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Re: U50 Feedback Thread for Class Mastery
So Skinny Cheeks just posted a video and basically, everything is too low and needs to have some buffs and changes.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vnEMhIw_Jk8
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vnEMhIw_Jk8
Upcoming Maintenance on ALL Megaservers - April 27
Hello everyone,
We wanted to give you a heads up on some maintenance occurring next week that will be longer than usual. All European megaservers will be offline starting April 26 at 10pm EDT until April 27 at 12pm EDT, and all North American megaservers will be offline on April 27 from 3am to 5pm EDT (please click here for time zone conversions).
The purpose for this long maintenance is for good reason: we will be performing some backend changes to support crossplay development, which will take several hours for each realm. Crossplay is a very complex initiative, and this is one of many times when we will need to do some work on the live servers to support this feature. While this is a very exciting step and we do have a team working on this full time, we do want to remind everyone that crossplay will not be releasing this year.
In addition to the work supporting crossplay, we will also be disabling the Vengeance PvP campaign during this maintenance.
Thanks for your patience, and we’ll keep everyone posted on maintenance progress next Monday!
We wanted to give you a heads up on some maintenance occurring next week that will be longer than usual. All European megaservers will be offline starting April 26 at 10pm EDT until April 27 at 12pm EDT, and all North American megaservers will be offline on April 27 from 3am to 5pm EDT (please click here for time zone conversions).
The purpose for this long maintenance is for good reason: we will be performing some backend changes to support crossplay development, which will take several hours for each realm. Crossplay is a very complex initiative, and this is one of many times when we will need to do some work on the live servers to support this feature. While this is a very exciting step and we do have a team working on this full time, we do want to remind everyone that crossplay will not be releasing this year.
In addition to the work supporting crossplay, we will also be disabling the Vengeance PvP campaign during this maintenance.
Thanks for your patience, and we’ll keep everyone posted on maintenance progress next Monday!
Re: Should 4v4v4 (3 Teams) Battleground mode become permanent again?
4v4v4 deathmatch
8v8 objective based
4v4 ranked leaderboards
All separate lobbies
8v8 objective based
4v4 ranked leaderboards
All separate lobbies
Heath3n
2
Should 4v4v4 (3 Teams) Battleground mode become permanent again?
Personally, I believe that 3 teams solves many issues that exist in the 2 teams game mode
Notably
- Less instances of spawn camping, as if a team spawn camps it is likely they will lose the objective or get third parties
- Less toxicity for casual players, as players only need to get in the top 2 out of 3 placement to complete the daily bonus
- More dynamic gameplay, as rather than two teams crashing into eachother for most of the match, 3 teams is more focused on positioning properly and not getting pincered by the other two teams
- A much higher chance of making a comeback, as the two other teams may get locked in conflict allowing the third team to claim a decisive victory via objective
- Unique map design, almost every map has a special mechanic that can be planned around for maximum effect (teleport pads, arena traps, foggy blizzards, dangerous lava pits, etc)
None of this is really present for 4v4 or 8v8, as 90% of the time the match is determined as soon as it starts based on player skill levels or build variety, strategy tends to have very little impact on the chances of winning, it just turns into “Who can spawn camp the enemy team harder” which leads to a lot of toxicity
Notably
- Less instances of spawn camping, as if a team spawn camps it is likely they will lose the objective or get third parties
- Less toxicity for casual players, as players only need to get in the top 2 out of 3 placement to complete the daily bonus
- More dynamic gameplay, as rather than two teams crashing into eachother for most of the match, 3 teams is more focused on positioning properly and not getting pincered by the other two teams
- A much higher chance of making a comeback, as the two other teams may get locked in conflict allowing the third team to claim a decisive victory via objective
- Unique map design, almost every map has a special mechanic that can be planned around for maximum effect (teleport pads, arena traps, foggy blizzards, dangerous lava pits, etc)
None of this is really present for 4v4 or 8v8, as 90% of the time the match is determined as soon as it starts based on player skill levels or build variety, strategy tends to have very little impact on the chances of winning, it just turns into “Who can spawn camp the enemy team harder” which leads to a lot of toxicity
NikoSquared
15
Re: Forced group
I'm not sure when the Thieves Guild and Sheogorath quest lines come out, but I believe they'll be in this season, too.
Next season.
U50 will drop in June with Class Mastery, but the TG line won’t pop until Season One in July. I think there’s also a delay for the Sheo line until August. U51 with Warden’s rework an likely the High Seas event should round that out in September before Season Two around October.
Re: Forced group
How about?
Short term: open a new Group Finder post. Something like
"Group for completing group related golden pursuits. Join, do your own thing and then leave. No talking required."
Long term: found a new guild that has a sole purpose of finding people to group with when grouping is necessary, but with no aim to actually play together. People who don't want to play with other will most definitely have an empty guild slot.
Short term: open a new Group Finder post. Something like
"Group for completing group related golden pursuits. Join, do your own thing and then leave. No talking required."
Long term: found a new guild that has a sole purpose of finding people to group with when grouping is necessary, but with no aim to actually play together. People who don't want to play with other will most definitely have an empty guild slot.
Re: PSA for those unhappy with "forced grouping" GP -->
Maybe ZOS is trying to get players to play in groups so they are ready for the Night Market which is from what I understand group content, and not designed to be completed solo.
I asked this question at the beginning of the year, and unless anything has changed since then, it seems to be mainly an open dungeon where people can just tag along with others, except for a few interiors that will be group content (both for 4 people as well as for 12 people). Not sure if the group instances are needed to get the main collectibles and unlock all housing rooms, though.
Don’t need to do the instances to unlock the house wings. The things to unlock the house wings are a requirement before you can do the instances.
It seems that you don’t need to be in a group with someone to count as being grouped for the worldboss one at least, I got a worldboss tick with no companion and 2 players around whilst I was not in a group. Did not try completely solo, but maybe this is a test for a Night Market golden pursuit.
Completly solo with Bastian spawned doesn't count. I've tried it yesterday.
Silaf
1
Re: PSA for those unhappy with "forced grouping" GP -->
Maybe ZOS is trying to get players to play in groups so they are ready for the Night Market which is from what I understand group content, and not designed to be completed solo.
I asked this question at the beginning of the year, and unless anything has changed since then, it seems to be mainly an open dungeon where people can just tag along with others, except for a few interiors that will be group content (both for 4 people as well as for 12 people). Not sure if the group instances are needed to get the main collectibles and unlock all housing rooms, though.
Don’t need to do the instances to unlock the house wings. The things to unlock the house wings are a requirement before you can do the instances.
It seems that you don’t need to be in a group with someone to count as being grouped for the worldboss one at least, I got a worldboss tick with no companion and 2 players around whilst I was not in a group. Did not try completely solo, but maybe this is a test for a Night Market golden pursuit.
Soarora
2
Re: Three-Sided Deathmatch
Just some random BGs from 2017-2024
...which one of these "perfectly balanced and fine" 3-way BGs should I click on next? Sadly can't fit most of them on the screen there.
Reality check.
If ZOS really wants to make BGs a more fun and rewarding gameplay loop for players, this is what needs to be done:
...which one of these "perfectly balanced and fine" 3-way BGs should I click on next? Sadly can't fit most of them on the screen there.
Reality check.
If ZOS really wants to make BGs a more fun and rewarding gameplay loop for players, this is what needs to be done:
1. Revamp solo queue 4v4 into a 3v3 or 4v4 shuffle mode where everyone plays with/against each other across multiple rounds.
2. Remove flag games from 4v4 (preferably 3v3).
3. Introduce a simple win/loss MMR system, gaining or losing points based on opponents' average MMR. System tries to match you against people of similar MMR/rank.
4. Make this MMR visible and rank people based on it - they can even use same ranks as in ToT to keep it Elder Scrolls themed.
5. Introduce seasonal rewards unlocked at each rank and for people at the top MMR of the highest rank, similar to ToT.
6. Add the same matchmaking system to 8v8, minus ranks and rewards. Keep the number invisible - this is the casual mode.
7. Kick people down from spawn after 15 seconds to prevent spawn camping and toxic afk'ing to prolong matches out of spite.
8. Add a prompt to pick up chaosball, reduce the number of chaosballs to one.
9. In CtR move relics further away from spawn location, or move spawn locations close to middle to prevent the infinite respawn loop of interrupters while providing people the chance to intercept a relic runner instead. Would require substantial map redesign.
10. Reduce the amount of flags in certain Domination maps or significantly increase the amount of time it takes to flip one.
11. Add more maps.
Decimus
8
Re: How to re-roll weekly challenges
On PC, it works like this:
- Hover above the challenge you want to reroll with your cursor;
- Check the bottom of the screen to see which button you have to press to reroll;
- Press the button while still hovering.
