Bard perform action doesn't work?

[General_DABRIE]

I'm doing my first play through with a bard but for some reason the perform action cancels itself immediately after I click it. So my bard takes out her lute and put it back in her inventory without playing the actual song. Does anyone else have this issue?

[FoxFox]

you should also get to select a song once you click perform. Does the action get cancelled before or after you select the song?

[Muffanzo]

I've found if the bard gains or loses a buff the playing stops. might be whats happening to you.

[Mara]

This exact thing is happening to me as well. I'm not a bard, I'm a druid, but I have the perform ability and now when I try to use it it just automatically cancels and nothing happens.

[jonnin]

did you see a 'bad performance' fail roll? That makes a few noises and stops quickly as you fat fingered the instrument too badly to play.
Otherwise, MOST of the time it seems to play a song. Once in a while I get animation and no sound, or she just quits outright, but 99% of the time it plays a tune until you move or do something else. Sounds really nice with 2-3 players, one with the drum.

[Marcos_DS]

movement immediately breaks bard performance in the game, you must stand still after you start playing (so if you already walk, it gets immediately cancelled)

[Mara]

Originally posted by Marcos_DS:

movement immediately breaks bard performance in the game, you must stand still after you start playing (so if you already walk, it gets immediately cancelled)

I am standing still, it cancels immediately.

[cuarelena]

it happend to me when the Diadem of Arcane Synergy was equipped.

[Aria Athena]

I had it happen once, during the Act 1 celebration. I am not sure what triggered it. People started gathering, and when they came too close my character stopped playing.

[Blackthorn]

Tested it just now on my Bard. Works fine. I would be surprised if it didn't, since I've got the achievement a while back

Try uneqquipping your instrument, and equipping back. Maybe a different instrument if you have one. If you have the gold, try Withers and pick another starting instrument. Perform naked and see if that works.

I've noticed some passives, like Freecast does not work when you equip something. It just gets broken and grey, you unequip one thing and it works then it doesnt, equip thing back everything is fine, but after a while its broken again

If that doesn't work, maybe it's borked.

[Anubis5]

resurrecting this thread as it happens to me too. It may be because i'm using a controller, thus very sensitive to movements

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Anubis5:

resurrecting this thread as it happens to me too. It may be because i'm using a controller, thus very sensitive to movements

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[Emrys of Ailliau]

for some reason there are still performance issues with performance.
I am in the cresh trying to pickpocket the quartermaster since i didn't save enough money in act 1. however she has two guards that patrol around her. I tried moving her away from them with minor illusion before talking to her, so that she stays where she was when i talked to her but the others would go back to where they were supposed to be. but the guards are assigned to be in her vicinity.

so i tried to perform to draw them away from her, that worked but as soon as i steal something with a different character the performing character ends the performance, and the guards come rushing back to interrupt my stealing. this only happens when i steal something. otherwise the song continues without interruption.

I eventually succeeded by luring the guards all the way out into the hallway and then performing while lazell blocked the door with barrels so they couldnt get back in when the song was forced to end ( i cannot help but love a captive audience;)

[Tripster369]

It's something to do with a mod adding recurring status effects that interrupt the vanilla music performance which is a status. There is workaround by the person who made Ember's Lute but you're better off finding out the cause. For me it only happens after a respec.

[Metalfyre]

This happened to me as well. My tav is not a bard, but can perform like a bard cuz I passed all DC when I first encountered Alfira. I got Wyll in my party too, which is a partial bard (4 levels). I just defeated Ketheric and was talking to Alfira afterwards so I could perform with her to get the improved bardic inspiration spell. Funny thing is I did get that, but Wyll didn't have the performing animation and there was no sound either. and I didn't have the Diadem of Arcane Synergy equipped. I even took off his chest armour (adamantine armour medium), but that didn't change much. Tried different instruments. Didn't work either.

[zamberina]

Hello from the future. I found this by having the same issue. In case anyone else finds their way here the same way, I somewhat found a solution: I stripped poor Wyll right there in Moonrise. Turns out, he can only perform bare footed.

The moment he took off the Cinder Shoes, he just kept performing. I tested it with Thulla's boots, and he could play fine in those. It seems some random items, that trigger a condition, but not all of them, stop the play immediatly.

But really, since Wyll get's heated in said Cinder Shoes, when he burns someone, I guess his lute play is simply that hot. 🔥

TLTR: Play naked.