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Re: Future of Battlegrounds
Assuming Zenimax ever decides to spend the time (maybe two weeks?) it would take to revamp all of the three-sided objective modes, and we're granted these incredible gifts:
Chaosball >> Deathmatch with chaosball.
Crazy King >> Deathmatch with flags.
Domination >> Deathmatch all around, probably the closest we can get to a free for all.
Capture the Relic >> Deathmatch with training wheels.
First of all its ZOS. I would be seriously surprised if they managed to make changes like that within a year.
Do you honestly believe anyone would still choose to play two-teams?
Second, yes absolutely.
Re: Public formal confirmation that griefing and bullying isn't against Code of Conduct
I can give one number, my own.
As a new player I tried (random normal) dungeons multiple times. It was horrible. You queue as dps thinking there will be a tank to hold aggro and a healer to keep everyone alive. Instead you die to a bunch of trash mobs while half the group is sprinting to the end boss.
I switched to what was, in my mind, a healer build. You know, resto staff and slotting healing skills. I got mocked and sometimes kicked for doing that instead of going pure damage.
And don't even think about talking to the quest giver, that will definitely get the rest of the group irritated.
I didn't quit the game over it, but I did start to play it as a single player game, ignoring any group based content. The moment I started dungeons again was much, much later, once I was good enough to outrun the speedrunners and live.
I still don't think that dps sharing and logs are the core issue (see my previous post). But I definitely agree that the game generates toxicity by design.
Well… welcome to ESO!
This is a game where you need to complete quests for skill points, but in group content you practically have to say “please” before the others let you talk to the quest giver—otherwise you’ll get ignored, mocked, or even kicked out.
It’s a game where you’ll be ridiculed no matter what role you try to play:
- A new tank? You’ll be mocked.
- A new healer? Mocked.
- A new DPS? Same story.
If you play solo, ESO feels amazing at first. But once you know the basics, you realize that outside of gear grinding there’s no real challenge left in the story content. It becomes easy, repetitive, and eventually boring.
You don’t believe DPS sharing and logs are at the core of the problem… well, give it time. Once you push further into the game, you’ll understand exactly what I mean.
This is just so untrue it's almost comical. I hope that people who are thinking of trying group content don't see this and think this is reality. If you read through the thread you will see many people giving the actual truth of the matter. I won't rehash everything but the gist is this.
If you join a random group anything can happen. You will not always be with people who want to play the same as you but often times you will find great people who just want to finish the dungeon. The majority of my randoms go like this. I type evening. Some might say hey! We do the dungeon and say GGs at the end.
Now if you're interested in doing veteran dungeons or trials. My advice to you would be to find a good guild. We teach vet dungeons in scheduled groups multiple times a week as well as trials. No dps requirements. Just the desire to learn.
I'm curious why someone would just show up in a random vet run, knowing nothing about it and expect the rest of the group to be happy. Now, that's not to say there is no problems. Yes people speed run. Yes there are trolls. Some people may vote to kick you or leave the group because you're not doing enough damage. That's random for you though. There's no way for Zos to police that and they shouldn't. They gave us plenty of tools to take care of it ourselves. Make a group finder group. Join a guild. Re-que and try again. Why let some bad people ruin your fun.
At the end of the day, this community is a pretty good one. I've met and even friended great people, some of whom I met in random groups. Don't let some obvious bitterness from someone with an agenda fool you into thinking different.
Re: Cross Save / Cross Platform / Cross Play coming?
SilverBride wrote: »dk_dunkirk wrote: »[snip]
We all should be on it and address potential problems now while they can still be dealt with rather than waiting until it's implemented.
Are you always doing that? Adressing every potential problem wich could show up before anything is set? Nothing has been announced, lets find some problems 👍
No, I'm not always doing that. But for something this major that has major complications that could arise I think it's best to work these out before we are stuck with it.
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Re: Cross Save / Cross Platform / Cross Play coming?
dk_dunkirk wrote: »[snip]
We all should be on it and address potential problems now while they can still be dealt with rather than waiting until it's implemented.
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Re: How would a forced name change due to Crossplay affect you?
At this point, this game really should allow multiple people to have the same character name, especially if that would ease concerns that some players have regarding crossplay.
[Housing] Weapons as furnishings
Hi guys !
I'm pretty sure I've been this topic submitted several weeks ago but I might be mistaken or am unable to find it again, so, here it is.
I'm currently re-furnishing my Alpine Antiquarian House, I'm pretty sure it's not the actual name, in Western Skyrim, cause the first time, when I got it through an event, I didn't do anything interesting with it, and now I'm, among other things, setting a strategy room.
A NORD strategy room.
With a bar, stools, beverages and drinkware, and I think it would be interesting to have a table (check) with maps (check, I went with Craglorn) and some weapons disposed here and there. I mean, we're talking about Nords, these guys probably have a battleaxe next to their bed, just in case.
And really, it would be awesome, I think, if we had the possibility to have weapons as furnishings. Obviously not all weapons, it would represent a tremendous amount of assets to create, but I don't know, just the basic races styles ? Or even weapons on a plaque to set on a wall would be great, after all, we could do that in Skyrim. Pretty please ? *_*
I'm pretty sure I've been this topic submitted several weeks ago but I might be mistaken or am unable to find it again, so, here it is.
I'm currently re-furnishing my Alpine Antiquarian House, I'm pretty sure it's not the actual name, in Western Skyrim, cause the first time, when I got it through an event, I didn't do anything interesting with it, and now I'm, among other things, setting a strategy room.
A NORD strategy room.
With a bar, stools, beverages and drinkware, and I think it would be interesting to have a table (check) with maps (check, I went with Craglorn) and some weapons disposed here and there. I mean, we're talking about Nords, these guys probably have a battleaxe next to their bed, just in case.
And really, it would be awesome, I think, if we had the possibility to have weapons as furnishings. Obviously not all weapons, it would represent a tremendous amount of assets to create, but I don't know, just the basic races styles ? Or even weapons on a plaque to set on a wall would be great, after all, we could do that in Skyrim. Pretty please ? *_*
Re: [Bug] Infinite Archive Leaderboard Not Updating
is arc 2 not abit low for leaderbord placement ?
Re: What is the point of having Patch Notes if massive changes go undocumented?
Consider bringing bonuses to underpopulated factions to Cyrodiil.
Cyrodiil has forever been a "rich get richer, poor get poorer" environment where one side is rewarded by game design choices for snowballing. It also actively discourages under-populated sides from even attempting to play on the map. Such bonuses would be very useful in evening the odds and allowing outnumbered sides to effectively fight back.
Late-night players, especially, would likely appreciate it, as that is when population is lowest overall. It could also help to bring some life back to the currently dead campaigns. Campaigns that were killed-off by relentless population imbalances driving away the players on the other factions.
Cyrodiil has forever been a "rich get richer, poor get poorer" environment where one side is rewarded by game design choices for snowballing. It also actively discourages under-populated sides from even attempting to play on the map. Such bonuses would be very useful in evening the odds and allowing outnumbered sides to effectively fight back.
Late-night players, especially, would likely appreciate it, as that is when population is lowest overall. It could also help to bring some life back to the currently dead campaigns. Campaigns that were killed-off by relentless population imbalances driving away the players on the other factions.
Re: Cross Save / Cross Platform / Cross Play coming?
Finedaible wrote: »I highly doubt ESO's servers or their spaghetti engine would ever be capable of a feat such as cross-play and I haven't seen any indication of it being worked on either. Default response will always be "never say never" but that doesn't change reality.
Furthermore, I don't see why anyone would think cross-play is some magic bullet that's going to solve the game's problems. If anything cross-play is likely to introduce more bugs and performance issues. In my opinion there are far more important things to work on such as Cyrodiil performance, finishing hybridization, and untangling years of neglected systems. With Subclassing and the consequences of that, I'm sure they have an overflowing plate of higher priorities to set straight. Heck, they should have finished hybridization and revamped Provisioning/alchemy like 5 years ago.
I dont wanna be this guy butAs Rich noted during Gamescom, crossplay is being worked on. There is a lot of work to go through because ESO was built way before crossplay was part of the industry. And there is 11yrs worth of content, systems and data to go through. The last thing we want is for systems to be heavily impacted by crossplay and have it an impact on your overall gameplay experience. So it's something we have to be extra careful about. Nothing else to report right now, but there is a team focused on crossplay.
I don't want to be the guy that keeps repeating himself, but...Kevin is forgetting that they said "we are seeing IF it can be done." That IF is the big thing being left out.
Now everyone actually is set on expecting it to be released guaranteed. There is more doubt crossplay won't actually happen. Stop getting your hopes up. Why does this thread even exist when this was repeated over and over again in the other crossplay thread, and then derailed into what it basically is now and then closed?
Re: Disappearing Grand Master Blacksmithing Station
I'll jump back in and agree that moving the station seems to fix the issue. Rather than having it pushed as far back toward a wall as I could get while still getting the green placement aura, I pulled it a couple or three ticks away from anything else close by (walls and a crafted bookcase) and the problem went away. It's possible that the original problem got fixed and wasn't in earlier patch notes (it happens), but eliminating the possibilities which are under your control is a good first step.
