Archived Post
09-03-2009, 09:07 PM
Just when I thought PvP couldn't be any more frustrating... a guy hit me with a hold, which no matter how fast I mashed my buttons never made any significant progress towards breaking free. (and that alone is enough of a problem, but... read on, it gets much worse)
So then I respawn, and... my character is still stuck in the "held" pose. And I can't move. There's no hold danger bar thing, no numbers come up when I mash buttons, and the only thing I can do is use powers that could normally be use while held. Which, unfortunately didn't do a thing to un-stick me.
/stuck doesn't work in the arena. Go figure. So then everyone starts telling me I need to do a /killme command.
Let me say right now, DO NOT EVER use the /killme command in PvP! It counts it as points for the opposing team, and in the case of the perma-held bug, does not fix it.
The only thing that relieved the problem was the instance change out of the arena after my shortsided team was slaughtered. "Coincidentally" by the same guy who hit me with the bugged hold. I mean, jeez, the guy had 14 kills and 0 deaths. You can bet I'm going to be paranoid about something like that...
About the only other piece of information I can offer that might be helpful to Cryptic's bug-squashing team is that I was trying to use Force Eruption at the time I was killed, while held. Wish I could remember exactly which hold it was... I think it was one of the supernatural ones. Maybe the darkness one?
So then I respawn, and... my character is still stuck in the "held" pose. And I can't move. There's no hold danger bar thing, no numbers come up when I mash buttons, and the only thing I can do is use powers that could normally be use while held. Which, unfortunately didn't do a thing to un-stick me.
/stuck doesn't work in the arena. Go figure. So then everyone starts telling me I need to do a /killme command.
Let me say right now, DO NOT EVER use the /killme command in PvP! It counts it as points for the opposing team, and in the case of the perma-held bug, does not fix it.
The only thing that relieved the problem was the instance change out of the arena after my shortsided team was slaughtered. "Coincidentally" by the same guy who hit me with the bugged hold. I mean, jeez, the guy had 14 kills and 0 deaths. You can bet I'm going to be paranoid about something like that...
About the only other piece of information I can offer that might be helpful to Cryptic's bug-squashing team is that I was trying to use Force Eruption at the time I was killed, while held. Wish I could remember exactly which hold it was... I think it was one of the supernatural ones. Maybe the darkness one?