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Re: The Official Vengeance Test Campaign Feedback Thread (Test 3)
This just sucks. The PVP server is basically dead right now, 10pm pacific. This is not normally the case on Grey Host. I know my PVP guild has basically cancelled Cyrodiil until Vengeance stops.
It feels like this test is just pointless - it's basically the same boring bigger zerg beats smaller zerg, whereas with ball groups functioning, a skilled, determined group of 12 can slow down a zerg quite dramatically.
If you don't have a handle on what is causing desync, lag etc in Cyrodiil at this point, you won't ever get it.
It feels like this test is just pointless - it's basically the same boring bigger zerg beats smaller zerg, whereas with ball groups functioning, a skilled, determined group of 12 can slow down a zerg quite dramatically.
If you don't have a handle on what is causing desync, lag etc in Cyrodiil at this point, you won't ever get it.
Romilly
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Re: The Official Vengeance Test Campaign Feedback Thread (Test 3)
The population is so dead nothing can be tested.
the question was asked, "how do you feel about the stripped down skills?"
we spend a lot of time to get those sets of armor and skills, so to have them all suddenly taken away makes you question all your effort youve sunk into the game over the last few years. it makes you wonder if its pointless to continue playing because anything else you work towards may also be yanked away from you.
it makes me question my commitment to the game, because im concerned about who is making these decisions.
im concerned about the reason vengeance was made. to test performance? there has got to be another way to test performance.
the fact your character moves slower during stealthed. how does that affect performance in ANY WAY? I question the changes, they seem irrelevant to performance issues, and feel more like balance issues.
the default settings for PS5 cause lag. you have to change several settings on the user interface. I play in cyrodiil daily, after fixing my settings, i experience almost zero lag.
if you are sincerely seeking ways to mitigate lag, investigate my settings. you will find a major improvement vs the default settings.
the question was asked, "how do you feel about the stripped down skills?"
we spend a lot of time to get those sets of armor and skills, so to have them all suddenly taken away makes you question all your effort youve sunk into the game over the last few years. it makes you wonder if its pointless to continue playing because anything else you work towards may also be yanked away from you.
it makes me question my commitment to the game, because im concerned about who is making these decisions.
im concerned about the reason vengeance was made. to test performance? there has got to be another way to test performance.
the fact your character moves slower during stealthed. how does that affect performance in ANY WAY? I question the changes, they seem irrelevant to performance issues, and feel more like balance issues.
the default settings for PS5 cause lag. you have to change several settings on the user interface. I play in cyrodiil daily, after fixing my settings, i experience almost zero lag.
if you are sincerely seeking ways to mitigate lag, investigate my settings. you will find a major improvement vs the default settings.
Re: Forum PvP is broken, needs balance changes asap (give forum feedback here)
Spamming the same exact argument even if it's not valid anymore is bad for the overall forum performance and should be dealt with. Stacking over time negativity should also be nerfed to the ground.
Re: ESO needs to add good gold generators to have a healthier economy
JHartEllis wrote: »Sellers have little information to work with on how to price things. I'd really rather have this moved more to the buyer's court with auctions, crafting bounties, finder's fees, and the like.The prices sellers on the traders set are very arguably not remotely based on supply and demand
I agree if you mean an actual auction house -- auction house functionality in terms of price setting is effectively immediate as buyers can compare all prices in the same place. I do take people's point, raised at various times in discussions of this, however, that there is a certain charm to ESO's bargain hunt. For that reason I keep pressing the idea of non-guild dependent traders open for selling by all, and adding a better search functionality that is more comprehensive but not necessarily completely comprehensive to do away with the absurd situation where all prices are set by whatever people are selling things for at a tiny clutch of locations people can actually be bothered to visit in numbers (eg Mournhold). Personally I wouldn't mind an auction house for the greater good of the game but it does strip the shopping experience away.
Re: “Joining Encounter in Progress” should have a confirmation check
SeaGtGruff wrote: »Because they're part of the dungeon? Not everyone runs dungeons just to grab gear or other rewards (lead, event coffer, event tickets) from the final boss or kill the required bosses (and only the required bosses) for the pledge.
I think a lot of folks in this forum forget that some people play video games to have fun lol.
Re: ESO needs to add good gold generators to have a healthier economy
Sellers have little information to work with on how to price things. I'd really rather have this moved more to the buyer's court with auctions, crafting bounties, finder's fees, and the like.The prices sellers on the traders set are very arguably not remotely based on supply and demand
Re: Forum PvP is broken, needs balance changes asap (give forum feedback here)
It's funny that some of these are calling for more moderation and the other for less. Personally, I think moderation has gotten a lot better.
Anyway, I think that one thing the forums need is more communication from staff outside of moderation. Give us updates, road map, let us know something has been relayed to the team more often, acknowledge that you've noted a bug, etc. Sometimes they could even join in on the harmless jokes.
Anyway, I think that one thing the forums need is more communication from staff outside of moderation. Give us updates, road map, let us know something has been relayed to the team more often, acknowledge that you've noted a bug, etc. Sometimes they could even join in on the harmless jokes.
Re: “Joining Encounter in Progress” should have a confirmation check
ESO_player123 wrote: »I guess I just do not understand the appeal of doing an optional boss for the 100th time in a base game dungeon.
For some players it's not the 100th time. For new players it may be the first time.
Re: What's So Fun About PvP?
There's fun in unpredictability. It's a great time to get with friends and work together towards a goal. I pvp in Cyro with a group. I'm constantly having fun both trying to improve and help the group. There's a challenge to it that's harder than anything else in the game, so when our group does well? Heck yeah, I love this game.
PvP isn't fun in Vengeance, or with low pop. Playing the same people over and over because the servers can't handle numbers or people are discouraged is the downside.
well said. id like to add
pve is the same no matter what. in pvp you can fight the same people, the same builds, and ALWAYS it will be different.
for example. npc's have set rotations or conditions that set off variety. players are different. and at the highest level, we are memorizing each others rotations and then editing them on the fly to try and get an edge.
also pvp zone chat is clearly the endgame of eso.
Re: Gatekeeping and the Beam Meta
SeaGtGruff wrote: »Toxicity and gatekeeping have been around longer than subclassing, longer than the Arcanist class, longer than "HA builds" became a "thing," and... wait for it... longer than ESO has been around! ZOS didn't create them, and doesn't encourage them. In fact, "toxicity" is one of the things you can report another player for-- although there isn't really a subcategory under it that seems appropriate for comments which insult or belittle other players.
Right, toxicity existed before ESO but you’re missing the point entirely. The game doesn’t just let toxicity happen, it creates the conditions for it. Weak sets, poor scaling, and meta funnels punish anyone trying to play differently. That’s what drives exclusion and gatekeeping, not just bad players. Ignoring the design problem doesn’t make it disappear.
I’ve played since closed BETA as well and here it is you that is missing the point, META stands for “most effective tactic available”. Most groups (especially if it’s vet) don’t want to turn a quick pledge run into a prog banging their head against a boss for an hour so they insist on a META whether that is tactics, builds etc to ensure a quick and mostly painless clear. You didn’t show any combat logs showing that you were carrying your weight and he did mention “carrying you” in chat before he left so I have a feeling you weren’t doing huge damage numbers so all we have is a “he said she said” scenario with the bizarre “gatekeeping” bogeyman invoked with nothing to back it up. For all we know he was running logs and decided the group’s damage and overall performance wasn’t up to par and left.
The game didn’t create the scenario that you describe as “toxic”. Players simply have expectations of performance for a good run when it’s veteran content and in the end it’s better if the player who doesn’t want to experience that leaves and allows you to get a fill rather than making snide comments in chat the entire time if he’s truly “toxic” - and I have met a couple of players over the past decade who actually fit that description but that type of player is exceedingly rare. You mentioned “play how you want” as a justification, but when it comes to group content “play how you want” doesn’t apply because group content is not about you, it’s about the group. Group content is “play what is effective” not “play how you want” out of respect for other group members’ time.That may also involve you doing a little “dummy humping” in order to increase damage if that was really the issue.
I run HA builds once in a while so I get it; they’re fun and while I’ve never been kicked from a trial/dungeon or disparaged in chat for running one because I’m doing solid damage they aren’t ideal for all content - especially after the nerfs over the past couple of years and they have a lower performance ceiling than a normal build. Why don’t you try running a meta build and see how you feel about it to have more flexibility?
