LOL guards are easy to avoid and if you do messup just as easy to escape.

dont even need to cc, if they trap you in stone break free, claw you, roll dodge if you stamina. if you mage, walk while spamming heal springs.

Alucardo wrote: »

AzuraKin wrote: »

dont even need to cc, if they trap you in stone break free, claw you, roll dodge if you stamina. if you mage, walk while spamming heal springs.

Not every magicka build walks around with healing springs. I know I don't. And they will fossilize you so often you'll run out of stamina, so it's easier to just CC then gain some ground to prevent them from getting in range. But in the end, whatever works.

if you are stamina you should be able to break free, dodge roll, sprint out of aggro range before they can kill you.
if you are magicka you should have a heal on bar. you should also have stamina to with controlled use break free/dodge roll 3 times.

if you cannot do either of those you should rethink your build.

Furrik wrote: »

You completely misunderstood the problem. I was supposed to be given a choice if I want to pay or flee, but the dialogue window didn't appear at all, I couldn't move because the game thought I should be talking with the guard, but the guard just attacks me.

And you can see in the recording that I had no bounty on me before I steal the stuff.

From me watching the video your bounty grew to levels that I believe are beyond a chance to pay out. I am not sure if that part is correct though. Maybe you got bounty for being seen picking the lock and then more bounty for continuing to take what was in the chest. The messages in the top right show your various levels of crime.

Perhaps when you got to the guard he rooted you somehow and you needed to break free. I see that your attack skills were shown below which seems to indicate the game registered you as in combat.

Does this happen every time you have a bounty? Are you always in first person view? If so, have you tried it in third person view?

Try disabling some add-ons, I think they can affect the dialogue window.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Hey @Furrik, we're going to investigate why you appear to be getting stuck in this state. Let us know if you get any additional info that you think could help.

Gina,

I think I can share a lot of insight into this one. This happens to me a majority of the time. It seems to be a pathing error that effects the guards in certain locations. If guards have to go up slopes or stairs it seems like they can never quite "reach" me. So the guard will come close, I'll put my hands up in the air and they'll start to recite their dialogue, and one of two things happens:

1. Guard spots my character, runs over. My hands raise up into the air, but the guard can never quite seem to get in front of me, and I stand there for 10-15 seconds, hands up, and eventually the guard just walks away. There seems like a 50/50 chance that the guard will either ignore me after (as if I was never caught in the first place) OR the guard will turn back around, move in again to accuse me again, not reach me, walk away... lather, rinse, repeat. I've had it happen up to 5 times before I actually got the dialog box, then I was able to use the passive to tell the guard to go away.
2. As in this video, my character raises his hands in the air as the guard approaches, the guard skips the dialog and immediately begins attacking me.

I notice this a lot in Wayrest, especially with the guard that patrols between the Undaunted and the Vendor area. That guard almost always bugs out for me like this.

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Updating with a video.

https://youtu.be/hWma2w9DfQk

Guard catches me first time, everything goes as normal. Second time, the guard starts to chase, I'm stuck and can't react. Guard randomly wanders back, and I'm stuck for a few seconds unable to move. Seems like a 50/50 shot sometimes whether the guards walk away or attack (as in Furrik's case). If they walk away you can move. If not...

Furrik wrote: »

What @Preyfar described seems to be different problem unrelated to mine, because it happens only when the guards actually can come near me. I'm completely safe when they can't reach me.

Was hoping it's related as I've had it happen in a similar instance (thought it seemed like when I got stuck in the "hands up" pose it's because the guard's home position was close to where I was). If the guard ran too far out I'd eventually get free, but if the guard was still within their detection radius I'd get stuck in a situation like you're in.

I've been having the same problem and it's irritating to say the least. Running around with plenty of stolen good only to have a guard run up, start a dialogue with me and then cancel and leave me frozen and forced to watch myself slowly die. I can't log out, I can't leave, all I can do is sit there and wait for them to kill me and take my gold/stolen goods. It happens so often I'm afraid of stealing anything now and getting caught in this state again. Even after dying, I'm stuck in this fake dialogue until I log out and log back in.

I have been having this bug repeatedly and it is stopping me from wanting to play this game further. Someone from Bethesda please fix this! I'm playing on the ps4

Furrik wrote: »

I have found a fairly easy fix for this glitch:
Simply using a Counterfeit Pardon Edict or a similar item allows to play normally again without relogging, and quickly moving away stops using the item so there's no risk losing it. It also works while being attacked by a guard, but you need to do this quickly before the guard kills you.

You can't... you literally can't do anything, you're stuck on the invisible dialogue screen

Furrik wrote: »

I have found a fairly easy fix for this glitch:
Simply using a Counterfeit Pardon Edict or a similar item allows to play normally again without relogging, and quickly moving away stops using the item so there's no risk losing it. It also works while being attacked by a guard, but you need to do this quickly before the guard kills you.

The best fix for this would be to avoid guards and not run at them stupidly, as you did on your video .

Gargath wrote: »

Furrik wrote: »

I have found a fairly easy fix for this glitch:
Simply using a Counterfeit Pardon Edict or a similar item allows to play normally again without relogging, and quickly moving away stops using the item so there's no risk losing it. It also works while being attacked by a guard, but you need to do this quickly before the guard kills you.

The best fix for this would be to avoid guards and not run at them stupidly, as you did on your video .

You're a dingus. The best fix would likely come from a developer. If you're 9 years old then forgive me but as a QA Tester, I can't ignore your stupidity in regards to this bug. That's how bugs are tested, you go looking for the cause, we don't ignore the problem and hope it goes away.

Edit: As for why I don't record video and post these bugs with a report to Zenimax? I'm paying them to PLAY a game, they're not paying me to QATest.

bulbousb16_ESO wrote: »

Nice to have an official comment on this thread!

Did you really have to bump every single thread when they've already commented that they're investigating the issue? You're pushing other issues out of view that they haven't even responded to yet.

i got this bug 70% of the time since 2-3 days