Imperial City Testing Suggestions & Feedback Wanted

ZOS_GinaBruno · July 2015

We have a lot of new systems going into our latest update, so we wanted to provide some suggestions on where to focus your testing, and some specific feedback we’re looking to gather that would help us the most. To aid in testing, we’ve provided VR16 and mid-level character templates for each alliance. In addition, we’ve copied all PC/Mac North American megaserver characters, and will be doing a PC/Mac European megaserver character copy in the coming weeks. Thanks in advance!

TESTING SUGGESTIONS

Find the entrance to Imperial City, and go check out the new areas!
Gather as many Tel Var Stones as you can, either from monsters or other player characters.
Acquire new gear or item sets, and try them out with your character.
Craft new armor or weapon sets via the set-specific crafting stations in Imperial City.
Stream or record your group playing through the Imperial Sewers, Imperial Districts, Imperial City Prison, or White-Gold Tower, and let us know so we can watch!
Visit an older dungeon with a low-level character, and see if the scaling feels balanced.

FEEDBACK WANTED

Imperial City

Did you understand how to get to Imperial City, and how the new systems worked?
Was it clear how to leave Imperial City?
How was the overall performance throughout Imperial City?
How many Tel Var Stones did you get during your testing? Please specify how long you played.
How many Alliance Points did you get while you tested?
If you played through the Imperial City Prison or White-Gold Tower, how did the balance feel between the normal and Veteran versions? What level was your character?

Tel Var Stones

Was it clear when you gained Tel Var Stones?
Was it clear when the multiplier increased?
Were you aware that there was a risk of losing Stones, and how it could happen?
Did you see the accumulation of Stones while you played?
What was your main method of acquiring Tel Var Stones?

Itemization

What is your favorite new item or item sets? Where did you receive them?
Are you happy with the stats on the new items or item sets?
Did you feel the drop rate was adequate?
Did you find you could get VR15 gear easily? Was gaining VR16 gear more challenging?
Were the new items or item sets worth the effort?

Achievements

Did you receive any new achievements while going through Veteran dungeons, Imperial City, or killing bosses?

Pirhana7_ESO · July 2015

So there is no keep requirements to Enter the Imperial City? 24/7 access for all 3 sides? I thought the Imperial City was suppose to be a privlage and a reward for holding your home territory and being able to cut off access to you enemies?

Access to something is alot more special when it can be lost. this is what made Darkness Falls so great in DAOC

ZOS_BrianWheeler · July 2015

Access will be tested during the PTS cycle but for starters, it's open to all three sides.

gnarlly1b14_ESO · July 2015

I don't like that your forcing me into PVP . I don't care for PvP . Case and point , Checking things out and decided to go into Lambent passage. AS SOOn as i walked thru the door , there were at least 6 players from a different faction killing everyone that came thru the door . Its in every game i ever played . I don't care for PvP .I have quit games that made me PvP . As much as i like this game , i am not beyond throwing you the finger and taking my money else where.

Hootnannius · July 2015

I don't have the supernatural recovery passive showing up anymore. I have bats and mist form slotted and it doesn't appear on character page.

Do you want bug reports submitted here or in game?

Enodoc · July 2015

Hootnannius wrote: »

I don't have the supernatural recovery passive showing up anymore. I have bats and mist form slotted and it doesn't appear on character page.

Do you want bug reports submitted here or in game?

@Hootnannius Submit bugs in-game primarily, but it can't hurt to post them here (or at least, somewhere in the PTS forum if not specifically this thread) as well.

Toorlokviing · July 2015

first of all my suggestion are as follows so far.

on spawn points: make them higher so opposing factions cannot farm them...ive seen my faction and other factions farming their/our spawn points and it should be a safe haven of a sort temporarily to get your bearings imo/

on tel var stones: while i still think losing all of your stones aint too bad. when 5+ ppl of the opposite faction are killing you they should get less tel var stones than say if 1-3 are killing me. idk how you could implement that but if you can make it like that that would be fair i think. if you die to a mob id think you should lose any but thats just me...maybe make you lose 1-5? less than 20 would be nice.

for this pts specically plz put in 1-2 more campaigns....im getting campaign is full when attempting to jump into cyrodil

will be testing the gear out since i was able to bank some hopefully gear is less than 200 tel var..... will see.

Pirhana7_ESO · July 2015

gnarlly1b14_ESO wrote: »

I don't like that your forcing me into PVP . I don't care for PvP . Case and point , Checking things out and decided to go into Lambent passage. AS SOOn as i walked thru the door , there were at least 6 players from a different faction killing everyone that came thru the door . Its in every game i ever played . I don't care for PvP .I have quit games that made me PvP . As much as i like this game , i am not beyond throwing you the finger and taking my money else where.

Chances are they will go with a system where 1 alliance controls IC at a time by. So when your side has access and has cleared the enemy out it should be safe for the most part but you will still have to watch your back.

Your not forced to go to the IC and PVP. But they have been clear since the beginning that this is a mixed PVP and PVE game and if you want everything and to be as strong as possible you will have to do both. If you cant do that this probably isn't the game for you.

crazmadsci · July 2015

So far I am absolutely in love with PvP. I plan on writing in detail but just wanted to say that I love how it is PvP without forcing it into your face. You can fight monsters and enemy players. I love how you can miss players by accidentally attacking monsters.

Only Complaint: Currently for PTS testing there is only 1 PvP Campaign so you can only test the game on 1 faction. However I have a significant number of friends and characters on other factions. Is there anyway to drop your home campaign on a character so we can assign home on another character of another faction? Or for just testing can we play the same campaign with different factions toons.

For example: I wanted to group and play with Community Ambassador Miss Bizz but she plays AD and my main toon is DC.

Nifty2g · July 2015

Please change 0% stam regen to 50% stam regen while blocking @ZOS_GinaBruno this change is far too harsh for the casual pve player. Or remove it from affecting pve

Ethos_evos · July 2015

So me and my group experience a lot of crashing, it was a good 20-30 minutes of play time then I crashed randomly. I do agree with having another pvp server added, I was waiting in the queue a few times after I crashed and I got kicked out of cyrodil. A couple times I crashed while on the queue for what it seem randomly since my latency and FPS were pretty normal.

The Uninvited · July 2015

@ZOS_GinaBruno : I would love to do some testing, but it seems there are no V14 templates for EU? How am I supposed to test without them?

Edit: Never mind, found them!

SeptimusDova · July 2015

Will test more tomorrow. I found the entrance easy enough. Quest marker was accurate. Had 63 stones in less than an hour and lost them in a great fight in less than 4 minutes. Came back got more stones. Will test more tomorrow.Combat feels smoother for some reason. Did you guys polish the animations?

Rinmaethodain · July 2015

VR15 and VR16 enemies still drop only VR10-14 glyphs.

IMO VR15 and VR16 enemies should drop appropriate VR15 and 16 glyphs for a chance of getting VR15 and 16 runes while deconstructing.

Cinbri · July 2015

When i ported to IC, the moment when i leaved sewers and moved to IC districts i got insta-crashes every 1 min or right after log-on.
Elude skill is not working - you still not dodging.
Speed bug is still here.
In-Combat bug still here.

IWannaBeATiger · July 2015

Since I'm literally losing things when I die can we have better systems in place for lag? Cause I'd prefer to avoid taking 24k damage in a second from four separate attacks because I can deal with losing things because I'm bad at PvP just means I need to be sneakier and kill more slowly and carefully. But when all the damage comes at once because of lag its more than a little frustrating.

NobleNerd · July 2015

100% lose of stones was my most frustrating experience so far.

I would get to about 400 tv stones and get group ganked by an opposing faction (did not make a difference of being grouped myself, they just focused one at a time).

As far as the city itself. It is nice. The environment was epic, with battles happening. The scope and size of Imperial City is about what I expected, but it is very small for a DLC that is suppose to keep us entertained for a whole quarter. As a Pve and PvP player I do net see enough in this DLC that warranted 2 vet levels.

Player ganking/griefing, lack of fun repeatable content, and difficulty to obtain items needed for crafting are some of my concerns that will cause this DLC to not be enticing enough for many to bother purchasing.

Stillian · July 2015

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Xeniph · July 2015

I could be in the minority,

But as often as the game is shifting into first-person mode while exploring the city is driving me insane!!

I'd rather only see a wall than have it shift into first person. Also, either Tab Targeting was changed or is buggy. It's only highlighting folks and doesn't seem to "soft-lock" or provide the brackets any longer. This is a big issue with all the mobs about and usually mixed into the pvp fights.

Enodoc · July 2015

Xeniph wrote: »

I could be in the minority,

But as often as the game is shifting into first-person mode while exploring the city is driving me insane!!

I'd rather only see a wall than have it shift into first person. Also, either Tab Targeting was changed or is buggy. It's only highlighting folks and doesn't seem to "soft-lock" or provide the brackets any longer. This is a big issue with all the mobs about and usually mixed into the pvp fights.

@Xeniph I think somewhere in the patch notes they mention changing the visuals of tab-targeting from brackets to an outline. The functionality isn't supposed to have changed though.

Edit - Found it: UI -> Gameplay:

Updated the visual for your preferred target to a white outline around the target from the previous boxed reticle.

winterbornb14_ESO · July 2015

Forced PvP = Lost PvE customers.

You want to make a PvP game go ahead and make one but stop screwing up a PvE IP/Game to see if you can.
Why did you not learn this from EVERY other MMO that tried to do both half assed?

Enodoc · July 2015

I'm pretty sure someone mentioned this already, but I can't find it. Add-on SavedVariables on PTS aren't saving.

tplink3r1 · July 2015

Played it for 1~2 hours and experienced 0 lag(all alliances were locked)

tngunner · July 2015

Wow....... an that not a good wow I don't even no where to begin.... oh yea I do just trash this update please

Denidil · July 2015

More bank space, without busting our bank - or even better more bank space for the already spent 768.5k of gold. Maybe change it from having given us 10 slots per upgrade to 15 per upgrade. That would make it 330 slots instead of 240.

slinkybinxb14a_ESO · July 2015

I went into the PTS with my usual build to find I had to change it . I'm discouraged but plan to continue. I really like this game but don't like PVP. The other alliance was there to kill you before you could start. Frustrating

Joy_Division · July 2015

Would love to test the IC.

But I cannot with 2 of the 3 characters I play with since they are in different alliances.

Can you please remove the Alliance Restrictions from the PTS and Live for 2.1 so we can actually play the characters we have literally spend months on according to /play.

Thank you.

bastianwulfblood · July 2015

Block Kollopi Essence disguise. Plz and Thx

DEATHquidox · July 2015

NobleNerd wrote: »

100% lose of stones was my most frustrating experience so far.

I would get to about 400 tv stones and get group ganked by an opposing faction (did not make a difference of being grouped myself, they just focused one at a time).

As far as the city itself. It is nice. The environment was epic, with battles happening. The scope and size of Imperial City is about what I expected, but it is very small for a DLC that is suppose to keep us entertained for a whole quarter. As a Pve and PvP player I do net see enough in this DLC that warranted 2 vet levels.

Player ganking/griefing, lack of fun repeatable content, and difficulty to obtain items needed for crafting are some of my concerns that will cause this DLC to not be enticing enough for many to bother purchasing.

Im just curious (im on ps4, no pts ;-;) anyways the damage reductions and as far as that goes how is that exactly? Is it fair better fights and stuff? And how is the nerf for the sorcs streak? Thankyou

aco5712 · July 2015

fix the crashing coz alot of us cant test anything because of it

you broke templar and DK shields by nerfing all shields when sorc shields were the problem not the others...
now sorcs can tank 5 people without even trying because of how big their shields still are and you dont have the dmg or crit to take out the shields.

thats all i could get from the hour of combined play over the last 2 days because of crashing

Emeraude · July 2015

No one wanna be tank right now O.O

Imperial City Testing Suggestions &amp; Feedback Wanted

Imperial City Testing Suggestions & Feedback Wanted