Clash in Cyrodiil – Fight the Devs on PTS!

ZOS_JasonLeavey

Are you ready for battle? Join members of the ESO dev team tonight in Cyrodiil from 7:00PM EST to 8:00PM EST. The devs will be evenly split between the three alliances, so feel free to battle with or against them as you aim to gain control of specific keeps. (For full event details, click here.)

While the event will certainly be a great bit of fun, we request that you also provide us with your feedback on the following areas of interest listed below. Be sure to tell us your thoughts on the changes during your playtime.

And of course, thank you all for participating!

Event Feedback:

Gameplay and Abilities
• Do you like the new abilities, specifically the new class and AvA abilities?
• Do you like the new buff/debuff system?
• Do you think there too many synergies on the screen? Do they feel more useful/powerful?
• Are the synergies more exciting to use now? Do you think there are too many/not enough synergy prompts available?
• How do you feel about the revised AOE caps and new ultimate generation?
• Now that the meatbag catapults no longer stack with other healing debuffs, do they still feel too powerful?

New Combat Animations
• How does combat in general feel overall?
• Does combat feel more responsive?

Champion System
• Do you feel choices and what you focus on are more important?
• How is the overall difficulty compared to what’s currently on the Live megaservers?
• Was there anything not worth spending points in?
• How does light, medium, and heavy armor feel now in terms of balance?
• How does enlightenment feel?
• Is it fun to spend Champion Points on non-veteran characters?

Gyudan

Cyrodiil right now:


The dim-witted barbarians and the pointy-eared cowards cannot handle the great Covenant warriors.

XGP

The crown store is not giving Crowns to everyplayer only a few

Cogo

XGP

o.O

Gyudan

@ZOS_JasonLeavey: was Morelag Bal supposed to join the event too? The first 10 minutes have been unplayable so far and everyone just got kicked back to the character page.

Lionxoft

*Crash in Cyrodiil*

FIFY

aco5712

Keep lagging out the server. Show them it's truly unplayable

WraithAzraiel

Been kicked twice now. Not my connection, not my rig.

Andarnor

i have been kicked the 4. time. It's not funny-and no-it's not the connection

XGP

Dear Zos Please upgrade the servers from 8 gigs of ram to 64 gigs and include better process. Thank you sincerly ur biggest fan

WhiskeyJac

actually the server is resetting , third time now in 30 minutes , of which 15 mins was just loading screen, is this how cyrodill will be in 1.6 ?

Gyudan

ZOS_JasonLeavey wrote: »

• Does combat feel more responsive?

OtarTheMad

Well that was a nice stress test to see how many times we can all get kicked back to the character screen before we kill ourselves... wait... you mean we had events?? No way... stop pulling my leg. lol

WraithAzraiel

There's been some contention on how we can identify for certain who are the Devs playing for each faction.

Some individuals have Dev-<insert name here> as a name. Am I correct in my inference that these people are actual Devs?

Or can any average Joe make a character with Dev- in their name just to be a d-bag?

How do we know who's who?

Rylana

I missed the entire event, even though I was there. I literally did the following...

6 pm my time (7 eastern) - log in to PTS
606 - eso has stopped working
607 - logged back in, transit to ash, mount my horse
Immediate crash
610 - back in... again. this time i walk from ash to glade. see one player, kill it with like 20 other yellows. get to glade farm. begin fighting 20v20 or so. crash
615 - log in, go to glade, crash
630 - bitching in TS to my guildmates. log back in
crash

crash

crash

crash

crash

... yeah.

NOERROR
NOERROR
NOERROR

>_>

I think the longest I was in game was about eight or nine minutes, and then i crashed the moment combat began.

OtarTheMad

Rylana wrote: »

I missed the entire event, even though I was there. I literally did the following...

6 pm my time (7 eastern) - log in to PTS
606 - eso has stopped working
607 - logged back in, transit to ash, mount my horse
Immediate crash
610 - back in... again. this time i walk from ash to glade. see one player, kill it with like 20 other yellows. get to glade farm. begin fighting 20v20 or so. crash
615 - log in, go to glade, crash
630 - bitching in TS to my guildmates. log back in
crash

crash

crash

crash

crash

... yeah.

NOERROR
NOERROR
NOERROR

>_>

you're not alone. I pretty much missed the whole thing myself.

Grao

Gyudan wrote: »

Cyrodiil right now:


The dim-witted barbarians and the pointy-eared cowards cannot handle the great Covenant warriors.

If only you guys could do that on live... When people are around to defend

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

Event Feedback:

Gameplay and Abilities
• Do you like the new abilities, specifically the new class and AvA abilities?
No - they feel poorly ballanced and not worth a spot on your bar.
• Do you like the new buff/debuff system?
No - Most of the buffs I am able to get from my class (Nightblade) are duplicated by other better skills. For example, Medium armour dodge compared to Blur in the NB assassination ability.
• Do you think there too many synergies on the screen? Do they feel more useful/powerful?
wasn't able to play in a group succesfully due to lag.
• Are the synergies more exciting to use now? Do you think there are too many/not enough synergy prompts available?
n/a
• How do you feel about the revised AOE caps and new ultimate generation?
Dislike the new systems
• Now that the meatbag catapults no longer stack with other healing debuffs, do they still feel too powerful?

New Combat Animations
• How does combat in general feel overall?
Really dislike it. I have no class identity and all my builds are no longer viable.
• Does combat feel more responsive?
No I can't weaponswap reliably and potions bug.

Champion System
• Do you feel choices and what you focus on are more important?
Nope no choices basically driven into 2-3 choices per colour
• How is the overall difficulty compared to what’s currently on the Live megaservers?
• Was there anything not worth spending points in?
Most of the champion system points weren't worth spending
• How does light, medium, and heavy armor feel now in terms of balance?
• How does enlightenment feel?
• Is it fun to spend Champion Points on non-veteran characters?
N/A

TL:DR

Nightblade abilities are now no longer worth using in combat. Really dislike the gameplay of the new system.

ZOS_JasonLeavey

Thanks for taking part in the event, everyone. We enjoyed playing with you all!

We'll certainly be looking into the crashes and any related performance issues. Be sure to continue providing any feedback that you have from the event.

wenchmore420b14_ESO

Same here. Got maybe ten minutes of actual play time. What I had was fun till 4 fps/ CTD/error...Well, that is what test's are for! Thank you for inviting us Zos..Huzzah! P.S.. Please don't release 1.6 before it is ready just for the sake of doing it. Thanks!

Grao

Now for my impressions on the event:

First of, great job putting this together Devs. This is the sort of event that closes the distance between your team and your players! It would be great to have more of those in the future, even on the Live Servers.

Second, I want to thank everyone from the Dominion Guard (DIG & DUG) that shown up. I was quite surprised we were able to come up with over 30 players for our zerg ball on the PTS. I am sure Dev Doug was very surprise when instead of attacking Glademist, we went to the red farm to cut them off and found him all alone there. XD

Now for the important part. So, so many crashes.

It was getting better to the end though, so I assume the Zenies were doing adjustments every time we crashed, so good job on that.

Problems I had: weapon swap was unresponsive because of lag. We were having difficulty un-mounting. Abilities with cast times were not going out or would go out, but leave us stuck in the channeling animation, forcing us to dodge roll, etc. I also had problems placing Sieges, it didn't said the ground was rough, that it was too close to another siege, no errors at all, but it still wouldn't place the siege (third attempt was successful).

Anyway, thanks again for the great event, I only wish it could have last a little longer since we spent so much time on loading screens

Thanks to everyone that Participated and specially to all the Reds and Blues we were able to smoke!

Cogo

ZOS_JasonLeavey wrote: »

Thanks for taking part in the event, everyone. We enjoyed playing with you all!

We'll certainly be looking into the crashes and any related performance issues. Be sure to continue providing any feedback that you have from the event.

I mean no disrespect but I can't find any other words to ask.

Playing with....who? Non in my group was able to do any fighting before they lagged out or crashed.

Messy1

Crashed 3 times . . . . had much fun playing with Dev-Gideon.

Here's looking forward to a better Cyrodil in the future.

Elsonso

Cogo wrote: »

ZOS_JasonLeavey wrote: »

Thanks for taking part in the event, everyone. We enjoyed playing with you all!

We'll certainly be looking into the crashes and any related performance issues. Be sure to continue providing any feedback that you have from the event.

I mean no disrespect but I can't find any other words to ask.

Playing with....who? Non in my group was able to do any fighting before they lagged out or crashed.

The EP group that I was following got into several large battles between Aleswell and Glademist. This would go on for a while, then boot us out. We would reform and repeat. I managed to get into 4 major skirmishes there.

That is why I was asking people like @ZOS_JasonLeavey‌ how many people were in Cyrodiil tonight.

decado0024_ESO

Gyudan wrote: »

Cyrodiil right now:


The dim-witted barbarians and the pointy-eared cowards cannot handle the great Covenant warriors.

i like how this is supposed to mean something. Especially since all anyone has done has duel and test skills except you tryhards. Oh and its really easy to defend your keeps when the emp is running around fully shielded spamming a broken execute. No talent involved what-so-ever. Taking a bunch of undefended keeps when the rest of the population is out testing lol sad really.

Suntzu1414

Rylana wrote: »

I missed the entire event, even though I was there. I literally did the following...

6 pm my time (7 eastern) - log in to PTS
606 - eso has stopped working
607 - logged back in, transit to ash, mount my horse
Immediate crash
610 - back in... again. this time i walk from ash to glade. see one player, kill it with like 20 other yellows. get to glade farm. begin fighting 20v20 or so. crash
615 - log in, go to glade, crash
630 - bitching in TS to my guildmates. log back in
crash

crash

crash

crash

crash

... yeah.

NOERROR
NOERROR
NOERROR

>_>

I think the longest I was in game was about eight or nine minutes, and then i crashed the moment combat began.

funny we had the same experience...

funny.


Kill Well
ST

Sentinel

Unfortunately we had no chance to test our skills due to the immense lag and server crashes. Apart from that, a positive that can be gained is that now (I hope) Zeni has gained important info on the stress going on in Cyrodiil, and will hopefully make strides towards improving the systems to prevent lag and disconnections.

It is a shame that we couldn't test full-scale PvP as well, but it serves as another problem on its own to be fixed for live.

I would hope, however, that if resolutions are put forth and the lag, gone, that we may have another event of this type, as even though dueling is well and good, not all skills apply as effectively as when you're fighting someone against a keep (Such as testing AoE caps, and siege engines, etc.).

tomiffseb17_ESO

Because of the above mentioned i cant comment anything related to the gameplay part but before i got kicked to character screen i can say i had slightly better FPS then i do on the live server. (Yes, i am kind of a guy who waiting for some performance improvement or some change how the system using multiple cores etc etc..) And i also seen a bit higher CPU utilization. (1 maxed usually, 3 on 20-30%ish, and ofc 4 on idle) It was not enough to give me steady FPS but i had a lot better performance FPS wise. So please, keep up the optimization work ZoS i still have faith in you after 10 months!!

Darkintellect

Gyudan wrote: »

Cyrodiil right now:


The dim-witted barbarians and the pointy-eared cowards cannot handle the great Covenant warriors.

It's PTS, nobody cares and all that progress is gone.

Lorkhan

maybe we need investments in better structure?