I know this like the 100th thread about the guards, but I hadn't really experienced anything until now. I lost upward of 6k worth of stolen goods because no matter how many times I pressed R to cast Corrosive Armor, the game refused to listen and just let the guards keep stunning me over and over again. Then, on top of that, they can just magically see through invisibility pots, as they rooted me with that 50m range talons even though I was invisible.
Yeah yah, I know l2p, be a better thief, yadda yadda. The point is I know I could have escaped if the damn game would have been responsive to my button presses and being invisible actually meant something.