Cancel Bug

[reef osprey]

Description
-You will be unable to cancel any normally-cancellable animations (attacks and emotes). This bug lasts for exactly 1 attack. For example, you can test if your next attack will be uncancellable by emoting first. If you can't cancel your emote animation, your next attack will be uncancellable as well. Once you input then finish any attack, you will be able to cancel as normal.

Reproduction Steps
-Unclear. But if you use attack-cancels a lot, you should have no trouble encountering this very frequent bug several times within an hour session. I imagine the more fights you survive in 1 life, the higher the odds of encountering the bug.

Result

• being unable to cancel an animation by using the Cancel input (even if mashing the input)

Reproduce Rate

• Several times per hour, hard to know just how frequent by nature of the bug (as you only know you're suffering the bug if you attempt to cancel an attack).

Region

• NA West

Platform

• PC: EGS

[crude pecan]

I do cancels in duels semi frequently with overhears. Never encountered this. Any particular weapon that you noticed has this problem maybe?

[reef osprey]

every weapon.

[slim hatch]

Oh yeah I get this all the time

[slim hatch]

I've noticed that sometimes after resupplying this occurs! I use emotes/ voicelines ALOT so maybe it occurs if using emotes right after resupplying?

[reef osprey]

Earlier today I got the cancel bug shortly after spawning. So assuming the bug doesn't carry over from a death, and assuming you can't spawn under the effect of the bug, the cause of the bug is something that happened in the short time between when i spawned and when I got the bug.

And in that timeframe, the only thing that happened was a knight kicked me (wasn't blocking so didn't stun me), and i swung an overhead at the knight and killed him. After that, I couldn't cancel my next attack. Maybe it has something to do with the knockback effect of getting kicked/getting countered/blocking a special attack or tackle.

[last pivot]

Do you have video footage of this? May help in better understanding the problem when we attempt to reproduce internally.

OBS also has input overlay for those who want to share inputs as well (this is extremely helpful when troubleshooting) - https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/input-overlay.552/

[vestal oyster]

This happens to me a lot as well, always seem to miss or forget to get footage on it. Need to set up input overlay to figure it out, agree it's hard to tell exactly what causes it but using cancels and emotes often seems to get you there

[slim hatch]

Scratch this. It happens very randomly. I often cancel the animations of emotes (so Im always battle ready and don't have to get the input delay from emoting) and doing that alot seem to definitely contribute to this bug happening

[hearty estuary]

I don't quite understand what's being said here. Is it like when you try to cancel an emote with block, the block doesn't seem to register even if the UI and animation makes it look like you're blocking? That's an issue I've been having.

[slim hatch]

No, this bug when present simply, somehow completely removes the ability to cancel an attack whatsover. (Only once, afterwards you can cancel like normal. But it happens quite often for me)

[hearty estuary]

I'm guessing your connection and frame rate is stable when this happens.

[slim hatch]

Yes! And as Ryan mentioned, even mashing your cancel button wont help, it simply wont work