Stuck in combat!

Veinblood1965 · May 2020

Getting old, stuck in combat a lot lately long after the mobs are dead. Anyone else noticing an increase in this? Lag related? Bug?

Glenmorils · May 2020

Yeah, I've noticed this too.

coletas · May 2020

Like always. You can be hours on It. The only thing that seems to help is killing a wolf or any little npc out there

Casterial · May 2020

Interesting that you still enter combat, been stuck in combat since forever ago

Isarii · May 2020

Most of the time a simple weapon swap seems to get me out of combat - if not, just gotta find something to hit.

It does seem to have picked up - most likely related to the servers getting hammered since we're (obviously) all stuck inside with nothing better to do.

Ashryn · May 2020

I think lag must have something to do with it, as I only experience it when around a large amount of players. It is plenty annoying !

worrallj · May 2020

What are people's thoughts on simply elimating the restrictions on mounting & gear changes while in combat? If this will never be fixed, it may cause more trouble than its worth.

Isarii · May 2020

worrallj wrote: »

What are people's thoughts on simply elimating the restrictions on mounting & gear changes while in combat? If this will never be fixed, it may cause more trouble than its worth.

While it's a bit annoying, I don't think it's common enough to get too worked up over.

Lifting either of those restrictions (as well as skill change restrictions) would have pretty big implications on PvP and competitive PvE (you absolutely know cheese would be happening with gear manager add-ons to quick switch sets during combat).

Granted you could leave restrictions in place for instanced content and PvP enabled areas, but at that point it starts becoming a pretty big technical project for a relatively minor problem.

LinearParadox · May 2020

worrallj wrote: »

What are people's thoughts on simply elimating the restrictions on mounting & gear changes while in combat? If this will never be fixed, it may cause more trouble than its worth.

Gear change? Never. Far, far too exploitable.

Mounting? Absolutely. Not a big deal, all they'd have to do is add a 2-3 second channel for it. If you're in PvP and trying to cheese running away, then you'll get rekt in that timeframe(so no diff than now with no mounting), additionally they could make it so any damage stops the channel to summon the mount and again, no change from how it is now.
But if you're stuck in combat unfairly even though there's no combat or threat to you, then 2-3 seconds to summon your mount is a HELLUVA LOT BETTER than not at all!

TineaCruris · May 2020

Stuck in combat is one of the bugs in the video the devs were discussing fixing in 2014. ...let me check the calendar....yep, it's 2020 now.

BalticBlues · May 2020

TineaCruris wrote: »

Stuck in combat is one of the bugs in the video the devs were discussing fixing in 2014

...and it is getting "better" each year.
Like having to walk all the way back to a wayshrine after killing a dragon in Elsweyr

Like having to walk across vast Cyro while your group already rides miles ahead of you

Like not being able to slot oil to defend a castle because we are stuck even inside the castle

ZOS, perhaps you want to give us A WAY TO KILL OURSELVES to put us out of our misery?

Old_Foggy · May 2020

I have had this happen a few times and mostly i just go into the inventory screen and swap weapons and it fixes it. annoying but it works for me. Thing that irks me is if my character gets stuck in a corner or a wall etc i have to pay to be rescued and moved even though its just silly money you pay i think it's off you pay for the game messing up and trapping you like that.

Acharnor · May 2020

I have been running into this quite a bit and thought it must just be me! Glad to have picked up a couple tips for getting rid of it! Thanks.

Ruder · May 2020

The solution is simple:
They should change the current broken in combat logic to:

If you haven't done or received damage in the past 10 seconds you automatically get out of combat

Jaraal · May 2020

Yeah, I get this every single day.

My minimap addon always minimizes when I'm in combat, then it comes back up when I lose aggro, so it's an easy way to see when I'm not in combat. But ever since Update 25, the minimap will come back on, but I will still be stuck in combat, can't loot corpses, harvest materials, open doors, or swap weapons.

The only way to unbug myself is keep killing things until it goes away, then I can backtrack and loot everything, open chests, doors, etc. Only probem is when I'm in an instance, where I've killed everything and nothing respawns. Then I have to camp out and come back in, but by them my itemized corpses have all vanished. This cost me tickets and boxes during the Murkmire event.... so frustrating.

Since it hasn't been fixed in two months, I'm afraid it's not going to be fixed at all.

Lysette · May 2020

Sometimes a roll dodge gets you out of stuck in combat - but often I cannot even swing a weapon or cast an ability anymore, which basically is not even stuck in combat anymore, but some kind of disconnect to all actions beside moving around and dodging. Try roll dodge - that helped me out quite often.

Veinblood1965 · May 2020

Thanks everyone for the tips on this.

BalticBlues wrote: »

TineaCruris wrote: »

Stuck in combat is one of the bugs in the video the devs were discussing fixing in 2014

...and it is getting "better" each year.
Like having to walk all the way back to a wayshrine after killing a dragon in Elsweyr
Like having to walk across vast Cyro while your group already rides miles ahead of you
Like not being able to slot oil to defend a castle because we are stuck even inside the castle

ZOS, perhaps you want to give us A WAY TO KILL OURSELVES to put us out of our misery?

I ran into the walk across Elsweyr a while back due to that, walked CLEAR across the darn zone as it was one guy soloing the dragon and I had taken a swipe at it on the way by. I got experience like 10 minutes later.

Thanks everyone for the tips on this I'll try some of these next time it occurs, it's been happening almost every day now for me on PS4. Even when in a delve and nobody else is around.

Jaraal · May 2020

Lysette wrote: »

Sometimes a roll dodge gets you out of stuck in combat - but often I cannot even swing a weapon or cast an ability anymore, which basically is not even stuck in combat anymore, but some kind of disconnect to all actions beside moving around and dodging. Try roll dodge - that helped me out quite often.

One thing I did notice is that transforming into a werewolf will break the bug. But I refunded all my werewolf skill points after they nerfed it into Oblivion, except on a couple characters I don't play much.

worrallj · May 2020

LinearParadox wrote: »

worrallj wrote: »

What are people's thoughts on simply elimating the restrictions on mounting & gear changes while in combat? If this will never be fixed, it may cause more trouble than its worth.

Gear change? Never. Far, far too exploitable.

Mounting? Absolutely. Not a big deal, all they'd have to do is add a 2-3 second channel for it. If you're in PvP and trying to cheese running away, then you'll get rekt in that timeframe(so no diff than now with no mounting), additionally they could make it so any damage stops the channel to summon the mount and again, no change from how it is now.
But if you're stuck in combat unfairly even though there's no combat or threat to you, then 2-3 seconds to summon your mount is a HELLUVA LOT BETTER than not at all!

I love this idea @LinearParadox!!

Jaraal · May 2020

worrallj wrote: »

LinearParadox wrote: »

worrallj wrote: »

What are people's thoughts on simply elimating the restrictions on mounting & gear changes while in combat? If this will never be fixed, it may cause more trouble than its worth.

Gear change? Never. Far, far too exploitable.

Mounting? Absolutely. Not a big deal, all they'd have to do is add a 2-3 second channel for it. If you're in PvP and trying to cheese running away, then you'll get rekt in that timeframe(so no diff than now with no mounting), additionally they could make it so any damage stops the channel to summon the mount and again, no change from how it is now.
But if you're stuck in combat unfairly even though there's no combat or threat to you, then 2-3 seconds to summon your mount is a HELLUVA LOT BETTER than not at all!

I love this idea @LinearParadox!!

Yeah, anything is better than being stuck in combat for no reason.

Jeremy · May 2020

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

Getting old, stuck in combat a lot lately long after the mobs are dead. Anyone else noticing an increase in this? Lag related? Bug?

Not sure if it's lag related. It's been around forever, and is one of the more annoying bugs. I wish they would fix it. But at this point, it's probably a safe bet to say they are unable fix it for some unknown reason I wish they would share with us.

Prrasha · May 2020

I would say, give us a hotkey that:

1) forces you out-of-combat immediately
2) gives you a debuff that sets all your damage/healing/regen to zero for 5 seconds (so you can't use it when you really are in combat)

...but then we'd see six years of threads about how that debuff would bug out.

BackStabeth · May 2020

I would say, fix the problem that causes stuck in combat. Don't work around it, don't pretend it's anything but what it is, one of two things. It's either bad code, or not enough server resources. Fix the code, buy a lot more server resources and bam, done, finished, fixed.

Don't sub or buy anything from the crown store until they fix the issues and problems, the bad code, and upgrade the server so that it doesn't case issues in game play.

Jaraal · May 2020

Jeremy wrote: »

Not sure if it's lag related. It's been around forever, and is one of the more annoying bugs. I wish they would fix it. But at this point, it's probably a safe bet to say they are unable fix it for some unknown reason I wish they would share with us.

In my case it never happened until Update 25, and I've been playing for years. Since then, it happens all the time.

Sindarin · May 2020

well, im in a combat standing inside of a city of Rimmen, when my group mate is fighting with a dragon 100km away....

OneForSorrow · May 2020

Possibly a silly question but are some of you folks getting chased? I swear leashing barely works at times and I can run by a mob that will latch on to me and chase me until I turn around and fire an attack at them. THEN they run off.

So it's counter-intuitive but if you have a mob chasing you and trapping you in combat, engage them. Only thing that's worked for me.

(also, don't feel alone.)

Veinblood1965 · May 2020

OneForSorrow wrote: »

Possibly a silly question but are some of you folks getting chased? I swear leashing barely works at times and I can run by a mob that will latch on to me and chase me until I turn around and fire an attack at them. THEN they run off.

So it's counter-intuitive but if you have a mob chasing you and trapping you in combat, engage them. Only thing that's worked for me.

(also, don't feel alone.)

Now that you bring up the idea of when it happens it only happens to me after killing a named mob, like a delve boss, or open world boss whether I'm solo or grouped. It's never a trash mob.

Donny_Vito · May 2020

BalticBlues wrote: »

TineaCruris wrote: »

Stuck in combat is one of the bugs in the video the devs were discussing fixing in 2014

...and it is getting "better" each year.
Like having to walk all the way back to a wayshrine after killing a dragon in Elsweyr
Like having to walk across vast Cyro while your group already rides miles ahead of you
Like not being able to slot oil to defend a castle because we are stuck even inside the castle

ZOS, perhaps you want to give us A WAY TO KILL OURSELVES to put us out of our misery?

That last one really gets me. I'm inside a keep, the door is still holding, and the enemy is outside. Yet I cannot equip anything because I'm in combat. It's always one of the first mistakes I make when I'm on a character that I haven't PvP'ed with for awhile and all the quickslots got changed. So I inevitably have to take off my banker, merchant, etc.. and quickslot everything I potentially will need in PvP (i.e. siege).

Alucardo · May 2020

Happens a lot in Cyrodiil, especially on classes like Templar and Warden. I find that attempting to stealth sometimes fixes it. SOMETIMES.