Remove Animation Cancel – ESO Attack Commitment (1.3)

Authors: Nickxon, @STUDLETON

Description

Removes attack animation cancelling from ESO combat by preventing skill casts, dodge rolls and weapon swaps from interrupting light and heavy attack animations.

The addon is designed to create a committed and immersive combat experience while keeping gameplay responsive and dynamic. The goal is for Light Attacks and Skills to exist as individual combat actions that the player intentionally combines into sequences, rather than merging attacks directly into skill casts as seen in the traditional weaving system. This addon offers an alternative combat system approach in the form of a optional harder game mode.

Keep in mind, that this will remove the ability to LA-Weave, which will lower your overall damage potential. That means you should be mindful of using this addon in high difficulty content especially when you join up with other players that might be expecting you to weave for maxed out DPS.

The addon features a Pulse effect that provides visual feedback when combat actions become available again. Since ESOs native input queueing cannot be fully utilized with this combat system approach, the pulse helps players to find a natural combat rhythm and avoid missed inputs. This Pulse can be amplified for more visual cue aswell as turned off for immersion in the settings menu.

The default timings are intentionally tuned to prioritize smoother and more responsive inputs to match the fast pace of ESO Combat. Since addons do not have access to ESO’s native skill queueing system, the timing values are slightly more forgiving in order to maintain fluid gameplay.As a result, highly aggressive skill spamming may still allow occasional animation cancels near the end of an attack animation.The following optional Values uses stricter timings designed to make it almost impossible to cancel an animation, creating a more committed and immersive combat experience.

TLDR: If you experience animation cancels happening too early, Set the following values in the settings:

1H Animation Time (in MS): 410
2H Animation Time (in MS): 585

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Installation Instructions

1. Download and install LibAddonMenu-2.0

2. Extract the addon into:

DocumentsElder Scrolls OnlineliveAddOns

3. Ensure the folder structure looks like:

AddOns
└── RemoveAnimationCancelling
├── RemoveAnimationCancelling.addon
├── RemoveAnimationCancelling.lua
└── bindings.xml

4.Enable the addon in the ESO AddOns menu.

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Main Features

Prevents skill casts from interrupting Light and Heavy Attack animations
Supports both Light Attacks and Heavy Attacks
Prevents dodge roll animation cancelling
Prevents weapon swap animation cancelling
Dedicated timing profiles for:
* One-handed weapons
* Two-handed weapons
Optional combat pulse feedback system for improved combat rhythm and input readability
Automatic UI adaptation for Mouse & Keyboard and Controller Mode
Optional aggressive or subtle combat pulse styles
Optional custom timing adjustment sliders
Reset-to-default timing values
Controller compatible
Lightweight and minimal setup

Note that this mod will NOT disable the double Tap Dodge on Keyboard, because of technical reasons.Please use keybounddodges from Mouse/Keyboard and Controller instead and disable Double Tap Dodge in the Games Settings Menu.

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Requirements

LibAddonMenu-2.0

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Special thanks to:

@STUDLETON for the original foundation and the technical groundwork and for turning the first ideas into actual code.
The ESOUI community on Gitter for documentation, examples and action layer discussions
Dolgubon for pointing me to the Gitter offering massively helpful creative input and supporting with not only advice but with action.
ImPDA for helpful and essential insights
Reddit ESO Community for engaging in a productive Discussion that ultimately led to the development of this addon.
All Developers atZenimax Online Studios for making a great game and providing the Community the opportunity to develop addons like this
My Significant other for taking the time to understand and discuss the process aswell as testing hands on.

NOTE:

If i am not updating this Mod you are allowed to update and reupload it. Credit appropiately.