What? That's ridiculous. The fact that there's no GCD in ESO makes it so the appropriate action is to spam the buttons. Ex: When I'm crystal shard spamming on my sorc if I wait for the ability to finish before hitting Cyrstal shards again my DPS is halved. If you're not queuing up actions in ESO by spamming actions you're handicapping yourself.
Crystal shards has a cast time and an animation timed to coincide to with that cast time. If you are spamming that ability, what difference does it make if you press the key for it during the current cast or waiting until the cast ends? Either way, it doesn't start casting again until the cast time is over.
I try to avoid jumping to conclusions and assuming how I think something should function is how it was actually designed and coded to function.
You can agree though: Pressing your key more than once and it not doing anything is kinda shitty right?
The disconnect is that it doesn't make sense for it to function the way it does now. For a weapon swap not to happen then fire off 3 plus times with no delay is an obvious sign of something fubar. Either way you have yourself a splended weekend.
It's because the hero engine modularization forces abilities to do a server check first before it fires. So if the server is shitting itself, it's just going to spaghetti all your abilities after it gets done wiping it's ass.
Sure. The times I have noticed that happening to me was when server lag was slamming everyone. Under normal lag free situations when I press a key something always happens and same for weapon swap.
The weapon swap self-fuck only really happens in the laggy situation you mentioned above. But it's amplified by being pissed as hell and hulk punching your keyboard to get your other weapon out.
I can only assume the implementation doesn't match the design nor the requirements.
From my experience that problem is totally independent of the weapon switching, and happens at seemingly random times. One time I got thrown across the world into kingdom come and after I hit the zone wall a mile in the air I got DC'd for input limit.
Agreed, it's related to the server stutters though, or spamming E on an instance door when the loading servers are trying to create an instance for you.
Honest question. What is the point of spamming keys in MMOs with global cooldowns?
LOL, that reminds me a few years back...and by that I mean a very long time ago, I was playing Unreal Tournament and the game crashed and I got the following error. "Excessive Clicking".
Because of ability queuing, instead of having ~0.4s of "human lag" (aka time for your eyes to see action, process and tell fingers to do some stuff) you just spam buttons like a mad cunt to queue them instantly.
I have never tried chain casting like that but will go check out the behavior this weekend and see if I can replicate the weapon swap delay problem.