Abilities not firing

Magus · October 2016

So I ventured away from PVEland last night and got a few hours of PVP in. Glad the group bug is partially fixed - only one group disband when someone went offline and someone rezzed at a wayshrine.

What I noticed was I was hitting keys and the ability never fired off. This happened with weapon swaps and every ability - it wasn't consistent but happened frequently. Compared to lag where you hit the key and there's a 2-4 second delay when it's bad but it still fires. No, this was hit the key and nothing happened ever. It was particularly frustrating to hit purge after getting hit by a siege and then thinking I was purged but wasn't.

Did anybody else notice this?

altemriel · October 2016

this is supposed to be fixed already!!

still not fixed????

Magus · October 2016

altemriel wrote: »

this is supposed to be fixed already!!

still not fixed????

They did a partial fix, working on the other part. As a work around, if someone goes offline in your group - kick them from group and re-invite them when they log back in to be safe. 1 disband in 3-4 hours wasn't bad. Everyone come back to PVP now

Etaniel · October 2016

Magus wrote: »

So I ventured away from PVEland last night and got a few hours of PVP in. Glad the group bug is partially fixed - only one group disband when someone went offline and someone rezzed at a wayshrine.

What I noticed was I was hitting keys and the ability never fired off. This happened with weapon swaps and every ability - it wasn't consistent but happened frequently. Compared to lag where you hit the key and there's a 2-4 second delay when it's bad but it still fires. No, this was hit the key and nothing happened ever. It was particularly frustrating to hit purge after getting hit by a siege and then thinking I was purged but wasn't.

Did anybody else notice this?

Yep I've noticed that too, trying to whip people who had 5% hp left and nothing fired, happened quite frequently yesterday night, but the server wasn't lagging

Manoekin · October 2016

Etaniel wrote: »

Magus wrote: »

So I ventured away from PVEland last night and got a few hours of PVP in. Glad the group bug is partially fixed - only one group disband when someone went offline and someone rezzed at a wayshrine.

What I noticed was I was hitting keys and the ability never fired off. This happened with weapon swaps and every ability - it wasn't consistent but happened frequently. Compared to lag where you hit the key and there's a 2-4 second delay when it's bad but it still fires. No, this was hit the key and nothing happened ever. It was particularly frustrating to hit purge after getting hit by a siege and then thinking I was purged but wasn't.

Did anybody else notice this?

Yep I've noticed that too, trying to whip people who had 5% hp left and nothing fired, happened quite frequently yesterday night, but the server wasn't lagging

It's great when it happens right after you've had oil poured on you.

Ghostbane · October 2016

Manoekin wrote: »

Etaniel wrote: »

Magus wrote: »

So I ventured away from PVEland last night and got a few hours of PVP in. Glad the group bug is partially fixed - only one group disband when someone went offline and someone rezzed at a wayshrine.

What I noticed was I was hitting keys and the ability never fired off. This happened with weapon swaps and every ability - it wasn't consistent but happened frequently. Compared to lag where you hit the key and there's a 2-4 second delay when it's bad but it still fires. No, this was hit the key and nothing happened ever. It was particularly frustrating to hit purge after getting hit by a siege and then thinking I was purged but wasn't.

Did anybody else notice this?

Yep I've noticed that too, trying to whip people who had 5% hp left and nothing fired, happened quite frequently yesterday night, but the server wasn't lagging

It's great when it happens right after you've had oil poured on you.

Sounds realistic to me, you should be shrieking in pain, not pressing buttons.

Koolio · October 2016

This happens a lot for me on NA/Ps4. Mainly when someone get to low health. Reverse Slice doesn't work. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the targeting. Haven't quite put my finger on it yet

Rohamad_Ali · October 2016

This is still happening . Also noticed a lot of light attacks not hitting in PvE .

Magus · October 2016

Yep it also happens in dueling outside of cyrodiil. I haven't noticed it during PVE. I'm guessing maybe they added some new server side checks to combat cheating that has this side weird effect. But good to know, I'm not the only one experiencing it.

Deedleqwerty · October 2016

Had to give up Critical Rush altogether because of this particular bug. Hated having my character running around with her arms and sword in the air, unable to do anything until I weapon-swapped. This particular misfire happened to my main character about 75% of the time.

Like I said. I gave up CR, switched to Executioner, then finally back to Dual Wield.

Deedle

leowkwok · October 2016

This is happening to me too, sword stuck in mid swing during Critical Rush, abilities lagging so bad that it sometimes doesn't even activate. I'm riding my horse and all of a sudden I get warped back to where I was 5 seconds ago. And it all started literally right after the One Tamriel update..................

Magus · October 2016

Ah that's not exactly what I was describing. The gap closer bug with crit rush where you get stuck in the animation has been around for months. You can weapon swap or hit block to get out the animation though, or press all the keys you want to first and then it will unload them all at once. That has been termed a "macro slice"

What I am talking about is something new where you need to hit the key more than once for an ability to fire. Like you will need to hit it twice because it doesn't fire the first time. That's something new that I observed. I'll try to pay attention to circumstances around it for bug testing.