[Bugs?] Random explosions on me, wrong hitdistance & more

TUHD86 · March 2015

Not sure if those are bugs or too fast mechanics....
- I'm getting hit by explosive attacks which I never ever saw the trigger of. And they do 50%+ of my health in damage (around 10k health I've got in total, so do the math). At first, when I fought skeletons and those explosions triggered near the death of one of them while fighting a small group, I thought it was just an buffed-up NPC version of Soul Shatter. Then I started encountering it on humanoid enemies who were on half health or better. I thought, maybe it's a new spell? Bit strange, but meh. Now I'm encountering it on near full-health spiders. Now I'm really wondering.
Is this an unmentioned sideeffect of Soul Shatter, is this an faulty mechanic which gets triggered but never gives the player the chance to respond, or is this one hell of a bug? It takes really the fun out of the game for me till it is fixed - it has cost me way more soul gems then I'd like.
- At least spiders, but I also think other melee enemies, have got a wrong hit distance. They suddenly can hit me across an 2-meter distance, and are that quick that I get no time to evade - hell, the game even doesn't play the animation for it.
- Movement speed of some enemies has become insane. Sometimes I'm not even getting the time to react to a new attack, because the speed of how it's played is just way too high. This is with about all enemies. Rogues however have become absolutely insane. While originally (pre-patch 1.6) their abilities required you to pay very close attention and had an short time for reaction, the reaction time given has gone into the negative or at least 0. Evading has become an option that is no longer available - it just plays too quick.
- It doesn't help that at least the European megaserver sometimes just lags like ***. No matter your own connection speed.

ZOS_GaryA · March 2015

Hey there @TUHD86,

It sounds like a lot of these issues are connection related. We see you've mentioned spiders and as well as generic enemies, so we'd like to ask if these are more frequent issues in PvP situations or PvE.

For the explosion, Soul Shatter should only damage the enemies that surround you when you die. Are you noticing that you're getting hit with this when you're killing other players, or is this occurring randomly out in the field? If you've died, does Soul Shatter show up in the death recap?

TUHD86 · March 2015

@ZOS_GaryA Thanks for answering Gary. This is all in PvE I've played so far. I was planning at some stage to go to Cyrodiil too, but 1.6 kinda has broken that as far as I read as well as the gameplay itself has become less fun for me...
Re: connection. I'm on 50-100 ping (100 Mbps fibrewire connection) on the EU server (logging from the Netherlands). The only reason, besides housemates using up all the bandwidth and random connnection provider crashes, that TESO lags (and that is it 99/100 times of the times it lags) is when the TESO servers decide to play hiccup for an area. Also, during those things I mentioned, I didn't have any lag unless the server was rapidly mini-spiking without me noticing it (considering the play speed before 1.6, I doubt that though).

As for Soul Shatter, it's vs generic PvE enemies while I'm nowhere near Cyrodiil nor are, for that matter, any players nearby. I haven't payed any attention to the recap and this re Soul Shatter was pure speculation since any attack must have been animated at supersonic speed, because otherwise the pure absence of any attack sign isn't inexplainable. Everything before 1.6 still works, but whatever got changed with 1.6, broke the system. At least for me.

I'm not aware at what might cause this, besides any possible unknown cause&effect by code changed by the updates. Although I can't fathom what it would be, A) because of the sheer size of the update and

I can't really imagine from the patch notes which system might cause it, since it both effects the animation/calculation-speed as well as the attack signalling.

NeKryXe · November 2015

i think i'm having this problem lately with all kind of enemies in the game, and even with wild life. somehow after a while fighting a group enemies, even bears, i get hit by a totally random explosion coming from nowhere and not when kill something, it's totally random and always kills me. i hope it is a bug and that it is fixed soon, because it is completely stupid and fills all the fun. i feel cheated by the game.

TrekarmatiK69 · April 2016

Hey!

Me too i have this explosion bug, and sometimes it's insane, I just die instantly without any reason..
Most of the time, it's in a fight but it happen also when i jump from a cliff, when i touch the floor, i heard the son of magicka detonation but i don't have this skill on my bar and the damage it's not for ennemies, it's in my face!
I'm playing a sorcerer at the moment, and i don't have this problem with my others characters, it's just this one and in PVE never tryed PVP for now.
Please fix this bug, it's so annoying...

Mojmir · April 2016

Had this happen yesterday on my magblade, it has the detonation color and animation. Which I don't even have unlocked.I'm not dying from it but I do take small amounts of damage(1-2k).not in cyrodiil either,I was running VCoA

TrekarmatiK69 · April 2016

Just the sound of explosion for me. Maybe it's not the same problem because I got more than 10k damage usually.