Best Of
Re: The Crown Store has reached critical levels of immersion breakage
Vonnegut2506 wrote: »Is there ever going to be an option to shut off the annoying visual clutter, lightshows, and explosion noises on our end?
Can’t speak to “ever” on this request. Always something that can be considered in the future. There is nothing planned at this point in time.
Re: The Crown Store has reached critical levels of immersion breakage
Hi all,
Wanted to follow up here. The goal is always to provided a balance of more grounded yet cool items and more fun/ fantastical items as well.
We have taken note and shared feedback when some items may push that balance a bit far, like our 4-sword horse friend. (I find this mount fun, but totally understand it can be super jarring.)
However, the item selections are meant to give you the player tools to be creative and have fun. Sometimes player choice will lead to a dancing Molag Bal, as jarring as that can be. But between the Crown Store items, in-game items and in-game event items, there are plenty of choices to make a more grounded experience for yourself and for others if they so choose. Some may go down the route of Sheogorath for a more maddening experience, but they should have the option to do so as well.
All that being said, happy to take any additional feedback to the team for their consideration. Is there a style or kind of cosmetic we have made in the past that you would like us to lean more into?
Thanks for any feedback give here. And please be mindful when submitting feedback that you remember community guidelines.
Wanted to follow up here. The goal is always to provided a balance of more grounded yet cool items and more fun/ fantastical items as well.
We have taken note and shared feedback when some items may push that balance a bit far, like our 4-sword horse friend. (I find this mount fun, but totally understand it can be super jarring.)
However, the item selections are meant to give you the player tools to be creative and have fun. Sometimes player choice will lead to a dancing Molag Bal, as jarring as that can be. But between the Crown Store items, in-game items and in-game event items, there are plenty of choices to make a more grounded experience for yourself and for others if they so choose. Some may go down the route of Sheogorath for a more maddening experience, but they should have the option to do so as well.
All that being said, happy to take any additional feedback to the team for their consideration. Is there a style or kind of cosmetic we have made in the past that you would like us to lean more into?
Thanks for any feedback give here. And please be mindful when submitting feedback that you remember community guidelines.
ZOS_Kevin
32
Re: The Truest Solution to ESO Server Performance
I'm willing to admit that I've been convinced that ZOS has made changes to secure the game despite having not done such measures. If that is necessary to facilitate awareness towards change that results in a better game overall, I'm willing to admit that I was wrong to believe server-client communication has ever been changed.Of course players still cheat because they didn't really change anything! The kind of changes players imagine happened simply aren't possible without them being extremely obvious to every kind of player.
The ESO server trusts the client about the same things it always has. This has been shown when certain cheats re-emerge, even without actual memory hacking. Like set-based glitching. The client tells the server certain things about the character and the server flat-out believes it. It shows those things aren't being tracked server side. Not only were these not moved server-side, it shows the server or client doesn't even perform the basic low cost sanity checks it should.
The ESO forums... where players will decry anti-cheat and anti-ddos mitigations. Those are both good things. We should wish it had better anticheat.
Re: Error 201 anyone?
Hey all, we've checked in with the team working on this and they are making good progress. We do apologize for the wait and interruption to your playtime. We will provide another update within the next hour.
Re: ZOS, What's Your Viewpoint on Subclassing in PvP? Addressing the Unbalanced Meta and Low Midyear May
Even before subclassing released, I was very vocal about how it would be bad for the game and how it would reduce populations. So far my opinion hasn’t changed, in fact it’s even worse than I expected.
Subclassing led to homogenization as expected, it increased the power gap, made it harder to learn and get into PvP, and it’s nearly impossible to balance in the long term. It’s just a recipe for disaster in nearly every way. I think that subclassing lowered TTK in some cases, but a lot of people seem to slot Restoring Light and camp their rune. The TTK is as long as ever when you run into that sort of thing.
It seems like the TTK isn’t actually all that different between more experienced or properly built players, but it’s extremely low when it’s a properly built player against someone who isn’t. That’s like the worst case scenario and I don’t understand how anyone who values fairness, challenge, and competition (basically a real PvPer) can stand by a system like subclassing.
In a way subclassing is also selecting for players who like having a power advantage over others, but that will only kill the game faster. In the end, the inexperienced or more casual players will avoid fighting at all costs or they’ll simply never return to PvP. Honestly, part of the reason that Midyear Mayhem seemed so dead even in Grey Host could’ve been exactly for this reason. Players would rather sit afk or intentionally only siege empty keeps than engage in real PvP. At this point I can’t even fault them.
Not even theorycrafting with this system is very fun. You’ll just end up with a build centered around shalks, some flavor of Nightblade, or a defile DoT build.
ZOS should consider disabling subclassing in all PvP environments. It’s clearly not going well.
Subclassing led to homogenization as expected, it increased the power gap, made it harder to learn and get into PvP, and it’s nearly impossible to balance in the long term. It’s just a recipe for disaster in nearly every way. I think that subclassing lowered TTK in some cases, but a lot of people seem to slot Restoring Light and camp their rune. The TTK is as long as ever when you run into that sort of thing.
It seems like the TTK isn’t actually all that different between more experienced or properly built players, but it’s extremely low when it’s a properly built player against someone who isn’t. That’s like the worst case scenario and I don’t understand how anyone who values fairness, challenge, and competition (basically a real PvPer) can stand by a system like subclassing.
In a way subclassing is also selecting for players who like having a power advantage over others, but that will only kill the game faster. In the end, the inexperienced or more casual players will avoid fighting at all costs or they’ll simply never return to PvP. Honestly, part of the reason that Midyear Mayhem seemed so dead even in Grey Host could’ve been exactly for this reason. Players would rather sit afk or intentionally only siege empty keeps than engage in real PvP. At this point I can’t even fault them.
Not even theorycrafting with this system is very fun. You’ll just end up with a build centered around shalks, some flavor of Nightblade, or a defile DoT build.
ZOS should consider disabling subclassing in all PvP environments. It’s clearly not going well.
Stamicka
10
Re: Error 201 anyone?
subscription canceled. Perhaps the next PvP event works without maintanance.
Kaysha
4
Re: Error 201 anyone?
I can't help feeling that the EU server is the poor relation here. Almost every time there is a server issue the NA one gets fixed first, or does not go down at all, while we in the EU are left waiting.
An update as to why would be appreciated.
An update as to why would be appreciated.
