Occasional combat bug, unable to attack monsters mid-fight

Reenlister

hey, glad I saw this post has come to life again. I am now having this often. Just since I hit the V areas.
Mid combat, nothing working.
Absolutely not a snare, or any such thing as that, plus you can stand in one spot swinging your blade dead on the target and nothing happens.
I realized that I was hit by this bug I had heard of, so I tried the inventory open, which does seem to clear it, however, when tanking that one second of looking in a bag can often have some dire consequences.

Vhalkyrie

Any fixes coming for this? This is still happening to my VR1 nightblade. The other night I was in Elden Hollow helping a guildie get through the dungeon, and my ability bar locked up. I was able to move with WASD, but unable to use keys 1-5; I was not stunned. I kept running around and dodging until it came 'unglued' and I could resume the fight.

This was supposedly fixed in 1.0.6, but this happened to me on 5/9 Friday night.

Zanagan

This has been random happening to me also. I hit the esc twice and it'll fix the problem. Wish ESO fix these damn bugs.

Darzil

Not sure if it's related, but I'm often stuck mid combat animation when this happens. Can still move around, and esc x2 fixes it. I usually get it with others around, or when the target dies of a damage over time effect. Wondering if it's related to using certain abilities when the client thinks the target is alive, but the server knows they are dead.

pllenadob14a_ESO

This happened to me last night on my NB and while dual-wielding until dead. > Nearest Wayshrine > Gallop back to the fight > dual-wield > BUG happened Again > (repeat all this one more time) then I logged out. I wish I had read this post last night so I would have known to click ESC twice to reset. Devs please fix this. Thanks

Vordar

This happens a lot to me Templar VR10, I just hit esc or alt and it goes away but its kinda annoying after a while. Also have noticed that when I kill something fast, the mob stays up at 0 health shooting spells or skills until they just drop dead. When this happens I usually just move away a bit from the mob. It doesn't move just gets stuck in an animation.

I think this happens because the animations are too long on some cases so the animation has to end before the mob dies.

alarikub17_ESO

I will have to try escx2 next time it happens. /reloadui was working some of the time, of course doing that mid combat is not desirable.

skarvika

I have this a few times each day. It's quite annoying and I tend to die from having to the process of realizing what's going on and actually doing the fix of bringing up another screen and closing it. Sure it only takes a few seconds, but ESO has fast paced combat where every second counts, and for me, a vamp dps templar, I don't have that time to spare.
I'd much rather they fix this instead of nerfing werewolves. I do pvp daily and never have any problems with werewolves, let alone even run into one.

jessehouwing

I still have this with my Nightblade as well (dual wield) and when it happens my character will remain "slowed" until I log off and re-logon. Very, very irritating!

Spidermonk

I had this happen all the time on my dual wield NB. I use Flurry a lot and I noted that if I trigger it from too far away or if it doesn't connect it will prevent from further attacking. Fortunately tapping "M" twice (opening then closing your map) will get you back into a fighting position.

As far as the misses are concerned it seems to be if there is something in between the camera and your target (or your cross-hair). The solution to this is to make SURE that you have your target locked with TAB. If your target is locked it seems to make every attack hit regardless of visual/camera obstacles.

Samyaza

This bug is really common... if you checked the patch notes it would stay it has been fixed for only nightblades (lies)

It commonly occurs when you are struck with a power attack while on the horse.
Use a group attack (aoe) that hits more than 1 enemy then get struck with attack.
Also occurs randomly...

It actually occurs with all known classes. It is also fully known by zenimax, however their primary goals is to kill botters and say "F" to massive bugs. Bugs like, bugged world bosses (it is not for a quest so who cares), and combat bugs (not a quest who cares if you die a lot. Dieing boost the economy).

Honestly half of the "fixes" we are waiting on will not actually be released until Craglorn... similar to how world of warcraft releases a massive patch. Hyping it up, pushing all the needed fixes back, then fixes everything once the expansion is there. (WoW vet from Burning Crusades to Cataclysm)

Either way, there are fixes for this bug...

Here is a copy past of how to fix... and who is responsible for this bug. Eso's own methods.




Pay attention to this points

ESO support wrote:

"We believe Sheogorath had a hand in causing this trickery as the game needs to load, refresh and phase itself with the player again. This issue allows the player to be attacked and appear as though they are existing in a world where they are non existent! This veil of trickery does not normally last longer than two minutes. Sheogorath is indeed a Mad man, however me and the mages have found a way to combat this new source of trickery."

"May Sithis return your techincal difficulties to the void"

Also, funny to say again... they want you to type /stuck... killing yourself to spend money on repairs! (do not do that you will be stuck with your arms at your side unable to move sprint or walk normally)

Notably, the only fix is to press any button or key that opens up a menu window... from experience mailbox works... map does not.

SwampRaider

alt tab. works every time

DrywFiltiarn

Having the same issue a lot too, although it seems to have improved somewhat compared to a couple of weeks ago, what usually fixes it is calling up a menu, I just hit esc twice fast and them I'm able to continue combat again.

Hope they get it fixed soon though.

Sparkleav

Been having this sort of problem for the last couple of days, it's as though my character is sluggish, slow to react to button presses, even walking seems pretty slow. It's only been occurring since the last patch (on Tuesday) my husband seems to be getting this issue also. Haven't logged in today yet but hopefully it is better.

k9mouse

I have same bug -- unable to use my hotbar skills in combat or interact with items / NPC's When I try to log out for a temp "fix" I get unknown error on the login screen. I can only play 10 minutes at a time before this "bug" hits me again. I am in Eastmarsh, Skyrim -- Argonian Templar

Meogi

issue started this morning. The first time around I was trying to logout, which didn't work, so I quit and then restarted the game. This gave me error 200 = no connection to authenticator server.
After than waiting 15 minutes seems to be the only result (including coming back to your corpse, that is).

I have for now disabled all add ons except the outmost lifesaving one (Mailbot). I cross my fingers it will reduce my issue to a minimum.

LadyDestiny

Yes here too. Was working somewhat well after the patch and then yesterday, they started acting up again. My nightblade looks like cupid with its frozen bow animation......lol Same is happening with daggers.

aleister

I had this happen to me last night a few times in vet level solo & public dungeons. I'm just periodically locked out from using abilities for 2-4 seconds and then it clears up. During this time mobs are still attacking me and graphics are rendering and animating fine. Nothing I do (like hitting esc twice) affects it. Looks like good old fashioned server-side lag to me.

k9mouse

yeah, it does sound like a server lag to me also. I have the same issue. I wonder if ZOS should feed the server hamsters more sweetrolls?

Iron_Sith

I notice no one has commented on this since May, here it is in late July and I am still getting this issue. Happened to me yesterday 4 times in a 30 minute time frame. Enough to make me stop playing yesterday. You stand there getting pounded getting damage to your gear over and over. That can get expensive with a new toon such as mine. Seems the further along we get in the game the more complex the issues are and more often since beta. I had less problems the first month than I do now. Sucks, because I am addicted to this game.

Phinix1

Since I started playing my Nightblade with the Rapid Strikes morph for Flurry this happens quite frequently. Mostly when fighting humanoids.

This is as of July 23rd.

All abilities completely stop working. No lag, no rubber banding. Just a broken interface. However, as others have stated, if you hit escape to bring up the menu and then again to close it, everything works again.

For me is seems specific to my nightblade/dual wielding. I never had this once on my Sorcerer.

EDIT: This is NOT an issue of being stuck in combat like what happens when you attack critters. This is an issue with all abilities ceasing to accept commands from the keyboard and mouse during combat until you bring up the main menu and close it.

theredpoet

All today I've gotten this bug with my templar. I was in Waycrest DC. It's really frustrating, especially in a group

wookiefriseur

Haven't had or heard of any new occurences of this bug.

I think what you might have had is different from it. So there is a different work around too. Try dodge rolling next time.

WhiteTigre

Last night I had a few times where I want to fight a npc which is standing in front a door/gate. but cannot attack. the attacks miss. My attacks only connected when I was literally in front of the enemy NPC face to face. Perhaps its time one of the QA people need to get involved and see what is going on