Sorcerer Ultimate Overload Bug

Shara_Wynn

It has been years... when is this bug going to get fixed?

vsrs_au

It's back again? It was last fixed earlier this year.

Shara_Wynn

Yes it's back again. Started using it again a few days ago, and the bug happened to me twice in the space of 15 minutes. Lighting effect and noise stays on after ultimate is drained and I cannot toggle it off or use the ultimate again, I am also snared which is very annoying. Have to log out and back in again to fix it.

So have abandoned using it... again.

Don't understand how this bug can still be happening years and years later? ZOS? If it is truly unfixable, then maybe come up with an alternative ultimate for the sorcerer class?

Shara_Wynn

Stated in PC/Mac Patch Notes v8.3.5 that it was fixed (back in March):

Overload: Fixed an issue where this Ultimate and its morphs would not remove themselves when Heavy Attacking with just enough Ultimate for 1 tick.

It is NOT fixed.

I surely cannot be the ONLY player experiencing this bug.

It happened to me almost immediately after trying out the ultimate out again.

It is unusable for me.

This is the only mention of it for Update 39 on the PTS as well:

Overload: Fixed an issue where this Ultimate and its morphs’ Light and Heavy Attacks did not properly interact with Bound Armaments’ stacking behavior. The Light Attacks now always grant 1 stack, and the Heavy Attacks will now always grant 1 stack every tick.

No mention of a fix for the toggle.

So yeah, very disappointed

Shara_Wynn

Tried to use it (Overload) again just there. Animation glitch and snare happened again first time I tried to use it.

Second time, there was no animation glitch but the ultimate would toggle itself off after only one heavy attack? Afterwards I was left snared, even mounted on my horse, I was still snared.

Only way to resolve it is to log out and back in again although sometimes using a Wayshrine removes the negative effects.

So the glitch is happening pretty much all the time for me, not just now and again.

I have sent in game bug reports.

Shara_Wynn

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Shara_Wynn

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Please fix this ZOS

Bkella

Also have this bug, pretty stupid how it ruins everything and it's still not fixed.

the_Scooty

You are not alone!

For me it may happen in the open, it starts spraying lightnings and the noise is annoyingly loud.
It may happen that i can only a walk or run very slowly after some time.
This all sometimes stops again after some minutes.

When running a ini (Random or with my buddies), it does NOT stop anymore and stays that annoying till i exit the ini.
So it´s not driving just me crazy, but also my group.

When the bug occurs, it also seems to me, i sometimes do insanely high damage when pulling a group of NPCs and running into it closely. Some other moments it seems to deliver way less damage to the pulled group.

So it seems to me, the bug triggers the damage of the skill on or off randomly without pressing the skills button. The lightning effects being displayed and the annoying noise of it are on when the bug occurs but sometimes escalate to a much higher amount for some time, as if the effects would stack upon each other visually and acoustically too.

I am pretty new to the Sorc class, so i have no experience, how this looked some weeks or some months ago. I am speaking about my actual state of the last 10 days or so. It´s not a rare bug, it happens in each and every session i use my Sorc.

Removing the Ultimate from the bar immediately stops the lightning and sound bugs.
The "running in slow motion" isn´t even just annoying but also impacting group play a lot, as i am MUCH slower than all others when it happens, so i cant even follow them running around the ini.

PLEASE check this skill, i think it really would be a fantastic one to use... but THIS way it´s a pain to have.

syberfut

Mmm, yes, I can verify that patch 9.1.5 (Update 39) still produces this issue.

RIP overload. The Flash runs super fast with the Speed Force as lightning courses around him, the Sorcerer slogs around flash-ily as lightning slows him down.. shocking, isn't it? Encountering this bug is a hair-raising experience! My hopes are electrified for a fix! ZOS, let me energize you.. without overload-ing your workload! Okay, I'm done zap-ping you!

Shara_Wynn

I am not a dev, so can anyone who does work in programming explain to me why this bug seems unfixable? It has been around for years and years and years and still it is broken.

It's not just some backwater zone quest bug, it is one third of a class's ultimate - of which there are only 7 classes. So it is a pretty big chunk of gameplay experience for a lot of players.

How can it not be fixed already, really?

Dear ZOS I would genuinely like to know if is it a) fixable or b) unfixable. If it's unfixable then will ZOS come up with a suitable replacement ultimate for the sorcerer class?

Why is manpower being spent on constant changes to item sets and skills which aren't broken instead of fixing the things that are?

Pretty poor stuff really tbh but nm eh cuz I am off to play Baldurs Gate 3 now (which is ACE btw for anyone who hasn't taken the plunge yet)!

the_Scooty

This bug needs a lot more attention it seems.
Tell all your Sorc buddies to join in here too!

I also wanna vote for @Shara_Wynn suggestion: if this bug can´t be fixed, delete this Ultimate Skill and give us a different, new one as a replacement please!

Ruinds

Playing today and this bug still running...
This bug continues until now, and on top of that it causes the character to be infinitely slow, it's bizarre that it hasn't been fixed yet...