Delayed death and out of combat response?

LadyDestiny · June 2014

Was just curious if anyone else has noticed this problem when killing npc's. It seems to be happening all the time now since the last couple of patches we have had. I thought maybe it was due to lag but even on a low population time it still is happening and I do not usually suffer from lag except Cyrodiil. A nb bug perhaps? I don't know, but it is getting really annoying. Attack an npc, boss or whatever, and just when you get to that last hit that should take it down, it just hangs there and does not die. Several seconds go by while you pound away on it and it just does not die while your health is totally wiped from half or more and you are dead. Absolutely ridiculous to die this way. The other issue is how long it takes for you to exit the combat state after killing something. Way too long of a delay, as it should be instant. Keeps you from interacting with things in the environment for several seconds. I find it quite odd as I never used to have this problem before. Something they added as a sneaky patch? I would not be surprised.....

Heinzy · June 2014

I have noticed something along the line of what you mentioned.

Huge fight, and 2 times now in 2 different dungeons I kill the boss just before he kills me, his body vanishes.

I run about try to click shard, chest or door and get the message "you can't do that, you are dead" I am?
Log out, log in and I am in fact dead.

EdonilTebaun · June 2014

I don't think this is only limited to the NB, it seems to be happening to me no matter the character I'm playing.

Tavore1138 · June 2014

Yup had that a couple of weeks ago, very odd.And I am an NB... My theory is that since Craglorn DOT & HOT are not being applied correctly so if you have an effect going that was healing you just enough to have lived if it was applied first as you 'died' then you get stuck in between.

reggielee · June 2014

I havent seen this exactly but while logging out of my char in an area, it took some time and I had to redo the log off function twice to get it to work. When I logged back in the game the next day the char was dead. While logging off mobs were able to target and kill me.

Darzil · June 2014

Have certainly seen that, and had Heinzy's issue too. Am also a Nightblade if it matters.

I wish I could pinpoint exactly what the issues are, but combat is always a laggy mess, with server and client having wildly different ideas of what is going on.

I put it down to distance from the server, but at less than 150ms ping from it (I'm in Europe) I can only really see that happening if they are sending many small packets of TCP, rather than sending most of it UDP and recovering lost packets client side. Certainly it's often seconds of difference not 100's of milliseconds.

LadyDestiny · June 2014

I am thinking it is due to lag myself. Never had this problem until the major patch before last, and everything seemed to get broken. I think it was the same patch that wiped the achievements.

Yenu · June 2014

I have had this happen twice on a boss fight inside different delves. Both times playing on the Sorc, so it's not just hitting NB's. I run around thinking I pulled off a kill until I try to loot the boss. Log off and back on to finally find myself dead.

Richard.A.Ferrellub17_ESO · August 2014

Update 3 just went live and I am noticing this much more frequently. 1 out of 10 mobs I kill either:

1) health bar desynchronizes upon initiation of combat and stays 100% until they just... stop moving. 2-3 seconds later they fall over and die.

2) health bar reacts to damage as expected. Upon reaching 0% they just stand there for 2-3 seconds as I fruitlessly fire off attacks attempting to "finish off" an already dead but standing corpse. Then they fall over.

*Note: This is not a latency issue. Monitoring my latency during these "situations", I am running 90fps on ultra-high settings the entire time.

This appears to be a, client side, lag in death animation coupled with intermittent health bar desynchronization.

Can anyone else confirm these occurrences?

If this is a specific skill/morph that is causing this issue I will list my abilities and skill setup and maybe we can collectively identify the common denominator here.

Bar 1:
Dual Wield
Skill 1 Lightning Flood
Skill 2 Critical Surge
Skill 3 Blood Craze
Skill 4 Steel Tornado
Skill 5 Rapid Strikes
Ultimate Dawnbreaker

Bar 2:
Bow
Skill 1 Lethal Arrow
Skill 2 Critical Surge
Skill 3 Venom Arrow
Skill 4 Lightning Flood
Skill 5 Bombard
Ultimate Dawnbreaker

*** Everyone who is experiencing this issue please post your skills/setups you are using when this is occurring just for *** and giggles. Maybe we can at least rule out the possibility of an ability that desynchronizes health bars if there are no skills in common.