So I'm being all sneak and stuff like a good little sneaky-jerk. I flawlessly approach my target completely unnoticed (even in heavy armor). I place some nifty poison on my War-hammer and prepare to do a power attack for maximum sneaky-hurt! I hold down the right trigger on my controller laughing maniacally, but something goes wrong. Almost immediately after my character lifts his weapon, it glitches down to the passive position, completely canceling the animation. And to make things worse, my maximum sneaky-hurt power plan is a no-go, because when the animation glitched it counted as as a regular attack.

this happens to me a lot... regardless of the weapon or character... even on my dagger character. Like, DA-FUQ MAN!?

Does this happen to anyone else, does anyone know why this happens, and does anyone know how to stop this from happening? I've checked the wiki and there's no mention of this Bug. This bug has almost killed my new legendary DiD character (as in the above example)

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http://rapidshare.com/share/095EE3F65F0596BA6C7C1D4DDF495E7F

(sorry, i didnt want to use youtube for such a short video, just click "to download")

I'm fairly certain two-handed weapons don't get a sneak attack bonus.

Also, you won't get a sneak attack kill cam if your hit would fail to kill the target -- which is likely what's happening, given you're playing on Legendary difficulty.

I'm pretty sure that you can't get an added sneak bonus with two-handed weapons like you can with bows and daggers via the perk tree. The best sneak attack bonus I have ever been able to get with a two-handed weapon is x2, but then maybe I remembering incorrectly. The problem with sneak attacking with a two-handed weapon (especially the warhammers) is that once you swing them, it pretty much ruins your stealthiness, due to their weight and low speed, unless you have a high sneak skill.

true, the highest bonus i can get with 2-handed is x2, but on a legendary DiD charaacter, I'll take what u can get. But you guys are missing the point.

Its not that the killcam animation is canceled, the normal animation for a stealth power attack is canceled, and it does the damage of a normal attack (x2) which is much weaker than a power attack (x2).

and this glitched animation when sneak attacking happens to me on almost all my characters, even my redguard that uses daggers.

there, i added a recording of it to the original post

since sneak attack are being talked bout? why can't i ever get animation for it? i have a dagger rh and sword lh... i only got an animation once

It's actually the sound that causes the detection, daggers being the only weapons that are silent.

I have never run into this, and it's especially weird that it happens across saves. I wish I could play .mov files on the computer so I could see it. I think I can play them on the iPod when I get home though.