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Re: Wisteria's motivation? (Tanlorin's questline, text includes spoilers)
spartaxoxo wrote: »I honestly think people hold non-binary characters to a higher standard than other characters. Like complaining about pronouns.
For some maybe. But at the same time I'm not going to lower my standards because they are non-binary either. I personally think they did a disservice writing Tanlorin to be off-putting to many people if they wanted positive non-binary representation.
If Zerith-Var ended up using nonbinary pronouns for whatever reason I honestly would not care at all as he's otherwise a cool character with a great story.
Re: Update 49 Inc.2 Live Patch Notes: All Platforms
- Classes
- Dragonknight
- Ardent Flame
- Searing Strike: This ability and its morphs will no longer appear locked in cases where they were previously unlocked.
- Ardent Flame
- Dragonknight
Re: More Inclusive Cosmetics.
I think I recognize the name, if so I always love seeing your characters around town! Very stylish and using cosmetics in new, creative ways. Looking forward to a photo thread, even if it's to explain a problem, because of the eye for detail and style.
I mainly know the struggle from making argonian and khajiit characters with a broad range of skin colors, so I've definitely seen the "clown" and "saturated" issues there. However, I wouldn't expect those cosmetics (mostly makeup) to always work on those races anyway, because of their variety and fur/scales. Redguards, however, should certainly have more things that work like subtler makeup, visible scars, etc.
I mainly know the struggle from making argonian and khajiit characters with a broad range of skin colors, so I've definitely seen the "clown" and "saturated" issues there. However, I wouldn't expect those cosmetics (mostly makeup) to always work on those races anyway, because of their variety and fur/scales. Redguards, however, should certainly have more things that work like subtler makeup, visible scars, etc.
Re: Werewolf and Vampire travel forms - QUALITY OF LIFE UPGRADE FOR VAMP AND WOLF FANS
I'm not super thrilled by the idea of turning into an actual wolf, but I'm sure this is the sort of mount that people would buy. It could be themed as a general shapeshifter thing so you wouldn't need the Werewolf skill line to use it.
I'd personally like if there was some way to keep up with mounted riders while in Werewolf form. We have the same maximum movement speed cap as everyone else, which we can hit a little easier thanks to the Pursuit passive. However, when you want to travel between Keeps in Cyrodiil, you'll move slower than everyone else on your team and you'll find that they've already started setting up siege or they've finished capturing the resource/town by the time you get there. Hopefully the rework gives us an increased movement cap as well.
Werewolf is designed to allow you to achieve 100% uptime, provided you play along with the roleplay fantasy of grouping in a pack to hunt and devour things. ZOS mentioned that we'll be able to sustain Werewolf longer out of combat starting in Update 50, and that Call of the Pack still exists.
I'd personally like if there was some way to keep up with mounted riders while in Werewolf form. We have the same maximum movement speed cap as everyone else, which we can hit a little easier thanks to the Pursuit passive. However, when you want to travel between Keeps in Cyrodiil, you'll move slower than everyone else on your team and you'll find that they've already started setting up siege or they've finished capturing the resource/town by the time you get there. Hopefully the rework gives us an increased movement cap as well.
As far as I'm aware, Werewolf is not intended to have a 100% uptime, so I'm not sure how well this would pan out.
Werewolf is designed to allow you to achieve 100% uptime, provided you play along with the roleplay fantasy of grouping in a pack to hunt and devour things. ZOS mentioned that we'll be able to sustain Werewolf longer out of combat starting in Update 50, and that Call of the Pack still exists.
Re: Werewolf and Vampire travel forms - QUALITY OF LIFE UPGRADE FOR VAMP AND WOLF FANS
As far as I'm aware, Werewolf is not intended to have a 100% uptime, so I'm not sure how well this would pan out.
It would be possible though. Just need to alter a few things and make the WW form toggleable (hold or press to switch) and then have the actual Ult (hold or press to activate) be a burst of some sort, the Feeding mechanism activates, and the buffs you get last as long as you can keep up that Feeding mechanic just like you do now. If the bar drops to zero, buff falls off and the player stays in WW form (or just put an option to keep it like it is now where if the buff drops, you revert to human form. Depends on the player and use/content).
I made my own WW rework and that was part of the concept. I think Vampire could use such a rework as well when it comes to their Blood Scion ult and morphs, especially for the Perfect Scion. That should be a "Vampire Lord"-like form (shrink it down to the size of a Lich, add wings, they float, and have some more vampire armor than the other form) and not a reskin of Necro Tank Ult and be a Magicka-version of WW but depending on how you morph your abilities, it becomes either a DPS or Healer variant instead of DPS or Tank like the WW is slightly geared to be.
Re: Werewolf and Vampire travel forms - QUALITY OF LIFE UPGRADE FOR VAMP AND WOLF FANS
As far as I'm aware, Werewolf is not intended to have a 100% uptime, so I'm not sure how well this would pan out.
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Re: Why nine hours maintenance daytime every week?
JARTHEGREY wrote: »PoveusRonin wrote: »It's 9 hours of maintenance every time they turn Vengeance on and off. I will be glad when they finish testing it on LIVE servers. If people were interested in it enough, they would have went to PTS for it. So unless something changes, expect 9 hours next week for them to turn it back off.
What is "Vengeance" please?
Vengeance is mine sayeth the LORD!
Re: Daily login for Tomes should be counted automatically
SilverBride wrote: »Players shouldn't miss getting credit for something they did just because they forgot to open Tomes, go to Challenges, go to Seasonal then click on the Challenge. They did it for the daily login rewards so they should be able to do it for this, too.
You don't miss getting credit if you forget to claim it manually for a few days. I did forget to claim it on one account and then just had to click the things a few times, got credit for all days. Same with the resource gathering challenges. If you forget to claim one, it starts counting towards the next one already in the background. Now the auto claim function is of course a different matter.
This. I forgot a few days and could just click on them all at once.
Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Challenge Difficulty
So, to answer some questions on Challenge Difficulty and instancing combat. This is going to be a little bit technical to hopefully explain the limitations from that perspective.
Everything in the game has a "weight" to it. This includes monsters (very weight heavy), interactable objects (these very but can be weight heavy), etc. Weight is determined by how much information is stored in a given object. I mention this because we have formulas for how much "weight" we can attribute to a given zone or instance of a zone and that is based on the intended player cap. So, for instance, Overland zones generally have no weight restrictions because we expect a lot of players in those zones so the weight attributed to the zone is justified and won't adversely affect the server. It gets much more tricky in situations where we expect reduced players in a given zone. The most restrictive are solo instances or fight spaces. We have a lot of development tools we use to make sure we do not exceed weight capacities in these spaces so it should feel seamless to players.
Each zone is controlled on the backend by something that determines which of our servers will spin up which zones when new copies are needed. In Greymoor, we saw the effects of the zones being spun up were not correctly attributing weight. Trials would spin up on weight heavy controllers which would result in adverse conditions in any zone connected to that controller. Our engineers took great pains to reorganize the code in these controllers to make sure the zones were even and weight was correctly distributed.
I bring this up to highlight the technical aspects of how the game operates from a monster and zone perspective to further illustrate that spinning up new zones based on difficulty without weight concerns and attribution would be extremely detrimental to the entire game. Needing to essentially double all of the available zones in the game without regard to population and weight would mean the entire server would have some pretty major issues regardless of where you would be playing. Even in Delves and Public Dungeons, locations that were not created with these concerns in mind, would potentially be breaking for the server.
We want Challenge Difficulty to be a fun experience for players and, while most of the feedback is regarding the desire for us not to split players from a design standpoint, the technical concerns are most likely bigger than that. This is not said to dismiss feedback but more provide context.
Please DO keep providing feedback. We have some fixes in the works coming for CD. Mainly around the calculations we are making on the backend so that player damage is more in line with expectations but that is not exhaustive and we continue to monitor things. We are taking a look at the Master difficulty in particular as thats where I think most folks will find their groove and we want to make that as smooth as possible.
Everything in the game has a "weight" to it. This includes monsters (very weight heavy), interactable objects (these very but can be weight heavy), etc. Weight is determined by how much information is stored in a given object. I mention this because we have formulas for how much "weight" we can attribute to a given zone or instance of a zone and that is based on the intended player cap. So, for instance, Overland zones generally have no weight restrictions because we expect a lot of players in those zones so the weight attributed to the zone is justified and won't adversely affect the server. It gets much more tricky in situations where we expect reduced players in a given zone. The most restrictive are solo instances or fight spaces. We have a lot of development tools we use to make sure we do not exceed weight capacities in these spaces so it should feel seamless to players.
Each zone is controlled on the backend by something that determines which of our servers will spin up which zones when new copies are needed. In Greymoor, we saw the effects of the zones being spun up were not correctly attributing weight. Trials would spin up on weight heavy controllers which would result in adverse conditions in any zone connected to that controller. Our engineers took great pains to reorganize the code in these controllers to make sure the zones were even and weight was correctly distributed.
I bring this up to highlight the technical aspects of how the game operates from a monster and zone perspective to further illustrate that spinning up new zones based on difficulty without weight concerns and attribution would be extremely detrimental to the entire game. Needing to essentially double all of the available zones in the game without regard to population and weight would mean the entire server would have some pretty major issues regardless of where you would be playing. Even in Delves and Public Dungeons, locations that were not created with these concerns in mind, would potentially be breaking for the server.
We want Challenge Difficulty to be a fun experience for players and, while most of the feedback is regarding the desire for us not to split players from a design standpoint, the technical concerns are most likely bigger than that. This is not said to dismiss feedback but more provide context.
Please DO keep providing feedback. We have some fixes in the works coming for CD. Mainly around the calculations we are making on the backend so that player damage is more in line with expectations but that is not exhaustive and we continue to monitor things. We are taking a look at the Master difficulty in particular as thats where I think most folks will find their groove and we want to make that as smooth as possible.
ZOS_Finn
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