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Bar Swapping Issue (Needs to be fixed!)
King_Jude
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The overall issue is if you activate an ability, often it will prevent you from bar swapping in the middle of a fight whether it's PVP or PVE. I find this being a common issue, and the game should allow us to bar swap regardless. For example, if I play my mag sorcerer, my health get's low, I want to bar swap to activate shields, or to activate an ultimate, the bar would often get stuck staying on the same bar, or sometimes the ultimate ability will highlight letting me know I did indeed attempted to activate it, however, it does not activate and it gets me killed or nearly get's me killed.
Another combat issue that needs to change is the auto cast ability in the options, I don't know why it's even an option, it should always be auto, why when casting aoe's you have to select that skill twice for it to activate, you select it once, choose your placing, and select it again to activate, pointless, especially in the heat of battle. The issue with this i'm finding, I've been in combat with the auto cast on, but it often get's stuck and doesn't let me cast unless I stop touching the controller for one-two seconds or so. This isn't a controller issue as this issue happens on my ps5 as well as it did on my PS4... Let's get this issue fixed please!
Another combat issue that needs to change is the auto cast ability in the options, I don't know why it's even an option, it should always be auto, why when casting aoe's you have to select that skill twice for it to activate, you select it once, choose your placing, and select it again to activate, pointless, especially in the heat of battle. The issue with this i'm finding, I've been in combat with the auto cast on, but it often get's stuck and doesn't let me cast unless I stop touching the controller for one-two seconds or so. This isn't a controller issue as this issue happens on my ps5 as well as it did on my PS4... Let's get this issue fixed please!
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Fennwitty✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Bar swap lag is especially a PvP problem.
And rather than 'auto' I think Quick Cast 'On' is the better setting. Auto is actually confusing since sometimes the skill fires immediately and sometimes it doesn't.
The quick cast 'auto' setting isn't a bug, but it's a wonky feature intended to help players be super accurate with their AOEs -- at the expense of time. Most players I know would rather miss and have to recast an ability rather than spend a randomish amount of time keeping the crosshair still before the skill even goes off.Edited by Fennwitty on February 10, 2021 11:34PMPC NA0 -
hexnotic✭✭✭✭i’m not sure if this is just a warden issue, but there’s been plenty of times where i cast my winter’s revenge aoe WITH quick cast enabled and it lags out, i see the aoe circle like it’s about to cast but instead it flickers and i don’t get the cast at all. and yes bar swapping just doesn’t happen sometimes...1 -
StarOfElyon✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Yes. ×1000000000000000
I've brought this up before. ZOS did something at least a year ago that screwed with bar swapping.2 -
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✭i’m not sure if this is just a warden issue, but there’s been plenty of times where i cast my winter’s revenge aoe WITH quick cast enabled and it lags out, i see the aoe circle like it’s about to cast but instead it flickers and i don’t get the cast at all. and yes bar swapping just doesn’t happen sometimes...
so what's not being discussed for some unknown reason were the clinet/server changes that were made (was it with markarth?). Basically previously the client would simply trigger abilities and notify the server... but there were fears of exploits etc, so now the client triggers a power, but has to check and get a confirm from the server on various things (LOS, etc). Basically there's a lot more lading on the server side now (add in latency and the use of TCP, packet loss, dupe ACKs, etc.) and the whole process grinds down.
Solution: to change the game code system from using TCP to UDP (sure implement RTP, and application acks in the form of a "command echo, etc.), and to move a considerable amount of the checks back tot he client side.. at least for PVE. What you do in PVP IDGAF. let rhe client do the crunching.. espeically with nextgen platforms...0 -
King_Jude✭✭✭Bar swap lag is especially a PvP problem.
And rather than 'auto' I think Quick Cast 'On' is the better setting. Auto is actually confusing since sometimes the skill fires immediately and sometimes it doesn't.
The quick cast 'auto' setting isn't a bug, but it's a wonky feature intended to help players be super accurate with their AOEs -- at the expense of time. Most players I know would rather miss and have to recast an ability rather than spend a randomish amount of time keeping the crosshair still before the skill even goes off.
Yeah I don't really see a point in that at all, for pvp or pve. For example, the more time you waste trying to cast that ability just right, the lower your dps will be. Lol but Quick cast on is basically what I was leaning towards, as in take that whole feature away and just always have quick cast being on to where it doesn't fail/register to cast.0 -
King_Jude✭✭✭i’m not sure if this is just a warden issue, but there’s been plenty of times where i cast my winter’s revenge aoe WITH quick cast enabled and it lags out, i see the aoe circle like it’s about to cast but instead it flickers and i don’t get the cast at all. and yes bar swapping just doesn’t happen sometimes...
It's an every class issue, happens a lot of my sorc, and every class I play with my 18 characters. Lol0 -
King_Jude✭✭✭StarOfElyon wrote: »Yes. ×1000000000000000
I've brought this up before. ZOS did something at least a year ago that screwed with bar swapping.
I feel like it's been an issue for all the 4 year's i've been playing. Lol0