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Re: Season of the Worm Cult
That‘s the problem: We don‘t know what we get when we purchase the pass. We always had the chance to test everything we’re getting on the PTS. But with the Content Pass we can only test the first part before buying it. Nobody knows about part 2 of Seasons of the Worm Cult yet. And yet we already payed for it several months ago.While I do think the season pass is overpriced and cuts into the worth of ESO+, it's not a scam. It's clear what you'll get for your money; whether that is worth the price or not is up to the individual.
It's true we don't know the details of the story, but we know we are getting a story. As someone who doesn't ever try out content on the PTS, I've never made my decision on whether or not to buy the chapters based on the ability to play it first. If someone prefers to have played through/tested all the content before purchasing, then not being able to do that right away is a drawback for them, but still not a scam. People could still wait to test all the content before buying it if they so choose.
Re: How would a forced name change due to Crossplay affect you?
So one group will enjoy lots of lag, brilliant idea.G1Countdown wrote: »I think it would be easier to add the server after our acct names @G1Countdown (PC/NA). The system could automatically add it when you link your acct name in chat.
I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that they could drop the geography (NA/EU) as it will be the same for everyone. If they actually do crossplay, NA will crossplay with NA and EU will crossplay with EU.
zaria
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Re: Vengeance – An Unsustainable False Positive
AngryPenguin wrote: »xylena_lazarow wrote: »Catering to comp groups resulted in a dead game, so now they need to give the casual zergers a win. They're the bulk of the Cyro player base, so that's the only way this turns around, and that's why I'm pro-Vengeance. It's the best chance for the game to survive. I loved the Live build system for years but it's beyond the point of no return, there's no fixing it.AngryPenguin wrote: »vengeance is the "Nobody wins" button.
It isn't the comped groups that killed the Cyodiil population. I think you know that. You've been here for the duration. It was horribly bad performance that killed PvP for most of us. Comped groups, even today, make up less than half the population. Most groups that think they're ball groups aren't. Maybe 30% of the players actually play in a comped ball group, and that's only during prime time on some days. And since when has ZOS catered to anything PvP, let alone ball groups?
I get it. Not everyone is welcome in a group. But that doesn't mean the best business choice going forward is to run off the vast majority of those of us who still play PvP daily or cater to the handful that actually like vengeance. You said yourself you don't play ESO anymore since June, so why keep lobbying for a change you know most of the remaining daily PvP players hate? You're making it seem like a personal thing you have against those of us left that still enjoy the game.
Those of us that still play are still mystified as to why ZOS has made ZERO effort to limit cross healing and shield stacking. It's a much simpler fix than reinventing the wheel....a square wheel in the case of vengeance. Vengeance isn't the only option for the future of Cyodiil. They could always try what almost the entire PvP population has been begging them to try for years.
Yeah the pop died to zos hitting a brickwall and the corporate overlords thinking it was not worth the risk to resolve the issue when they could just guaranteed pump out more content for pve.
Now adays though group mechanics and interactions are just the nail in the coffin. Cyrodil basically has two playerbases. You have the solo/smallman/pugzergs ......... vs the comp ballgroups and comp guildgroups. Normally this already existed, but the fact zos pushed so many stacking stat bonuses, hots, shields, effects, etc that they just power crept these players 10-100x. When they were already stronger than the others numerically and build knowledge wise.
I mean does it make sense to give more calculations on top of more calculations to your most taxing population base? I mean it already didnt make sense to disadvantage the solo and casual players more while buffing the already advantaged comp groups.
Re: Vengeance – An Unsustainable False Positive
The Hybrid patch was the beginning of the end. Now everybody is a Tank, Healer and DPS at the same time which led to boring, stagnant and never ending fights as well as ball groups camping a keep for two hours.
Re: Vengeance – An Unsustainable False Positive
GloatingSwine wrote: »MincMincMinc wrote: »GloatingSwine wrote: »xylena_lazarow wrote: »
99% of Vengeance is unstoppable doomtrains zerging from fort to fort inevitably capturing them without using most of the siege mechanics because sheer mass of bodies overwhelms the need for them whilst someone else's doomtrain inevitably captures a different fort and then they swap. Successful defences against the enemy mass are rare as hen's teeth because the distance between forts is too long and the attacker gets much more benefit from mass than the defender.
And it's fun but wouldn't hold interest long term.
(Vengeance in something like its current fixed-loadout form as an intermittently recurring event once the testing is finished will get more engagement to the mode than other events though).
You have to remember that they are essentially redesigning the game from the ground up......probably not a bad thing after 15+ years of devs pulling and tugging knotted code and interns copy and pasting things all over the place. The reality is that systems like sets and bonuses are still probably several tests out.
- make base skills
- make morphs
- make damage based on stats ( right now it is just flat numbers like oblivion damage)
- Bring simply stat changes like mundus, food, and passives
- simple gear armor weights and enchants
- basic nonproc armor sets
- stat proc armor sets
- Proc effects like proc effect set, or weapon enchants, or weapon poisons, or status effects
- Group sets
So people are going to be mad and conspiratorial towards vengeance for a while considering we are on a 3 month test schedule. This even assumes that they won't do rule change tests somewhere in this list for things like no cross healing outside of groups, or no over time effect stacking, or no smart healing, or hots cleansing themselves at full hp, etc.
I was more talking about how the gameplay loop of vengeance is driven more by its high population relative to normal Cyrodiil, that's what generates the giant doomtrains that overwhelm the utility of siege devices and make attacker highly favoured at forts.
Oh sure, there could be rebalances for the seige vs the playercount. The population though is what it should be though. Now its a matter of what systems are going to bring issues as they add them back in.
Or they should just remake the whole zone since they are talking about the base game refreshes. Maybe make better keep assets or literally any difference between them. Something like aleswell could have more townhouses around it for city fighting. Ash could be built into the mountain. Allessia could be on the river. IDk shake things up to be more interesting. Maybe more transit lines to connect the outer keeps and towns to trikeeps. There was enough people in vengeance that each direction could have more transitus lines to fight over. Spreading out the players makes the game feel less like mount simulator and helps dilute the potential lag
Re: Would you want to play with people on other Platforms or in other Regions?
yes i would love Crossplay between all the platforms and i hope it eventually happens.
merging the NA and EU megaservers?
i would not be opposed to playing with everyone, but how do you even merge servers that are an ocean away physically?
merging the NA and EU megaservers?
i would not be opposed to playing with everyone, but how do you even merge servers that are an ocean away physically?
Re: How would a forced name change due to Crossplay affect you?
No one should have to rename their character for that. If it's an issue cross platform shouldn't happen.
Re: Would you want to play with people on other Platforms or in other Regions?
If there is no impact on performance and the economies don't get wrecked I don't care what they do as far as crossplay goes. I don't really want to see a little pc after my characters names or something like that but that would be a small inconvenience if crossplay otherwise makes the game better.
kargen27
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Re: Would you want to play with people on other Platforms or in other Regions?
I can't vote because of the biased poll. I think they should offer cross play (same region) for consoles but keep PC separate. That's how a lot of games do it and it makes sense.
Re: Season of the Worm Cult
Modern MMO's are profit driven. Even if they do not start that way, most end up that way. This package was expensive but I admit purchasing it because it gave access to old zones. It's good to give pushback on extreme pricing and the discomfort of having to buy stuff all the time while limiting good in game rewards. When's the last time they gave out a great mount as a in game reward? We need game play incentives not just pony up your wallet for a pony.
