Weapon Surfing

wolfie1.0.

Dear ZOS,

Since you have decided to suck the soul out of my game play experience........ can you at least FINALLY fix the weapon surfing bug that you SAID you fixed several patches back?

Hapexamendios

What is weapon surfing?

wolfie1.0.

Hapexamendios wrote: »

What is weapon surfing?

its a bug that occurs during weapon swapping where the weapon you should be holding disappears from your hands and the one you swapped from teleports under your feet.

tomfant

Can confirm this is still a thing. Happened to me yesterday.

Brrrofski

Happens to me like every time I change zone lol

LoneStar2911

I use an addon that fixes it. Unfortunately I’m not on my pc to see what it’s called. But i guess if you’re on console, you’re SOL. Sorry.

Nelyawyn

It can generally be avoided by never porting to a new zone/into a dungeon while you are on your backbar. If you always tp on your frontbar, it usually won't happen.

That being said, this should not be a thing players have to actively deal with themselves.

colossalvoids

Meanwhile you can "hide polymorph helmet" even on console to not deal with the bug. Don't ask me why it works, it's zos.

Paulytnz

What's coming in 2023 to ESO!:

Weapon Surfing! A great new minigame where you can compete with both NPCs and other players alike. That's right, we are introducing Weapon Surfing! You will race others on your chosen weapon for the top prize. No more riding your boring old mounts. No more running everywhere. Ride your weapons!

Summary:

This is a new feature (albeit very early), not a bug!

Massive_Stain

Nelyawyn wrote: »

It can generally be avoided by never porting to a new zone/into a dungeon while you are on your backbar. If you always tp on your frontbar, it usually won't happen.

That being said, this should not be a thing players have to actively deal with themselves.

Yep, can confirm this is a decent fix. This goes for doors on houses, literally anything that makes you fade to black for a second.

ajkb78

I'm just waiting to weapon surf while running on horseback... It's only a matter of time I'm sure 😆

NordSwordnBoard

Fun, Fun, Fun, till Eso surfs my weapons away...

Wouldn't it be nice?

whitecrow

If they could fix only one thing in the game, I wish it would be this.

LightningWitch

wolfie1.0. wrote: »

its a bug that occurs during weapon swapping where the weapon you should be holding disappears from your hands and the one you swapped from teleports under your feet.

I just thought it was because my sword wanted to look up the skirt of my Bosmer.

TequilaFire

I had not gotten this bug for a long time, now in the last week it is occurring more frequently.

gariondavey

LightningWitch wrote: »

wolfie1.0. wrote: »

its a bug that occurs during weapon swapping where the weapon you should be holding disappears from your hands and the one you swapped from teleports under your feet.

I just thought it was because my sword wanted to look up the skirt of my Bosmer.

Bosmer op, can't blame the sword.

EozZoe1989

hmm .. yes hope this was fixed had issue yesterday were was trying shoot bow and its was spazing out ... could not shoot .. until moved closer..

i was going to give idea.. lol but the thing is till this sixed i think it be bad to have three or four weapons in game to swop.. lol

EozZoe1989

EozZoe1989 wrote: »

hmm .. yes hope this was fixed had issue yesterday were was trying shoot bow and its was spazing out ... could not shoot .. until moved closer..

i was going to give idea.. lol but the thing is till this sixed i think it be bad to have three or four weapons in game to swop.. lol

sorry about misspelling i should slow down lol

Sylvermynx

EozZoe1989 wrote: »

EozZoe1989 wrote: »

hmm .. yes hope this was fixed had issue yesterday were was trying shoot bow and its was spazing out ... could not shoot .. until moved closer..

i was going to give idea.. lol but the thing is till this sixed i think it be bad to have three or four weapons in game to swop.. lol

sorry about misspelling i should slow down lol

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RoseTheSnowElf

Paulytnz wrote: »

What's coming in 2023 to ESO!:

Weapon Surfing! A great new minigame where you can compete with both NPCs and other players alike. That's right, we are introducing Weapon Surfing! You will race others on your chosen weapon for the top prize. No more riding your boring old mounts. No more running everywhere. Ride your weapons!

Summary:

This is a new feature (albeit very early), not a bug!

Lol

RoseTheSnowElf

Nelyawyn wrote: »

It can generally be avoided by never porting to a new zone/into a dungeon while you are on your backbar. If you always tp on your frontbar, it usually won't happen.

That being said, this should not be a thing players have to actively deal with themselves.

This^

And I've also found that if I go through a loading screen with my backbar equipped, to get my frontbar weapon back I have to unequip my frontbar weapon (my bow) and re-equip it again.

Arunei

ajkb78 wrote: »

I'm just waiting to weapon surf while running on horseback... It's only a matter of time I'm sure 😆

I've actually had this happen at least once that I can remember, the weapon was a bow iirc and just zoomed along the ground under my Mount.

EnerG

This bug has been fixed and reappeared idk how many times over the years, it's amazing haha.

For anyone wondering how to fix it, update your appearance, unequip and requip the weapon or hide and unhide your hat from the collections menu, change outfits ect ect. I put hide helmet on my quickslots for easy use when the bug appears.

Galiferno

There's an addon called Clutch on Minion that almost flawlessly fixed this issue for me. In all the months I've had it installed, I think this bug has happened just one time. It hasn't been updated in a few years but works super well for me.