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Re: Thank you
Nobody is saying the idea/concept wasn't good. It was. It's the execution that was very poor. It was just too long with too few rewards for the effort it took. It was also a long time to be locked out of other content because of the random event bosses taking over. I lost a month of ESO+ waiting for things to go back to normal. The bugs actually made it a little more interesting in that it was at least something to talk about - as you pointed out, we like to complain!
If people just praise them for what a wonderful idea it was, they wouldn't know badly how it fell flat with the majority of players.
For context, I've been playing since console beta and this is the first event I've actively complained about. I don't even mind doing the same New Life quests a million times!
If people just praise them for what a wonderful idea it was, they wouldn't know badly how it fell flat with the majority of players.
For context, I've been playing since console beta and this is the first event I've actively complained about. I don't even mind doing the same New Life quests a million times!
lillybit
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Re: Writhing Wall Event Known Issues
Hi everyone. We are creating a new post in this thread for issues specific to Phase 3 of the Writhing Wall event and/or after the Update 48 launch. If you are looking for Eastern Solstice and/or Update 48-specific known issues, please see this thread.
Some characters are unable to collect Skyshards in Eastern Solstice
Characters who collected all the Skyshards in Western Solstice before Update 48 launched are currently unable to collect Skyshards in the Eastern Solstice zone. The temporary workaround is to log in and claim the Eastern Solstice Skyshards on other characters on your account. We are working on a fix for characters that are currently in a bad state where they cannot collect Eastern Solstice Skyshards.
The Zysax encounter, in the Writhing Fortress, can sometimes become bugged
The Zysax encounter – the final boss in the Writhing Fortress – can sometimes become bugged and not completable. This can also sometimes appear as the quest not correctly updating, and/or things in the final room not being interactable. We are investigating a fix for this issue. In the meantime, the temporary workaround is for all characters who were engaged in the final boss fight to die and reset the encounter, or leave the instance and try getting into a new one.
Skordo sometimes does not appear when you go to hand in the “Support the Fellowship” quest at the siege camp in Solstice, despite his quest pin appearing on the map.
Skordo is sometimes not spawning in an area where players can interact with him, at the end of the “Support the Fellowship” quest. We are currently investigating this issue. The temporary workaround for players is to drop “The Worm Turns” quest.
Some characters are unable to collect Skyshards in Eastern Solstice
Characters who collected all the Skyshards in Western Solstice before Update 48 launched are currently unable to collect Skyshards in the Eastern Solstice zone. The temporary workaround is to log in and claim the Eastern Solstice Skyshards on other characters on your account. We are working on a fix for characters that are currently in a bad state where they cannot collect Eastern Solstice Skyshards.
- Update: To be fixed during upcoming maintenance, date TBD
The Zysax encounter, in the Writhing Fortress, can sometimes become bugged
The Zysax encounter – the final boss in the Writhing Fortress – can sometimes become bugged and not completable. This can also sometimes appear as the quest not correctly updating, and/or things in the final room not being interactable. We are investigating a fix for this issue. In the meantime, the temporary workaround is for all characters who were engaged in the final boss fight to die and reset the encounter, or leave the instance and try getting into a new one.
- Update: Hotfix in progress for Nov 17
Skordo sometimes does not appear when you go to hand in the “Support the Fellowship” quest at the siege camp in Solstice, despite his quest pin appearing on the map.
Skordo is sometimes not spawning in an area where players can interact with him, at the end of the “Support the Fellowship” quest. We are currently investigating this issue. The temporary workaround for players is to drop “The Worm Turns” quest.
- Update: Hotfix in progress for Nov 17
Re: Thank you
I think your post is ragebait, however, I'm going to re-answer your questions.
[*] Has it brought the ESO community together to change the overall nature of an entire zone in the world, for the first time? Indeed, I've seen everyone agreeing this event has been the worst experience. It's the first time I've seen the sweaty pvper agree with the casual player and the hardcore pve player. Not sure it's a good thing the reason people are glad this is unique is because they are fed up with the whole thing
[*] Is it a new scale of event for players to work not just as a dungeon team, a trial team, but as an army across an entire zone? Progress has been "adjusted" so many times everyone feels the community effort has been rigged from the start. We got server progression during a server wide maintenance. The whole Writhing Fortress feels like a really tanky Cyrodiil siege, it's not working as an army, it's mind dulling. Give me a break.
[*] Has it had some bugs, miscalculations? Wall was accesible on day 1 of U48, regardless of wall event. People were able to breach it even yesterday before Fortress went down. Main quest in Eastern Solstice is bugged. You can get stuck on death in a delve. You can't get any skyshards. It is not "a" bug, it's an ocean of them. Even by ESO standards, this is a massive blunder.
[*] Are you entitled to report the bugs and the team will fix them? God forbit we get content that works as intended, it's not like we paid real money for it, right???.
[*]Are you entitled to whine about bugs existing, and the team not magically fixing all of them in the first hour they pop up? We got charged 10 more bucks for a zone DLC with the excuse of getting the dungeons in the bundle (which is a middle finger to ESO+ players). The zone was split in two (this is not a different zone, it's East and West Summerset), and even with all the time they had, they didn't release properly playable content. Even by current industry standards, which are poor, this is a mess..
If this was a smaller company, I guess people would be more empathetic. We're speaking about getting bought by Microsoft, firing the team that was taken away from ESO to dev another MMO, and then sack even more personnel. It's not just a matter of "the devs don't play the game", it's a matter of blatant mismanagement of a product many of us love, and feeling we paid for a bad quality product. Categorising all valid and respectful criticism of ESO in 2025 as toxic knee-jerk reactions is an old thing, try better.
You can lick the boot, but there's no need to make a full meal of it.
[*] Did we get Solstice, wall, new creatures and bosses, new mechanics, quest stories, purchase rewards, everything they've promised? I don't know if you throw your money away, we paid for a new zone with a new trial. The new creatures, mechanics and whatnot, in plural, is a bit of an overstatement.Lord_Trurl wrote: »[...]
It's a new type of event, a new type of content, and a new type of dungeon.
[...]
- Did we get Solstice, wall, new creatures and bosses, new mechanics, quest stories, purchase rewards, everything they've promised? Yes.
- Has it brought the ESO community together to change the overall nature of an entire zone in the world, for the first time? Yes
- Is it a new scale of event for players to work not just as a dungeon team, a trial team, but as an army across an entire zone? Yes.
- Has it had some bugs, miscalculations? Sure, show me any software that didn't have a bug on first release.
- Are you entitled to report the bugs and the team will fix them? Yes.
- Are you entitled to whine about bugs existing, and the team not magically fixing all of them in the first hour they pop up? Well I can't stop you, but it's unrealistic IMO.
[*] Has it brought the ESO community together to change the overall nature of an entire zone in the world, for the first time? Indeed, I've seen everyone agreeing this event has been the worst experience. It's the first time I've seen the sweaty pvper agree with the casual player and the hardcore pve player. Not sure it's a good thing the reason people are glad this is unique is because they are fed up with the whole thing
[*] Is it a new scale of event for players to work not just as a dungeon team, a trial team, but as an army across an entire zone? Progress has been "adjusted" so many times everyone feels the community effort has been rigged from the start. We got server progression during a server wide maintenance. The whole Writhing Fortress feels like a really tanky Cyrodiil siege, it's not working as an army, it's mind dulling. Give me a break.
[*] Has it had some bugs, miscalculations? Wall was accesible on day 1 of U48, regardless of wall event. People were able to breach it even yesterday before Fortress went down. Main quest in Eastern Solstice is bugged. You can get stuck on death in a delve. You can't get any skyshards. It is not "a" bug, it's an ocean of them. Even by ESO standards, this is a massive blunder.
[*] Are you entitled to report the bugs and the team will fix them? God forbit we get content that works as intended, it's not like we paid real money for it, right???.
[*]Are you entitled to whine about bugs existing, and the team not magically fixing all of them in the first hour they pop up? We got charged 10 more bucks for a zone DLC with the excuse of getting the dungeons in the bundle (which is a middle finger to ESO+ players). The zone was split in two (this is not a different zone, it's East and West Summerset), and even with all the time they had, they didn't release properly playable content. Even by current industry standards, which are poor, this is a mess..
If this was a smaller company, I guess people would be more empathetic. We're speaking about getting bought by Microsoft, firing the team that was taken away from ESO to dev another MMO, and then sack even more personnel. It's not just a matter of "the devs don't play the game", it's a matter of blatant mismanagement of a product many of us love, and feeling we paid for a bad quality product. Categorising all valid and respectful criticism of ESO in 2025 as toxic knee-jerk reactions is an old thing, try better.
You can lick the boot, but there's no need to make a full meal of it.
salander7
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Re: Writhing fortress broken?
When you haven't checked the forums for a couple hours and come back to see this thread has 55 new notifications....I guess I probably will just speed-finish the rest of the zone and go elsewhere to a different game since Zos' fomo event is a nightmare.
Re: East Solstice Skyshards
There's one lessons to learn from all those bugs this year (including daily quests and dig sites on the locked side of the map apprearing, a set station on the other side randomly appearing as discovered, and lots more): Please never release one zone split in two halves again.
Syldras
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Thank you
I have heard what commenters are saying; many players are frustrated and disappointed with bugs; that's perfectly valid.
Bugs do exist, and should be fixed. Players explaining that they're upset, is reasonable and their feelings are real.
The majority of folks who feel this way, do express themselves fairly about it.
I did not intend to target the majority of reasonable commentary, nor to make light of players' disappointment.
My intent was to highlight that I've seen some pretty extreme derogatory, hateful, and vindictive personal attacks by a small minority.
Please don't forget that the ZOS team trying to fix the bugs and communicate with you are real people, with real feelings and good intentions.
They worked hard on this event, and they now are working hard to fix bugs and learn from this.
I'm sure they want to fix it as soon as possible, so that you're happy, and they can go home to their families.
Please try to remember to be kind, or at least fair, to them.
To those ZOS employees who are working hard around the clock to fix this, I want to express my thanks, because I know it's difficult.
I've made this as an edit to my original post, else it would be lost in the many comments and since my original intent has been misunderstood by some. [/edit]
Bugs do exist, and should be fixed. Players explaining that they're upset, is reasonable and their feelings are real.
The majority of folks who feel this way, do express themselves fairly about it.
I did not intend to target the majority of reasonable commentary, nor to make light of players' disappointment.
My intent was to highlight that I've seen some pretty extreme derogatory, hateful, and vindictive personal attacks by a small minority.
Please don't forget that the ZOS team trying to fix the bugs and communicate with you are real people, with real feelings and good intentions.
They worked hard on this event, and they now are working hard to fix bugs and learn from this.
I'm sure they want to fix it as soon as possible, so that you're happy, and they can go home to their families.
Please try to remember to be kind, or at least fair, to them.
To those ZOS employees who are working hard around the clock to fix this, I want to express my thanks, because I know it's difficult.
I've made this as an edit to my original post, else it would be lost in the many comments and since my original intent has been misunderstood by some. [/edit]
Lord_Trurl
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Re: Writhing fortress broken?
I was also in that group on PS/NA, and on an alt that hadn't done the Western Solstice quest. I took the portal back to the main siege camp and turned in the quest just fine. So the bug isn't universal.Thanks for the update. Are you also looking at why the quest won't complete, even if you were in the group that completed the fortress?
My experience on PS/NA was doing the Writhing Fortress with the crowd of players when the PS/NA timer wound down at 8 PM yesterday. I was on an alt that I typically use for trials that had not completed the main quest line in Western Solstice.
Re: Writhing fortress broken?
Xbox EU the third boss disappeared at 74% so can't complete the fortress.
Re: Writhing fortress broken?
Are you sure about that @ZOS_JessicaFolsom ? I'm on PC/NA so I haven't been able to find out for myself yet, but people in this thread are reporting that once they've completed it on a character they can't go back in:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/685243/can-you-do-the-writhing-fortress-twice-on-the-same-character#latest
Yeah, that was before today's hotfix was rolled out. Folks should be able to get back in to run it as many times as they like now. We are investigating a few issues that were newly reported this afternoon, though. (I'm working on compiling that list with statuses.)