Combat Blade sprint attack speed-boost not working as normal on Skitarii

[Shezurah]

Issue Type (Required):

Weapons

Issue Description (Required):

The combat blade’s sprint-attack movement speed buff will now briefly turn off if you press 1 (or whatever key you have assigned to your melee weapon.) This was previously used to prevent auto attacking after holding the heavy attack for too long and allow you greater uptime of the movement speed buff. If you spam 1, you will move slower than basic walk speed, even though you are sprinting.

Other weapons like the Deimos force sword also have this speed buff, I have only tested the Combat Blade (both marks.)

EDIT: After testing further I have discovered that this bug only takes place on the DLC Skitarii class.

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

[alsozara]

Sounds like them fixing an unintended and abusable mechanic.

Based.

[Shezurah]

See edit. It’s inconsistent between classes and was not in the patch notes, lending credence to it being a bug and not an intended change.

[Hat_Stealer]

This is due to a bug that the Skitarri has with all weapons, which causes weapon switching to cancel sprinting. See this thread:

Swapping Weapons on Skitarri Cancels Sprint

Issue Type (Required): Player Mechanics Issue Description (Required): When swapping weapons while sprinting forward as a Skitarri, the weapon swap animation cancels the sprint for the duration of the animation, causing the player to stutter. Rapidly switching weapons causes the player’s sprint to slow to a crawl. This occurs on all weapons. See streamable links for examples of this behavior: And for contrast, an example of correct sprint weapon swap behavior on any non…

There are weapons such as the knife and Skitarri Arc Maul which allow you to “equip” them even while equipped, which rapidly cancels Skitarri’s sprint over and over. See this clip, in which the same thing occurs: