how are people hanging in mid air

Theignson · February 25

Only in last few months have a seen this, people jump off a keep then hang in mid air for a noticeable period of time (like the famous cartoon character that runs off the cliff). Sometimes they do other strange maneuvers in mid air that never used to be possible.
Is it from some scribing skill?

Belegnole · February 25

Antigravity proc...

EF321 · February 25

Knockback or knock up skills. Most probably elemental explosion with knockback.

Renato90085 · February 25

game dc...

Calastir · February 25

Meditation.

Dragonnord · February 25

WuffyCerulei · February 25

I've had loading screens mid-air before. Annoying, but it happens.

Soraka · February 25

Lag

MasterSpatula · February 25

You throw yourself at the ground and miss. Doesn't anyone read Douglas Adams anymore?

wilykcat · February 26

Cool bug. I want to make my characters fly as well.

Theignson · February 26

Desiato wrote: »

I think what the OP is referring to is players triggering this intentionally, which is certainly a thing.

Yes exactly. Obviously most of these players don't PvP and have no clue what I'm talking baout. So does anyone know exactly how they trigger it intentionally? It is "not" normal game physics.

Carcamongus · February 26

It just works!

sarahthes · February 26

Theignson wrote: »

Desiato wrote: »

I think what the OP is referring to is players triggering this intentionally, which is certainly a thing.

Yes exactly. Obviously most of these players don't PvP and have no clue what I'm talking baout. So does anyone know exactly how they trigger it intentionally? It is "not" normal game physics.

I haven't seen it because I haven't been in cyrodiil in ages. But vault maybe? Plus something else to bug the animation?

ZOS_Kevin · February 27

If you see this happening, please take a picture or video and then report either in-game or on the web ticketing tool. We can have our teams review and see why some folks are defying gravity.

Caligamy_ESO · February 27

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

If you see this happening, please take a picture or video and then report either in-game or on the web ticketing tool. We can have our teams review and see why some folks are defying gravity.

I have seen this too in Rimmen, I was in voice chat with another player at the time who was standing next to me and it appeared to be a client side issue, as they could not see what I was seeing.

Elvenheart · February 27

I use the Flying Nun addon, it’s just a habit.

davidtk · February 27

Desiato wrote: »

Theignson wrote: »

Desiato wrote: »

I think what the OP is referring to is players triggering this intentionally, which is certainly a thing.

Yes exactly. Obviously most of these players don't PvP and have no clue what I'm talking baout. So does anyone know exactly how they trigger it intentionally? It is "not" normal game physics.

Is this what you're referring to?

I didn't capture this player in motion. They are floating. I've known players who can do this at will, but I don't know how. It's not just a Cyrodiil thing.

It's also possible to contort the model into ridiculous poses.

This is server <-> client desync I think, nothing special with larger ping...
Its the same as standing on the mount.

Orbital78 · February 27

the servers seem to be dying right now, could be part of it.

davidtk · February 27

Desiato wrote: »

davidtk wrote: »

Desiato wrote: »

Theignson wrote: »

Desiato wrote: »

I think what the OP is referring to is players triggering this intentionally, which is certainly a thing.

Yes exactly. Obviously most of these players don't PvP and have no clue what I'm talking baout. So does anyone know exactly how they trigger it intentionally? It is "not" normal game physics.

Is this what you're referring to?

I didn't capture this player in motion. They are floating. I've known players who can do this at will, but I don't know how. It's not just a Cyrodiil thing.

It's also possible to contort the model into ridiculous poses.

This is server <-> client desync I think, nothing special with larger ping...
Its the same as standing on the mount.

I can't tell you what the person in the screenshot was doing because I didn't talk to them, but I know for a fact players can trigger this and it can appear on their screen as it does on mine.

Edit:

In this video at 3:20, you can see an example of a player triggering this intentionally. I knew this player and they had friends who could do it as well. One in particular would show off by contorting their character model in weird ways while floating. I don't know how they did it.

I can't tell you how this work for us but wife and me it often happening. Dunno, for example travel through wayshrine, jump and look at friend list and bam floating like that when we have ping 200+

davidtk · February 27

There are some weird thing happening even when you just doing some dance emotes, character simply turns around at the waist with the legs still in one direction and floating. I think that is dunmer male dance.

davidtk · February 27

And this floating character I see all the time I've been playing this game for years. This is nothing new.

davidtk · February 27

Desiato wrote: »

davidtk wrote: »

Desiato wrote: »

Theignson wrote: »

Desiato wrote: »

I think what the OP is referring to is players triggering this intentionally, which is certainly a thing.

Yes exactly. Obviously most of these players don't PvP and have no clue what I'm talking baout. So does anyone know exactly how they trigger it intentionally? It is "not" normal game physics.

Is this what you're referring to?

I didn't capture this player in motion. They are floating. I've known players who can do this at will, but I don't know how. It's not just a Cyrodiil thing.

It's also possible to contort the model into ridiculous poses.

This is server <-> client desync I think, nothing special with larger ping...
Its the same as standing on the mount.

I can't tell you what the person in the screenshot was doing because I didn't talk to them, but I know for a fact players can trigger this and it can appear on their screen as it does on mine.

Edit:

In this video at 3:20, you can see an example of a player triggering this intentionally. I knew this player and they had friends who could do it as well. One in particular would show off by contorting their character model in weird ways while floating. I don't know how they did it.

FOUR years old screenshot from Grand Topal Hideaway. Friend just jumping around when he got some lags and then freeze in the air like that, he could use all mementos, emotes and other thing like friend list until he moved. As I said, exactly same problem as standing on the mount when you moving (and that ZoS decided to keep for RP reasons, wth?)
@ZOS_Kevin This one in particular floating in the air seems to me like a witch hunt, because it happens all the time to everyone...
This screen is four years old and we just messing around that island at birthday party. And when you then watch that characters move, you will see laaaags. So why punish ppl for bad server communication...

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO · February 27

@ZOS_Kevin please can you encourage support to be somewhat considerate of servers showing different things to players based on latency. A friend of mine was banned for 2 weeks when the meteor bug used to show people stuck high up in the air but he was running around perfectly normally on his screen.
(was a perma but luckily he had a vod of his entire gameplay to prove himself innocent)

By all means they should investigate any report but equally these types of bug do happen rather often especially in cyrodiil lag. (I don't know and haven't see anything like that recently and @Theignson has played for a while so likely knows about the pre-existing issues so might not be reporting that)

Sluggy · February 27

MasterSpatula wrote: »

You throw yourself at the ground and miss. Doesn't anyone read Douglas Adams anymore?

Yes, but these days we just call it "orbiting"

Mr_Friendly · February 27

From November 2024 somewhere in GH

Soarora · February 27

I’ve had some weird collision stuff before where I’m infinitely floating or (accidentally) been ricocheted into the air so high I was afraid of being banned for flyhacks. I don’t think I can move around floating though, more just the game trying to make me fall into a place I can’t fit into?
I have also seen people move around while dead…

TheSpunkyLobster · February 28

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »

@ZOS_Kevin please can you encourage support to be somewhat considerate of servers showing different things to players based on latency. A friend of mine was banned for 2 weeks when the meteor bug used to show people stuck high up in the air but he was running around perfectly normally on his screen.
(was a perma but luckily he had a vod of his entire gameplay to prove himself innocent)

By all means they should investigate any report but equally these types of bug do happen rather often especially in cyrodiil lag. (I don't know and haven't see anything like that recently and @Theignson has played for a while so likely knows about the pre-existing issues so might not be reporting that)

This still happens all the time with knockups and knockbacks in cyrodill. Comets, dragon leaps, the scribe knockback all cause this to happen.

katanagirl1 · February 28

The only time I experienced anything like that was when I was in the Haldain’s Logging delve in West Weald and tried to jump down from the boss level to the area below and got stuck in a sliding animation. I had to port to a house to get out of it.

LadyGP · February 28

Desyncs "rollback" happens all the time. Usually triggered by things that yeet you into the air like rune, leap, etc.

Dragonnord · February 28

No one can do that at will. It's because of bugs, desync, lag and loading screens.

I've seen all of those situations:

- Players floating while dead (bug - happened to friends/guild mates and I keep seeing that from time to time.)

- Players moving on the ground while dead (bug - happened to me.)

- Players idle floating in the air because of lag spike or because of player got sudden loading screen (happened to me too and guild mates were seeing me just like in pictures above in comments #20 and #26.)

Elvenheart · February 28

katanagirl1 wrote: »

The only time I experienced anything like that was when I was in the Haldain’s Logging delve in West Weald and tried to jump down from the boss level to the area below and got stuck in a sliding animation. I had to port to a house to get out of it.

That happened to me too once in that exact same spot.