SilverBride wrote: »

I thought my skills did fire when I pushed the keys.

thats not how it works ingame. Test for yourself. For example, use uppercut and bind it to 2. When you press 2 nothing happens until you take your finger off the button

SilverBride wrote: »

I just tested this and yea, the skill doesn't fire until you release the key. I am so used to just quickly hitting and releasing in one motion I never noticed before.

I am not sure why it's this way either but I support having them fire when pressed. That would make more sense in my opinion.

yea or at least a toggle to choose whether you want it on press or on release

If this system were in place, It's not clear just how ESO would go about registering a HA or any other channeled ability for that matter.
A HA is registered when a listener class notes the onKeyDown event but does NOT act on it - it merely notes it, waits for the follow up onKeyUp event, measures the intervening duration and then assigns a strength value to that HA.

If the duration between the onKeyDown and onKeyUp events is near instantaneous, a LA is registered.
Charged/channeled abilities functionality (such as ESO's with its HAs, etc) is built on listener classes noting but not acting on initial onKeyDown events.

If all ESO had was LAs and primitive abilities (no charged/channeled abilities), then an activate on the onKeyDown system would be easy enough to accommodate.
Disclaimer though: I know nothing of ESO's inner workings, so an activate on the onKeyDown system may still be possible to implement.

RevJJ wrote: »

When I read the title I thought this was a request for skills to actually go off in Cyrodiil.

xD Me too. Then I read the explanation, and that explains SO many things sometimes. Like in a high stress situation you press the button too fast for the game to recognize if you are holding or pressing fast.

It is strange, but it rarely comes up as a problem unless you have heavy hands. I think the reason they do this is so you can't press and hold the button to just perfectly cast the same ability over and over again.

It's probably to prevent macro use

I would agree with this being added to ESO, this has been an option in WoW for many years. Most ESO players (that I personally know anyway) use keybinds, not clicks, so this option would really only alter light attacks and heavy attacks, or those players who do click abilities and don't use keybinds.

The heavy attack problem is perhaps solved by adding logic along the lines of "if the mouse button is not released within X number of ms of being pressed, delay firing the skill until the button is released again, or after a set time limit is reached."

I'm not sure how many ms it takes to click a mouse button, or to release it. But I do know that the difference between a 110k parse and a 135k parse on, e.g. stamsorc is approximately 500-600 ms. (weave average 1.0sec vs weave average 0.4sec) The average human's eye blink speed is around 300 ms, by way of comparison.

Besides, as a fully optional feature, this could be simply left as it currently works now, for those who run heavy attack builds or need to weave heavy attacks into their rotation for resource sustain or to maintain uptimes on certain buffs/debuffs.

Unfortunately, this wouldn't work because of how the engine resolves target listeners within the dynamic object map using a post-process keyhash at the input level.

Does that make sense? I just made it up but I think it has promise

RevJJ wrote: »

When I read the title I thought this was a request for skills to actually go off in Cyrodiil.

You had to mention Cyrodiil. Now the thread has to be moved to the PvP forum.

Please please please can we have this? Can a mod/dev comment on this? Acknowledge us? This has been asked as a feature for years afaik