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Re: PTS Update 48 – Feedback Thread for Combat Animation Memory Reduction
Ok so in regards to the combat animation memory reduction,
I have tested it and Yes, It still interacts and affects my ability to light attack weave and cast my skills.
The polymorphs still retain the old animations and I used that as a side by side when comparing parses.
I was using Torc of the last ayleid king to minimize the variables that procsets introduce when parsing.
DPS on average was about 5-8k higher with a polymorph, than without, And this was with me aggressively weaving my skills.
I recorded the parses also using OBS and had a Controller overlay to see if I was missing any skills, and reviewing the footage, I was missing a considerable amount of skills and light attacks. I could feel this as well when parsing. The flow of my skills and basic attacks felt out of sync and off.
On top of this, These new animations just look bad. The visible stutter and stiffness my character has makes them feel janky and incomplete. Its pretty immersion breaking tbh.
also the offset idle poses for my character when holding weapons are bad. its a 45 degree tilt when just holding weapons and not doing anything. It looks out of place. If you heavy attack or cast a skill and let the animation follow through, you can see your character stop in the old idle position and then suddenly twitch rapidly to adjust to the new idle stance. It just looks bad.
Unarmed sprint animations just speed up the speed at which your walking animation plays, which makes my character look like he is tweaking out. plus when going into an idle stance from unarmed, you character assumes the idle pose of the bow, despite not holding a bow.
I have spent probably more time than I should have, testing these specific changes, about 5 hours, give or take and recording the whole thing. I made a video about this as well, since this update, as a whole, scares me.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9OhWCEffjOE&t
This is not to mention my concerns regarding the constant CRASHING that happens on the pts while interacting with these new changes.
Also now with week 2, there is a new bug that is affecting PS5 Controllers if you are using a gamepad. Its an issue I have seen before, its just strange to watch it come back.
Please Consider Shelfing these Animation changes
I have tested it and Yes, It still interacts and affects my ability to light attack weave and cast my skills.
The polymorphs still retain the old animations and I used that as a side by side when comparing parses.
I was using Torc of the last ayleid king to minimize the variables that procsets introduce when parsing.
DPS on average was about 5-8k higher with a polymorph, than without, And this was with me aggressively weaving my skills.
I recorded the parses also using OBS and had a Controller overlay to see if I was missing any skills, and reviewing the footage, I was missing a considerable amount of skills and light attacks. I could feel this as well when parsing. The flow of my skills and basic attacks felt out of sync and off.
On top of this, These new animations just look bad. The visible stutter and stiffness my character has makes them feel janky and incomplete. Its pretty immersion breaking tbh.
also the offset idle poses for my character when holding weapons are bad. its a 45 degree tilt when just holding weapons and not doing anything. It looks out of place. If you heavy attack or cast a skill and let the animation follow through, you can see your character stop in the old idle position and then suddenly twitch rapidly to adjust to the new idle stance. It just looks bad.
Unarmed sprint animations just speed up the speed at which your walking animation plays, which makes my character look like he is tweaking out. plus when going into an idle stance from unarmed, you character assumes the idle pose of the bow, despite not holding a bow.
I have spent probably more time than I should have, testing these specific changes, about 5 hours, give or take and recording the whole thing. I made a video about this as well, since this update, as a whole, scares me.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9OhWCEffjOE&t
This is not to mention my concerns regarding the constant CRASHING that happens on the pts while interacting with these new changes.
Also now with week 2, there is a new bug that is affecting PS5 Controllers if you are using a gamepad. Its an issue I have seen before, its just strange to watch it come back.
Please Consider Shelfing these Animation changes
epic-buttkkr
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Re: Who voiced Tem the Omen of Destiny (Azandar quest)?
Steve French! Love this character.
Re: ESO needs to add good gold generators to have a healthier economy
It is way to easy to generate gold in eso, if anything we need more gold sinks not more gold generation.
SolarRune
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Re: PTS Update 48 - Feedback Thread for Season of the Worm Cult Part 2 Main Quest [SPOILERS]
I'm hoping the dye slots for Darien's new cuirass were mixed up, because currently it looks awful.
Taking a closer look:
It appears the dye used for the leather parts in his gauntlets/greaves/sabatons (Materials Rank 7 by any chance?) has been slotted for the scaled portions of his cuirass, and the dye that should have been on those is on his tabbard/gambeson?
Because playing around with it myself (not that I have the dyes for the metals figured out yet, but this is close enough), if I switch them 'back' he'll look like this instead, and I think it's a big improvement (spoilered to save space):
Please, please, change it from what it currently is, because to me that gambeson looks like something salvaged from one of the sulfur pools in Eastmarch, at least a decade after someone abandoned it there because they couldn't get the mustard stains out.
I also somehow ended up with him in the new set too early, with a line of dialogue from much later in the questline, after my game timed out at the beginning of 'Hunt For The Great Mage':
Based on where it fits between Azah's lines, I think he should have been saying this at the time:
(recorded right before my game timed out, so he's still in his Golden Knight armor)
Taking a closer look:
It appears the dye used for the leather parts in his gauntlets/greaves/sabatons (Materials Rank 7 by any chance?) has been slotted for the scaled portions of his cuirass, and the dye that should have been on those is on his tabbard/gambeson?
Because playing around with it myself (not that I have the dyes for the metals figured out yet, but this is close enough), if I switch them 'back' he'll look like this instead, and I think it's a big improvement (spoilered to save space):
Please, please, change it from what it currently is, because to me that gambeson looks like something salvaged from one of the sulfur pools in Eastmarch, at least a decade after someone abandoned it there because they couldn't get the mustard stains out.
I also somehow ended up with him in the new set too early, with a line of dialogue from much later in the questline, after my game timed out at the beginning of 'Hunt For The Great Mage':
Based on where it fits between Azah's lines, I think he should have been saying this at the time:
(recorded right before my game timed out, so he's still in his Golden Knight armor)
Re: ESO needs to add good gold generators to have a healthier economy
I think that ZOS needs to work on increasing the player population. I think that game economy is supply versus demand. If the active player count is dropping, I think that causes the demand to fall faster than the supply.
Ingenon
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Re: Gatekeeping and the Beam Meta
Nah it's bad players. There will always be a best set right up until they put us all in the same gear like the PvP tests that are happening. Then players will want to kick you for not running to next pull quick enough or standing in the wrong spot or who knows what. Those bad players are still going to be bad players.
What changes would make the bad players suddenly become decent?
its not "just bad player" prior to this year i've NEVER seen that many group in group finder actively refusing HA or onebar build.
If you want to stay on copium and say everything normal and its always been that way, well i can't pull you out of your cognitive dissonance.
See when you insult the messenger that tells me you don't have a legitimate response to the message. Again I ask what changes to the game would make these players with bad attitudes suddenly start acting decent?
Calling out copium isn’t an insult, it’s frustration at people pretending this has always been the same. It hasn’t. I’ve played since beta, and only recently have I seen HA and one-bar players consistently refused in group finder. That shift didn’t come out of nowhere, it came from design changes funneling everyone into one meta. No change will magically make every rude player ‘act decent,’ but better balance and viable alternatives would remove the excuses people hide behind to gatekeep in the first place.
Also played since Beta and remember standing outside a dungeon hoping to be picked up for a group only to be asked what armor and skills I had on. I remember guilds only allowing players to join groups after completing a parse on a specific boss before we had target dummies. Some groups required a player prove they finished vet Maelstrom Arena before allowing that player to join. Claimed it proved situational awareness and the ability to do the mechanics. Requiring certain sets or preformance proof has always been a part of the game because of the players that make those demands.
The one-bar builds are getting grief now because so many players posted them in social media as a quick easy way to get high numbers. That led to a lot of less experienced players using the build and believing the hype. Those that can use the build effective got caught up in the generalization of it being a crutch build for beginners. For a while the one bar build was the flavor of the month and now it is not. Not the games fault.
Almost any build is viable unless you are trying for a trifecta or a place on the leader board. Some players demand certain builds in their groups hoping the high DPS will allow them to ignore mechanics. Again that is a player problem not a game problem. There will always be a META and there will always be players that make demands even if the difference is minimal.
I'm all for better balance but better balance isn't going to fix the problem that is being addressed here.
I get what you’re saying, I was there too when people were already asking for specific sets or proof of performance before grouping. That kind of gatekeeping definitely isn’t new. But here’s the difference: back then, there were multiple viable paths. You could show skill or gear in different ways and still get picked up. Now, balance has narrowed things so much that the beam meta (and to a lesser degree one-bar HA) feel like the only ‘real’ option.
That’s why I keep saying this isn’t just a player problem. Players will always chase META, sure, but when design supports multiple equally viable play styles, that behavior doesn’t automatically turn into widespread exclusion. When design funnels everyone into one mold, it amplifies the gatekeeping and gives people ammo to say ‘your way is invalid.’
Toxicity and META-chasing will always exist, but the degree of it- how harsh it gets, how often it shows up even in casual content-is directly tied to whether design gives players options or forces them into one lane.
Before this year, I’d have said it was maybe 70% player/30% ZOS. But now? It feels more like 65% ZOS/35% player. The balance and set design decisions are directly fueling the environment we see today.
Asdara
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Re: Official Discussion Thread for "Cyrodiil Cries Out Again for PvP Vengeance!"
I am concerned that there won’t be any real workable data to actually analyse here, subclassing has meant that there’s only ever been at most two bars in cyro for each faction at peak times.
Since vengeance started I’ve had look and there been 0 bars so I’m not sure how this tests out the issues as there are no players stressing the server
Can’t really go off the population bars because the pop cap is higher in vengeance.
Reverb
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Re: Would you like an event that gave us more transmute crystals as a reward?
I like to have the extra keys. Especially since I can buy skill styles with them now.
Extra transmutes would be cool too but I think they need to take the limit off. We should be able to hold an unlimited amount. Without this change an event giving more transmutes probably wouldn't help many people.
Extra transmutes would be cool too but I think they need to take the limit off. We should be able to hold an unlimited amount. Without this change an event giving more transmutes probably wouldn't help many people.
Buffy121
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Re: Would you like an event that gave us more transmute crystals as a reward?
The event is already dropping substantially more than double transmute crystals. Every reward box you open drops some.
Re: add a surrender button in bg 4 v 4 lil bro
Necrotech_Master wrote: »They should just scrap 2 team BG's all together. It doesn't work with only 2 teams and an unreliable matching system.
3 teams was worse by far
there were many matches i would get in sometimes i would be the only one on the team, so it was a 1v4v4
other times in a 3 team match, i wondered why an enemy team was so absolutely focused on my team and then i check the scoreboard and say team 2 had no players at all on it because they all just left or dc'd
8/10 matches in 3 team land felt like it was really a 2 team match to begin with
im not a huge fan of 4v4 necessarily either, but i do think 8v8 is alright
8v8 is alright, I'd even go so far as to say 8v8 can be really fun when both teams are on point and trying to win and fairly equally skilled.
I play 4v4 when I forget why I don't play 4v4 and then I won't play it again for months until I forget how bad it can be again.
But I loved 4v4v4. You know what three team battlegrounds had that two team lacks?
💥💫💎💛🌎⚡💙⚡🌟🔥🦄🔥🔥🎉✨✨✨VARIETY✨✨✨🔥🔥🔥🌂🌠🚀💖🌍💫💜💫💎💫
Every two team match is basically the same, repetitive a f. With three team you had greater map variety, team composition, strategic options that you don't have in 2 team. The maps by themselves provided more interesting gameplay then what we have currently, never mind the players.
Only guy on your team? No problem! Unless it was DM, then yes, problem. But Relic? Snap it while the other two teams fight. Get the flag on the other side of the map while everyone's fighting somewhere else. I came in 2nd several times alone in 3T.
I miss them. Sigh