Has anyone else noticed a delay in skill use when weapon is sheathed?

Dojohoda

YES! YES I HAVE NOTICED! All caps because the delay is an unwelcome addition to the game.

Ei8htba11

Yes, noticed this. It was mildly irritating at first. Then I just drew my weapons before combat started... you know, like any normal person would do.

Thrasher91604

Yes it’s irritating me. Anyone know a remedy?

MajThorax

Same thing happens when my character has sheathed weapon and uses the blade of woe. First he unsheaths his weapon - slowly- and then comes the killing animation cam.

HyekAr

SkadiMZ wrote: »

I play almost every day, typically on the same character, and since the update yesterday it feels like something is slightly off with skill usage.

What I mean specifically is that there seems to be a 1-2 second delay from activating a skill and the skill registering in game. This happens if your weapon is sheathed. Maybe I'm crazy and this was always happening, but it definitely feels noticeably different to me.

Yes, but this is good thing.. bcz in the small battles we can use more tactics, and imagine dungeons,.. and etc

Coatmagic

Oh yes! This one has def noticed how very sluggish is assassination skill now. From the time the button is pressed it is like going into kill cam mode.

Also, survey collection is extremely slow and this one has to be very, very careful or the 'E' greys out and a thing must die before collection can be continued.

Strange days indeed.

DJfriede

Thrasher91604 wrote: »

Yes it’s irritating me. Anyone know a remedy?

Cancel the animation by tapping block (not hold it, just a quick tap or right click).

Sarannah

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/584631/barswap-sheath-weapon-bugs

This bug was posted over two weeks ago, in the bug report forum. Hopefully it gets fixed ASAP! Best way to get this fixed is to give the topic more attention in the bugforum so ZOS can see how urgent it is.

Vevvev

DJfriede wrote: »

Thrasher91604 wrote: »

Yes it’s irritating me. Anyone know a remedy?

Cancel the animation by tapping block (not hold it, just a quick tap or right click).

Sometimes you have to bash to cancel. It's weird how some things really get locked into their animations.

Jameson18

deflorate wrote: »

Since waking flame. Sometimes it's normal again and then out of nowhere like when I'm doing vMA, light attacks aren't going off, skills start to delay or don't cast and then it just feels like I'm playing POE when /oos was still a thing.

This.

It's not just the unsheathing. It's across multiple different animations, abilities, and actions. Not quite always, and not quite on everything, but it is enough that you'd have an easier time listing the actions/animations it does NOT happen on than listing the actions where it does.

katorga

Running, out of combat, cast boundless storm for expedition....delay, skill not instant cast. In combat, weapon out, it is instant cast.

It is horrible.

markulrich1966

Mik195 wrote: »

I was wondering if it was time to get a new controller. Every time I try to use my mount, I get to look at the map since the button press for mount timing is different. I'm on Xbox.

same forme, since the update.

Map opens trying to mount, and delay starting to fight with unsheathed weapons.
Other issues that entropy no longer shows an animation, so I am not certain if it was casted or not and cast it again. Feels very sluggish

Oreyn_Bearclaw

I have been wondering the same thing, but I feel like its been going on for a little while. I notice when I am getting ready to pull a boss and our tank gives the count down. If my weapon is sheathed its like a full 2 seconds before I can cast my first buff.

Celephantsylvius_Bornasfinmo

It was fine during the event.
I'm noticing slight delays in PvP too..and it's rather empty.

Much smoother last week.

moo_2021

I edited the auto-sheath addon so it's never sheathed unless I crouch. It's quite simple you just remove all checks inside the if.

The only down side is that when I interact with objects in real world that triggers walking, such as putting writ gears, it'd draw the weapon and then sheath it immediately to interact.

Sirona_Starr

Yes, I definitely the long time to unsheath weapons now, as well as some skill delays. I did ask a couple of players, who said it was all in my head. Glad to see it's not!!!

Monroe585

Yes

schindler

Will this be fixed/reverted next patch? It's incredibly annoying.

Mandragora

Yes, it feels like I'm lagging all the time. Animations are not interrputed aswell. It happens to me even with exits and logging out - there is delay even if it looks like I'm loaded, the game is blocking my keyboard. It looks like nightmare description of cloud gaming

phileunderx2

Yes very much so.. Fix it please.

SickleCider

Ugh, yes, I hate this. It's not just the unsheathing, as others have said, but the timings for virtually everything are off.

If you're using a controller, I found a way around the weapon unsheathe at least. Tap the light attack button. My staff flicks out real fast, without actually firing the light attack. It's just a very rapid weapon draw. On PS4/PS5 the button is R2.

AlnilamE

Yes.

This is particularly noticeable during heists. I use an NB for those and cloak a lot. Right after the change I kept getting caught because everything you do in the heist instance (opening chests, disarming traps, going into the hiding spots) will sheathe your weapons, so you have to allow for extra time before cloak will actually activate.

This is very annoying.

Arunei

Fischblut wrote: »

It started after Waking Flame update. Animations for sheathe/unsheathe weapons now take very long... It's extremely annoying, like a slow motion.

When starting combat, you have to wait approximately a second so that your character has to perform animation of preparing their weapons, and only then the character can cast skills/other abilities. In IC during the event, it made for extremely unpleasant experience, when I was unable to defend myself during that very long second.

Before using Blade of Woe, you have to wait a second so that your character prepares their weapons as well.

Hopefully, this is not intended and will be fixed.

Yep, if you try to use a skill without doing a light attack to draw your weapon, most of the time your skill won't go off. It'll just unsheathe your weapon but not use the skill. I've also noticed how you have to draw your weapon before you can use the BoW. It 100% makes things feel clunky and unresponsive and breaks up the flow of gameplay, especially when you're doing a lot of stealing/killing for Justice stuff.

Warstory

I reported it in-game and on the bug forums weeks ago. I used to use the sheath weapon addon so I noticed instantly after 7.1.5 dropped. There is still no acknowledgement from anyone at ZOS yet. Out of all the bugs in the game right now, the weapon sheath and barswap bugs are the most annoying since they affect 90% of your gameplay.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/584631/barswap-sheath-weapon-bugs#latest

Tranquilizer

Same for me since Waking Flame update. Very annoying.

Tranquilizer

moo_2021 wrote: »

I edited the auto-sheath addon so it's never sheathed unless I crouch. It's quite simple you just remove all checks inside the if.

The only down side is that when I interact with objects in real world that triggers walking, such as putting writ gears, it'd draw the weapon and then sheath it immediately to interact.

mind to explain what lines to remove ? there are multiple if-statements and i'm not in programming.

TIA

Larcomar

Yes. And what really annoys me is that my *idiot* of a character - sorry the savior of tamriel, the hero of the ebonheart pact, the slayer of molag bal ya do ya di ya - keeps putting his weapon away while I'm running round what's obviously a hostile zone. So he then has to look confused when I need to defend myself, wonder where he put his weapon, rustle around in his pack for it, pull it out, before he finally - several weeks later - condescends to cast the ****** ability I told him to. Five minutes ago.

Is this up there with
- stuck in combat
- my character's curious inability to climb slight steps
- the constant crashes since last maintenance
- the appaling lag in cyrodiil
- ball groups
- or dark convergence.
..... No. It's one of many small annoyances. But it is an annoyance.

I will check out this auto unsheath add on.

daim

Funny enough, it all worked great before the "fix". If you wanted sheat your weapons when out of combat all you had to do was to download an addon. Now its just broken in every level after the devs meddled with it.

Deter1UK

Coatmagic wrote: »

Oh yes! This one has def noticed how very sluggish is assassination skill now. From the time the button is pressed it is like going into kill cam mode.

Also, survey collection is extremely slow and this one has to be very, very careful or the 'E' greys out and a thing must die before collection can be continued.

Strange days indeed.

Yea, I'm really noticing the 'E' graying out and my character just standing there on survey collections, also I log in and get notifications of gear being added to sets - gear that I deconstructed yesterday!

ADarklore

This is an extreme issue and never used to be like this. Now, you run up to an enemy, activate a skill... and it doesn't activate for several seconds due to the extreme slow-down of the unsheathing process. It sucks!!