Hey @Kay - I was actually about to update this good timing 
edit: I will try to do an actual recording this weekend to showcase all the weirdness as it progresses cause sometimes it gets reaally weird ( using fishing pole as weapon, T-Posing, etc. )
World: Maramma
Decided to do some fishing today and headed to First Light. Went to a Broad Fishing spot and caught an aquatic snail and another fish. The third fish I tried to catch resulted in the Tension Meter getting stuck and my character stuck leaning back reeling. I have to dodge or put away the fishing pole to break out of this stuck animation.
I tried fishing for the next few minutes and kept having issues with my tension bar getting stuck and it just keeps going red and never breaks.
Tension getting stuck and maxing out but never breaking:
Stuck in casting mode without the ability to move unless I put away fishing pole:
Tried moving to another spot but the game finally had enough and crashed:
At this point I went full-ham on trying to resolve this myself. I scanned my RAM ( no issues ), checked my Registry ( only 2 issues regarding unrelated missing keys that I resolved ), and verified files on Steam.
I restarted my PC using safe boot and disabled all non-essential programs except for Steam, New World, and Easyanticheat using MSCONFIG.
I then pulled up task manager memory to keep track of it while fishing. I wish I took more pictures but I was so fed up at this point I wasn’t thinking clearly cause I spent hours trying to fix it and it didn’t help;
After just a few minutes fishing my memory shot up to 85% usage even with my PC running on bare bones:
So my memory started out around 35% before staring New World.
- It then went up to about 60% on login screen
- It normalized around 70% before fishing and just walking around first light.
- As I fished it kept going up as high as 90% but if I stopped fishing it would slowly come back down to 85%.
Some additional issues I have while fishing:
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Character will sometimes cast the fishing pole and nothing happens. I just sit there with my pole out and can’t real in or put away fishing pole. I have to /unstuck which results in me being stuck in fishing position without a fishing pole. From here I have to weapon swap to fix myself.
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Character forgets how to fish. Sometimes while these other issues are going on, my character will no longer pull out the fishing pole when activating the hotkey. I can reassign the fishing hotkey and it still doesn’t work. I can assign the key to another task and the button works - I just can’t fish. Sometimes if I unequip the fishing pole then click “repair all” and re-equip the fishing pole I can fish again.
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Character gets stuck reeling even when I let go of the mouse. The fish will then start glitching towards me and keep going until it travels into the ground a mile behind me - line never breaks, I have to /unstuck or dodge to break out of the animation.
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Fishing tension desync happens frequently - it will either show green and snap or show red and still let me reel in. Also there is occasionally major delays between me letting go/pressing and the response to the tension ( no spike in latency or input on the top left )
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Sometimes my character gets a combination of the glitches above which result in very specific and odd behaviors - like when I go to mine rocks I use the wrong animation ( herb gathering ) or i punch with any weapon. Sometimes other people see me T-Posing or just glitching around when on my screen I’m walking normally.
Something to note - I’m approaching level 200 fishing, and for the majority of my time fishing I never had a real problem. I would very occasionally have issues with tension, bad animation, or stuck characters - but now it happens within my first 10 casts. This started as far as I could tell since update 1.4 and seems to be getting worse. I am not experiencing issues with other parts of the game. I still have the same experience crafting/boss farming/etc. with no irregularities participating in those events.
Also I have the same issues when trying to fish on PTR.
Between version 1.4 and now I have uninstalled/reinstalled both the PTR and Live New World.
