[Known]Charged attack and locked glyph charging stopping prematurely

11/7/2017 5:26 PM
Title: Charged attack and locked glyph charging stopping prematurely
Reproduction Rate: 50%
Blocker? No
Details:
Charged attack and locked glyph are stopping prematurely - usuallly around the 25% to 35% mark.

Normally - when you hold down free attack (to charge), or a locked glyph (to charge) - it progresses smoothly from 0 to 100% (fully charged).

Now - sometimes the charge won't start (say 10% of the time).

When it does start, around 25-50% of the time, the glyph stops charging at around 25%, without the glyph being fired, no fizzle - the charging bar just disappears.

For the charged attack - it's particularly noticeable if you move around and try to charge an attack - the charging just fails a certain % of the time (failure to start charging, or failing without notice 25% of the way through the charge).

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Lock skills on your bar - e.g. Fortify Defense, Glancing Blow
2) Hold down key to charge skill
3) Hold down the free attack to charge an attack
4) Attack mob repeatedly with charged attack (e.g. Torc'Dawl, Reaper)

5) Observe that a certain portion of the time
- the skill fails to charge (with a red border around the skill)
- the charging bar disappears without notice 25% of the way through charging

User Specs:
OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz (12) System RAM: 32686
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 GPU RAM: 4058
SotA.EarlyAccess.QA.Win.64.583.Date.11.07.17
Area: Novia_R3_Forest01_Road
Area Display Name: North Midmaer Way
Loc: (-142.9, 45.3, -161.6)
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this is happening to me with a 28 card deck with ring of fire locked, can NEVER get to 5 stacks..... keeps resetting depending on with card is drawn

This is definatly a BLOCKER and makes the game unplayable.

 

This looks like a break that appeared in response to a recent change to avoid broken charging when entering water. Now whenever an attack animation ends and returns to combat idle (occurs for either free attack or auto attack), any existing charge ends prematurely. We'll fix this ASAP.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Bug ID: 52841

 

i thought the charged attacks were being broken due to taking damage... as they seemed to work if you arent being hit.

 

This bug should be fixed on QA now

 

@Lexie

Actually - looks like this issue is present in QA build 592. =(

Just went and tried - charged attacks stopping prematurely, etc.

 

Could this be related to the framerate issue where clicks dont register on low framerates? I have this issue too sometimes.