Black figures when loading is on purpouse?

Pheefs

its a little creepy, yes?

we're all shadow men for a moment...
& then turn into pretty ladies

*nods*

Endless-Shogun

All the Black Figures are Characters you've yet to unlock for this video game.

RAMdisk

...and people ask me why I don't play the game anymore....
...I point to ESO forums and say; "Behold the popcorn-time"..., -in an overworldly voice....

milesrodneymcneely2_ESO

Game just shows true color of the soul of characters around you, briefly before 'masking' them using fancy armors and clothing. Where do you think 'black soul gems' came from?

By the Empyrean Light, I think you're on to something!

In addition to seeing the black, absent void where the souls of mortals should be, I've been falling through gaps in the world and seeing tears in the fabric of reality, particularly at the edges of doors and other portals.

Could the Vestige be on the verge of achieving CHIM?!?!

:O

winterbornb14_ESO

[/quote] Dude, if it bothers your immersion that much, go try LARP'ing. Seriously. it's a freakin video game. Not reality.[/quote]

How about we replace your graphics with stick figures, or go back to playing Pong on the TV since you don't care about how things look?
Seriously you people justify some of the worst stuff, are you used to being treated like crap and asking for more?

Mandrel8

Think of it as coming out into the sunlight from a dark room and your eyes taking a few seconds to adjust. Immersion issues solved!

Kuroinu

It's not even an issue, you don't need to see it. The real issue is that people don't properly research and learn to tweak UserSettings.txt.

winterbornb14_ESO

Riko_Futatabi wrote: »

It's not even an issue, you don't need to see it. The real issue is that people don't properly research and learn to tweak UserSettings.txt.

Just tried your .txt edit and it does work, thank you.
To bad we have to fix ZOS issues.

nimander99

No this is a server lag prevention feature, you can see it in other gfx intensive games like TERA.

Cadbury

Asherons_Call wrote: »

They're called shadow people. Don't you listen to coast to coast am?

I just assume they're ghosts of former players caught in limbo between the veil of reality and the digital world..

Then they load in and I forget what I was talking about.

Also,

#ShadowLivesMatter

Gidorick

PS Home had a similar placeholder system people were cellophane ghosts until their textured models fully loaded.

I hate to say it but it only got worse with time...

Lenikus

PC/Mac Patch Notes v2.1.4
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en-GB/discussion/comment/2200387#Comment_2200387

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote:

Miscellaneous
General

• Fixed a number of general, commonly occurring game client crashes.
• Fixed a number of crashes that could occur while using the guild store.
• Made significant performance optimizations for situations where the game needs to load large numbers of characters or fixtures.
• Made improvements to the game that reduce server lag that could occur when a large number of new instances outside of the overworld spin up within a short timeframe.
• Fixed several issues that were causing hitching to occur during the intro cinematic and/or the first loading screen.
• Player characters that have not yet fully loaded into the game will appear as black silhouettes instead of being invisible. This is to prevent being attacked by enemies that are invisible to you.
• Fixed several issues that could result in NPCs not correctly loading into the game if they started animating while outside of your camera view.
• Reduced the server load caused by area effect abilities, which will reduce lag commonly seen in Cyrodiil.
• Your game will no longer crash due to bad text files from third-party addons.
• Fixed an issue where your game could crash when loading into Tempest Island.
• Reduced the maximum number of particle effects displayed on-screen to reduce the frequency of crashing, improve the overall frame rate, and prevent memory leaks.

tordr86b16_ESO

jmgrant44ub17_ESO wrote: »

The best part is that ZOS has nothing to say about this.

There's nothing to see here. Move along. Keep moving.

Makkir

I felt like I was in Compton the other day I loaded into Belkarth

winterbornb14_ESO

For everyone who does not like this PvP feature so far Riko's .txt edit works great, thanks again.

I prefer the characters to load looking normal even if it does take longer, it may be just me but I also have yet to fall to my death using a Wayshrine.