Skills locking up?

ItsGlaive · April 2014

Had this happen five or six times during early access, the skills all lock - so you can't use any of them, even crouch. Usually it's in the middle of combat (naturally the most convenient time) but today it was before I'd even entered combat. Aiming at a mob and I realise crouch won't work, then try to fire my bow, those skills won't work.

Anyone else experienced this?

Luculus · April 2014

Yup, just happened to me too...very annoying.

I couldn't respawn (I was in Cyrodiil). I had to wait for the 10min countdown. Once I respawned I was still locked out from all skills and walking at a snail's pace.

Then I couldn't even log out - The counter got to 0 and just stayed there.

I force closed the process and then reloaded the game. Got booted back to character select on first attempt to reenter, then got stuck on an infinite loading screen on the next.

Taking a break now...

From an unhappy customer.

GamePlayer7 · April 2014

I've experienced this several times myself lately.

Nooblet · April 2014

Luculus wrote: »

Yup, just happened to me too...very annoying.

I couldn't respawn (I was in Cyrodiil). I had to wait for the 10min countdown. Once I respawned I was still locked out from all skills and walking at a snail's pace.

Then I couldn't even log out - The counter got to 0 and just stayed there.

I force closed the process and then reloaded the game. Got booted back to character select on first attempt to reenter, then got stuck on an infinite loading screen on the next.

Taking a break now...

From an unhappy customer.

That sounds like the issue that was happening in PvE zones, that was causing players to basically lose sync with the zone. This resulted in eventually getting pushed back to character screen, and upon login in, losing progress up to your last save point.

I have also had a couple experiences where the loading screen got stuck as well.

Nooblet · April 2014

Xabien wrote: »

Had this happen five or six times during early access, the skills all lock - so you can't use any of them, even crouch. Usually it's in the middle of combat (naturally the most convenient time) but today it was before I'd even entered combat. Aiming at a mob and I realise crouch won't work, then try to fire my bow, those skills won't work.

Anyone else experienced this?

Where the monsters still attacking you? or did you basically lose connection with the zone like the post after yours?

Rhaegar75 · April 2014

using skills today...nightmare lol
I've been experiencing some really nasty lag...up to 3 seconds or not working at all

ItsGlaive · April 2014

Nooblet wrote: »

Xabien wrote: »

Had this happen five or six times during early access, the skills all lock - so you can't use any of them, even crouch. Usually it's in the middle of combat (naturally the most convenient time) but today it was before I'd even entered combat. Aiming at a mob and I realise crouch won't work, then try to fire my bow, those skills won't work.

Anyone else experienced this?

Where the monsters still attacking you? or did you basically lose connection with the zone like the post after yours?

Nope monsters still attacking (and killing)

hihgpotensy · April 2014

This keeps happening to me too. Basically locks my entire character up. It always happens to me when I am quickly hitting the skill keybinds (1-5) and my guess is that the game doesn't keep up with the input registration and the character just gets totally locked up.

Nooblet · April 2014

hihgpotensy wrote: »

This keeps happening to me too. Basically locks my entire character up. It always happens to me when I am quickly hitting the skill keybinds (1-5) and my guess is that the game doesn't keep up with the input registration and the character just gets totally locked up.

Sure you didn't accidentally click your "cursor mode" button? I believe it's " . " by default.

This makes it so that your mouse can move around the screen however makes you unable to cast any spells until you toggle out.

Its probably not the casue, however I accidentally did it before and only later realized that was even possible.

falsfire · April 2014

I've only once experienced the "unable to do anything in combat" bug. I couldn't even draw my weapon...I had to die + relog to get going again.

I used to experience the "blocking bug" (stuck in block animation, unable to do anything) frequently, and at a 100% rate when I got knocked off my mount. I switched to 3rd person view (guildie suggestion), and it hasn't happened since.

Only "out of sync" bug I've experienced recently was in Shadowfen, during the quest to save the Argonian village, when I "destroy binding crystal" my character would get stuck swinging her dukes (boxing like Rocky Balboa constantly) until I zoned or entered/exited a building. I could still do stuff though, so it was just an amusing bug

Zerikin · April 2014

I've had this happen to me several times, always resulting in death. Only workaround is to restart the client. It is definitely not just the mouse cursor mode.

juri855 · April 2014

yes this is happening to me a lot on my nightblade , I have mana and stam yet cant activate any skill, usually happens several times everytime I play.

PMDoman · April 2014

I get this occasionally on my templar; I found that doing a tumble (double tapping a movement key) fixes it - still annoying though.

DanteYoda · April 2014

Yep add me to the list, its a game breaking bug..

Keoni · April 2014

I've experienced this too when dual wielding. All of skills will stop working right in the middle of combat and 9 times out of 10, I'm killed by the mob that has a sliver of health left. If by chance the mob does die, my skills are reset back to normal.

RPGDad · April 2014

Several of us have identified a possible DW Flurry bug being the cause of this. There is a post here which contains links to several other posts about this issue as well.

The fastest workaround seems to be pressing ESC twice (rapidly).

Eris · April 2014

One thing to consider, which I've found to be the case, is sometimes you get hit by a power that makes it impossible for you to do anything for a time. All you can do is stand around and get beat up. Of course, you can do that to others too, I use interrupt to stun healers all the time and then all they can do is stand there... so be sure it's not a bug, as it might be a power you've been hit by.

Cherryblossom · April 2014

I get this several times a night on my nightblade. At first I thought it may be a stun, but it's not. I read in another thread that if you open and close your inventory it removes the bug. This seems to work for me.

But Seriously this is an awful bug as it generally results in death, it is currently my biggest frustration. The frustration is starting to show in my bug reports which I have to wipe the spittle from the screen after sending!

This one bug made me cancel my subscription in anger.

No you can't have my stuff, I'm hoping in months to come they get to grips with all the bugs and I may come back for a second try.

Evanis · May 2014

In my case, the "skills locked once combat is initiated" bug happens so often, I'm ready to throw in the towel. At least half of my combat encounters result in locked skills until I open up my inventory window. Then magically, I can use my skills again... We need a real fix for this ASAP...

BlackFlame · May 2014

Yes happens to me to ever since I rolled a Nightblade very very frustrating and was supposed to be fixed in last patch but didn't get fixed. I found an easy fix though without having to die or log out. I just open up my map real quick and they all start working again its a weird bug. At least I don't constantly die now but still somewhat frustrating

Dita · May 2014

I think every Nightblade having this bug. Annoying & frustrating to say the least. Please, fix it ASAP.

babylon · May 2014

hihgpotensy wrote: »

This keeps happening to me too. Basically locks my entire character up. It always happens to me when I am quickly hitting the skill keybinds (1-5) and my guess is that the game doesn't keep up with the input registration and the character just gets totally locked up.

That's interesting, I wonder if it has anything to do with hitting several instant cast skills in succession, and with that causing game to lock up.

Just the way opening and closing your bag or character window (UI elements) breaks this lockup, seems really weird...like game has decided we're not in the game world, like we're instead browsing the UI.

Someone needs to be assigned to investigate this bug and fix it, a combat lockup bug is really an important bug to stomp on.

Brakkar · May 2014

Had this happen a few times.
Also few skills not firing up at all, especially the 'casted' skills or with some duration, like rapid strikes, whrling blades or flawless dawnbrwaker ultimate.
Rapid strikes didn't fire at all 4 out of 5 times, same for whirling blades.
Ultumate even more rarely, had to literally spam smash R key in order to make it work.