sabresandiego Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 (edited) Pressing a hotkey repeatedly often causes abilities to stutter, or simply not work. This is more noticeable with melee classes, especially jedi knight or sith warrior. The animation will replay itself a few times, then stop altogether or continue through. It happens most often in pvp where things are hectic and keys are pressed more rapidly. Activating multiple abilities which are off the global cooldown at the same time also often results in several abilities not being activated. Channeled abilities also sometimes channel without doing any damage or their intended effect (usually if you use them right after you stop moving). In addition, trying to move immediately after summoning your mount causes you to dismount. I believe that all these issues are related to some bug or horrible design flaw in the key input or animation coding. These bugs make playing at high speed (such as in pvp) quite frustrating, especially for melee classes. Edited December 24, 2011 by sabresandiego Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoah Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Yes This is my biggest complaint about the game right now it doesn't feel fluid sound animations don't play sometimes, all of this is very important to melee pvp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakamama Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 true story. specilay the channeling melee skills ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabresandiego Posted December 21, 2011 Author Share Posted December 21, 2011 Its very easy to recreate this bug. Simply spam whatever hotkey is tied to a skill. The really annoying part of this bug is that sometimes the ability does not go off at all. You just get a few stutters then nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tokosan Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Unfortunately this is simply not something they are going to be able to patch or fix within any sort of reasonable timeframe. I will not be subscribing to this game, the PvP system is simply bad. A game that came out in 2011 should not be worse than a certain game that was released in 2004. WoW's PvP, however unbalanced and "grinding" it was, it had one thing going for it: fluidity of controls. They got it right in WoW. When i push a button in wow, that action happens. In SW:tor, it takes a couple seconds, or the animation doesn't happen, or i get an error message saying that i am not behind them or i am out of range. Also, super long GCD, ***? Come on bioware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MajorVan Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Happens with the sniper too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herguy Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 (edited) I have to admit the game was great and fun for the early access week until I started playing all the classes and noticing these bugs, this one the OP has mentioned also noticed it today being I rolled a Sith Warrior and am now lvl 20 and doing some PvP. NONE of my abilities work UNLESS I stop moving and then wait and hit the key. I cannot hit abilities in chains AT ALL because they just wont go off. This is a HUGE bug and needs to be fixed right away. I feel Like I have wasted tones of time leveling this character.. another slap in the face by BW. Edited December 22, 2011 by Herguy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caeliux Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 (edited) UI needs fixed, and I also have same problem as well. I sometimes for some reason come unlocked and throw away a move, thing is it was locked. Think a repeat of a move so long unsticks it, then again I think its a glitch or a bug in the interface system when it comes to the action bars. It will be fixed with time, we have to be patient. Edited December 22, 2011 by Caeliux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcorio Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 another slap in the face by BW. Yeah, Bioware just sat around the office for the last 6 years dreaming up of ways to piss you off... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fyrne Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 (edited) +1 Controls need major improvements, otherwise it's just another frustrating few months with a class that requires perfect control, getting ***** by the UI until I just quit. As a Juggernaut ..you're just boned currently if you have more than 10 APM. Players who just stand still - clicking their abilities - are probably faring better than I am right now. Edited December 22, 2011 by Fyrne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grathom Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Unfortunately this is simply not something they are going to be able to patch or fix within any sort of reasonable timeframe. I will not be subscribing to this game, the PvP system is simply bad. A game that came out in 2011 should not be worse than a certain game that was released in 2004. WoW's PvP, however unbalanced and "grinding" it was, it had one thing going for it: fluidity of controls. They got it right in WoW. When i push a button in wow, that action happens. In SW:tor, it takes a couple seconds, or the animation doesn't happen, or i get an error message saying that i am not behind them or i am out of range. Also, super long GCD, ***? Come on bioware. I think you play MMORPG's solely for PVP, which is a mistake. However I do agree that this bug is a huge PITA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIquidSnaked Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 I agree completely, in wow a warior with a full rage bar could literally destroy anything by chaining attacks, now a Sith warrior has to wait for GCD's plus these little bugs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahhmyface Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 I have zero issues with UI responsiveness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herguy Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Yeah, Bioware just sat around the office for the last 6 years dreaming up of ways to piss you off... No, they just sat around in the office doing voice overs while they forgot about the rest of the game.. you know, making sure the game functions properly.. Hell even the voice overs are broken still on some quests. Voice overs Broken UI Broken PvP Broken Ability to Pick Warzones Not implemented Companion Missions completing and popping a window open in PvP and also closing all other windows that you have open Repeated abilities within class and advanced class.. Sith Warrior gets a saber throw and so does the Jugger :/ so im training 2 of the same skills. Mini map not showing quest objectives, you have to open and close the world map to get them to show after turning in a quest or completing an objective. the damn GCD is too damn long CC lasts waaay to long This list goes on and on, and they were all known in Beta but BW ignored them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabresandiego Posted December 22, 2011 Author Share Posted December 22, 2011 I have zero issues with UI responsiveness. You are not pressing your hotkeys very rapidly then. Or you somehow got very lucky. This bug is game breaking and very common. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herguy Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 I have zero issues with UI responsiveness. you are probably lagging then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bdaw Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Pressing a hotkey repeatedly often causes abilities to stutter, or simply not work. This is more noticeable with melee classes, especially jedi knight or sith warrior. The animation will replay itself a few times, then stop altogether or continue through. It happens most often in pvp where things are hectic and keys are pressed more rapidly. This bug makes playing a melee character extremely annoying. Try dropping the "move queue" in your preferences to zero. This will help a little, but the lag will still be there, this is a huge problem that i'm seeing all over the forums. But BW refuses to comment on it. Which, at least to me, means they have no idea what to do about it or just don't care as the PvE community is happy. And don't worry it makes melee or ranged annoying. And don't even bother trying a healer lol. And to people looking to hate, I know it's only been officialy out for not even 2 whole days, I'm not saying they need to fix every bug and glitch immediately, but acknowledgment that a problem exists would be nice, as I've seen them acknowledging individual problems for. You'd think one that has a good chunk of your players behind it would also be worthy of some attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redcheat Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 As OP said. I find this very annoying when tanking with my shadow. Screws with my mind at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naniyo Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 (edited) I have to admit the game was great and fun for the early access week until I started playing all the classes and noticing these bugs, this one the OP has mentioned also noticed it today being I rolled a Sith Warrior and am now lvl 20 and doing some PvP. NONE of my abilities work UNLESS I stop moving and then wait and hit the key. I cannot hit abilities in chains AT ALL because they just wont go off. This is a HUGE bug and needs to be fixed right away. I feel Like I have wasted tones of time leveling this character.. another slap in the face by BW. NONE of my abilities work UNLESS I stop moving and then wait and hit the key. ^^ yup that somes it up for me too as an experience in pvp zones, even hotkeyed skills are unresponsive , mouse5 button for "melee ability" click click click, o wait stop click yep now it works or they do nothing and go on a refresh , really annoying @s hell. swtor ui is so bad...no words for it. 2nd worse ui in an mmo to date with final fantasy 14 being nr 1 that bad? yep unfortunate but true... Edited December 22, 2011 by naniyo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdmiralOnasi Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Happens with the scoundrel's melee abilities. There have been many times in warzones where I'm in position to do a back blast, pistol whip, kick, or punch and it just doesn't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fubbles Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Abilities not working is a huge issue for me and must be fixed soon. I enjoy this game and want to play it, however I will not be subscribing past the free month if this issue is not resolved soon. It is completely unacceptable for me to not be able to rely on "trying" to use abilities and having them fail to activate threw no fault of my own. BIOWARE FIX THIS!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabresandiego Posted December 22, 2011 Author Share Posted December 22, 2011 We need to keep this thread on top until the issue is fixed. Unresponsive controls are the biggest flaw in the game right now, especially in pvp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandongs Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Turn the ability que to 0.0 in the preferences. Removes it all together and allows for canceling to get quick cc or interrupts. Gcd should go down to 1sec IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsjadoful Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 my que time is 0.0 and i still often get this stuttering issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sithhits Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 BUMP PvP is a joke, pressin keys is like Lottery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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