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Re: The Crown Store has reached critical levels of immersion breakage
darkriketz wrote: »Which makes me remember that in SWTOR (I barely played it cause I didn't liked the style and I'm not a SW fan anyway, only a prelogy fan), during character creation, some names are forbidden to the players. How many "members of the Great Houses of Morrowind" have I seen while playing ? Telvanni, Hlaalu and Redoran shouldn't be allowed names for played characters.
So...lore-friendly names are immersion-breaking, is that what you're saying? Interesting take. Would they be more or less immersion-breaking than say, for example, Hermione Potter or Thanos_1289? I'm genuinely curious.
Cordially,
Nerys Telvanni
theoverseer
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Re: 201 again today, 05/08
Re: The Crown Store has reached critical levels of immersion breakage
didnt expect such a reaction on my post here, so let me explain.
1) No offense to all that bright visuals. There always two opinions, some players like it, some not.
Just give us opportunity to disable it in game settings, the same way as "turn off additional visual effects" that already done for many years
I have real headache in 5 mins in every big city in game.
Who like it - will see it, who dont like - will enjoy game as it supposed to be an Elder Scrolls game.
2) "we got what we deserve" phrase - i mean every Elder Scrolls player who like its lore, its visual style should "protect" it by express their opinion, that we want to see Tamriel in such way. So if we did it all the way - maybe that thread wont exist at all.
But we prefer to sit silent trying to be tolerant and in result of that inactivity "we got what we deserve" - we got visual style of in-game world that we do not enjoy much. And i hope that players with opposite opinion will support us in realizing that option in game settings to turn off visuals that annoy some players. I do not ask to remove all that cosmetics, let it be, but to that players who want to see it. Thank you. Peace to all!
PS Sorry for my english, its not my native language )
1) No offense to all that bright visuals. There always two opinions, some players like it, some not.
Just give us opportunity to disable it in game settings, the same way as "turn off additional visual effects" that already done for many years
I have real headache in 5 mins in every big city in game.
Who like it - will see it, who dont like - will enjoy game as it supposed to be an Elder Scrolls game.
2) "we got what we deserve" phrase - i mean every Elder Scrolls player who like its lore, its visual style should "protect" it by express their opinion, that we want to see Tamriel in such way. So if we did it all the way - maybe that thread wont exist at all.
But we prefer to sit silent trying to be tolerant and in result of that inactivity "we got what we deserve" - we got visual style of in-game world that we do not enjoy much. And i hope that players with opposite opinion will support us in realizing that option in game settings to turn off visuals that annoy some players. I do not ask to remove all that cosmetics, let it be, but to that players who want to see it. Thank you. Peace to all!
PS Sorry for my english, its not my native language )
Re: how Zenimax killed PvP to reduce the number of players in Cyrodiil
xylena_lazarow wrote: »Was anyone ever serious about this? I thought it was a meme, then ZOS actually did it.Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »Unfortunately this was a player suggestion
Unfortunately yes, but I can't name the player here :P
SeaGtGruff wrote: »Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »2) Made the Bridges destroyable
I have no clue which Zenimax employee had to bring Battlefield features to Elder Scrolls Online
This alone terminated the enjoyable Alessia Bridge battles which lasted 30 mins to 2 hours about every night to non-existent
Unfortunately this was a player suggestion, I was there when it was made and was one of those arguing against it but they listened to this player/sub group instead. It does sound like a cool idea when you discuss it though to be fair.
Doesn't the game have repair kits? ZOS even consolidated the various types of repair kits into a single all-purpose repair kit. What is stopping players from buying repair kits and repairing destroyed bridges, just as they do with destroyed milegates? Sure, you can't repair sonething if it's taken damage too recently. But you can try to take out any siege engines that are doing damage, and have players from your alliance go around to the other side of the destroyed bridge to try to take out any siege engines on the other side. There are ways around destroyed milegates and bridges.
I'm not voicing an opinion on whether it was a good or bad idea to let bridges be destroyed. I'm just pointing out that there are ways to deal with destroyed bridges.
Yes you can repair them, the problem is moreso that there used to be a push-pull style of fighting over the bridge (and to a lesser extent the milegates) which encouraged more control over the objective and longer more enjoyable fights. Now if you are fighting on the bridge and one faction decides to destroy it, you can't really push there to stop the destruction. Additionally there used to be a lot of fun gameplay where players could cross the river and hit the flank without having to ride for 10m to do so.
Similarly with milegates they can be 'exploited' through even when down and heavily favour one side (due to the fact that they break in 3 segments), it would be better to just allow them to be a permanent objective like towers.
Especially considering tower destruction was disabled for 'performance' reasons - so why are the bridges and milegates destructible?
oh and the old map's terrain was much more fun around the bridge/milegates. RIP Alessia Boat.
Re: how Zenimax killed PvP to reduce the number of players in Cyrodiil
SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »SeaGtGruff wrote: »AngryPenguin wrote: »Vengeance is what we needed all this time. Cyrodiil was clearly on a skeleton crew if that, and No-Proc was a half-baked (if we're being charitable) attempt at helping performance. Instead it just confused everyone, nothing was clear, and Zenimax did not even do the bare minimum to clarify things.
But Vengeance? They're now quickly iterating on huge changes to the game's skill lines (WITH PVP-ONLY CHANGES!), a tripled population cap, and pushing a higher skill ceiling on strategy rather than pushing higher stats on gear & skills. I gave up completely on ESO until I heard about the vengeance tests, and had an absolute blast on the 2nd testing phase. If that comes back, I'll be back to playing it as my main game.
Cyrodiil kept my interest for hundreds of hours, but it was rotting over the years. And Vengeance had constant fights that were just as entertaining as my peak experience back in 2017 when defending Chalman and Sejanus. The fights were glorious, and it brought back a bunch of Pact PvP guildees for that one week. We all had a turn with being amazed at how fun Cyrodiil was again and how it felt like the good old days.
Vengeance will be the death of PvP if implemented as the only option. It's for the PvE crowd that won't stick around for any mode of PvP for any significant amount of time.
Vengeance is for testing possible ways to reduce problems and improve performance in Cyrodiil. It is intended for the PvP crowd who have been complaining for years about performance issues in Cyrodiil.
What changes has ZOS made to live Cyrodiil PvP as a result of what they've learned from vengeance? Any?
How soon are people expecting them to make changes to live PvP after a Vengeance test is over? How much time will people allow them to collect feedback and analyze data from the tests? And are people expressing how eagerly they're looking forward to any changes, or are they expressing outrage and threatening to rage quit if any changes are made?
One thing I've noticed ever since the first Vengeance test is that if I get into a fight and then can't mount up because I'm still in combat, it doesn't take nearly as long as it used to for me to get out of combat and be able to mount up. And right after that big three-way fight at Roe that they asked everyone to participate in at a certain day and time a few months ago, I remember Gina saying in an ESO Live stream that the devs had identified at least one issue that was causing disconnects, and I think they made some adjustments based on that discovery.
Re: The Crown Store has reached critical levels of immersion breakage
Anyone remember this?
Personally the dancer personality where people wiggle non stop is kind of odd...like what is wrong with them.
They need to pee.
Islyn
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I alone have Breached the Writhing Wall
I have done what no one esle has. This isn't datamined, this is fact.
https://x.com/ShirakoTheFirst/status/1952834960672387522?t=2E2p3q81cv8K7wVjbsqWzg&s=19
https://x.com/ShirakoTheFirst/status/1952834960672387522?t=2E2p3q81cv8K7wVjbsqWzg&s=19
Update on Solstice Treasure Map Leads - Drop Data - Aug 5, 2025
Tracking posts:
https://moonpile.tumblr.com/tagged/solstice treasure maps
Update: September 17:
I have a few Solstice maps left so I decided to use them.
I will not be buying more unless this is fixed. This is stupid.
TOTAL Solstice maps spent ONLY on 2/3 codex = 83
EMPTY (no leads) = 81
Maps since last lead: 66
Last & ONLY 2/3 codex Leads:
July 28: Geometric Stone-Nest Totem 2/3
July 30: Geometric Stone-Nest Totem 3/3
1.5 months and 66 maps with ZERO leads. Is this bugged?
OP:
Codex & leads:
Maps used:
Gold estimates:
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https://moonpile.tumblr.com/tagged/solstice treasure maps
Update: September 17:
I have a few Solstice maps left so I decided to use them.
I will not be buying more unless this is fixed. This is stupid.
TOTAL Solstice maps spent ONLY on 2/3 codex = 83
EMPTY (no leads) = 81
Maps since last lead: 66
Last & ONLY 2/3 codex Leads:
July 28: Geometric Stone-Nest Totem 2/3
July 30: Geometric Stone-Nest Totem 3/3
1.5 months and 66 maps with ZERO leads. Is this bugged?
OP:
Codex & leads:
- ONLY counting the 2/3 codex. See below.
- Only 2 leads so far.
- Only 1 item is unlocked 3/3: Geometric Stone-Nest Totem. This is still the only Totem purchasable after unlocking (for reference: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/677582/antiquities-are-missing-from-their-vendors-for-2-3-years)
- All 6 of the other furnishings that come from Treasure Maps are only 1/3 unlocked.
Maps used:
- Total maps spent JUST on 2/3 codex = 31
- EMPTY (no leads) Solstice maps to date = 29
- Maps since last lead: 14
Gold estimates:
- Approx. (not actual) gold spent ONLY on the 2/3 codex to date, based on TTC avg. prices at this time: 1.4 million
- That's 1.4 million gold to get mostly nothing but decon / vendor garbage.
- The above is not counting 1/3 codex, which is approximately an additional ~ 500,000 - 1,000,000 gold
- I'm posting this primarily for those who are new / returning / not flush / don't want to experiment with millions of gold – This is NOT an accessible system where one might reasonably expect to get something worthwhile. This is an multi-level RNG gold-sink (as were West Weald, Apocrypha, etc. before) and IMO, not fun. If you read my previous post, you'll see the 1/3 codex at least was curated & dropped every ~1-3 maps. Beyond 1/3, it's better to sell maps for now – prices typically fall after a year. Since we can't buy most of the totems, that makes them even less worthwhile.
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MoonPile
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PC Server Downtime & Extending Whitestrake's Mayhem
Hi All. Following the planned maintenance yesterday, an issue occurred that has resulted in additional downtime for our PC servers both yesterday and this afternoon/evening. During the planned maintenance, we performed an update to the login system and there was a configuration problem that resulted in some backend processes failing. Both times this issue cropped up, we've worked to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. We recognize that the extra downtime has been frustrating, and we are fast tracking a potential fix with no downtime for tomorrow.
While we already preemptively added an extra day to the Whitestrakes Mayhem event because of the planned maintenance yesterday, we're now adding another additional day to the event to make up for the time PC players lost yesterday and today. Whitestrake's Mayhem will now end on August 7 on all platforms. We appreciate your patience. Thank you!
While we already preemptively added an extra day to the Whitestrakes Mayhem event because of the planned maintenance yesterday, we're now adding another additional day to the event to make up for the time PC players lost yesterday and today. Whitestrake's Mayhem will now end on August 7 on all platforms. We appreciate your patience. Thank you!
ZOS_Kevin
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Warden Charm's cooldown needs to be increased
Warden Class Mastery Script is one of the most broken "abilities" in the game, especially if used defensively. This is how it functions:
Not only does it snare players for 70% in an 8m radius, it also charms them for 3s (which btw is still a buggy mechanic and can cause them to get stuck in objects or unable to break free out of). If nobody gets charmed, you restore 1.4k mag AND stam.
Like.. What?? Standard CC immunity duration is 7s, and this skill has an 8s cooldown. If you use the Charm off cooldown, you will maintain a 87.5% uptime on this effect lol.. Even if you don't stun anybody, you are still snaring them by 70% and also netting 1.4k stam AND mag which translates to 358 stam and mag recovery.
If you've ever fought players using the Charm, you'll know just how absurd it is when used defensively. Most players use the Warden Charm on Healing Soul, so the only 2 options you have are:
1) You pop an immovable potion which lasts 16s and requires you to save it for that specific offensive window. If your opponent can survive the window then you may not have another shot.
2) You have so much burst that they die before the Charm effect takes place.
Otherwise, it's almost a guaranteed recover for whoever is using this script. That is exactly why the majority of sweaty players swapped to Warden base class despite only using 1 Warden line. It's to gain access to this class script lol.
Warden Charm needs to have its duration increased to 15s at the very least so that players can't just spam it off cooldown and maintain an almost 100% uptime. It's absurd.
Not only does it snare players for 70% in an 8m radius, it also charms them for 3s (which btw is still a buggy mechanic and can cause them to get stuck in objects or unable to break free out of). If nobody gets charmed, you restore 1.4k mag AND stam.
Like.. What?? Standard CC immunity duration is 7s, and this skill has an 8s cooldown. If you use the Charm off cooldown, you will maintain a 87.5% uptime on this effect lol.. Even if you don't stun anybody, you are still snaring them by 70% and also netting 1.4k stam AND mag which translates to 358 stam and mag recovery.
If you've ever fought players using the Charm, you'll know just how absurd it is when used defensively. Most players use the Warden Charm on Healing Soul, so the only 2 options you have are:
1) You pop an immovable potion which lasts 16s and requires you to save it for that specific offensive window. If your opponent can survive the window then you may not have another shot.
2) You have so much burst that they die before the Charm effect takes place.
Otherwise, it's almost a guaranteed recover for whoever is using this script. That is exactly why the majority of sweaty players swapped to Warden base class despite only using 1 Warden line. It's to gain access to this class script lol.
Warden Charm needs to have its duration increased to 15s at the very least so that players can't just spam it off cooldown and maintain an almost 100% uptime. It's absurd.
hoangdz
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