New Cyrodiil Bug - Can't Move or Use Skills - PC/NA

Marcus684 · August 2023

I encountered a new bug in Cyrodiil yesterday which occurred twice. In both cases I was riding hell bent for leather to defend a back keep from a PvDoor group, and when I got close to the keep I suddenly stopped dead in my tracks still mounted. I was able to dismount and bash but nothing else. I coiuldn't move, use skills, remount or even hit ESC to open the game menu for probably 30 seconds, after which everything returned to normal. Plenty of other players rode past me seemingly unaffected and zone chat seemed normal so it wasn't a server-wide issue.

I wasn't grouped and I run zero addons so these can't be the cause.

Has anyone else experienced this and have you found a fix other than waiting it out?

virtus753 · August 2023

Yes, that has happened to me before. It seems to have to do with the game transitioning your character across a line or seam in the world - if it fails to do that properly, you are stuck in place. If many players are trying to get to the same place, you can sometimes see them all form the line as they get stuck along it. Not everyone gets caught. It will sometimes let you continue, but since you’re a sitting duck it’s easy to get killed if there are enemies around.

I haven’t seen this happen since my server got the hardware upgrade, but maybe I just haven’t been in the right place at the right time. It used to happen quite a lot riding north from Nikel to Ash gate.