Weird Bug Guards keep killing me

[Lord Damso || ピッコリノ ペルビアノ]

So i play thief i steal i got bounty, thats not really the issue, the problem is when im in town and i encounter a guard, i go in first person mood i canot move canot esc i cant do nothing, i canot pay my bounty nor do clemecyy or run there is no options showing up and the guards is just beating on me till im dead , this happen few times now, the options doesnt come to choose and the guards just freekill me and i loose all my stolen items..........

[Hypnotunez]

Are you still having this problem, because I have been killed five times in the past half hour.

[Cpt. Stern]

If your bounty is really high you are to be killed on sight. This will decrease over time. Just don't go to town for a few hours or read a book. You can see it in your character screen at the top or on the play screen in bottom right corner.

[Wildwing]

Hello,

If you got a bounty on you the guards will go after you if you come into their detection radius.

It can get queit nasty to get away from one guard despite if you got several on your tail.
Do some survey and paterns of the areas you like to steal and too crowded places could be bad because if you get detected you get an instant bounty on you .

Also the guard stun can get queit annoying.Try to sell your stuff of asap so you don't have much worth on you if you get caught.

You get 3 options when the guard catches you to pay up ,to flee or use a skill iirc but you need to train that in one of the guild don't remember which one though.

Its hard to escape because they almost auto stun you and you can't take much beating early on.

If you pay up you loose gold and all the stolen stuff in the process I mostly go for the run option but is really though in crowded towns if you draw more then one guard on you.

If the options don't come to you then it can be your bounty is so high you get attacked without the option but never happend to me.
Or something is buged with your client you could try a closing of game and launcher or try type /reloadui and see if that works.
See if the guard name is red then run they wont bargain and most likely wont offer you an option first.
Clemency can be done only once a day afaik.

So far I always got the choice pay up,run and some other I don't recall.When the aggro is too big and guards are red and it says you get killed on sight I stay away and let the bounty go down or pay up in the den at the fence to get rid of it.

Also if you got the aggression on to be able to dmg anyone you get attacked that way too.

[Trigger]

if you have big bounty, log out and go play another toon for awhile. Bounty clock doesn't stop when you log out.

[Lord Damso || ピッコリノ ペルビアノ]

i thnk you guys not understanding me, i have a glitch i litterly canot choose those 3 options. i canot flee i canot pay i canot use skill, there is no dialog i just get attacked and i canot move nore choose or open menu, the game is waiting for me to choose the 3 options but there is no text. meanwhile i get beaten up by the guard and i still cant move i canot esc to shut down game , i play this game long enough to know when you have bounty you get chased by guards and when its to high you get killed on sight, but thats not my problem if you dont pick anything the game things by default that you flee so then you get attacked, problem is im still not been able to move and game just waiting for me to choose from the 3 options althooo i canot choose since there is no dialoge(text) that i may choose to pay bounty or use the skill or flee away

[Cpt. Stern]

So after all this time your toon still has the bounty?

[Thunder Nugget]

I've had this happen to me a few times. Your toon just freezes, can't click on anything because no dialogue options show up. Doesn't seem to matter how much bounty you have. Only solution is to just hangout until you get swatted. I have this problem every now and then.

[Hypnotunez]

Yes I encounter the problem where I am stuck in the chat windows being killed and when I respawn I am stuck in the chat window until I quit the game. I don't even have to have a large bounty, I just have one (like 19 gold) and I am killed instantly.

I contacted the support and they seemed to misunderstand as well.

[Centerblarre]

Originally posted by Josh P.:

I've had this happen to me a few times. Your toon just freezes, can't click on anything because no dialogue options show up. Doesn't seem to matter how much bounty you have. Only solution is to just hangout until you get swatted. I have this problem every now and then.

I always seem to have this problem. Every single bounty I'm killed while being freezed

[IvoryMusical]

I have the same problem, I never get the options and the toon just freezes and dies

[Scruffy]

I've heard people having this problem. and it does sound like a huge bug. You aren't supposed to be 'locked' in place AND attacked, those are two separate methods of guard action. But they both seem to be happening. EITHER the guard 'freezes' you and talks to you, OR, they just start attacking you with spells that grab you. When they do the fight option, you can still fight back, cast spells, turn around, you just can't run.

The bug here is they are doing both at the same time. Guard 'freezes' you AND attacks, and players cannot do anything while 'frozen' waiting for guard to talk to them...

A lot of players are having this problem it seems. Until ZOS fixes this, only way around it is not to get a bounty at all.

[Cpt. Stern]

I think after you run you do get frozen and attacked. That's what has happened to me. Running jumps the red circle all the way up. I just keep running. I don't turn or defend myself. The freeze time is very short. Take 1 or 2 hits to the back and can run again. Get to that shrine. I haven't had a game freeze yet.

[Hypnotunez]

@Cpt. Stem, The running does seem like that might be a reason for the bug, maybe the normal interaction of a low bounty (in which they walk up to you) is working however the AI registers players as running when they are just going about their daily business which overlaps into the normal interaction of a low bounty causing the first script to be stopped since it is overuled by the killing script yet since you die then the normal script keeps on being stuck in the chat menu until you exit which cuts all the scripts short.

[Diogenes]

Originally posted by Trigger:

if you have big bounty, log out and go play another toon for awhile. Bounty clock doesn't stop when you log out.

A while....?

Both of my main toons had bounties in excess of a million and a half, due to killing gamblers.

I thought that the bounties would decline in the space of a week, with the Thieves Guild passives, and all that.

After a few nights of not playing ESO, I calculated, at the rate of depreciation that the game showed, that it would take six months or so, for the bounty to reach zero.

Last time I logged in, which was about two months ago, I still had a bounty of 1.3 million.

One thing the Dev's don't tell you is that bountys decrease overnight, if they are only a few hundred gold. If it's in excess of a million, you won't get the bounty decreased for almost six months.

I can't go anywhere near a city now, because of how slowly the bounty system degrades. It's one of the many reasons, why I quit playing Elder Scrolls online a while back. The bounty system is completely rediculous.

[Hypnotunez]

Originally posted by Cadderley:

Originally posted by Trigger:

if you have big bounty, log out and go play another toon for awhile. Bounty clock doesn't stop when you log out.

A while....?

Both of my main toons had bounties in excess of a million and a half, due to killing gamblers.

I thought that the bounties would decline in the space of a week, with the Thieves Guild passives, and all that.

After a few nights of not playing ESO, I calculated, at the rate of depreciation that the game showed, that it would take six months or so, for the bounty to reach zero.

Last time I logged in, which was about two months ago, I still had a bounty of 1.3 million.

One thing the Dev's don't tell you is that bountys decrease overnight, if they are only a few hundred gold. If it's in excess of a million, you won't get the bounty decreased for almost six months.

I can't go anywhere near a city now, because of how slowly the bounty system degrades. It's one of the many reasons, why I quit playing Elder Scrolls online a while back. The bounty system is completely rediculous.

The heck did you do!?