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Szaby59's avatar
7 years ago

Block randomly stops working

Product: Star Wars Battlefront II
Platform:PC
What is your issue related to? General
Summarize your bug Blocking (lightsaber and Yoda's force block) randomly stops working
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? Szaby59
How 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 Assault
What 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 Europe
AMD or Nvidia Model Number

Video: 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".

13 Replies

  • NavarDerth's avatar
    NavarDerth
    7 years ago

    @RogueZeroRendar No, the block was not working. I could not block anything, I took damage from Palpatine whenever I got hit and you can notice that my stamina did drain only when I attacked, not when I tried to block incoming attacks. And this was not the only case of it happening, it's just the only one I captured on video. I got this bug with other heroes as well.

  • @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.

  • NavarDerth's avatar
    NavarDerth
    7 years ago

    @RogueZeroRendar 

    Got the bug again yesterday. I was holding block when he attacked. Before I started recording I asked him to wait (as seen in the chat) and depleted my stamina again, the rest is in the video.

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