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

Astiron

Having the same issue here. I'm surprised they haven't addressed it yet. Just figured it was a bug they knew about until seeing this post.

Amottica

and Yes.

Has Zenimax commented on this since it is clearly something they changed on accident or on purpose? If on Purpose I do not recall it being part of any patch notes which would be appropriate.

Hallothiel

Bloody irritating. On PS4 so no add-on ‘work around’.

Elsonso

Amottica wrote: »

Has Zenimax commented on this since it is clearly something they changed on accident or on purpose? If on Purpose I do not recall it being part of any patch notes which would be appropriate.

I have not heard any comment on this matter from anyone even remotely associated with ZOS.

I suppose y'all are reporting it by `/bug` or equivalent?

merpins

For me, the annoying thing is how you get stuck on a bar you want to switch off of. Before you could pop a skill and swap bars easily, now if you do it like before you'll just end up spamming your AOE or Dot rather than switching bars back and spamming your main spam-able. I've died multiple times due to this since the last major update.

kmfdm

The moment the "charge" fires up, I am usually already at the target. The combat flow is completely disrupted by this.

Gleitfrosch

Also noticed that but I have to admit I somehow like it. It adds a bit more immersion to the game (for me).

It takes some time to draw a weapon, therefore when I expect a fight, I draw it and run with the weapon ready in my Hand.
In cities or other safe places I put it away.

Elsonso

Apparently, this was added a couple updates ago. Why people are suddenly noticing it now points to what I would characterize as an unintended change, but that is for ZOS to decide.

NoxiousBlight

Yes, still feels like it takes 2-3 times as long to unsheathe your weapons. It is not fluid at all anymore. I hope this is a bug and not intended.

tomfant

Annoying and unnecessary, indeed.

SkadiMZ

Elsonso wrote: »

Apparently, this was added a couple updates ago. Why people are suddenly noticing it now points to what I would characterize as an unintended change, but that is for ZOS to decide.

When I originally posted it was the day after the update that added this change. I'm not sure that it's a case of people just noticing now, I think it's more that they just saw this topic now.

What's most upsetting about this is that it's been nearly a month and we haven't received an acknowledgment one way or the other. I truly hope that this is a bug and not intended.

QuietPanda_22

Can confirm it's happening on console as well. Takes up to 3 seconds to unsheathe weapon and register ability. And sometimes the ability doesn't register. Very annoying.

Elsonso

SkadiMZ wrote: »

Elsonso wrote: »

Apparently, this was added a couple updates ago. Why people are suddenly noticing it now points to what I would characterize as an unintended change, but that is for ZOS to decide.

When I originally posted it was the day after the update that added this change. I'm not sure that it's a case of people just noticing now, I think it's more that they just saw this topic now.

What's most upsetting about this is that it's been nearly a month and we haven't received an acknowledgment one way or the other. I truly hope that this is a bug and not intended.

Apparently, a delay was introduced in an update long before Waking Flame. Yeah, surprised me, too. I thought that this was a new thing introduced with Waking Flame. Personally, I think they broke it in the last update, and that is why we are suddenly aware of it.

@ZOS_Kevin would be the one to formally update the forum on this matter. I can only pass along information I pick up from streams. It does not matter who my source is, it isn't official coming from me.

Zabagad

Elsonso wrote: »

Apparently, a delay was introduced in an update long before Waking Flame.

Not true - It came with U31 and there was nothing like this before.
Maybe - there was a longer animation if you pressed really the button for the weapon (un)sheathing action, but before you could press any skill and that skill was going off immediately. And that behavior stopped with U31.

daim

Elsonso wrote: »

Apparently, this was added a couple updates ago. Why people are suddenly noticing it now points to what I would characterize as an unintended change, but that is for ZOS to decide.

Definately not true on pc at least.

Jaimeh

Yes, thank you for creating this thread, I've been noticing it since last patch and it drives me nuts, it really breaks the flow of combat. Could we have an aknowledgement please whether this is being looked at @ZOS_Kevin?

schindler

Sorry to bring this back up, but will this be addressed? Any kind of acknowledgment?

'Cause from what I can tell on console, this also affects the time until reviving a group member starts, which clearly is a problem. And even more so on PS4/5, since "revive" is on the menu button, so you often go into it instead of starting the revive process.

Elsonso

schindler wrote: »

Sorry to bring this back up, but will this be addressed? Any kind of acknowledgment?

'Cause from what I can tell on console, this also affects the time until reviving a group member starts, which clearly is a problem. And even more so on PS4/5, since "revive" is on the menu button, so you often go into it instead of starting the revive process.

Rich Lambert was told about it in his stream, and he verified that it was happening on stream. He did go to the dev team, and they are aware of the issue, but there is no date for a fix.

twev

I use Critical Rush while soloing PvE, a lot, and watching my toons unsheath/sheath a weapon while just standing there, and then having to spam the ability a few times to get the toon to attack has been annoying enough to make me want to use skooma more often.

I was assuming it was some transitory input lag, even when my ping was steady at 85.

We can only hope R.L. lit a fire under the right people.

FLambda

Have noticed this as well, makes Shadow Cloaking through a group of enemies much more annoying, because half the time they've already seen me by the time the skill fires off.

twev

FLambda wrote: »

Have noticed this as well, makes Shadow Cloaking through a group of enemies much more annoying, because half the time they've already seen me by the time the skill fires off.

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for a moment there I thought you were going to tell me that I had to eat that hot mess....

Reebofmoon

yes! Using Blade of woe seems to take longer than usual.

Reebofmoon

Blade of woe animation seems clunky and the npc is dead while the animation follows through.

tspecherb14_ESO

I have seen this as well.

barney2525

YES

There is definitely a delay when weapon is sheathed.

Fennwitty

Only workarounds are tap light attack to draw first, or hold block, or bar swap to skip having the weird long animation.

wowzerss

Still a serious annoying af issue, November 20 2021. The accumulation of stupid *** like this is why I don't give them $ anymore

blktauna

The other annoyance here is that it also now auto sheaths the weapon so you are forced to wait an eternity to get that first skill off. I've had to hit this skill button up to 5 times for it to register at all and as a NB in pvp, well, it's not good.

Sarannah

This bug still needs to get fixed, it is incredibly annoying!

FeedbackOnly

How can you guys even tell?