Wood Elf female using male walk/jog/run animations post-patch

Aleswall · March 2022

This is a weird one, I thought animations had been updated and was begrudgingly moaning about it to my friends because I really don't like the male animations for movement, they look very stilted to me. None of them knew what I was talking about though and after relogging to a Dark Elf and High Elf alt I can confirm that only the Wood Elf has this.

Weird bug, I assume? It can't be intentional to give one race different animations to all of the others like that. It struck me immediately as I logged in.

Aleswall · March 2022

There's also a bug with the camera for Wood Elves I can't replicate with other races; when the camera hits an object (say, the inside wall of a house), it's meant to smoothly zoom in to accommodate for the collision - but post-update it now immediately clips into first person. I couldn't replicate this on other races.

ApoAlaia · March 2022

Happens to me with Khajit and Imperial too so I don't think this is race-related.

Is particularly obnoxious while sneaking.

Wolfkeks · March 2022

Happens to my Kajhiit and Argonians too

Aleswall · March 2022

Oh, does it? That's interesting; my friends play a Breton and a High Elf, and I logged a Dark Elf to verify, and none of those characters had any of these issues.

I was using the exact same addons on my Dark Elf as my Wood Elf, and I've tried both with all addons disabled, all active, updating etc; nothing fixed it on my end, so I'm sure it's not an addon-related fault.

ZOS_GinaBruno · March 2022

Aleswall wrote: »

This is a weird one, I thought animations had been updated and was begrudgingly moaning about it to my friends because I really don't like the male animations for movement, they look very stilted to me. None of them knew what I was talking about though and after relogging to a Dark Elf and High Elf alt I can confirm that only the Wood Elf has this.

Weird bug, I assume? It can't be intentional to give one race different animations to all of the others like that. It struck me immediately as I logged in.

Thanks! We're going to work on getting this fixed.

SpiritKitten · March 2022

I didn't notice because i use a personality. well, I rechecked and even with a personality 'brassy assassin' the run is male on a female wood elf. the 'treasure hunter' personality with carrying a torch masks the bug

Aleswall · March 2022

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Aleswall wrote: »

This is a weird one, I thought animations had been updated and was begrudgingly moaning about it to my friends because I really don't like the male animations for movement, they look very stilted to me. None of them knew what I was talking about though and after relogging to a Dark Elf and High Elf alt I can confirm that only the Wood Elf has this.

Weird bug, I assume? It can't be intentional to give one race different animations to all of the others like that. It struck me immediately as I logged in.

Thanks! We're going to work on getting this fixed.

Thank you!! I will also addend; I noticed that when I stop running (as in, the jog), my character slips into a heroic stance for a split second before going to their regular idle. I don't know if I'm allowed to link videos here but I have one to highlight what I mean; it's probably related, but just in case it's not and is a separate issue.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=26UlSrGASjg

borkiee · March 2022

Aleswall wrote: »

This is a weird one, I thought animations had been updated and was begrudgingly moaning about it to my friends because I really don't like the male animations for movement, they look very stilted to me. None of them knew what I was talking about though and after relogging to a Dark Elf and High Elf alt I can confirm that only the Wood Elf has this.

Weird bug, I assume? It can't be intentional to give one race different animations to all of the others like that. It struck me immediately as I logged in.

Oh thank god I am not the only person who had this, and ZOS addressed it. I felt the same way and pretty much no one in zone noticed a thing, and felt I was screwed. Seeing the male animations not go away, and under the assumption, was an intentional change, made my dysphoria kick up very badly but clearly saw it was a bug after some messing around, and tested it with a friend. Got video evidence. (at time of posting the HD render is processing still so is blurry but can make it out) She (my friend) noticed it as well only on my character. I assume once she logs onto her bosmer's she will see it as well. My non bosmer characters however as stated, were fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMy41YdyxCU

SpiritKitten · March 2022

Duchess personality hides this bug..some others might also.

borkiee · March 2022

SpiritKitten wrote: »

Duchess personality hides this bug..some others might also.

True, it does. Just rather we not have to get around it like that, and could use whatever personality, or none, for the normal animations, brassy assassin for me as it has normal female animations but the dif. stance and such.

Aleswall · March 2022

Yeah, I don't consider personalities a real workaround; part of why I want the right animation back is that it just doesn't feel right for my character and using the wrong personality would too.

That said I've taken the time to finally crack around to alts, so silver linings

borkiee · March 2022

Aleswall wrote: »

Yeah, I don't consider personalities a real workaround; part of why I want the right animation back is that it just doesn't feel right for my character and using the wrong personality would too.

That said I've taken the time to finally crack around to alts, so silver linings

Basically me, and what I been doing whenever I log on... or just playing something else besides ESO

Sword_Singer · March 2022

I'm glad there is a fix in the works but I do wish there was a bit more of a timeframe than 'incremental' update being said.
Looking at patch history some patches have a gap of a week to a month in distance.
If this is how long it will take for this issue to be resolved then all I can say is that I will be disappointed.
I know I can just play my character and get over the animations but I feel it spoils my character, the immersion kinda being killed, the only reason I am a little 'salty' about this is because the double exp is on, and I don't wanna play if the developmental part of my character is filled with bugs.

Just my two cents I wanted to get out. Still overall the update 33 is great but I do wish a fix for some smaller things like this would come faster, and I do understand the amount of background work that needs to happen to ship a patch out.

All and all good work ZOS, eso is one of the few mmo's I want to stick with and have a interest in lore-wise.

Edit: Original post was march 19th, it is now the 25th with no real indication of when this might be fixed, I am fairly disappointed but I suppose complaining will do no good. I seriously hope this is fixed in the next patch.

Aleswall · March 2022

Welp, today's patch didn't fix it. ;-; I was extremely hopeful it would given it seems like a thing that'd be very simple to sort out.

borkiee · March 2022

Aleswall wrote: »

Welp, today's patch didn't fix it. ;-; I was extremely hopeful it would given it seems like a thing that'd be very simple to sort out.

*hugs*

whitecrow · March 2022

I know it probably seems really trivial to them but I really miss this animation..

Sword_Singer · April 2022

Nothing after this patch either :^)

borkiee · April 2022

Sword_Singer wrote: »

Nothing after this patch either :^)

I have not been playing ESO to care enough anymore. Just something I have come to semi accept. Been in mood for funny block game so hopefully, they get to fixing it at some point, right?... probably not.

Aleswall · April 2022

God damnit, it's been a month ;-;

I usually hate saying things like "How hard can it be?" because I don't know the realities of development or how muddled the code is or whatever on their side, but seriously it's just a case of the wrong animations being used.

Is there a way deeper cause or is this just deemed so low priority it'll get fixed as part of the Chapter's patch or something?

borkiee · April 2022

Aleswall wrote: »

God damnit, it's been a month ;-;

I usually hate saying things like "How hard can it be?" because I don't know the realities of development or how muddled the code is or whatever on their side, but seriously it's just a case of the wrong animations being used.

Is there a way deeper cause or is this just deemed so low priority it'll get fixed as part of the Chapter's patch or something?

Mood. Would not be surprised if it just is not fixed qt all, forever Bosmer women having different animations over other races. More of a "this is just broken and it's sad" over "I don't like these animations" at this point, later still applying... and former apples to many things in the game xP

meekmiko · April 2022

SpiritKitten wrote: »

Duchess personality hides this bug..some others might also.

That's s'all fine and dandy, but I use the Cheerful personality on my Bosmer, which doesn't change the run.

@ZOS, DON'T MAKE US WAIT ANOTHER COUPLE OF WEEKS OR ANOTHER MONTH OR MORE JUST TO HAVE OUR STINKIN' RUN CYCLE BACK.

borkiee · April 2022

meekmiko wrote: »

SpiritKitten wrote: »

Duchess personality hides this bug..some others might also.

That's s'all fine and dandy, but I use the Cheerful personality on my Bosmer, which doesn't change the run.

@ZOS, DON'T MAKE US WAIT ANOTHER COUPLE OF WEEKS OR ANOTHER MONTH OR MORE JUST TO HAVE OUR STINKIN' RUN CYCLE BACK.

Yeah I use Brassy Assassin so my run is the male one due to it using the default...

Aleswall · April 2022

I have a few personalities but I don't use any of them because I just like the default for my character.

It's amusing that animations are so important that they sell them at far too high a price let's be honest but apparently not important enough to fix when they break for a month.

borkiee · April 2022

Latest patch fixed it

Aleswall · April 2022

AAAAAAAH, finally!! Thank you for the heads-up, super happy to see that resolved!

Androrix · April 2022

Aleswall wrote: »

AAAAAAAH, finally!! Thank you for the heads-up, super happy to see that resolved!

Yes! All is well @Aleswall.