Instant ability got eaten bug (Youtube video)

another video shows you how broken the battle system is....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NyIxyzrtaA


Bug reproduction method: Cast a GCD ability & any instant ability in high speed.

In this example, I cast Flash & Foresight,
As you can see, the Foresight buffer got eaten (ability cool down,but has no effect).


Edit:
I uploaded another video about this bug.this time I use mouse too,to demonstrate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3p4wMxSs28

because the first video also shows you another issue:'An ability "sometimes is ready, sometimes not" bug.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLRXFmWGBLQ


here is my previous video, about the infamous AOE lag issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg33BjzwLWw

happened to me once with Titan HM fight or flight buff got eaten up & cooled down i was like WTF

but we won the fight

Yes, I run into this issue all the time and it's annoying as a tank. It's worse for our scholars as it occurs often with Aetherflow which has often resulted in a wipe because of their dependency on Lustrate.

I would honestly fill out a formal bug report with this information since it is easily reproducible.

Lol @ FFXIV broken combat system

http://youtu.be/ripyJWGWNIo?t=11s

Working as intended; not a bug but a feature; player issue and not server issue; looking into it for 2.3; please be excited.

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Originally Posted by Ladon

Yes, I run into this issue all the time and it's annoying as a tank. It's worse for our scholars as it occurs often with Aetherflow which has often resulted in a wipe because of their dependency on Lustrate.

I would honestly fill out a formal bug report with this information since it is easily reproducible.

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Aetherflow is where it happens to me the most too, though I've had it happen a few times on blm, couldn't get umbral up, yet showed it appearing on me.

I've seen it happen on warrior with Bloodbath and Foresight. I wasn't aware this was a bug, I just thought I was missing something obvious.

Weird...

how come i never get that? Latency?

bump... .

have you tired zooming your camera all the way out? in most cases it fixes the abilities getting eaten

Happened to me a lot on scholar. Definitely player fail >.> SE should disregard and continue with their every other day fap parties... I mean EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE!

zoom out more

The fact that we have to resort to sarcasm to make jabs at yoship to hope for changes feels kinda depressing.

I wish november's live talk will focus on these issues instead of hyping up 2.1 some more. They've covered that enough already.

To me this seems like some kind of priority issue at the server end or else cooldowns are triggered client side without any confirmation response from the server (extremely silly if that's the case). In issue 1 the server gets the second ability request while processing the first so the second request gets dropped but cooldown is triggered BEFORE the ability so you still lose the cooldown despite the server erroring on the ability. Issue 2 is if cooldown is triggered client side. You click the ability and as long as it's available to use it resets cooldown regardless of response from the server. Either one should be fixable so here's hoping they have something in the works for 2.1 I can see where this could require a large amount of debug on the dev side which may be why it hasn't been hotfixed. It isn't easy to test issues tied to networking on a dev build of a game you're playing over LAN or even connected to a dev server at the datacenter since the server wouldn't be under load.

I'm sorry but I'm literally lol'ing at the "zoom your camera out more" replies.

That said, yeah...this is at it's worst when it happens with a skill with a tremendous cooldown. I never lag, really, never had latency issues, but this does happen to me. I'll click Perfect Balance, go to Snap Punch...it's still grey. I just blew my Perfect Balance on nothing. I just shrug and Dragon Kick, but it's annoying as hell. This is pretty rare of an occurrence though for me personally, maybe twice with PB, and about 4 or 5 times with IR/BFB since I've started in September.

Try swift casting a rez to find out swift cast didn't go off, but is now on CD.... good luck getting your rez now!

Swiftcast and Benediction. ;__; </3 So much.

Happened again with Bloodbath.

The nice part about bloodbath, vs some other buffs, is that you can easily directly see if just the icon isn't showing or if you actually didn't get the buff.

And indeed, I did not get the buff. I hit bloodbath and foresight and none of my damage was healing me.

Edit: Cross-posted to the bug report forum

I get this with blunt arrow on turn 2 all the time >.<

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Originally Posted by STARSBarry

have you tired zooming your camera all the way out? in most cases it fixes the abilities getting eaten

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And if all else fails, contact support between the hours of 9:00am and 9:01am, at which point everyone leaves early and all calls will be put on indefinite hold.

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Originally Posted by Gardes

The fact that we have to resort to sarcasm to make jabs at yoship to hope for changes feels kinda depressing.

I wish november's live talk will focus on these issues instead of hyping up 2.1 some more. They've covered that enough already.

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Agreed ; ; There really is a lot more quality of life issues, etc that need to be fixed :( This game atm is plagued by such silly things that they should be fixing...

This has to be fixed. Happnes on that triple-skill charge for SMN as well.

These issues are not going to be fixed. SE refuses to acknowledge the problem despite having video evidence and a mega-thread dedicated to the issue. We've been told to zoom out more for a specific encounter, which is an insult to the community and an outright diversion from the actual concern. The game play is not as crisp as it could be. In WoW/Rift/SWTOR/etc, if I'm pre-casting a big heal and strafe to interrupt when I see I don't need the heal, the cast is interrupted 100% of the time even if I interrupt the heal with fractions of a second left. In FFXIV, that is completely impossible to do 100% of the time because you can actually get a heal off even if you move with fractions of a second left. When I tell my character to do something, there should be immediate feedback, otherwise the gameplay feels disjointed and sloppy.

Yoshi P. needs to take a bit of his own advice and go play WoW for a year to figure out what proper client <-> server communication feels and looks like.

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Originally Posted by whilke

Try swift casting a rez to find out swift cast didn't go off, but is now on CD.... good luck getting your rez now!

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i find that what usually happens to me is i'll press swiftcast then hit resurrection... except i end up casting resurrection because the swiftcast buff shows up a second later

I reported this issue in bug report about 2 weeks after the game came out and it was moved to Duplicate Bug forum which means they're aware of it. They're just not addressing it.