Heavy attacks auto canceling

LunaFlora · May 6

I've had that happen occasionally, not sure when it started for me but it's especially frustrating in dungeons and the Infinite Archive

Genfe · May 6

They don’t care

dark_hunterxmg · May 6

I've been told that it's on the list of things for the team to address, but no word on when to expect a fix.

Orbital78 · May 6

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/668300/marauder-gothmau-is-bugged-with-companions#lates has been on the list too for 6 months or more now. So expect 6+ months since it doesn't involve the crown store directly.

dark_hunterxmg · May 20

It's getting worse. Somehow it's getting worse to try and do heavy attacks. I played in Cyrodiil yesterday for about 2 hours and this bug occured at least 30 times.

JaxontheUnfortunate · May 22

Yeah it’s can be so bad that it’s always a surprise when they actually work.

Sarannah · May 22

Haven't had any issues, and I heavy attack a lot.

Have you guys tried replacing your mouse? If the mouse button does not click when clicking it, it means the spring is broken, and it will auto-release the button even if you keep pressing it. This can even be the case if it does click. This has happened to me in the past a few times, especially when using heavy click/buttonsmashing games like ARPG's or MMO's, this is bound to happen at some point.

A replacement mouse isn't expensive, luckily.

PS: In the video posted on the first page, you can also see the mouse double click instead of holding the button. As after the 'full' heavy attack, it swings again. And sometimes it just double swings, instead of the heavy attack.

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blktauna · May 22

well I'm holding the button down and nothing happens about half the time. Sometimes I have to do a roll and even then it won't always start up again.

dark_hunterxmg · May 29

blktauna wrote: »

well I'm holding the button down and nothing happens about half the time. Sometimes I have to do a roll and even then it won't always start up again.

It feels like that a lot for me too. I used to be able to at least get the first attack to go off, but lately the first one has had trouble working occasionally. I was taking an enemy resource by myself in Cyrodiil and it was a nightmare trying to do heavy attacks. Between the attacks stopping after every two, or not starting at all, or the guards bashing and stunning(because they know if you hold attack 0.00002s longer), I nearly just left it. In the time I was at that resource I had my heavy attacks stop 10 times or more. I even tried when then I was just turning the flag with no enemies around and they still stopped on their own.

dark_hunterxmg · June 5

My experience post-update has shown an improvement in heavy attack consistency, but the issue is still there. Attacks will still cancel randomly. It also feels like there has been a change in how melee heavy attacks target enemies. They seem to miss more often. If I queue a ranged heavy attack before targeting an enemy, the attack will still connect, but the same is not necessarily true for a melee heavy attack.

dark_hunterxmg · June 7

Correction. Heavy attacks are not any better. They still stop just as often. After playing for some time in different locations I am seeing the same behavior.

dark_hunterxmg · June 12

Ticket #250607-001351 was submitted for this bug so that the team knows the issue still exists after U46.

Here are a couple of videos showing the issue. The time stamps are in the descriptions.

https://youtu.be/K7J_3jwPcqk?si=H84LscjyylO7kkwq

https://youtu.be/NoiwO1PiI00?si=9-26lOrHhPB1rKyF

blktauna · June 12

Seems worse for me
it take 2 or 3 tries to get it going. Not fun in pvp

dark_hunterxmg · June 12

These were a mild demonstration. It gets worse. It has a tendency to line up with the other player just about to go down and my attacks stop or miss with them right in front of me. Weird how that happens.

dark_hunterxmg · June 13

I was able to take this video showing light and heavy attacks not working at all when trying to attack at a certain angle. I wonder if this is a the cause of the usual heavy attack problem. In the video I am trying to light and heavy attack only.

https://youtu.be/QhUk5f6oHmo?si=O9d-F2uBu6_xsgn7

dark_hunterxmg · June 19

Here is a perfect example of both issues. At 00:03 my first attack does no damage, but the second one does. At 00:23 I am still holding the attack command, but nothing is happening.

https://youtu.be/X0YYVl8MrZY?si=SuGtAOKxzuQ63l_p

dark_hunterxmg · June 22

@ZOS_Kevin, @ZOS_BrianWheeler can you provide and update on the progress and a time line for fixing this bug?

dark_hunterxmg · June 30

Would posting more videos even be helpful? I have over a dozen that show these problems occurring over and over again. Heavy attacks doing no damage, not connecting to the target, stopping for no reason, not starting when called for. It is barely playable sometimes.

dark_hunterxmg · July 4

Tonight is the worst that heavy attacks have ever felt. Over a 3 hour period I experienced 40+ instances of attacks stopping, not starting, missing for no reason, or hitting with zero damage.

blktauna · July 4

I keep getting stuck in the preparing to heavy attack animation. it takes a bunch of rolls to get out of it. Really annoying

dark_hunterxmg · July 19

@ZOS_Kevin , this needs a higher priority to get fixed. We can't really play this game the way we want to when heavy attacks don't work a significant portion of the time. Heavy attacks are essentially RNG at this point. Maybe it'll hit, maybe it won't, maybe it'll hit and do no damage, maybe it won't even start at all and I'll just stand there.

craigbartlettb16_ESO · November 1

Not sure if this had already been noticed by the community, but my friend has this bug and we discovered that it only happens with her Lightning staff, the Fire staff is working as intended. Physical hardware has been ruled out after swapping both keyboard and mouse and also testing with the laptop's built-in kb and touchpad.

The bug was appearing on Weapon Slot 1 (WS1) with the Lightning staff and would show the character's stance as preparing to release a heavy attack no matter how long she held the left mouse button (LMB).
Letting go of the LMB just returned the character's stance to the normal ready state. There is no impact on normal attacks unless she held the LMB for more than a fraction of a second, in which case the attack would fail to go off.

When swapping to Weapon Slot 2 (WS2), the Fire staff, there was no disruption to attacks and both normal and heavy attacks would activate properly regardless of how long LMB was pressed.

By swapping the Fire staff into WS1 and the Lightning staff into WS2, attacks still worked normally for the Fire staff and still failed to respond appropriately for the Lightning staff.

I should also mention that this bug is intermittent, with her heavy attacks working properly maybe 2-3 times in a boss fight rather than on demand when Lightning staff was equipped in either weapon slot and attacks not being affected at all when using the Fire staff in either slot.

Aside from stating that she's using a Sorc with one class swapped with NB, I can't give much more info - I don't remember what set I crafted for her to use and have no idea which skills she has on each bar.

Rebooting · November 1

Same issue here, my Heavy Attacks lightning staff suddenly stops and I sit there idle, I have to re-engage the fight or I just stand there doing nothing.

StihlReign · November 2

craigbartlettb16_ESO wrote: »

Not sure if this had already been noticed by the community, but my friend has this bug and we discovered that it only happens with her Lightning staff, the Fire staff is working as intended. Physical hardware has been ruled out after swapping both keyboard and mouse and also testing with the laptop's built-in kb and touchpad.

The bug was appearing on Weapon Slot 1 (WS1) with the Lightning staff and would show the character's stance as preparing to release a heavy attack no matter how long she held the left mouse button (LMB).
Letting go of the LMB just returned the character's stance to the normal ready state. There is no impact on normal attacks unless she held the LMB for more than a fraction of a second, in which case the attack would fail to go off.

When swapping to Weapon Slot 2 (WS2), the Fire staff, there was no disruption to attacks and both normal and heavy attacks would activate properly regardless of how long LMB was pressed.

By swapping the Fire staff into WS1 and the Lightning staff into WS2, attacks still worked normally for the Fire staff and still failed to respond appropriately for the Lightning staff.

I should also mention that this bug is intermittent, with her heavy attacks working properly maybe 2-3 times in a boss fight rather than on demand when Lightning staff was equipped in either weapon slot and attacks not being affected at all when using the Fire staff in either slot.

Aside from stating that she's using a Sorc with one class swapped with NB, I can't give much more info - I don't remember what set I crafted for her to use and have no idea which skills she has on each bar.

This is very similar to what it feels like now. If there was a fix, I hope they bring it back. The staffs feel broken since the last update and we've had a (documented) long painful history with the lightning staff before it got to a decent place. Might be better overall, and easier to maintain and diagnose, if all staffs had channel vs just resto and lightning (or remove resto from the channel pool altogether since it has it's own issues).