Cold Fire Siege Weapons

UltimaJoe777 · July 2015

I just heard of these on another forum and it explains why in a recent Cyrodiil run I was getting hit by Siege Weapons and not knowing it: Glitched Siege Weapons! If this is known to Zenimax then I hope they remove it ASAP and if not then that is why I am posting about it: to report it!

RadicalSpirit · July 2015

Interesting, I figured there was something wrong.

I have a cold fire ballista which I was stoked to use, but when it came to using it, I could fire it but there was no circle and nothing seemed to happen.

I also couldn't stow the weapon either, so it seemed pretty useless tbh and I ended up switching back to fire ballista.

kalitoslime · August 2015

this game was sold as a pvp game how is the strongest single weapon in the game broken it doesn't show the intimation for anything it just stands still and kills no red circle nothing. If they drop a dlc and don't fix it they lost a fan.

JankH · August 2015

RadicalSpirit wrote: »

Interesting, I figured there was something wrong.

I have a cold fire ballista which I was stoked to use, but when it came to using it, I could fire it but there was no circle and nothing seemed to happen.

I also couldn't stow the weapon either, so it seemed pretty useless tbh and I ended up switching back to fire ballista.

You can stow it away its just you have to wait for the invisible animation to end just like any other siege weapon.

Nisto · August 2015

the weapon still works its just the visual animations that are not being shown, just press the fire button and wait for the stow siege weapon option to pop back up aggain to fire or to stow it/pack up...

mrskinskull · August 2015

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

I just heard of these on another forum and it explains why in a recent Cyrodiil run I was getting hit by Siege Weapons and not knowing it: Glitched Siege Weapons! If this is known to Zenimax then I hope they remove it ASAP and if not then that is why I am posting about it: to report it!

Is it actually broken or is it rare because it is a stealth nuke?

You cant just buy them from a siege merchant. They drop from anchors.

I think it might be intended.

And both teams have access to them. They drive traffic towards the anchors.

It sucks to be bombed but its hella fun to do the bombing.

leepalmer95 · August 2015

mrskinskull wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

I just heard of these on another forum and it explains why in a recent Cyrodiil run I was getting hit by Siege Weapons and not knowing it: Glitched Siege Weapons! If this is known to Zenimax then I hope they remove it ASAP and if not then that is why I am posting about it: to report it!

Is it actually broken or is it rare because it is a stealth nuke?

You cant just buy them from a siege merchant. They drop from anchors.

I think it might be intended.

And both teams have access to them. They drive traffic towards the anchors.

It sucks to be bombed but its hella fun to do the bombing.

The have animations on pc.

TequilaFire · August 2015

This is not supposed to be a stealth weapon at all.
It is a very broken game mechanic with very little chance to defend against.
It it is terrible that ZOS has let this go on so long as it is being exploited heavily.
They say they have a fix but it won't be deployed till the September patch.
Needs patched sooner or disabled till they can.
It is what I would describe as the ultimate "I win" button.
@ZOS_RichLambert @ZOS_GinaBruno

J2JMC · August 2015

The fact that they haven't at the very least stopped them from dropping until further notice is ridiculous.

starkerealm · August 2015

J2JMC wrote: »

The fact that they haven't at the very least stopped them from dropping until further notice is ridiculous.

Unless Microsoft has revised their stance, deploying patches through XBL is a nightmare. This could very well be a decision where ZoS is having to ask themselves, "is this bug worth spending $40k to fix, or should we roll it in with the next update?"

TequilaFire · August 2015

While the animation fix might take a client side patch, I would hope a temporary disable could be accomplished server side.
Getting hit for 29K Plus damage with an almost instant tick from nowhere and seeing all you buds drop from one hit is discouraging.

starkerealm · August 2015

TequilaFire wrote: »

While the animation fix might take a client side patch, I would hope a temporary disable could be accomplished server side.
Getting hit for 29K Plus damage with an almost instant tick from nowhere and seeing all you buds drop from one hit is discouraging.

I believe tweaking drops can be done server side. Though, depending on how Microsoft has their MMO support set up... they may still be the ones holding the keys.

To be honest, it's a case where I'm just glad it's not my problem.

TequilaFire · August 2015

True doesn't happen on my PC version, there at least you have a chance to dodge out of the circle as normal.