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Re: Hard Group Checks in U47 Dungeons
This just seems like a big nothing burger of a complaint. Nothing is really stopping you from just grabbing a random stranger, friend or guildie and say:
"Hey step on this pad so I can get into this dungeon. You can leave right after."
This is no different than the needing all twelve players in Atherien Archive on pads or else you can't go through. I guess sorry that solo players cannot go inside 4-man dungeons?
But doesn’t someone leaving right after trigger the dungeon exiting countdown? Or do you mean:
“Hey step on this pad so I can get into this dungeon. Then, stay grouped with me until I tell you that I’m done with it so it won’t kick me out.”
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Re: Hard Group Checks in U47 Dungeons
I recently started doing solo trifectas in vet DLC dungeons (or at least both No Death & Hard Mode), and I don't understand why solo runs seem to upset the devs so much.
Why can't players just be allowed to play the way they want?
Solo high-level content makes up less than 2% of the game. And now we can't even do things like solo dungeon runs?
Why? Please help me understand—I genuinely don't get it.
Why can't players just be allowed to play the way they want?
Solo high-level content makes up less than 2% of the game. And now we can't even do things like solo dungeon runs?
Why? Please help me understand—I genuinely don't get it.
Re: Is "teabagging" [still] considered Trolling and/or Toxic?
Why would anyone want to teabag? It's kinda' childish. Belongs in kinergarden, not in a game for grown ups.
Re: Why is the answer to ballgroups always sets?
CalamityCat wrote: »Disclaimer: I'm not a super experienced/knowledgeable PvPer, but I'm curious what would happen if instead of making suits to try countering ball groups, they added new properties to the different siege weapons instead?
Alternatively I wonder if there could be a limit on how many HOTs/shields you can receive while in PvP combat. So a single group healer isn't limited to say 3 targets like in Vengeance, but recipient players can't stack say more than say 2 at any one time?
Siege is fine as is, it is already very impactful for how little effort or investment it takes to use.
But yeah, your last part is essentially what most of the community has been begging for going on years now. A limit to same morph heal over time stacks, and a limit to damage shields active at once.
MISTFORMBZZZ wrote: »It's so funny how some people seem to think one person should be able to kill or entirely invalidate the playstyle of 12 other people by being gifted sets or items or skills by the developers with little to 0 actual effort required on their part.
But God forbid 12 people utilise the mechanics already available in the game to coordinate themselves to fight 12v50+ because that shouldn't be allowed because it's ruining the game.
I don't know a single person who thinks they should be able to 1vX a ballgroup, or entirely invalidate their playstyle.
But it seems the majority of the community is in agreement that certain mechanics being used by these groups right now, such as hot stacking/shield stacking/buff sets are generally too strong at the moment. I don't think it's unreasonable at all to ask that they address the strength of these mechanics rather than trying to bandaid fix them by introducing sets like the one coming in U47, or snake in the stars, or plaguebreak, etc.
Let's not exaggerate either - no ball group is fighting 50+ players at once in 2025. The per-faction player cap is very likely in the 60-70 range now. Realistically at most you're fighting 20-30 often uncoordinated players, with the survivability to tank 50+.
You even just posted yourself that your server doesn't pop lock anymore - so I'm unsure how you'd be fighting 50+ players.
MISTFORMBZZZ wrote: »
Wait your cyrodiil is pop locked?
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Your Play Experience b/t Update 45 and Update 46 with Subclassing and Scribing In Base Game
Hi All! We are looking to understand how Update 46 and the launch of Subclassing, and more recently making Scribing a part of the base game, may have changed the play experience and character build for you and the content you engage in.
(This is strictly to get feedback on your play experience between Update 45 and Update 46. We are not factoring Update 47 PTS feedback in this since it is not available to everyone at the moment).
- Did your ability to play and/or complete certain types of game content improve after the launch of Update 46?
- If so, prior to the launch of Update 46, what was your character build?
- What did you change to your character build when Update 46 launched that allowed you to play or complete content that you had trouble with before?
- What game content was it?
(This is strictly to get feedback on your play experience between Update 45 and Update 46. We are not factoring Update 47 PTS feedback in this since it is not available to everyone at the moment).
Re: What changed with June 25 maintenance that cause worse performance?
When I troubleshoot eso issues, I start with a new Live folder.
On PC, in \Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\ there is a folder called Live where all client settings, screenshots and addons are stored, in addition to some other things like the shader cache.
With ESO closed, I rename it to something like "Live_old" (do not delete it).
The next time I start ESO, the game will create a new Live folder with default settings and the current iteration of the default usersettings.
I load the game, adjust the graphics settings to my preference, play a little and see if that helps my problem.
If my problem isn't solved, I delete the temporary Live folder that was just created and rename Live_old back to Live.
If it does help, I start adjusting the rest of the client-side settings to my preferences and slowly reintroduce addons, one by one. In the past, this has helped me identify addons that were contributing to performance issues.
If someone migrates to a new Live folder, make sure you move your Screenshots folder before deleting the old live folder.
I'm not blaming addons for any particular performance issues players are describing in this thread. However, I will say a ZOS graphics engineer has previously confirmed the implementation of LUA in ESO is single threaded (as it usually is) and the more active addons a player uses, the greater the performance impact can be. They stated very clearly addons are a tradeoff between performance and features.
So I'm very careful only to use the addons I need. Because I'm in a large trading guild, I disable trading addons and some of the bigger libraries like LibHistoire when I play in trials. And though trial addons should only be active in the trials they are relevant to, I still only enable the specific addons I need out of an abundance of caution.
Sometimes I watch trial streams, and I'm occasionally astounded by how poor their performance is from the multitude of addons the player is using! I could never play like that.
Beware of clickbait performance optimization guides on youtube. Most of those are total garbage and either provide outdated information/tips or spread misinformation. Many can result in long term performance issues. Very little optimization is needed these days. The biggest improvement probably comes from configuring the GPU's power setting to prefer maximum performance. Never make changes you do not clearly understand just because some random person told you to.
I will also add it is normal for performance issues to emerge during the warmer times of the year in spaces that aren't climate controlled. All modern processors have thermal management systems that adjust performance according to operating temperatures -- which will always be relative to the temperature of the space they operate in.
Also, when troubleshooting, one may also consider the Thermal Interface Material on their CPU and GPU. It can degrade over time, and impact performance. My TIM is a few years old and I believe this is the reason the CPU on my gaming PC is running a little hotter. I have been putting off reapplying it for a few months. This isn't something everyone can do, but it will eventually affect most consumer TIMs I am aware of. A lot of hardware will continue to operate for years with old TIM, but it will probably degrade performance.
Sometimes new or old graphics drivers can be the problem. It's not uncommon for a new nvidia driver to cause a problem with a particular game or for an out of date driver to do the same. If experiencing issues, updating one's gpu driver can be a good idea. I also make sure my [motherboard] chipset drivers are up to date.
And of course network issues can manifest as performance issues. Wifi should be considered unreliable for gaming, and those who share connections in a household need to be cognizant of what the other users are doing at the time they experience issues. Also docsis cable modems are notorious for hidden performance issues that can affect things like gaming and voip. By hidden, I mean they may not show up in conventional ping tests. I finally transitioned to fibre and wouldn't go back to cable (or dsl) again.
My motherboard actually uses an infamous integrated ethernet controller, the intel i225-v. The early iterations of this can cause intermittent performance issues, so I'm always aware of it. The stepping my motherboard uses is fine with recent drivers though.
To be clear, I am not blaming any of these things for any particular performance issues. But knowing that many players aren't experiencing performance issues and the forums aren't melting down from complaints about them, factors such as these are at least worth considering.
I remember a time in 2014 when my PC started crashing in Shadowfen and in the Craglorn bank. I left feedback to ZOS about it and actually got a response from someone with a high level of technical knowledge. I felt awful because I realized the problem was a failing fan on my gpu. This has happened a couple of times. During the second instance, a fan had developed an imbalance that would cause the gpu to vibrate at high loads which I think affected its link to the pci bus, eventually resulting in a crash. I've also had two CPUs degrade from overclocking that resulted in instability.
This is not a client side issue. We didn't do anything to change our systems. Everything was, mostly anyway, fine prior to the June 25th maint. Then when we log on after June 25th performance was horrible. Even FPS is bottoming out now even for those of us who have $1500 video cards. This is 100% ZOS server side and we can pinpoint the exact day the change was made that created this situation.
Re: What changed with June 25 maintenance that cause worse performance?
What did they change is indeed the question of the day.
@ZOS_Kevin
Any chance of getting an answer to this important question? Even FPS bottoms out at less than 10fps in even moderate fights now and sometimes while just standing alone at one of the gates. Something very significant was changed on June 25th and we noticed. Please revert this change that was made to the servers. It tanked performance big time.
@ZOS_Kevin
Any chance of getting an answer to this important question? Even FPS bottoms out at less than 10fps in even moderate fights now and sometimes while just standing alone at one of the gates. Something very significant was changed on June 25th and we noticed. Please revert this change that was made to the servers. It tanked performance big time.
Re: What changed with June 25 maintenance that cause worse performance?
C:\Users\Unknown\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live and delete 'ShaderCache.cooked' may fix fps drop
It didn't. Still getting massive fps drops for no apparent reason. Never had this issue prior to June 25th and I haven't changed my system at all. There was always intermittent issues with lag, but never with FPS....until June 25th.
Re: Is "teabagging" [still] considered Trolling and/or Toxic?
BXR_Lonestar wrote: »It's really not the rude toxic gesture people make it out to be...
Yes, it is.
I can't think of one situation where it is acceptable for someone to approach another person and dangle any part of their body in that person's face, let alone a private part. That is a rude and toxic gesture anywhere.
This needs to stop.
Re: Is "teabagging" [still] considered Trolling and/or Toxic?
The fact is the T bagging issue is one of those "nothing burgers". It is something so insignificant in the wider scope of life that it really doesn't matter.
It is a thing that has existed in many online pvp games for over decade when players could only use emotes to communicate.
If people dislike what others do in pvp that much, they need to go do something else. Nothing is forcing players to continue to engage in a game/game system they do not enjoy. Most of us are legal adults and make our own decisions, including any consequences (good or bad) that may cone of it.
I do not support the mindset that because a person dislikes something about a game, the game should change to cater to them. It is a very selfish and entitled mentality.
However, I strongly believe that some level of common courtesy, respct, and basic human decency should be given to everyone, and when someone requests you to stop doing something they have an issue with involving them, within reason, continuing your behavior to intentionally harass them is wrong.
Going back to T bagging, unless that person is deliberately targeting you and doing it to harass you (this becomes very obvious), there are ways to deal with encountering things in game you are not a fan of in a mature way, the primary one being going somewhere else and not engaging with the things making you upset.
It is a thing that has existed in many online pvp games for over decade when players could only use emotes to communicate.
If people dislike what others do in pvp that much, they need to go do something else. Nothing is forcing players to continue to engage in a game/game system they do not enjoy. Most of us are legal adults and make our own decisions, including any consequences (good or bad) that may cone of it.
I do not support the mindset that because a person dislikes something about a game, the game should change to cater to them. It is a very selfish and entitled mentality.
However, I strongly believe that some level of common courtesy, respct, and basic human decency should be given to everyone, and when someone requests you to stop doing something they have an issue with involving them, within reason, continuing your behavior to intentionally harass them is wrong.
Going back to T bagging, unless that person is deliberately targeting you and doing it to harass you (this becomes very obvious), there are ways to deal with encountering things in game you are not a fan of in a mature way, the primary one being going somewhere else and not engaging with the things making you upset.
Djennku
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