WEAPON DRAWING DELAY FOR NEWLY SELECTED WEAPONS (NEEDS PATCHING)

i noticed this glitch soon after i started playing, i cant believe Bethesda never noticed it on QA, but i have not seen anybody else mention it so i'm concerned it may just be me. its only minor but can be annoying,

i basically get an animation glitch whenever i draw a weapon after unequipping then reequiping it while in the standard stance (ie weapon sheathed stance) .

basically its this

-set a normal sword to the right hand dpad quick select
- have nothing equipped
- now tap right dpad (so sword equips)
- press square to unsheath sword (animation play out fine)
- press square to sheath
- now tap right again (so sword unequips)
- tap dpad right again to equip sword
- now tap square to unsheath sword

(now you get the glitch)
for some reason the sword just appears in your right hand briefly( like if you were dual wielding) , then quickly disappears, then your character goes through the proper unsheathing animation for the sword. thereafter its ok, until you unequip then re equip your sword again as above in sheathed stance.

if you are in the ready stance (with hands up) its fine, you can select whatever weapons and animations play out fine, but as soon as you select weapons while in non ready stance the character gets all confused about what animation to carry out for the equiped weapon. its almost like its playing the equipping animation for the previous weapon.

its not game breaking just annoying. i have played round with all kinds of weapons equipping and unequipping them while in the unready stance, and its seems to be glitchy for all weapons.

please fix bethesda. i will try and get a video of it as some point. hope its fixed on next patch. i play on ps3 60gb fat.

edit:

i have been playing around with the glitch some more and found that it only occurs within around 3-5 seconds of unsheathing your newly selected weapon. if after every time you select a new weapon you wait about 4 seconds the animation always plays out correctly. its still annoying to have to wait for this though. its seems that game needs time to load the sword and animation before it can be selected! come on bethesda, it needs to be smoother than this. this still needs patching. i can understand having to wait for the unsheathing animation to end before using the weapon, but an additional 3 seconds on the top of that waiting for it to load is too much. please patch this. weapon transitions need to be smoother.

edit 2:

having now played the pc version i can confirm that this is a bug exclusive to ps3. on pc there is no 3 second delay when unsheathing newly selected weapons and therefore no animation glitch when drawing newly equipped weapons from non ready stance. the 3 second delay and animation glitch are related. please fix. thanks

i have equipped and visi-versa many times swords, axes, spells but i noticed not such thing....i don't now....

so have you tried the above and experienced the bug?

maybe its just my play style that is the reason why i experience this frequently, but i like to use the quick select buttons to choose my weapon before i get into the ready stance. the sword unhostering animation takes so long that i often quickly unequip it and use dual magic instead, problem is when i quick equip sword again, i get this animation glitch. not the end of the world, its lasts about 3 seconds, just annoying and make the game unpolished - and adds a further delay to getting your sword out.

http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/g355/Sheldon_Wade/aa302596.jpg

How about both your weapons showing.. Then wait all of sudden only one shows and I can't figure out why it bugs out like that...

bump

downloaded the patch today and game seems to run a lot better, the flickering shadows have been significantly reduced (nice) but weapon drawing delays still occur. please fix this for a later patch.

other issues still need patching:
- still occasionally get an invisible head when equipping arch mage robes and mask of Morokei
- still need to fix art for sheathed dual wielding weapons full topic:
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1267690-duel-wield-weapons-sheathing/


look forward to the next patch when these issues will be fixed.

love the game by the way, thank you bethesda