Was Caltrops fixed?

Igolbug

Is what I asked when I logged on today.



I found out pretty quickly.

Mange

Caltrops? Who cares about PVP, but lets hotfix people getting VR levels to fast in Craglorn as soon as possible.

Rackiera

I care about PVP not PVE, ZOS stated caltrops will be fixed shortly after 1.1.2, its needing to be fixed now. My whole guild won't pvp until its sorted, its a waste of time, all tactics are useless with this bug.

When is it being patched ?

ferzalrwb17_ESO

It does show just how many people are willing to cheat if they can and how much. Pretty disheartening really that so few people have any kind of concept of gamesmanship. Yes the bug needs to be fixed but with the state of lag what's the point anyway?

Avidus

Unfortunately there are too many people willing to exploit instead of just playing.
My guild works very hard to PvP and to be exceptional at it.

Over the last couple of days we have been fighting 3 guilds all who have more members that we do.
Now 1 of these guilds. I cannot remember their name, messaged us and said "We will not use Caltrops or mercenaries if you do not"
Of course we happily agreed to this. And we had some absolutely amazing PvP.
After about 20 minutes of 4 of us defending a keep against roughly 20 on the interior of the keep this guild then used siege weapons to attack our flag guarding NPCs. Which stops them from attacking. Which meant 4 vs 20 with bugged out NPCs. we got stomped really quickly.
Wonderful!

The other 2 guilds went full haxor and were using caltrops and merc spamming while defending one of their keeps.
It meant that whilst we were not dying, it was impossible for us to capture the keep until their mercenaries disappeared.

Its a really sad to think that players would rather cheat to win that to win through fair gameplay.
What do you get if you win when you cheat? Would you be proud if you captured every keep if your players could teleport across the map and insta-kill everything?
How is this different.

ishilb14_ESO

What's there to fix? Zenimax changed caltrops a few patches ago to give immunity to siege damage. They did this because Cyrodiil is not a PvP area, it's a PvE area, so when you want to defend a keep, you're supposed to spawn 20 Mercenary Mages to defend the keep for you, and spawn more for each one that MIGHT get killed.

ferzalrwb17_ESO

Playing on Wabba as DC I watched AD and EP spam caltrops relentlessly against our hopelessly outnumbered DC defensive crew at an outpost today. Eventually AD got through after we'd wiped both faction's pushes a number of times. In order to do this they spammed a road of caltrops and bubbled on it. They seemed pretty proud to take the outpost. In all this time I can't recall a single one of our guys using caltrops. It may have happened, of course, but I didn't see it.

So I must say well done to those DC guys/girls for playing with some honour and decency in the face of caltrop spamming opposition. Quite restrained and respectable.

It is appalling to see the nature of a lot of the people playing this game but it's inexcusable that the skill hasn't been disabled until it's fixed. ZOS your lack of response has been as disgraceful as the cheaters/exploiters ruining the PVP-lagfest.

Rackiera

Needs fixing now ..

Halrloprillalar

this makes me sad and forced to gank people instead

Mends_from_Shadows

It's unfortunate that ZoS really doesn't give a *** about PvP. They are way too slow to respond to every issue. It's been weeks now of this caltrops immunity garbage in Cyrodiil. Just like it was weeks of the vampire bat swarm exploits.

Now Cyrodiil has terrible lag too since this latest patch, and they are yet to address that as well.

Lord_Draevan

That picture is just sad and pathetic. I see that, I go back to PvE or switch campaigns.
Don't give those AD *** the satisfaction. Let them enjoy a few weeks of PvWall until this gets fixed.

Mends_from_Shadows

Lag, Caltrops exploit, Forward Camp bugs, Merc Spam/Invincibility. WTB ZOS Response. PST.

NordJitsu

We should totally just start a bunch of threads about how Caltrops was fixed and spam "Thank you zenimax" all over zone chat just hoping that the exploiters will stop cheating.

Igolbug

NordJitsu wrote: »

We should totally just start a bunch of threads about how Caltrops was fixed and spam "Thank you zenimax" all over zone chat just hoping that the exploiters will stop cheating.

You can do that, I just don't bother logging in until it is fixed.

Tintinabula

On wabbajack im seeing it less and less..on all alliance sides...but as long as its possible of course someone will throw them down.

Dealdrick

Tintinabula wrote: »

On wabbajack im seeing it less and less..on all alliance sides...but as long as its possible of course someone will throw them down.

Thats because the lag on Waba is too severe to drop a ground target =p

Tintinabula

Dealdrick wrote: »

Tintinabula wrote: »

On wabbajack im seeing it less and less..on all alliance sides...but as long as its possible of course someone will throw them down.

Thats because the lag on Waba is too severe to drop a ground target =p

Nothing more true can be said..you win the forums.

joshisanonymous

Monday.

TheGrandAlliance

BTW it is not just Caltrops. ANy AoE that causes damage will do it too.

cjmarsh725b14_ESO

What I don't understand is why they released the 1.1.3 patch notes for Monday early highlighting an exploit that's still in the game.

ErykGrimm

cjmarsh725b14_ESO wrote: »

What I don't understand is why they released the 1.1.3 patch notes for Monday early highlighting an exploit that's still in the game.

Because even my 91 year old grandmother knows about it, and she still confuses a computer for a microwave.