Barswap/Sheath Weapon bugs

Warstory
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Barswaping with a menu open (say the character sheet or skills menu) does not play the barswap animation anymore for my character, the barswap does happen, just no animation plays out. This also happens at the outfit station now, barwap but no character animation. No big deal, just a little bug, but if you open a menu and close it (any menu, map, or npc dialog) and barswap, the barswap happens but no character animation plays, and then any skill you use immediately after will not fire off, or will but with a long delay.

Weapon Sheath. If you use a skill with your weapon sheathed, you have to wait for the entire unsheathing animation plus the skill animation to play out before your skill will go off (wasn't like that before the patch). If you use a light attack with your weapon sheathed, the light attack will not go off at all, it just un-sheaths your weapon now. You never had to wait for the weapon un-sheathing animation to play out before using a light attack or skill.

I suspect this has something to do with the snipe animation change also that I posted about here. https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/584338/snipe-animation-change#latest

None of this behavior is normal and it didn't start until right after 7.1.5 dropped. These bugs are not game breaking but it does make for some pretty clunky gameplay and unreliable skill usage. I've diabled all addons and did a clean install of the game and it's made no difference. I've only tested this on a Wood Elf female DK on PC NA, so I don't know if this is affecting other classes or races.

It would be really helpful to have others test this independently to see if this is affecting other races and classes.
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  • Thunderclap
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    My mag NB cat have the same problem with staff.
    Its a very bad change or bug. it feels like hours before the staff is moved from the back and the pressed skill is fired. In some cases I see only the animation and the skill is not fired. Also if you are mounted and I press a skill button. Demount animation, staff from the back animation, felling one hour later skill is fired or nothing happen, no skill fired. Very terrible!
    Edited by Thunderclap on August 27, 2021 9:54AM
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  • Sarannah
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    Warstory wrote: »
    Weapon Sheath. If you use a skill with your weapon sheathed, you have to wait for the entire unsheathing animation plus the skill animation to play out before your skill will go off (wasn't like that before the patch). If you use a light attack with your weapon sheathed, the light attack will not go off at all, it just un-sheaths your weapon now. You never had to wait for the weapon un-sheathing animation to play out before using a light attack or skill.
    Was thinking about posting this as well, but I wasn't sure if this was a bug or not.

    This is extremely annoying, as I continuously sheath/unsheath my weapon. And it now takes a very long delay before I can start with combat. As my skills go off WAY later, after I activate the skill with my weapon sheathed.
    Edited by Sarannah on August 26, 2021 12:46PM
  • Sarannah
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    Please fix this unsheathing weapon skilldelay bug on the next maintenance! It feels like the entire game is suffering from a 1 second delay.

    And this delay happens every few seconds, because I farm nodes while I do anything in the game.

    PS: Not using any add-ons.
  • Sarannah
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    Just wanted to let ZOS know this bug is still here, and wasn't fixed with the patch on september 7th. I run into this bug like every 5 seconds, as I harvest while questing.

    Please please remove the unsheathing delay!
  • Fennwitty
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    Was also 'fun' doing a dolmen today. Every time I used an anchor pinion, weapon gets sheathed.

    So now even when more daedra are swarming me I can't respond until the 're-drawing my weapon' animation finishes.

    And I was soloing it, so that happened 4 times.
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  • katanagirl1
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    I’m seeing this now on PS4 since we got the patch today.

    When I exit siege equipment to apply a buff, I have to wait to unsheathe weapons and it has a second or two delay.

    That on top of the usual 4-5 seconds for siege to actually fire after pressing R2 is really annoying.
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  • blktauna
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    This is hideously annoying and in Cyrodil with all the lag, this is now death when it decides to sheath your weapons for you. I miss long shot opportunities left and right because it so slow getting my weapon out. I get ganked on siege because it takes forever to free yourself of it. my gap closer and caltrops commands are ignored because the game has decided to sheath my weapons. It also takes an age to dismount and unsheath. It's stupid.
    Edited by blktauna on September 14, 2021 4:00PM
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  • Warstory
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    Guys, this is ridiculous. It's going on weeks now and not a single peep from ZOS on when these bugs are going to be resolved or even an acknowledgment that they know about them. They were all introduced when 7.1.5 hit, are well documented, and easy to reproduce for testing. Anyone home?
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  • ApoAlaia
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    I thought I was going mad. Well at least if I am going mad I am not going mad alone so there is that.

    My characters now enter combat readiness at a very leisurely pace. The 'unsheathing' animation is now played in luxurious yet infuriatingly slow detail.

    Can we have it back to almost instant please?

    Edited by ApoAlaia on September 29, 2021 10:31AM
  • ADarklore
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    @ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_GinaBruno

    Can we get an acknowledgment that this extreme slow-down of weapon unsheathing is a bug and will be fixed? It's annoying to run up to enemies, activate a skill, and it takes several seconds for the skill to activate because of the slow unsheathing. This never used to be like this, so clearly a recent change has caused it.
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  • Feljax
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    Please let's get this fixed. Definitely annoying.
  • katanagirl1
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    It is especially annoying if you are sieging in Cyrodiil and exit to buff yourself.

    Previously I could hit three times with the ballista, then exit to buff, and be ready by the time the siege reloaded.

    Now the buff falls off before I can reapply.

    I guess it also doesn’t help that siege lags so bad now too, sometimes up to 4 seconds or more. While you’re at it can you fix the bug where he siege reloads and the arc is green and I hit R2 and I get the message “siege is busy” and it doesn’t fire?
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  • QuietPanda_22
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    Can confirm it's happening on console as well. Takes up to 3 seconds to unsheathe weapon and register the ability.
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  • fortyfivekva_ESO
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    Haven't played much lately but came back for BEST event --Halloween -- and yes, I thought I was imagining this! So terribly slow -- animations are slow enough but starting sheathed is just painful on my staff users
  • wowzerss
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    On PS4 NA, this issue still persists. They dgaf about fixing any persistent bugs for that matter. Thanks for ruining elder scrolls for me
  • blktauna
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    Chiming in for PCNA/PCEU this is still happening and seems to be getting slower and the skill you are trying to use fails 100% of the time.
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