can't go back to sneak?

Hibbou · May 2016

Hi all,
since I started playing, I noticed that sometimes, after doing a ranged attack and thinking, "yeah... no, forget it", i can't go back to sneaking, the eye stays fully open for several minutes, and that s not because of marked target (they eye closes anyway with marked target)

here s an example: my group is sieging a keep, I see guy up the keep, I try to snipe him, one hit, two hits, DAMN he CC broke and dodge rolled, ok, let s run back somewhere else to sneak again, uho, they eye won't close, quick, cloack!, and again, and again to be sure and ag... oops, oom ^^... and the eye is still open O_O

so, is there a skill that I don't know of, and I repeat, I haven't been marked, I use this skill enought to know when it happens to me )that forbids you to sneak again if you attack a target? or is it just a bug? (I know for sure that I am not invisible, I thought at the begining that it was a visual error, well... no, they did see me

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Apoxsee · May 2016

Once you initiate combat you are in combat for a period of time and will not be able to go back into stealth until the combat timer has expired. Cloak will provide a brief relief but the timer is still going.

Best thing to do is to relocate back to the group and allow the timer to expire. This will allow you to reenter stealth.

Hibbou · May 2016

But I sometimes manage to go back to sneak in the middle of a melee fight Oo, or same situation as my first post, sometimes it doesn t happens I shoot 2 arrows, the guy is away, I dodge roll away, and when the dodge roll is over, I am sneaking (and with the "fighting" music)

DocFrost72 · May 2016

It is a combat bug. You should be able to break line of sight and stealth up, but that doesn't happen sometimes. A huge reason for it is a failed gank attempt with poison arrow thrown in. You're in for the ride at that point =(

There are two things you can do: Open up and fight hard, maybe you win. Or, stay crouched/cloak behind a rock or tree. Sometimes, enemies won't even check...done it a few times, even took a velocious and managed to just cloak or LoS until "combat" ended.

Worst case, carry potions of invisibility. They hard counter everything, as far as I know.

EDIT: For phone mistakes

Hibbou · May 2016

ok, a combat bug, yeah, usually when I gank, I try to finish my target ^^ it s more of a problem when the group leader asks us to sneak, I have to get away from them hoping I won t be jumped

thank you guys for the answer

LegacyDM · May 2016

This has been a combat bug since launch and @ZOS_BrianWheeler and or @zos_ericwrobel have never acknowledged or made any attempts to fix. I don't know if this is a cyrodil problem or a combat issue. It's frustrating and ruins immersion. It's stupid. I run and cloak away from my opponents and have to hit cloak a dozen times behind a rock or tree until I'm unstuck from combat. When I'm clearly not a threat to anyone and removed from combat I'm affected by this garbage. Please fix!