Why do I keep dropping out of combat mode?

OK, I need to address this, so let me explain:

"Combat mode" as I'm going to define it in this post is just the state of taking up one of the many combat stances that your powers leave you in after they animate. Usually, that's the simple "left foot forward" stance, or "rifle out and up" or that weird wide stance you end up in after the Storm Kick. This is what I mean by combat mode. Usually, you'd enter combat mode as soon as you press an attack button on your tray or keyboard, even if you don't actually have anything to attack, and you would stay in this combat mode for I believe 10 seconds, before returning to the standard idle stance (/em idle, more specifically).

This doesn't happen for me from time to time, and I don't know why. Here's what I mean: I would activate an attack, and AS SOON AS the attack animation ends, my character would return to idle stance. Because of how rooting works, that would often be before my character is even done animating and definitely before returning to combat mode. Sometimes it would look like animations even get interrupted, such as with the baseball pitch alternative to Eagle's Claw.

I don't know why this happens, I don't know when it happens, because by the time I notice it, it's been going on for quite some time. I tend to chain attacks one after the other via attack queueing, so I never notice in time until I slow down for some reason and notice my character always returning to idle "just standing and looking around" mode, which is VERY inappropriate for in the middle of a battle. Activating powers doesn't help - he'll just do the attack and default back to idle mode. Being attacked doesn't help, as he'll snap to the animation for taking a hit, then snap back to idle.

The only thing that seems to help is drawing a weapon, I assume because a weapon somehow forces its own combat mode thanks to redraw. My solution is typically to draw the Ghost Slaying Axe. I don't even have to take a swing with it. Drawing it out once "fixes" my problem and my character becomes once more able to stay in combat mode. For a while, anyway. Before long, something happens and I stop being able to return to combat mode. And I don't know why.

Originally I thought this only happened to female characters, but I was wrong. It happens to Female and Male models, at least. The reason I thought that is because this is the most obvious with Martial Arts, where Storm Kick will leave you in this very cool, completely unique stance when it's done, and it's a stance I just like looking at. As both my Martial Artists are women, I only ever noticed it on women. However, now I'm beginning to notice it on my Kinetic Melee Brute, and he is most definitely a man. I haven't tried Huge, but given how intermittent this is, I wouldn't have any good way to test it.

All of this is to ask the following: Is anyone else seeing this and is anyone aware of a workaround to it that doesn't rely on a temporary fix after the fact?

*edit*
After posting this, I Tabbed back to the game to find myself dead, killed while I was posting. I resurrected (Awaken + Break Free) and immediately thereafter found myself dropping out of combat mode, despite having "fixed" that with the Ghost Slaying Axe before I Tabbed out to post this. Could dying have caused this?

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Yeah, noticed this for ages now myself. My MA scrapper seems to suffer from it a lot, although my Fortunata also suffers from it nowadays. Why? I haven't got the foggiest idea.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

I've had this issue since I started in 05. In fact sometimes there is no attack animation at all damage just happens by itself. I think the stance animations are low priority and if there are any lag issues (like during beta testing) they get dropped.

My gosh, Sam, for such a simple question why you gotta stretch it out over 2+ pages?

Are you using the pacifist power set?

This should probably be on the Bug board.

I've noticed this for a while now but it hasn't bothered me all that much since I personally hate the default combat stance(it looks unrealistic and cheesy).

Someone mentioned a Fortunata, and it is very noticeable with most of the Psi attacks. It follows only after certain attacks and for that reason I thought it was intentional in some cases.

It can be seen in Electric Melee/Elec Manipulation and Super Strength a lot. And the reason I thought it was intentional is that it seems to follow only after specific attack types.

I'm usually hitting escape to return to default stance anyway and I haven't noticed it affecting very much.

The problem someone mentioned above with attacks not animating is almost always latency related. A lot of that has been coming from the servers lately. It can also be the result of poor ISP performance for whatever reason.

I have seen it a lot. Mostly after I use a costume change emote. I see it more on my kheldians after changing forms.

My widow hits the idle stance if mindlink goes off in the middle of combat. It always makes him pause for a few seconds before he switches back into attack mode even if a power is qued up. It is mildly annoying.

It seems to happen most if, from the non-combat stance, you use a power that doesn't put you in the combat stance, like Build Up or Rage. If I use one of those powers and then begin to attack, I see what you're describing.

My workaround is to just hit Escape twice to detarget and force the character out of this "pseudo-combat" mode, and then continue attacking.

it only seems to happen to me when i just dont think about it and go and attack stuff


try this


make sure your target is empty, nothing there.

then just 1, it will put you in combat stance. then proceed to target whatever and kill and u should stay in combat stance for the default little duration or whatever and not come out of it after every attack

The attempted removal of redraw has added a new plague to the system MUHAHAHAHAHA!