not appear depleted. Then, when you bar swap, resources suddenly appear almost completely depleted. I mainly looked at my stamina, being a stamsorc, but this was affecting mag skills as well, such as Streak, Dark Deal and Crit Surge. Seemed to resolve itself after a minute or two only to happen again not too long after (every 20 mins on average). Was wearing Engine Guardian. Stamsorc unplayable.

fred4

I want to add: I was chatting to a group mate at those times and bar swao / putting weapon away / taking weapon back from holster worked during those times. In other words: This was not a server disconnect nor prolonged network glitch.

perfiction

It may be the sprint bug which happened to my and my groups a lot during trials (first occurences I noticed were back in Flames of Ambition patch). If you die while sprinting then after resurrecting (doesn't matter if someone picks you up or you wake up at the shrine) you keep sprinting even though your run animation and stamina bar doesn't show that (it stays at 100%). You can't cast any spells or do LA/HA. The only workaround that worked for me was to run forward and spam Shift (sprint key) few times, then it stops sprinting and your stamina bar goes back to normal.

fred4

Thanks. It sounds like that alright, however I did not die. I noticed it mostly outside of fights, often just after, but not exclusively so. Now here comes the interesting bit: I was wearing Snow Treaders, which allow you to sprint - or gain the speed from sprinting at least - outside of combat, but not in combat. My group mate thought it might be a Streak-related bug, but this sounds more plausible. I no doubt use the sprint key inside of combat as well as outside, due to ingrained habits. I guess one possibility is that Snow Treaders trigger the sprint bug at in / out of combat transitions. I don't play this char often, but have been running Snow Treaders on it for a while. I've only noticed the problem this patch.

EDIT: Then again my skills were not totally locked out. The beginning of animations, such as Streak, would very briefly show, but then not go through with it. Are those the symptoms of the sprint bug? I guess this would mean something like the client thinks the action is legit - that you are not sprinting - and begins the animation, but then the server immediately (after network ping delay) says "no", we're not allowing the action, e.g. possibly because the server thinks the char is sprinting, but the client does not.

localvoidpeb18_ESO

I also noticed this, it is definitely not a sprint bug. Skill is activated ("EVENT_ACTION_SLOT_ABILITY_USED" is received in addons), animation is started to play for a short period, but nothing happens ("EVENT_COMBAT_EVENT" doesn't receive any events). I am not sure what is causing this as I couldn't reproduce this bug outside of a real fight. I have some guesses that maybe it happens after block/dodge animation cancelling or maybe after quickslot activation after ability activation. Usually when I notice this, bar swapping fixes this issue, or maybe it is because when I notice it, I am stopping spamming abilities and eventually it starts working again.

stefj68

I have a lot of sustain issue since last patch, cant pinpoint exactly what

Stalwart385

stefj68 wrote: »

I have a lot of sustain issue since last patch, cant pinpoint exactly what

If it's in PvE it could be the orbs/combustion bug. Synergizing orbs causes you to lose all kinds of passives. Which is ironic cause you want orbs to help sustain. I haven't seen if they fixed this yet.

As for the OP. I've seen weird Stam issues rarely even before the update. I've only noticed it before starting a trail fight. My Stam suddenly jumps to zero just standing there for the most part. I was told it was a UI bug, but I had to wait for it to regen. This may have happened in combat but I never noticed it.