Pretty Big Patch for what?

Vizier

Is it just me or...Seems like a huge patch for a little Battle leveling fixes and some tweaks.

KerinKor

All ESO patches are huge, clearly ZOS haven't learned the art of incremental patching and seem to replace files en-masse.

Vaelen

Well I'll be honest, the game sounds ALOT better on my Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card now, before the patch it sounded like fake surround, now it sounds more like true surround. It would be nice if they could add an option for the number of sound channels in game.

I_killed_Vivec

It's almost as if they have nothing else to do - let's tinker with the sound...

Looking at the corrections they have made to the sound it's hard to see why they weren't addressed ages ago, unless they were too busy with something else. Though I would have thought that they would have a "sound team". If they do then what have they been doing for the last year or so?

By the way, for those who aren't EP,

"Giant snakes will no longer respawn in as large of numbers as they did previously in Thormar."

Is a nerf to a popular grinding spot. To be fair to them the place does look a mess because there's often piles of dead snakes lying around but that's just because they nerfed grinding spots in Craglorn.

Next nerf? My money is on Little Ozur's camp - the place is also littered with dead bodies. Almost makes me feel sad for ogres.

Celestially

I don't get why the server is fully shut down when they do a update servers don't go down in other games. Is this because there's only 2 servers ?

Araxleon

lots of stuff fixed behind the scenes. Bare that in mind hehe

Celestially

I guess they do got a lot of behind the scenes stuff:P

Majic

As posted in a related thread...

The latest patch is larger than usual because it includes many audio improvements and polish, according to ZOS.

PC/Mac Patch Notes v2.0.12

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited v2.0.12 is an incremental patch that includes many audio improvements and polish. Due to this, the size of the patch will be significantly larger than normal at approximately 5GB for English, 6.5GB for German, and 7.4GB for French. In addition, we’re also adding battle leveled consumables, which you can read more about below, and a handful of fixes to outstanding issues.

Tors

I_killed_Vivec wrote: »

By the way, for those who aren't EP,

"Giant snakes will no longer respawn in as large of numbers as they did previously in Thormar."

All the Ep are just rolling a yellow or blue toon so they can grind their end level Cadwells gold sites for the champion points on their main. Better grdin spots AND the almost constant 11% exp bonus from the PvP buffs is way better than the crap Red stuff.

I fail to see how reducing the exp spots availiable for EP makes anything balanced in the 3 way war

Naslu

Tors wrote: »

I_killed_Vivec wrote: »

By the way, for those who aren't EP,

"Giant snakes will no longer respawn in as large of numbers as they did previously in Thormar."

All the Ep are just rolling a yellow or blue toon so they can grind their end level Cadwells gold sites for the champion points on their main. Better grdin spots AND the almost constant 11% exp bonus from the PvP buffs is way better than the crap Red stuff.

I fail to see how reducing the exp spots availiable for EP makes anything balanced in the 3 way war

Dont take me wrong , but in EP are still fantastic grind spots to level up chars to v14 and get cp's at the end but nobody talks about it otherwise : nerf hammer due to mass grind of people (i.e. lvl1-50: 3h48min, v1-v14: 8h 17min)

Tors

Naslu wrote: »

Tors wrote: »

I_killed_Vivec wrote: »

By the way, for those who aren't EP,

"Giant snakes will no longer respawn in as large of numbers as they did previously in Thormar."

All the Ep are just rolling a yellow or blue toon so they can grind their end level Cadwells gold sites for the champion points on their main. Better grdin spots AND the almost constant 11% exp bonus from the PvP buffs is way better than the crap Red stuff.

I fail to see how reducing the exp spots availiable for EP makes anything balanced in the 3 way war

Dont take me wrong , but in EP are still fantastic grind spots to level up chars to v14 and get cp's at the end but nobody talks about it otherwise : nerf hammer due to mass grind of people (i.e. lvl1-50: 3h48min, v1-v14: 8h 17min)

Yeah there are some good spots in the 3-400k an hourish region, but there are far better yellow and blue side. The snakes were only around 200k if noone else was stealing (lol) your snakes or making stupid pulls that meant you ddint kill half the camp at once.

in fact, if you want 800k an hour unbuffed and dont mind the downside, then run up the steps there....

OrphanHelgen

They nerf stuff without telling it.. Like when they nerfed how long a pack of mobs can get out of their original position before they reset. This is to prevent grind. Where is that in the patch notes?

Darkeus

i dont give a damn about patch sizes as long as they improve things and game gets better, but if they dont... then trolls take them.

tengri

Well, they have to hide all the new bugs somewhere... you cant just update two small files and introduce ten more bugs without ppl getting suspicious.

Thunder_Downunder

big? Its fracken HUGE! I've been downloading it for 5hrs now and I still haven't got to 70%

Way to big for the light amount of stuff in the patch notes. I dont have the background music on.

There needs to be an option to select bit for this size of patch. ESO patches are stupidly big all the time.

Endurance

Vaelen wrote: »

Well I'll be honest, the game sounds ALOT better on my Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card now, before the patch it sounded like fake surround, now it sounds more like true surround. It would be nice if they could add an option for the number of sound channels in game.

I too have that sound card.. paired with Senheizer HD598..

can you believe that sound card draws almost as much power as a Geforce TITAN? looool its worth it though

Tors

This patch probably includes a fair amount of the next content release. Its much better for us to get multiple medium sized patches running up to release than one massive one on the day of release.

If not, then many of the 120 Gb SSD people have problems upgrading at wll while the rest of the player base are on the forums complaining rather than playing the game

MornaBaine

Let's see, an hour in and I'm at 72%. New sounds better be luscious.

Arkadius

Tors wrote: »

This patch probably includes a fair amount of the next content release. Its much better for us to get multiple medium sized patches running up to release than one massive one on the day of release.
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People keep saying that for several patches. That new content already takes more space than the whole game ...

Armitas

I bought Dragon Age 2 as a digital download yesterday. 5GB....5GB! I have an entire game for the same size as this patch with nothing in it.

7GB for French, this really is getting ridiculous and inexplicable.

coryevans_3b14_ESO

Armitas wrote: »

I bought Dragon Age 2 as a digital download yesterday. 5GB....5GB! I have an entire game for the same size as this patch with nothing in it.

7GB for French, this really is getting ridiculous and inexplicable.

Wow you payed money for DA2? Probably the most disappointing and horribad game ever. I believe it ranks right up there with E.T. on atari.

Since DA1 was one of the best rpgs made (imo) da2 couldn't have been a bigger steaming pile.

Vizier

Right on guys. I was just..curious. Didn't want to assume too much, but it's hard not to speculate a wee little bit.