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Re: Overland Content Feedback Thread
SilverBride wrote: »It's not vindictive to not want players to have a free reign to change their difficulty choices multiple times a day to gain advantages. I suggested a token being required to change difficulty but a once a day cooldown would also help.
I can imagine a player seeing others fighting a world boss, so they crank up their difficulty and jump in to get the better rewards. Then they see another player gathering mats and they want to also gather mats, so they turn down their difficulty and start gathering mats faster. That is manipulating the system for advantages in my opinion and should be prevented.
I dont get it. Itat isnt abuse, That literally exactly the point of higher difficulty. Easy mat farming, hard bosses, or whatever. Theres no unfair advantage because everyone has access to that setting.
SilverBride wrote: »As I stated above, I feel being able to turn difficulty on and off multiple times a day at will could lead to manipulating the system for advantage. This was the example I gave for what I could see happening:
"I can imagine a player seeing others fighting a world boss, so they crank up their difficulty and jump in to get the better rewards. Then they see another player gathering mats and they want to also gather mats, so they turn down their difficulty and start gathering mats faster. That is manipulating the system for advantages in my opinion and should be prevented."
This also negates the whole reason for wanting more difficulty in the first place, which was often stated as immersion and feeling the bosses weren't really a threat, and overland mobs weren't a threat, etc., so why turn it off?
@ZOS_GinaBruno Are there going to be any restrictions to how often players can change their difficulty, such as cooldowns, to prevent this type of action?
I dont get it. That isnt abuse, That literally exactly the point of higher difficulty. Easy mat farming, hard bosses, or whatever. Theres no unfair advantage because everyone has access to that setting. And better rewards for harder content is Everywhere in the game already, i can spam vet trials and random vets as much as i want.
And no cooldowns.That stupid cp change one still drives me nuts, makes predefining builds in wizards so damn annoying.
Are people who think this way the only ones who tag Gina, etc? Explains alot.
Targeting issues. Flail seems to be affected.
ive posted before about a targeting bug we see in my guilds.
Maw of Lorkage where you pull the chains for the waves of enemies it a horrible place for targeting mobs. in this spot it seems that the only way to kill anything is to use environmental type attacks. but no direct attacks will target.
In VMA when the titan comes down you cannot target them. It has happened with force pulse and with flail.{more on this at the end)
In VAS plus 2 when the dragon(bad with names) goes up for storm the heavens i cannot target him with flail.
In graven deep, when the boss splits into copies and then attacks us with our own attacks, you cannot target them with flail.
In castle thorn several bosses randomly cannot be targeted with direct abilities like taunt or attacks.
The issue with flail is weird. Since flail is not an ability that needs a target to go off you would think that you could just flail and the it not do damage. However when we have instances where we cannot target the enemy, flail will not fire as long as our cursor is on the enemy target. For instance with the titan in vma i can look beside the titan and flail will work. then i can immediatly turn back to the titan and flail will not work.
ill make more posts as i find more places this is an issue.
Maw of Lorkage where you pull the chains for the waves of enemies it a horrible place for targeting mobs. in this spot it seems that the only way to kill anything is to use environmental type attacks. but no direct attacks will target.
In VMA when the titan comes down you cannot target them. It has happened with force pulse and with flail.{more on this at the end)
In VAS plus 2 when the dragon(bad with names) goes up for storm the heavens i cannot target him with flail.
In graven deep, when the boss splits into copies and then attacks us with our own attacks, you cannot target them with flail.
In castle thorn several bosses randomly cannot be targeted with direct abilities like taunt or attacks.
The issue with flail is weird. Since flail is not an ability that needs a target to go off you would think that you could just flail and the it not do damage. However when we have instances where we cannot target the enemy, flail will not fire as long as our cursor is on the enemy target. For instance with the titan in vma i can look beside the titan and flail will work. then i can immediatly turn back to the titan and flail will not work.
ill make more posts as i find more places this is an issue.
Re: Vengeance 4 perk and loadout system livestream announcement
Passing Vengeance off as a test has always felt pretty disingenuous to me for this reason. Do the developers really think we're that stupid? (Don't answer that. Many of us are.) What began as a "can we even do this?" exercise in validating performance assumptions/hunches has clearly morphed into a "omg, it's working -- this is how we fulfill our OG vision for massive warfare in Cyrodiil!"
I mean what did you expect to happen if the test showed positive results? Like I wouldn’t expect them to do these Vengeance tests and then make changes totally unrelated to their findings lol.
These "hard-coded" templates, loadouts, generic gear, morphless skills are NO REPLACEMENT for the depth of customization that ESO players have grown to expect with their characters over the past 10 years. Please stop pretending otherwise.
Sincerely,
A long-time Cyrodiil enjoyer and Vengeance hater
The level of build customization in ESO is not a good thing and it would actually be healthy if they reeled it back in. It’s an accessibility issue as is. Making a build now is so much more complex than it was in 2015-2016.
Even beyond ESO, overwhelming people with customization ends up creating niche audiences and hobbyists. As an example, PC gaming wouldn’t be nearly as big today if it wasn’t for pre-built systems and user friendly software and operating systems. You get more control and customization when you build your own PC of course, but there’s quite a bit of research and knowledge needed for that.
There has to be a balance between customization, accessibility, and user friendliness if you want something to reach a large audience.
Beyond that, this is PvP we are talking about. With ESO’s customization, 2 players can be fully geared out at max level and 1 of those players can literally have double the raw power of the other person. There’s so many situations where one build is simply better than another without any tradeoffs at all.
If someone is serious about fair PvP, why would
they put up with that? Truly competitive players or pvpers want to win or lose based on skill, otherwise they’ll quit for more skill based games. The lack of balance and the level at which you can outbuild someone keeps ESO unappealing to many of the people who enjoy PvP games.
Some level of build customization in ESO is fine. With sets and skill lines so wildly out of balance with each other though, it’s become a huge issue, both for accessibility and skill expression.
There’s definitely a vocal group of ESO “pvpers” that must love farming players with builds that can’t compete. If you really deserve to be getting kills, you’ll do just fine on more equal footing.
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Re: No base game update in 48?
All I even hear is that they are working on "more" but that "more" will be later. One may think that they are working on every single possible thing that players ever requested and they listen to players feedback but whenever they are supposed to deliver they claim that they looked at the stats and that's not it. When I've heard on the stream that they will do survey to get players feedback.... I mean, forums for the past few years were not enough?
We have specific questions that we will be asking in the surveys. And we also want to get the most recent feedback from folks. There is definitely feedback to look for here on the forums and other mediums. And the team has looked at those as well. But it’s always good to do a current gut check with folks. We don’t think anyone wants us to spend time on only making changes based on feedback given 2+ years ago. We want to give another opportunity with specific questions to get the most up to date info as the team continues to work.
Re: No base game update in 48?
In the past, big future plans didn’t change the amount of content released, so this is weird to me. ZOS used to release one big patch after another.
I also can’t see this being good for the population issue. I can’t even imagine how low it’s going to get after this.
It's not gonna be good that's for sure
I’m not insane but this game often makes me wonder if I might be wrong.
When queuing for a dungeon, I have no problem hearing when the timer runs out but I miss roughly fifty percent of the sound alerts letting me know my dungeon is ready. Are the two alerts at different volumes? Is the initial alert sound not functioning properly. I am literally sitting here, with no music, looking at my tablet and boom I hear the sound and see I am no longer queued.
Re: No base game update in 48?
Full summary:
I didn't see anything about QoL improvements.
I barely kept my eyes open during the stream, and my boyfriend (who has Elder Scroll tattoos) fell asleep.
Can we see the tattoos? That might be the highlight of this stream experience! 😂
Re: Vengeance 4 perk and loadout system livestream announcement
He also said that the same test you're talking about will happen alongside Grey Host. The vibe I got from that is that the end result would be a completed Vengeance mode alongside Grey Host if possible.
Yeah. They're testing both being live together and also said they've implemented some backend things to improve regular Cyrodiil performance and will continue to do so.
I think a version of Vengeance being released to replace the change of Ravenwatch being no proc makes sense, personally.
Re: No base game update in 48?
i know its unlikey this year but New life festival could really use an overhaul and its rewards to maybe make each quest for races engaging instead of a tedious chore @ZOS_Kevin
Re: Update 48 Livestream live reaction
AcadianPaladin wrote: »Light on combat changes sounds good to me. I've learned from experience to absolutely dread significant combat changes in the name of 'balancing'.
Unfortunately, “light on combat changes” is terrible to have for so long after throwing a nuke on balance.
If everything were good, sure, don’t fix what ain’t broken. But balance is very broken right now, and more going light on combat feels less like them not wanting to rock the boat and more like them just now realizing that Subclassing was not at all thought out before being unleashed and now they don’t know how to fix it.
…you know, almost like exactly what the PTS testers warned about
tomofhyrule
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