Whooo! When I heard "swimming mounts", I expected them to be adding a couple of aquatic-capable mounts, not that ALL mounts could now swim!

They even gave the stick-horse a special behavior! (sure, it's the existing running-shouldered animation, but I like the fact that it was taken into consideration).

And you can jump, like a dolphin! The heffalump jumping in the water looks GLORIOUSLY silly, I kinda regret not getting it.

On my little two-man speedboat, the Vivec canals are no longer a slow curse, but a fun and beautiful cruise! Southeastern Summerset with its "Treasure map VI" is no longer a grind!

It has opened up the waterways. As an explorer type, this has completely changed traversal for me. I need to re-explore all the old haunts, from a new perspective. Rivers are no longer an obstacle, but a route to explore! I just entered Riften... through the canals! It is a really scenic way to re-explore places.

I absolutely did not expect to be enjoying this as much as I do.

MincMincMinc wrote: »

They have already gone over and upgraded the hardware with really no difference.

For about 6-9 months post-hardware upgrade, the game ran at a level I'd never seen in it's history up till that point (and since!). I was streaming often during this time and would frequently be in keeps where there were 50+ players present and on screen at once with zero ability delay whatsoever.

I wish they would explain why the performance suddenly degraded back to pre-upgrade levels just a short 6 months later. It was like someone had flipped a switch - they released a patch and suddenly the ability delay was back during prime time. Since they never bothered to offer any explanation for this series of events, we're just left to speculate on what occurred. Whether the sudden drop was related to the return of ball groups en masse, the spaghetti code compounding the issues further each consecutive patch, or a straight up reduction in server capacity for a reason not given to us.

But to say there was no difference at all is just untrue - the upgrade was genuinely the one single thing they've done in the history of the game that actually made a difference, and a massive one at that.

MincMincMinc wrote: »

They have already gone over and upgraded the hardware with really no difference. If the issue is terrible code, new hardware won't fix things. Well, sure maybe if we leap forward to quantum computing it could handle the shear volume of calculations. The game is just too bloated after 15-20 years of the code being worked on by different employees. It probably doesn't help that zos keeps adding in bloat and putting new layers ontop of new layers every other patch.

Having no control or not putting their foot down when it comes to power creep is only going to make things worse. We already have skills and set bonuses that are multiple paragraphs long. At what point will we have short novels for tooltips? We already have to look and compare multiple out of game Wiki's to understand status effects and offbalance.

The stat and combat system is just not clear and concise to any degree.

Patently false.

The only time in the history of Cyrodiil that we had near flawless performance for months, with a pop cap of 200-300 players/faction at the time, was the three months after they replaced the server hardware.

FIXED

It's Synced Account Settings. Noted on the ESOUI page: "If you can't move the camera up and down with the mouse, set the "Camera - Vertical Lock Speed" game option to a normal value and redo your settings save in the addon."

Just go in to Settings -> Camera and you'll see that Vertical Look Speed is set to minimum. Just pop that back to where it's supposed to be and done.

Now that we have swimming pets and mounts will slaughterfish eat and kill our mounts and pets and we'll have to purchase them again from the crown store?