Shield charging no longer works for me.


And I finally got this bug:



So now every time I enter combat I get permanently stuck in slow motion and nothing breaks it, not waiting, not talking to an NPC, or loading a new area, or waiting. I have to restart my console every time. So I've stopped doing combat completely, effectively removing 80% of the content I play in Skyrim. Add in that I can't complete 3 major quests and the entire Thieves Guild quest line because of bugs.


So when does this 60 dollar game come with 60 dollars worth of content? Patch #4785847 or patch #86994786?

So ... just for the record.. How much hours did you play before you got this bug... ? (a very rare one btw)
And why... not revert back to a save before you chose this perk.. The bug is very rare.. So your "I wasted $60,-- doesn't fly.. There are people with way more serious issues.. right out of the box..

Sorry to hear that.

I'm lucky, I guess. So far, my 300+ hours has returned the equivalent of 10 games. That's $600 of content for the price of $60. Not bad.

Around 100 hours...and go back to before I bought this perk? I've had 100 blocking for over half my game time. Why should I have to reset myself every time I get a bug, hmm? I can't complete the Thieves guild quest line, reset. Can't complete the Gaulder amulet, reset. Can't fight in combat without slow motion kicking in every 3 seconds, reset. A few hundreds hours of gameplay repeating ad verbatim every step is called monotony. It's boring, grinding, unenjoyable, and unacceptable. I'd say being locked out of 85% or so of what I play this game for is pretty serious, that is, if you read the other issues I listed instead of focusing on just one.


You Bethesda apologists can step up to the podium any day of the week but you're not going to slide here, sorry. If it were any other company that had swiss cheesed their game this badly you would be rapping their knuckles. My complaints are as legitimate if not more so then everyone else's here.


And these are the major bugs. This isn't counting the dozens and dozens I let slide like freezing issues, laggy inventory/map/spell selections and switching, etc.

Then do you have a saved game from before this started happening for you?

Not before you took the perk. Just before something in the game went nuts, and started doing this.

Fixing the game 'live' is very unlikely to be possible, especially if you've just ploughed on regardless. Returning, and hoping it doesn't happen again, is your best bet.

*makes note not to take the shield charging perk*

Calm down..
Yes I make an unbalanced observation..
I attacked your argument for one simple reason... You make a topic.. And I quote "Well it finally happened ... got the glitches" ... and then go in fury mode about how you wasted (implied) $60,- .. I still stand on the opinion that said argument doesn't fly for your particular case..
It svcks that you encountered this bug... and that there is no viable workaround as of yet..
This game needs patching, let me clear about that.. calling everyone who doesn't fully agree with a certain line of arguing.. either a Bethesada apologist.. or (on the other side) whiner.. is not helping..

It's only a waste of 60 dollars if it's not 60 dollars worth of content I'm getting. Every bug that bans me from playing a certain part of the game shaves off that much more of the final product. Shave off 85% of the final product and that doesn't sound like 60 dollars to me. Maybe to you, not to me. There is no agree or disagreement here. You either think a bug needs patching or you relentlessly argue that it's fine. There's no middle ground. And if you can't accept criticism of a company who doesn't even know you exist, that says more about you then it does about me.





When it first stopped working I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary. I went to a forsworn camp, charged headlong into a briar heart, only to find myself just moving against him with no effect until he broke the ward on my spellbreaker shield. I reloaded a save before that and tried it again...it failed when I attacked another forsworn. I went back to a previous save and left the whole camp...it didn't work against some draugr, trolls, bandits, or sabre cats.


So definitively it couldn't be anything I did or the location I was at.

Dude it looks like you been skim reading. He is not saying its fine, what he is saying is they need to find a soloution but as of so far. Some bugs are easier to fix than others but I am sure they will try to fix it, also keep in mind they get positively loads of glitchs to patch so it will take loads of time just keep that in mind.

I read it thoroughly. He says it svcks, but continues to argue me about it. It's one or the other. Yes some bugs are easier to fix then others and there are a <<>>> of bugs to fix. Reading the archives, this is a bug that's been complained about almost since release. And yet, there isn't a single mention of it that I can find from the developers. I highly, highly, highly doubt it takes almost half a year to fix a perk that stops working after an arbitrary set of time. It may not matter to people who don't train blocking, but it's as big a priority as many of the bugs I see patched.


Perhaps more people would care if it happened to a more popular skill. How about you just randomly can't create potions anymore after 100 alchemy, or smith Daedric after 90 smithing. Won't be that "unimportant then", eh?

Perhaps its been very difficult to fix you never know maybe there looking into it, but getting annoyed will not help now will it? I understand funnily enough as I have been trying out a shield and sword character myself and that svcks and sometimes it just cant be fixed but damn they will try. The best thing to do is be patient they may actually come upwith something, just give them time and calm down. A glitch happened to me to but I will wait and hope they can sort it.

Or they could be lazy. You're really not talking from any point of understanding or authority so you saying that it's too hard to fix doesn't count for much. Getting annoyed is a reaction to something, I can't not be annoyed when the only time I play skyrim, the only thing I can do is walk around. I can't enjoy combat with the slow motion glitch, I can't complete many quests because of glitches/continuity errors. The only thing I can do is wait, and I have waited over and over. You don't wait to enjoy games, that's not how it works. I can pop in Battlefield 3 right now and it will work completely, and so I have been doing.


If you can't be anything but condescending you're not of much use here.

Sigh....
Oh brother.. I never state you aren't allowed to critisize Bethesda.. if that's your conclusion.. That's just your conclusion...
Your line of arguing is what I was attacking.. and while I feel compassion and can agree with some people who have major issues straight out of the box.. (lag, graphics.. freezes broken MQ.. etc..)..Your argument, to me(!), is unbiased anger.
You actually made 100 hours (your claim) and while your toon is broken.., for now, you can start a new one while waiting for a patch.. IE Your argument still doesn't fly..

No it isn't , I can very well agree with the fact your angry at a bug that ruins your current PT.. but still not agree with the argument that it's a wasted $60,--


eeeh... I can understand you attack me.. and I'm fine with that. I choose a fierce tone.. because.. well because I disagree with a certain argument.
And fine we have a disagreement about that.. That's one thing what forums are for.
However.. Vergil is being completely decent here.. and your "Holier than thou" comment is uncalled for.

Now with that out of the way.. let me try and actually help.
I suppose you already tried this but...
- There are reports that to break this effect.. is to attack an enemy... and block until the power attack you (again)...
- It should also break when :
Talking to a follower
use the wait option and wait for an hour
Enter a door etc..

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Woops, let me just back this up on outta here. No sense entering a pointless frustration fest.

Almost everything in Block is bugged. Shield Wall grants 10 percent increases instead of 5, Deflect Arrows perk brings your Blocking effectiveness up to the 85% cap AGAINST ANY weapons making shield wall useless. The slow power attack perk sometimes doesnt end... Shield charge randomly stops working. The problem is that stuff like this wont be priorities because the nerds in uesp make light of bugs like this because their answers are to simply use console commands to fix bugs like every single person plays on a pc. Take into account that said nerds are also beta testing the latest patch and are probably only reporting large broken quests because they can handily fix everything else with console commands

Back on the topic of the shield issue. I have a similar (but admittedly rare) issue with bows where sometimes, for some reason, I end up stuck into slow motion. I never really cared about it because it would revert back to normal speed once my stamina is depleted (slowing time with bows depleted stamina). In spite of putting 320 hours in skyrim, I've got about 30 in block LOL. I do not know if the perk that allow you to stop time cost you any stamina with a shield, but perharps that is an avenue you should look into to fix it.

Many hours of gameplay and glitchs annoy I completely understand that, some glitchs irrate to no end. Getting angry and demanding it gets sorted will only take longer for people to help, cooperate and people can help, otherwise it might not ever get sorted and then you will be super annoyed I imagine. Also I may not be a Besthada Employee but I actually have done some programing in my time and know of the issues that can and do take place even on the simplest made games, Skyrim is freaking massive so its even more so with it being that size. So many lines of code, the slightest letter being wrong causing a pain in the butt glitch. I am not being condescending I am just giving you some advice wether you chose to take it or not is really your choice.