Can somebody please explain the hassle caused by the latest patch?

KingRebz

Please!? and what does the term rolled back mean?

KhajiitiLizard

The largest problem with the lastest patch is that Veteran PvE is pretty much impossible now as it's way too hard.

Raeder

ThatArgonianGuy wrote: »

The largest problem with the lastest patch is that Veteran PvE is pretty much impossible now as it's way too hard.

Especially for Nightblades.

ipkonfigcub18_ESO

Raeder wrote: »

ThatArgonianGuy wrote: »

The largest problem with the lastest patch is that Veteran PvE is pretty much impossible now as it's way too hard.

Especially for Nightblades.

Especially for Nightblades x2

Welcome to a group of developers for a game company that actually hate/despise a class in a game. I don't mind a game being difficult, but this is !#@$)@!#$ pathetic now.

temjiu

Hassles:

1) VR monsters (vr levels 1-10) got buffed in health and damage so much that the higher level content (vr levels 11-12) is almost easier. This is not only backwards, but the VR levels were tough enough as they were...i knew many players who quit rather then play VR, and it's worse now

2) new bugs introduced. There are almost more bugs now then there were before patch. Most people tolerate this if the bugs that were there before are fixed...but most of those still exist. some got fixed, many didn't.

3) Stealth nerfs to existing skills: some of these may yet be bugs, as we have yet to have a CS rep gutsy enough to grace the forums with their presence to explain the situation. but some skills that wern't mentioned in the patch got hit with changes that make them virtually unplayable.

4) Known nerfs to existing skills: In spite of the fact that many of the skills that were changed needed adjustement (they were simply too powerful), many believe the went overboard in this adjustement. im not one of those, but there are players who are pissed, so i listed it.

5) many other details im sure i missed.

A ROLLBACK:

Generally in the IT field, when big changes (or any changes really) are made to a live network. the technicians usually keep copies of the previous configurations that existed prior to the upgrades/patches. if something goes wrong, they can often switch back to these old configurations (settings in a way), and pretty much make things like they were. the term used in the field is "rollback" because your....well...rolling back your changes

Although In my experience, upgrades of this magnitude are rarely in a state where you can fully "roll back" too many changes to too many individual aspects of the systems. most server based technologies are not simple like routers, and Rolling back changes of this magnitude would often take more work then simply isolating the individual issues and resolving them on the go.

ciannait

Rollbacks can also refer to when the game crashes or disconnects you, and you log back in to discover you've lost 5-15 minutes (or more) of progress. This can include items disappearing from your inventory or even de-leveling. It's been happening a lot in various zones tonight.

KhajiitiLizard

They could at least rollback the changes to veteran PvE.

zaria

ciannait wrote: »

Rollbacks can also refer to when the game crashes or disconnects you, and you log back in to discover you've lost 5-15 minutes (or more) of progress. This can include items disappearing from your inventory or even de-leveling. It's been happening a lot in various zones tonight.

Here its some bug who corrupt you character or rather the game suspect its corrupted and load an earlier backup of character.

One earlier patch was rolled back before it got live, this caused an far longer than normal downtime and no update.

Veteran mob difficulty is easy to patch, just change the health for VR1-10 mob to that it was before and do an quick patch, no need for an rollback for this.

temjiu

zaria wrote: »

Veteran mob difficulty is easy to patch, just change the health for VR1-10 mob to that it was before and do an quick patch, no need for an rollback for this.

I agree. this is a simple change, and I'm assuming (due to it not even being mentioned in the notes) that its unintended. and many of the other issues can be made via adjustements as well.

I think the only critical one is the health/damage boost. it will literally halt most players progression through VR content.

the rest can be done tomorrow

I keed! seriously though. lots of adjustments need to happen pretty fast.

DeadlyGhost

Well, this pretty much cements it for me. This show of incompetence is not something I want to be a part of and I hope they get their *** together by the time the game goes free to play because it currently isn't worth a wooden nickel a month. I'm just upset that in the end this game is gonna end up being another TORtanic.

Censorious

Don't hold your breath. ZeniMax don't seem to be the sort of company that goes in for knee jerk reactions.

Not even when their foot is on fire.

PBpsy

Some annoying nerfs,some useless buffs nothing really special but generally stupid.
The VR 5-10 zones are bugged or the devs completely lost it. At this moment I can't do VR7-10. I am however able to grind VR11 mobs with a siphoning tank NB. This is my first time actually grinding mobs in ESO and it sucks.

Craglorn Is awesome though.

zaria

temjiu wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

Veteran mob difficulty is easy to patch, just change the health for VR1-10 mob to that it was before and do an quick patch, no need for an rollback for this.

I agree. this is a simple change, and I'm assuming (due to it not even being mentioned in the notes) that its unintended. and many of the other issues can be made via adjustements as well.

I think the only critical one is the health/damage boost. it will literally halt most players progression through VR content.

the rest can be done tomorrow

I keed! seriously though. lots of adjustments need to happen pretty fast.

They are doing an hotfix with the crash logout and rollback issue later today.

Think the problem is that game balance is another department than crash bugs so we will probably get two patches here.