nb_rich wrote: »

You also posted a 170K parse when im talking about real content In real content your not going to stand behind a boss for the entire fight (some enemies you cant get close to), have full health the whole time and not have to move, so majority of parse builds are useless and don't show any real situation. There is no situation in the game fatecarver cannot be used while all other spammables have situations they cant be used.

In real content there is absolutely no upside to using any other spammable besides fatecarver. Why use jabs when fatecarver does more damage, keeps me alive and can be used at range ? Why is surprise attack when fatecarver does more damage to multiple targets, can be used from range and keep me alive ? Why use the skull spammable from necro when you have to aim your cursor at a target, doesnt provide any survivability and does less damage lol ? Oh also keep in mind all those spammables are more difficult to sustain than fatecarver.

Charles plays builds like that in content. Many good players do. Not everyone needs training wheels. Except for the last 3 trials, they were all completed before Fatecarver was a thing.

I play full rotation melee range LA builds in content and it just means I have to pay attention.

Most ESO trial players don't like to pay attention. They like to chat and meme the entire raid. It's the kind of end game community you get when 99.99% of the game is super ezmode.

If one thinks Fatecarver is necessary, they are probably part of its target audience.

ToddIngram wrote: »

I'm getting super bad performance. Often over 250ms lag and rarely over 45 fps. If there is a fight of any size there is often 400+ ms lag and fps drops to less than 10 frequently and is normally 10-25 fps. What's going on?

(I've done all the troubleshooting offered on ZOS' website and changed some setting with my graphics card, nothing has worked. I have a Geforce 3080Ti)

MorallyBipolar wrote: »

I've been trying to troubleshoot why I have such low FPS with ESO lately. It's not on my end. With Unigine benchmark testing for my video card I got a score that was more than 50% higher than was is recommended for gaming applications. Average FPS was 350+ and the worst the test could produce was 35 FPS. Yet in game I'm dropping to below 20 FPS and sometimes below 10FPS.

Something is very wrong with server side with ESO. FPS is not supposed to be tanked by the servers. FPS is supposed to be a client side issue.

Arrow312 wrote: »

Saturday evening at prime time in Cyro it was a disaster, DC, rollback, you couldn't change the bar and the wonderful lag of 1-3 sec. I don't know where all this is going to lead. Perhaps we should now analyse the data to see what is affecting the server. by the way i turned my settings to minimum but it did not work.

blktauna wrote: »

stutter lag and un targetable dc as well as skill delay in IC. so much fun (not)

IF you are on windows 11 I'd put all my money on you having a cpu allocation issue. I also had this issue and my fps dropped from around 100 to 24. (FFIW anything above 60 in this game isn't doing you much of anything so you're better to just lock it around 60 so you don't have dramatic spikes/dips).

Step 1: You need to allocate your cpu in the settings file... the way ESO/Windows11 are handing allocation isn't working correctly - especially if you have ANY background tasks open (discord, spotify, chrome, etc).

Try this:
If you have lag problems in ESO since a specific windows 11 update (24h2) (especially during loading screens and occasionaly in game), find you processor specs, it's number of cores and number of threads, open your ESO UserSettings.txt file and find these 3 settings:

SET MaxCoresToUse.4
-> here enter the number of cores for your processor multiplied by 3/4 (n*3/4) (round to the higher integer if the result is not an integer)
SET RequestedNumJobThreads
-> here enter the number of threads for your processor multiplied by 2/3 (n*2/3) (round to the higher integer if the result is not an integer)
SET RequestedNumWorkerThreads
-> here enter the number of threads for your processor multiplied by 2/3 (n*2/3) (round to the higher integer if the result is not an integer)

It solved the lag problems for me, don't modify if you have no lag.

Step2: This is a long one but this was the final change I had to make before my fps issues and lockups went away. (You're still going to have lower fps in Cyro fwiw but this made it so I didn't go from 100 to 4 and then everything lockup

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/584759/frame-rate-cap-adjustment-how-to-limit-your-fps-from-being-too-high-updated

Edit: I totally borked the quote system...

MorallyBipolar wrote: »

There hasn't been a low turnout for this years MYM event. Every faction has been pop locked since the event began except for a few hours when most using NA server are in bed.

Why are you trying to claim there has been such low turnout this event when there hasn't been is the question.

MorallyBipolar wrote: »

Can you please post your data showing that this years MYM event is experiencing a reduced turn out.

Thank you.

MorallyBipolar wrote: »

Could it be that, to someone who hasn't been PvP'ing for a couple years or more just hasn't realized that the pop caps have been slashed to 60-75 players/faction?

[snip]

A pop locked Grey Host is normal. The fact that PvP populations have been slashed is just further evidence of decline, because even with slashed populations, Blackreach wasn't close to being full for most of the day. Imperial City used to fill up during these events, and you could find pretty large groups in the added IC campaigns. This year even the main IC is getting like 1 bar per faction... that's a massive difference.

Also this isn't unique to PC NA, I was curious and checked the Xbox NA population bars at various points in the day and it was the same story.

[edited for baiting]

The thing to understand about Arc is that it's a little more than a class because of Fatecarver.

Fatecarver isn't only an ability, it is a distinct play style. IMO, it was engineered to be such, positioned between heavy attack and light attack weaving play styles.

This play style is not going anywhere. It's too popular. And I don't think it's necessary in the era of subclassing.

I'm OK with a DD bias towards Arc. Why? Because the play style is cemented, the only alternative would appear to give every class a homogenized Fatecarver-like play style which I would hate because it would mean sacrificing other parts of the game.

And the thing is, Arc isn't necessary for DDs. There are other strong builds out there. I've seen strong non-Arc builds with Jabs and Surprise attack as the spammable, for example.

Here's a video of an off-meta build that immediately comes to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGDa78_EM0E

Just because MOST players follow the meta doesn't mean they have to. And there ALWAYS be a meta that favors certain classes and abilities. Let's not push ZOS down the path of homogenization again. Diversity is fun for those who enjoy it.

I am a seasoned gamer playing video games since the era of C64 and hands down ESO has one of the worst RNG of any video game that I have ever played. The "R" in RNG is not really standing for "random". I am more and more convinced that what pretends to be "random" is actually deterministic with a certain randomized bandwidth around the deterministic number.

Best example is tales of tribute. Not only do the cards in the tavern have patron phases where cards for a certain patron come up together or chained one after the other, also the cards that one gets in one's hand from the draw pile is not really random. At the beginning one has one card per patron. When you buy one the probability that the two patron cards are in your hand simultaneously in one of the next turns looks significantly higher than 50%. And this observation is not one made over a couple of matches but over weeks.

I am quite sure that also the furniture plan drop is more deterministic than really random.

I wish ZOS would listen to us on this topic. Aren't they all about testing things these days? Would it kill them to test out adding in a three team queue for a while? No doubt going to two teams was somebody's baby, I wonder if they were surprised when everybody didn't do cartwheels.

Objectively, I think two team bg's has been successful. I know here on PS5/NA the queues always seem full, you can play match after match and its not just the same 16 people getting shuffled every time. There's new people every game, sure you see the regulars....regularly... but the teams aren't the same comp over and over.

That being said, the regulars of today are not the same as the regulars of the three team era. It would be nice if ZOS were to take steps to draw those players back in, to accommodate the much repeated requests and feedback of the people who care enough to contribute to this forum and to recognize that this issue isn't going away just because they've chosen to ignore it.

Many people, on multiple threads, have asked for a 4v4v4 queue to be reinstated in addition to the current two team queues. Radio silence. Not "we'll think about it", not " there's not a snowballs chance in helll", not nothing. Their lack of acknowledgment isnt just frustrating, at this point its downright rude.

The in-game tutorial for Battlegrounds states Three team Battlegrounds are available during certain holiday weekends ". You couldn't prove that by me, there's been a lot of holidays since last November when you all took three team games away from us. I want to know when, at this point if, there will be a 4v4v4 weekend event? I'm sure many of us would like to know about such an event well in advance so we can request those days off from work. I dont think the 'ol jobby job would take kindly to our calling in sick for four days in a row. Or you could, I dunno, listen to our feedback and acknowledge our repeated and pointed requests for the reinstatement of a 4v4v4 queue. Or tell us why its impossible, or tell us you'll test it out, or tell us you'll think about it. Gettin pretty tired of yelling into the void here ZOS.

Rant over. I play two team every day. I love battlegrounds and as long as there are battlegrounds to play I will remain a loyal customer. But I want variety, to be able to choose my format. I want my loyalty to mean something, to be acknowledged, to be worthy of an answer even if the answer is No. Thanks.

@ZOS_JoBurba @ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Malyore wrote: »

The gaming industry sounds so exhausting. As a consumer it's hard to get excited about anything in it these days. So much of the game experience gets contaminated and is pulled away from the actual games by feeling a company is gutting itself and creating sloppy content and bad decisions. When I'm playing a game and am constantly thinking about the damaging internal/external workings of a company while I play it, that's not a good thing... And I feel like that's a common experience with many large-scale game companies nowadays.

It's pretty much always been like this. Two incidents come to mind immediately, but they are not isolated incidents!

In 2004, Hoffman became known for an initially anonymous blog post under the name "EA Spouse".[1] The post, made on November 11, 2004 to LiveJournal, sharply criticized the labor practices of Electronic Arts. It was widely distributed in the video game industry.[6] In 2006, Hoffman's identity as the poster was made public.[7]

Hoffman's actions, in part, led to the filing of three class action lawsuits against EA and some changes throughout the industry at large, such as the reclassification of entry-level artists as hourly employees, thus making them eligible for overtime under California law.[8] Her fiancé, EA employee Leander Hasty, was the main plaintiff in the successful class-action suit on behalf of software engineers at EA, which in 2007 awarded the plaintiffs $14.9 million for unpaid overtime.[9] After the affair and the court action, Hoffman and Hasty founded GameWatch, a watchdog organization meant to facilitate discussions between employees at different companies. It was closed in 2012.[10]

Google EA spouse incident.

In 2007, after a total debacle of the launch of Vanguard SOH, Brad McQuaid's highly anticipated follow-up to Everquest....

Ex-Sigil: Three weeks ago. We knew for 3 weeks that layoffs were likely, but nobody said what, when, or how many. So that cloud was over our heads for nearly a month.

f13.net: Can you go into detail about how the final month progressed? How did events unfold?

Ex-Sigil: We kept getting told that the deal was 'in the works' but there were no details to be had. This went on for 2 weeks. Then fairly quickly people started figuring out things were imminent. Then yesterday we were told to grab our things we'd need for the rest of the day and head outside for a company meeting.

f13.net: Was an email sent out, IM sent out, who told you to go outside?

Ex-Sigil: Email. The email said literally to check in any work we were working on, grab anything we'd need for the evening (keys, wallet, purse, whatever) and meet out back for a short company meeting.

f13.net: Who sent the email?

Ex-Sigil: Andy Platter. Director of Production, though nobody at the company knew if he did anything.

f13.net: Go on.

Ex-Sigil: We met in the parking lot. Worse still... though Dave was supposedly in charge all this time, Andy is the one who delivered the 'you're all fired' speech, while Dave never said a single word.

f13.net: Who was standing at the front with Andy?

Ex-Sigil: Dave Gilbertson, Ryan Elam, and Donna Parkinson (the office manager).

f13.net: What was the speech you got?

Ex-Sigil: it was very emotionless. Very callous. "The deal is done, and basically you're all fired so some of you can be re-hired by SOE." Bill was there and actually made comments about how he was likely buying a house thanks to his stock.

Then there's these:
https://mmoculture.com/2014/09/the-elder-scrolls-online-layoffs-hit-developer-zenimax-online-studios/
https://mmoculture.com/2015/08/the-elder-scrolls-online-more-staff-laid-off-after-successful-launch/

This isn't just gaming though. The entire entertainment industry has a brutal dark side. It's because these industries are so glamorous, people are willing to sacrifice and compromise themselves to be part of it. These are always high stakes, high risk products with lots of pressure to perform.

Was in Cyrodiil the other day and basically, I spent that time questing and high-fived at least a dozen people from different factions. Everyone got along great and there was for the most part no fighting going on between us.

The rest of it was DC bombers killing everyone else, one-shotting folks at full mitigation (or more), so there's no point in trying to even bother with that. Had a lot of fun questing, met some new friends from AD. Nice folks.

Subclassing is the game’s greatest joke, rolling in like a clown car full of bad decisions. Its influence is spreading like a plague, tearing through everything—events included.