So this just happened: Maya got a fatal error and crashed and after I restarted the program I got this wierd problem. Whenever I select components and try to transform them the transformation applies to the whole object and not just the selected components, just as if I was working in object mode. If I select two vertices…
I restarted Maya for the eleventh time and suddenly the problem was gone. Still have no idea what caused this issue but at least it's working properly again. EDIT: Ok, found out what was wrong, really silly (as usual). I had activated soft selection by mistake and the "Viewport color" checkbox in the tool options was…