Occasional combat bug, unable to attack monsters mid-fight

Pyr0xyrecuprotite · March 2014

Mid fight, and I am suddenly unable to use any spells/abilities nor weapon attacks (they miss). Only keys still working are movement, RMB and double-tap dodge. Monster (had this twice with only one left fighting me) stays aggro'd and keeps hitting me - I can't do anything back. This goes on indefinitely - not a Lag issue. If I am able to run far enough away, the monster might leave - otherwise I die. (I tried mail ' and alt, no effect).

This has happened twice now, albeit in at least 6 hours gameplay. Reported as 140331-026184. Not completely game breaking (only because it is fairly rare issue) but definitely frustrating. Let me know if anyone else has seen this, or knows any workarounds.

Playing as Templar in stros m'kai, NA region. Note that I had to do a repair on day 1 just to be able to create a character. Sigh. Would rather not have to do that again.

Baphomet · March 2014

@ZOS This is happening all the time to me, and it has gotten much worse over the last couple of hours. Basicly only around 50% of my attacks connect, and I've have got the add-ons to verify it (though it is pretty easy to see your attacks going through your enemies and their health bars not dropping). No lag, no latency, just not hitting the enemies.

gstewart0413b14_ESO · March 2014

I have not had this happen in ESO (yet) but, when it happens, check if your chat window is capturing your input.

Pyr0xyrecuprotite · April 2014

Nope, it wasn't going into chat. Note that LMB attacks were also simply missing completely, as if they were unable to target the enemy. If I couldn't still see the monster attacking me (and get affected by blocks of heavy attacks), I'd think it was some sort of phasing problem. Might be a targetting issue perhaps? (game somehow thinks I don't have a valid enemy to target). I am too low level to try AoE spells to see if they work, but perhaps that might work?

Note: most of my combat has been one-shot kills or at least 2-3 seconds to kill the early low-level monsters. If the bug only shows up after a few seconds into a fight, it may only show up more in later levels and when there are mobs with more monsters.

Baphomet · April 2014

I've tested it with burning talons, elemental blockade and crushing shock, too, and the story is the same; dark talons don't hit their targets, wall of elements misses a lot of ticks, and with force shock, which is suppsed to add fire, frost and shock damage, I am lucky if I can get two of them to hit. Most often none of them hit or just one, which makes me think that this issue isn't only related to lag/latency/phasing/pathing.

Mathea · April 2014

When you cannot attack in mid-fight, just open and close inventory or anything, you will be able to fight again.

Pyr0xyrecuprotite · April 2014

Thanks, i think this workaround works. That is, I encountered this problem in combat again today, and after Inventory/Alt, I was able to carry on fighting. (I previously tried Mail/Alt and that did not help in the earlier examples.) I will keep an eye out for further repeats of this issue and keep testing the workaround.

ItsGlaive · April 2014

I encountered this too, thought it was my naga spazzing out.

andys2283b16_ESO · April 2014

I also get this issue, just completely freeze in combat with no clicks or button presses registering. Can walk about fine with the mob beating on me, sometimes it passes and I can attack back other times I just have to die and relog for it to pass seems to get worse as the day goes on toward peak times. With zero latency meter in game I find it hard to tell if its the server unable to handle the load and loses packets or if its lag spikes. Might clear once/if they ever decide to move the EU servers to the EU cant speak for the US ones, though I did bug report this during Beta, early access and launch so it seems to be here to stay at least for the foreseeable future unless a ZOS poster actually replies to this with an answer.

greeat-scottb14_ESO · April 2014

this has happened to me also - but I think it's zone related (for any developers trolling). It didn't happen to me until I started an alt in the aldimeri dominion. so only in the southern zones has it happened. In daggerfall or ebonheart I haven't. /bug it everytime or for anything. yep - we're still testing it for them and paying for it too

saki · April 2014

It happens for me all the time when I play dk in Aldmeri and I have tried 4 or 5 dk's. First some sound issues then this constant unresponsivnes in fights that cause me to die, even crab kill me sometimes

Now because of their faults we must use some combo with inventory to fix this bs. In middle of a fight I must open inventory to make my character to hit enemy.

That is weird rotation zenimax

danny_zuko2309b16_ESO · April 2014

Exactly the same for me, though my attacks are barely responding, its also not hitting the target, or taking about 3 more seconds to trigger that i pressed an ability. And recently got worse. since the patch its been like this and barely playable. even the npc's, mining materials, or even sometimes opening chests has been effected. really hope they fix it

aquaorange11 · April 2014

I've been getting a ton of this lately as well, I initially (mistakenly) thought it was some NPC enemy "evade" function, so I was OK with it, but yeah the bug thing makes a lot more sense. Last 2 days, I am getting it about 50% of the time and it's often getting me killed (inventory trick doesn't consistently work for me either).

starkerealm · April 2014

Huh... I thought it was a stun effect... I usually find myself rooted in place when it happens.

Tipsy · April 2014

yep same issue that got me killed several times /reloadui seems to work too

Colonel_Brandon · April 2014

I thought I was ‘stunned’ as well, when it happens to me it’s usually when more than one NPC attacks. Funnily enough it only happens on my character in the Aldimeri Dominion and only in the Southern areas. I lose all LMB clicks (I can still block) and none of my 1 to 5 buttons work, once I’m dead everything returns to normal.

I have another character in Daggerfall and so far this has never happened to him so it increasingly looks like it’s a Southern problem.

unshallach · April 2014

my solution is copy /reloadui command (ctrl+C)
Every time i cant use skill in combat i use ctrl+V and it works normal again

Tai · April 2014

Many threads about this, i am beginning to believe that it is somehow related to lag. I posted into the known issues thread, but got no official answer yet

DDemon · April 2014

I am experiencing the same issues, but mine only last till I let go of my attack button, and re-engage.

Xexpo · April 2014

I believe its a latency issue. I've experienced it; after the initial "stun" sometimes all my abilities shoot off at nearly the same time.

wookiefriseur · April 2014

Didn't happen to me for more than a week now. But a friend has it every now and then with his nightblade. His workaround for now is pressing ESC

Pyr0xyrecuprotite · April 2014

I haven't had this issue myself for a few days now, I think. /reloadui is too slow (can take a while when the server is busy). I will try ESC if I see the issue again.

Note: I was originally in Stros Mkai and Betnikh when first noticed this. Glenumbra has a lot more lag (busier?) generally but either is not affected by this specific bug or its been fixed? Definitely noticing more lag in combat recently, but that's a separate issue. It can LOOK similar though, because sometimes I'm swinging wildly away for a second or two with no feedback or apparent damage on the enemies - it's often just behind on processing that the enemy is already dead from damage previously dealt.

aquaorange11 · April 2014

Still occurring frequently.

Anoteros · April 2014

Always happens to me and I end up dying to the most stupid of reasons.
Try getting Drain Essence to work mid fight...I end up wrastling with my 2 key (which it's bind to) and almost destroy my house from sheer frustration.
Let's not get started on whirlwind having a 0.5 to 1 second delay from the time I port in via lotus fan and start pressing Whirlwind -_-

Other mmorpg's have almost instant response, what's the deal here ZOS?
I think I know what it is: Megaserver nonsense.

SunTzuJJ_ESO · April 2014

Don't worry..the megaserver will save us

Anoteros · April 2014

SunTzuJJ_ESO wrote: »

Don't worry..the megaserver will save us

hahaha!

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Was honestly considering rerolling a DK or Templar just to play something that isn't broken skill wise and because im thinking ability delay is tied only to NB's...

stierlitz · April 2014

I observe this behavior too. Mid-fight my abilities stop to respond, however i clearly see buttons on skillbar to blink as i press keys on keyboard so they apparently do receive keyboard/mouse events. I was thinking that it is lag issue but as well but since hitting esc to get to menu and esc back to game fixes this issue instantly lag seems to be unlikely the culprit. I would suspect some keyboard and mouse input handling problem, I dare to write it has to do something with blocking (rmb or rmb+lmb buttons pressed) during fight as i never seen it happened if i fought ranged (nightblade+bow) but often when i was fighting closecombat where i use block frequently.

kaferlander · April 2014

I'm using a sorcerer and it happens to me continually. I have to press enter button twice to continue fighting. It's really annoying.
I wrote to support but no response

highrisedrifter · April 2014

Patros wrote: »

Didn't happen to me for more than a week now. But a friend has it every now and then with his nightblade. His workaround for now is pressing ESC

I get this bug multiple times a day. Pressing escape twice in rapid succession is also the way I 'fix' it too...

Odditorium · April 2014

I get the same bug and someone told me to quickly toggle the map on/off. Works like a charm.

Wolfborn · April 2014

Happened to me last night. I attacked a group of mobs in werewolf form, once the change ended and i transformed back, i could not use any of my attacks etc.