Falling to death...ever going to fix it?
Jennifur_Vultee
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So as the title says I'm sick of falling to my death, falling under buildings and being trapped, falling on top of high structures like the Great tree of Elden Root.
Just in case the developers are not aware, ha ha ha, you spend a minute plus logging into a character, world loads you move 3-5 feet and short loading screen then you fall from like 500 feet in the air to your death. This scenario costs you frustration from dying and gold in armor repairs from fall damage.
Sometimes you fall a short distance after the loading screen and land...under something large like a building in the hollowed out terrain void under it so the grass and terrain mesh doesn't poke through the floor. If you have no friends online currently then this scenario coasts you gold to teleport to a wayshrine.
Alternately you fall a short distance land some random place near your starting location, sometimes far from your original location such as the time my Templar in Cyrodiil landed about 500 feet behind the Eastern Elsweyr base and technically off the map. If you can't run back onto the actual map because of obsticles such as a high ridge then if you have no friends online currently then this scenario coasts you gold to teleport to a wayshrine.
Sometimes you fall and land in "The Grid" a world of partial textures but mostly textured with a UVW checkerboard check pattern used to check texture stretching.
Recently my Dragonknight fell into "The Grid" landing in the typical light gray/med gray checkerboard with partial textures with "Aldmeri Base" hand written in texture on the checkerboard. If you have no friends online currently then this scenario coasts you gold to teleport to a wayshrine.
So Zenimax I have to ask can you simple not fix this falling through the physics mesh of the ground or are you just writing it off as a gold sink because "Players will just put up with it...its The Elder Scrolls." As buggy as Bethesda games tend to be I really, really wish Zenimax would have left developing ESO to Todd Howard and Bethesda, at least Bethesda has the sense to leave a buggy game open to repair by the modding community.
Just in case the developers are not aware, ha ha ha, you spend a minute plus logging into a character, world loads you move 3-5 feet and short loading screen then you fall from like 500 feet in the air to your death. This scenario costs you frustration from dying and gold in armor repairs from fall damage.
Sometimes you fall a short distance after the loading screen and land...under something large like a building in the hollowed out terrain void under it so the grass and terrain mesh doesn't poke through the floor. If you have no friends online currently then this scenario coasts you gold to teleport to a wayshrine.
Alternately you fall a short distance land some random place near your starting location, sometimes far from your original location such as the time my Templar in Cyrodiil landed about 500 feet behind the Eastern Elsweyr base and technically off the map. If you can't run back onto the actual map because of obsticles such as a high ridge then if you have no friends online currently then this scenario coasts you gold to teleport to a wayshrine.
Sometimes you fall and land in "The Grid" a world of partial textures but mostly textured with a UVW checkerboard check pattern used to check texture stretching.
Recently my Dragonknight fell into "The Grid" landing in the typical light gray/med gray checkerboard with partial textures with "Aldmeri Base" hand written in texture on the checkerboard. If you have no friends online currently then this scenario coasts you gold to teleport to a wayshrine.
So Zenimax I have to ask can you simple not fix this falling through the physics mesh of the ground or are you just writing it off as a gold sink because "Players will just put up with it...its The Elder Scrolls." As buggy as Bethesda games tend to be I really, really wish Zenimax would have left developing ESO to Todd Howard and Bethesda, at least Bethesda has the sense to leave a buggy game open to repair by the modding community.
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Treat a customer fairly and they will remember you. Treat a customer poorly and they never forget.
Imperial City: Zerg, gank or die.
Treat a customer fairly and they will remember you. Treat a customer poorly and they never forget.
Imperial City: Zerg, gank or die.
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Sarrge✭You have described it to a tee, Jennifur.
I have submitted nigh about 100 bug reports with screenshot included - Of my characters dead having smacked the ground - Of my characters splashing in the ocean beneath the playable world.
Oh, and then there's the "lucky" drops where I wind up landing alive somewhere outside of town at some random nearby-ish locale. and then I get to run back to town to do my banking/adventure prep.
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pirate3✭✭✭Yeah, this happens to me all the time. Login, maybe open my inventory and suddenly I'm falling from the sky. The game used to 'catch me' just in time and put me back in my original location. But now it just lets me fall - to the ground, or into the sea and the waiting jaws of slaughterfish. Fun times. On the other hand, sometimes my character will slip from some low obstacle (e.g. small rock I tried to jump up) and slowly - painfully slowly - drift down like a leaf on a gentle breeze.0 -
I notice the spawning in and falling regularly on only one character, my sorc who is in the veteran 1 Vulkhel Guard. and when I log in with that one character it's an almost every single time falling situation. None of my other characters have this, but I have noticed more than one character going to normal level Rivenspire, and having the loading screen show up randomly in the middle of moving around Shornhelm. Very annoying, and both are fairly new developments for me, have only been happening about 2-3 weeks or so.
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DaveMoeDee✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Very annoying.
Join a large guild to make sure you always have someone to travel to for free.0 -
Jennifur_Vultee✭✭✭✭✭"I'm flying! I'm flying jack!"
And music to listen to while you fall to your death...
Ladies and gentlemen...Alicia Keys - Fallin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urdlvw0SSEc Edited by Jennifur_Vultee on October 20, 2015 4:05PM"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." – Albert Einstein
Treat a customer fairly and they will remember you. Treat a customer poorly and they never forget.
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Sarrge✭I've been having this issue for a long time (PC version) - since the DLC update, i think.
I've tweeked and played with the following: LUA memory, addons and mods, changing the in-game realestate where I log off and several other hair brained "what if" scenarios.
I bought a new laptop (not to fix this) and the problem followed me to the new gear > 16GB RAM, 5 GB Video, i7, etc.
Since I've got a hugely powerful new system, I was running with my video settings maxed out. I cut them back (due to the heat generated!) to roughly medium and I haven't had this happen since. Still testing, but it looks like the video settings is at least a contributor if not the cause.
Solution (at least until a fix is provided): lower your in-game video settings and slowly re-up so long as you don't replicate the problem. If you do, go back to the last video setting increase and dial it back.0 -
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✭Freefall after exiting the cave in Mathiisen. I got 2 loading screens, and after the second, my character fell down, not even where I was originally standing:
"Watch your step." Sure.
If you can't fix it, could you give us a paraglider for a softer landing then, eventually?^^
Btw, lowering the video settings wouldn't help on my end, it's on medium already and many things are even turned off completely. And I won't play with the lowest settings anymore, ever.
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RinaldoGandolphi✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭This bug has been around since the Early Access Launch back in April of 2014
This bug has been around that long, I wouldn't hold out any hopes of it being fixed anytime soon...Rinaldo Gandolphi-Breton Sorcerer Daggerfall Covenant
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RinaldoGandolphi wrote: »This bug has been around since the Early Access Launch back in April of 2014
This bug has been around that long, I wouldn't hold out any hopes of it being fixed anytime soon...
If this has been around since launch then it got a lot worse since the last patch.0 -
For me this only started happening since the IC patch. I will log in to find myself falling and then dying, falling through the wold to the stuff below, fall/die/reload and be alive, fall/die/reload/reload again/reload in some random place. I messaged in game to get a generic answer of check the forums and repair the game like I hadn't thought of any of that. I e-mailed them and was told they were aware of the problem and that the maintenances over the last few weeks would take care of it. I actually did a clean install, had no issues for 3 days and they did one of their maintenances to have it start all over again. I really hope @ZOS_RichLambert is right in this patch finally fixing a lot of that because it's getting old.0
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pirate3✭✭✭ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »There's a fix in tomorrows patch that should fix a number of these cases.
I hope so. This is one of those dripping tap defects that slowly but steadily wears away the desire to play.
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