Product: Star Wars Battlefront IIPlatform:PCWhat is your issue related to? GeneralSummarize your bug Blocking (lightsaber and Yoda's force block) randomly stops workingWhat is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? Szaby59How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)Can you tell us the date (MM/DD/YYYY) that you saw the bug?What time did you see the bug? (HH:MM AM/PM)In what game mode did the bug occur? Galactic AssaultWhat is your time zone?Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? I don't know an exact method to reproduce it, but other heroes with stuns and force powers (Vader's force choke) seems to affect it, because it's common in Heroes vs Villains too. When it happens there is a workaround to fix it: keep swinging until the stamina is depleted and once it recovers, blocking works again. In most cases there is not enough time to do this "procedure" and the character will die.What happens when the bug occurs? Blaster shots, force powers are not blocked, stamina is drained, but blocking doesn't work - not even the blocking animation is happening.What do you expect to see?Please select your region EuropeAMD or Nvidia Model NumberVideo: Yoda's stamina bar is active (that's how you can tell I'm trying to block), but his hands are not glowing, later you can see the same and the enemy just shoots through my "block".

This is again another report about the BUG I exposed fully in April, and which still didn't get any official response: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Disabled-Block-BUG/m-p/6762835#M13381It affects all Saber users, except Maul (because he can't block). It happens due to unknown reasons, but staggering/immobilizing moves seem to be strongly related to be the cause of the BUG.This is the video I did to report it back in April:Then again in April I showed how to reproduce this BUG on purpose on Arcade Splitscreen using Vader's Choke Half Effect BUG (which is reported and detailed here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Half-Effect-BUG-Maul-s-Choke-Hold-Kylo-s-Freeze-Vader-s-Choke/m-p/7288947#M20762 )It's extensively reported, it's a very old BUG, and now it's happening a lot more then usual. I'd rather focus efforts on that thread that compiles info on this BUG since April, then having many new reports here and there because now it's happening more then ever.And to finish this, whenever this BUG happens to Rey, it may cause yet another BUG, which at least is just a visual one, reported here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Rey-s-Dash-Strike-Visual-BUG/m-p/7288862#M20756

Me and my friends have noticed in HvV that the block has been ridiculously inconsistent since the Dooku release. Some characters can block more completely and for MUCH much longer than they should be able, but in another game, they can't block anything. It's always been buggy, as another reply documents so well, but I do think it has been worse these last few weeks.

With yesterday's Capital supremacy update, this bug has "evolved".Now Yoda looks like he's blocking, but the stamina is not drained and the shots are not blocked either:

@Szaby59 It may be related, but it isn't a BUG that substituted the other, as it already existed before the previous Block BUG had been (seemingly) fixed. And it's reported in the link I provided.@NavarDerth This one you shared isn't exactly a Block BUG as it's an animation BUG. Block works fine, but the animation doesn't. I also experienced this BUG, but as it's just an animation BUG, I didn't haste to make a report about it. Let me share with you a gif that's in my signature in the main forum, which shows this BUG (also prior to the Capital Supremacy Update):

@NavarDerth Palpatine is known to pass through blocks with his weird lightning mechanics, especially the skill+attack combos as the skill creates the gap in your block he needs to hit you.In the beginning of the video, just before you try the Deplete Stamina Method, we can't be sure of what you're doing unfortunately. It reminds me the Disabled Block BUG before they introduced stamina cost to sustain blocking. Back then it was hard to show the BUG as there was little to no visual indication of it happening. But since they removed the stamina cost for sustaining block again in the CS Update, block does trigger the stamina bar to become visible anyway, even though it doesn't deplete just by sustaining the block. This makes it even weirder, so we're unfotunately left with your word for it. Don't take me wrong, I think you may be right there, but I'll need to experience it myself to be sure, and I didn't trigger this BUG once since the latest update.However, after you deplete your stamina, it becomes very clear you get the BUG shown in my GIF. You do block, the blocking animation doesn't trigger, your stamina bar does appear, you do block some hits successfully, your stamina does decay aproppriately after each successful block. So there's no denying you got the BUG I showed here. If you did get a new version of the Disabled Block BUG in the first few seconds of the video, that's another matter, and we're unfortunately left with no proofs but your word for it.I'll keep a close eye on this issue. I believe by Sunday I'll be able to do some testing in Arcade Splitscreen, and then I'll try the Choke Method to trigger the Disabled Block BUG that I discovered back in April 2018, which has never failed to trigger the BUG throughout all this time. I'll report back with my findings then.

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13 Replies

EA_Ataashi
EA Staff (Retired)
7 years ago
Hey @Szaby59

Thanks for the report! 🙂 I will pass it to our specialists.

/Ataashi
CaptPengu1n
7 years ago
Happens on xbox one as well.
Full stamina then try and block and take full damage and suddenly no stamina.
RogueZeroRendar
7 years ago
This is again another report about the BUG I exposed fully in April, and which still didn't get any official response: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Disabled-Block-BUG/m-p/6762835#M13381
It affects all Saber users, except Maul (because he can't block). It happens due to unknown reasons, but staggering/immobilizing moves seem to be strongly related to be the cause of the BUG.
This is the video I did to report it back in April:

Then again in April I showed how to reproduce this BUG on purpose on Arcade Splitscreen using Vader's Choke Half Effect BUG (which is reported and detailed here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Half-Effect-BUG-Maul-s-Choke-Hold-Kylo-s-Freeze-Vader-s-Choke/m-p/7288947#M20762 )

It's extensively reported, it's a very old BUG, and now it's happening a lot more then usual. I'd rather focus efforts on that thread that compiles info on this BUG since April, then having many new reports here and there because now it's happening more then ever.
And to finish this, whenever this BUG happens to Rey, it may cause yet another BUG, which at least is just a visual one, reported here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Rey-s-Dash-Strike-Visual-BUG/m-p/7288862#M20756
mcastorina
7 years ago
I have noticed this in every game mode. Full stamina Force user will not raise lightsaber and cannot block blasters or lightsabers. This seems to happen when playing fast, attacking, blocking and using force powers frequently. After dying this problem goes away. It happens at least twice in HvV every round. I have noticed it with Vader, Yoda, Luke, Kenobi and Rey
Alliecat7803
7 years ago
Me and my friends have noticed in HvV that the block has been ridiculously inconsistent since the Dooku release. Some characters can block more completely and for MUCH much longer than they should be able, but in another game, they can't block anything. It's always been buggy, as another reply documents so well, but I do think it has been worse these last few weeks.
Szaby59
7 years ago
With yesterday's Capital supremacy update, this bug has "evolved".
Now Yoda looks like he's blocking, but the stamina is not drained and the shots are not blocked either:
RogueZeroRendar
7 years ago
Again, this is a duplicate report of the one I opened back in April and which has been where all people complaining about the Disabled Block BUG have been redirected to: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Disabled-Block-BUG-Block-Stops-Working-No-Block-Animation/m-p/6762835#M13381
But then this BUG you mention in your last reply just above @Szaby59 is neither new, nor an evolution of the Disabled Block BUG. This BUG of actually blocking and shots not being reflected (and in Yoda's case not being absorbed), has already been posted before on this report: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Damage-goes-through-saber-blocks/m-p/7595961#M21813
I suggest trying to put evidence on the original reports of such bugs, instead of duplicating reports.
And yes I already experienced this BUG in the new update, however I haven't experienced the Disabled Block BUG yet, I'm getting hopeful it has finally been fixed.
Szaby59
7 years ago
Well I think it's related to that bug.
And another player had the a similar thing with Dooku where he didn't block the lightsaber hits: https://nm.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/b6fl4e/lightsaber_combat_improvements/
Animation showed, stamina bar shows there is enough to block but nothing is blocked.
Anyway blocking issues are definitely not fixed.
NavarDerth
7 years ago
Can confirm Block Bug is still present after CS update. Seen several players confirm it happens to them as well. Video taken few hours after CS update.
https://youtu.be/gpZ3D-jGEyk
RogueZeroRendar
7 years ago
@Szaby59
It may be related, but it isn't a BUG that substituted the other, as it already existed before the previous Block BUG had been (seemingly) fixed. And it's reported in the link I provided.
@NavarDerth
This one you shared isn't exactly a Block BUG as it's an animation BUG. Block works fine, but the animation doesn't. I also experienced this BUG, but as it's just an animation BUG, I didn't haste to make a report about it. Let me share with you a gif that's in my signature in the main forum, which shows this BUG (also prior to the Capital Supremacy Update):