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Re: Red Latency
shadyjane62 wrote: »Since patch my latency is showing red at 300+ but it doesn't seem to affected my play. Did something change? I checked it on my other computer and the latency is still red in 300 range but again no difference in play lag.
The latency number means nothing, it has always been misleading. A while ago people speculated that it was an average across multiple minutes and chose the lowest value. There used to be times where cyrodil lag would still show 70 ping even though things were just stuttering constantly.
Re: ESO Leadership Roundtable Discussion
My main take away from this is that Nick is an absolute mad lad (in the best way). Respect.I have a lot of great memories running dungeons. My favorite one that comes to mind was with a PUG years ago taking on Vet Moon Hunter Keep.
If I were to criticize one thing - assuming the main reason for this get-together was to introduce themselves to the community, I think a video of this roundtable discussion, hosted by Gina or Jess, ideally with Rich passing the baton, would have been much better received. I know not everyone's comfortable in front of a camera (me included), but first impressions matter as they say, and reading through a discussion feels strangely anemic.
Especially in light of wanting to introduce more of the developers to the community (looking forward to this, just hope they have nerves of steel ebony), it would have sent a better signal if leadership made the first step.
Thanks for the thoughts, all. They really are a great bunch and we're excited for you to get to know them more. To give a little more context about why we kicked things off with a written letter instead of a livestream or video, it really comes down to timing. This announcement and subsequent interviews are happening during (and at) gamescom this week. We wanted to get something a little more personal out to you - some messages just for you - ahead of those interviews.
Rich and Nick will be on a livestream with our German team tomorrow during gamescom, and we do have some additional things lined up over the next few months, including an AMA (probably in early September). We do want to hold some livestreams, too, and are in the midst of planning them.
Re: Vengeance Test 3 Request
MincMincMinc wrote: »Vengeance was literally proven to fix the lag and playercap issue. If you had played earlier on in eso the combat is much closer to the more clear and concise almost fighting game appeal that made PvP popular to begin with. Also zos is quite literally using vengeance as a test......
~snip~
At this point it's clear they didn't play Vengeance for more than a hot minute if at all. Vengeance was super glorious for the couple of days I had the free time to play, and whatever they did in the backend and how they managed the skills put Cyrodiil back into a top tier PvP experience.
...For those couple of days I played. Because Vengeance ended, and we went straight back to the zombie that is Cyrodiil present.
Re: Vengeance Test 3 Request
MincMincMinc wrote: »It is also funny to think that pvp has been broken and complained about server performance wise since that infamous lighting patch in like 2014-2015. So we are talking 10 years at this point or 520 weeks of "broken servers". Now that we are getting a test to fix it people want to complain that they missed yet another week of broken gameplay.....oh no what a tragedy.
I think its just that people are so upset they want zos to feel the miserable attitude instead of giving them an ounce of praise for doing something in the right direction.
Except vengeance is the opposite of the right direction.
ZOS can fix cyrodiil performance without dumbed down vengeance mode.
Re: Fashion Megathread
ESO Costume for August 2025 – A Crafty Pirate!
Costume: Pirate Swab Outfit (Dye Stamp – Monochrome: White with Heavy Shadows – Birch White and Noxophilic Black)
Hair: Unruly Bangs
Minor Adornment: Kris Earring
Head Markings: Rajaska’s Snarl Face Tattoos
Body Markings: Rajaska’s Snarl Body Tattoos
Facial Hair: Dark Emphasis Eyelashes
Main Hand: Breton Sword 2 (Antique Silver, Indoril Blue and Darkstorm Emerald)
Off Hand: Breton Dagger 3 (Antique Silver, Divine Gold and Champion Red)
Bow: Grave Dancer (Thalmor Black and Birch White)
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Re: That huge, huge, HUGE area effect
MincMincMinc wrote: »Thumbless_Bot wrote: »Its ~452m squared... 12m radius, not 6. I made the same mistake originally. That's why the circle is SOOOO big.
It's an entire battlefield. It shouldn't exist at all. Much less every 8 seconds. Much less with that radius, much less with the rule breaking mechanic.
It's just downright bad.
Its almost like 5 piece sets shouldnt have proc effects......let alone proc effects that are larger or more grandiose than most ultimates in the game.
We wonder why new players can't understand combat and never learn pvp. It was much easier back in the day when players just had to learn maybe the 60 or so skills. Now we have maybe 10x the animations on characters to the point where you cant see anything going on.
Ideally only important animations like CC or ultimates would be prominent. This is why originally skills you unlock early on were simple animations designed for spam without bloating the game. The final skills like streak were the more costly big animation skills that were hard to spam.
A bit of a rant. But here it goes.
Zos implements things like this to make, in their words, pvp 'less intense' for Timmy and Tammy Tamriel who are pve focused non-sweats who want to have the feeling of accomplishment in pvp without putting in the time to get gud.
Dark Convergence was their first foray. This wasn't enough so they made an even worse version called ROA.
They did this with 2 team bgs as well. Suffice it to say that Timmy and Tammy have a harder time in this new format. It's less intense though, but only because they cant leave spawn and actually compete.
This philosophy failed.
THIS
PHILOSOPHY
FAILED
In fact this philosophy is insidious. It has caused a downfall of eso pvp and why I often refer to it as a circus sideshow now... because that's what zos has turned pvp into in their efforts to make pvp 'less intense'.
It needs to stop and the changes made to this end, like roa, DC and 2 team battlegrounds, all need to be removed so pvp can be fun and COMPETITVE again.
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Pvp should be intense. It is competitive.
Re: Players
join random queues to go ape on the party if they dont do enough damage or are not using meta or it looks like my arcanist will have to do more than just beam (joke)
Daoin
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Re: ESO Leadership Roundtable Discussion
I can pretty much only agree with what others have commented before. The effort to communicate is appreciated, especially during the difficult period people at zenimax are currently going through, but:
- An acknowledgement that the game isn't in the best state it's ever been would have gone a long way. The whole sunshine and rainbows vibe this article portrays doesn't exactly line up with the reality players are currently experiencing.
- There's nothing concrete in the article, only buzzwords, platitudes and promises we've been reading for years. It sounds a lot like "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" to me.
loosej
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Swim, horse... SWIM.
K so me, and trusty steed, in the deeper water.. Shock follows... my horse isn't swimming, it is walking - inside water. Hmm... checks the god of references.. .John Wayne in Red River... yup, now that IS a horseman, mounted, on a swimming horse... later years... The Undefeated, yup, John's on a diff horse, diff river but that horse too, is swimming, and he's right there riding. I suppose I should be grateful for the change, and I am... but having ridden a swimming horse, what I see isn't the same. No worries, it will do!
Slimm Pickens
Slimm Pickens
sixlalas
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