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I'll just leave this here......
Hamzor
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Returned player currently playing as a VR3 Stam DK running a mix of Ashen's and Night sets with a 2H Axe.
Some reasons i like this game
The indepth crafting system, the environment is engaging and nice to look at, the quests are well thought out and i enjoy doing them and the guild/AH system has grown on me.
-However the combat system is another story. Let me start this by saying that I play the game with a ping of around 300 being from Australia.
Trying to engage mobs with this ping and having frequent desyncs mid battle makes for a rather funny looking fight. Quite often I'll have a mob be in front of me in one frame and then behind me casting their ulti the next, and then the inevitable happens and I am looking at my death log wondering were those 5 or 6 hits came from. If the game didn't suffer from constant desync issues i could quite happily play with a steady ping of 300.
-Animation cancelling is great because my DPS has improved, but my character looks utterly stupid doing it, this takes the immersion of flowing combat away.
- When I hit an NPC it needs to feel like I buried my axe in its head, it needs to feel meaty! and it just doesn't. I think it comes back to actual amount of damage I hand out and possibly the sound effect for the related action.
Thinking about it my character feels gimped power wise, like i'm fighting with one hand around my back most of the time. I was able to rid the world of Molag Bal and save Kings from their demise.... but that three pack of Bandits.... you better watch yourself or they will mess you up!
Perhaps NPC's should be a means to an end, to be a minor roadbloack between myself and the quest objective, not for every battle to be an epic struggle of life and death. I find myself actively avoiding combat sometimes.
Upon saying the above NPC's like quest bosses, world bosses, rare's etc shouldnt be at all easy to kill, I am just talking about general NPC's. It's a fantasy game after all and I'd like to feel a little bit powerful occasionaly, maybe queue up few mobs and take them down, but at the moment it is a rinse and repeat 1-2 or 3 pack kill.... it never changes.
-Please ZOS give me a bar for my pots, so i can hit a key and get the correct pot instead of half hitting Q during combat and drinking the wrong thing. I understand the console playerbase .... but I don't care, I have a keyboard, let me use it.
Some reasons i like this game
The indepth crafting system, the environment is engaging and nice to look at, the quests are well thought out and i enjoy doing them and the guild/AH system has grown on me.
-However the combat system is another story. Let me start this by saying that I play the game with a ping of around 300 being from Australia.
Trying to engage mobs with this ping and having frequent desyncs mid battle makes for a rather funny looking fight. Quite often I'll have a mob be in front of me in one frame and then behind me casting their ulti the next, and then the inevitable happens and I am looking at my death log wondering were those 5 or 6 hits came from. If the game didn't suffer from constant desync issues i could quite happily play with a steady ping of 300.
-Animation cancelling is great because my DPS has improved, but my character looks utterly stupid doing it, this takes the immersion of flowing combat away.
- When I hit an NPC it needs to feel like I buried my axe in its head, it needs to feel meaty! and it just doesn't. I think it comes back to actual amount of damage I hand out and possibly the sound effect for the related action.
Thinking about it my character feels gimped power wise, like i'm fighting with one hand around my back most of the time. I was able to rid the world of Molag Bal and save Kings from their demise.... but that three pack of Bandits.... you better watch yourself or they will mess you up!
Perhaps NPC's should be a means to an end, to be a minor roadbloack between myself and the quest objective, not for every battle to be an epic struggle of life and death. I find myself actively avoiding combat sometimes.
Upon saying the above NPC's like quest bosses, world bosses, rare's etc shouldnt be at all easy to kill, I am just talking about general NPC's. It's a fantasy game after all and I'd like to feel a little bit powerful occasionaly, maybe queue up few mobs and take them down, but at the moment it is a rinse and repeat 1-2 or 3 pack kill.... it never changes.
-Please ZOS give me a bar for my pots, so i can hit a key and get the correct pot instead of half hitting Q during combat and drinking the wrong thing. I understand the console playerbase .... but I don't care, I have a keyboard, let me use it.
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Dexter411✭✭✭[quote="Hamzor;232665"
-Please ZOS give me a bar for my pots, so i can hit a key and get the correct pot instead of half hitting Q during combat and drinking the wrong thing. I understand the console playerbase .... but I don't care, I have a keyboard, let me use it.
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There is addon for that, PC only
As for feeling powerful, for me solo PvE content, most is stomping on mobs and while fighting world bosses(exept new DLC) it is the only time i need to pop potion.
I have Toast not Pc and while in battle 30vs30 or more i have steady 6-8fps. Used to it...1 -
MrDerrikk✭✭✭✭✭
✭Are on on EU PC? If so, I'd love to run through some mobs with you sometime. I'm an Aussie too so I get the lag, but I tend I just have to keep trying and it gets straightened out eventually. I normally play with 460-600 ping and it's playable though, so I think something is eating at your network connection.I have departed into the great unknown that is outside the game and the forums, and wish you well in your Tamriel adventures!
DC - PC - EU - Australian
VR11 Mrderrikk: Breton Stam Sorc (Vamp) | VR16 Derrikkinblack: Dunmer Mage DK | VR3 Cuts-Until-It-Dies: Argonian Magicka NB
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Thornen✭✭✭✭✭Sounds like you need to get in contact with your isp and get them to check the lines. I also play from Ballarat in Aus with a ping around 250ms on adsl2+ without anything like the de syncs you mention. That type of lag is often caused by packet loss which can be caused by things like line faults or older/faulty routers etc.0 -
Hamzor✭Are on on EU PC? If so, I'd love to run through some mobs with you sometime. I'm an Aussie too so I get the lag, but I tend I just have to keep trying and it gets straightened out eventually. I normally play with 460-600 ping and it's playable though, so I think something is eating at your network connection.
Im on the NA server... maybe this is the issue. I wish it was something eating my connection because that would be an easy fix. But ive got other guild members complaining about the same thing.0 -
MrDerrikk✭✭✭✭✭
✭Are on on EU PC? If so, I'd love to run through some mobs with you sometime. I'm an Aussie too so I get the lag, but I tend I just have to keep trying and it gets straightened out eventually. I normally play with 460-600 ping and it's playable though, so I think something is eating at your network connection.
Im on the NA server... maybe this is the issue. I wish it was something eating my connection because that would be an easy fix. But ive got other guild members complaining about the same thing.
And they aren't in Aussie? There was a post on these forums somewhere that I found as a tutorial to change the way packages are sent/received to stop this from occurring.
Also, try running a disk clean-up and if possible attempt to run the game whilst having nothing else using the internet.I have departed into the great unknown that is outside the game and the forums, and wish you well in your Tamriel adventures!
DC - PC - EU - Australian
VR11 Mrderrikk: Breton Stam Sorc (Vamp) | VR16 Derrikkinblack: Dunmer Mage DK | VR3 Cuts-Until-It-Dies: Argonian Magicka NB
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swaggasm✭✭✭Are on on EU PC? If so, I'd love to run through some mobs with you sometime. I'm an Aussie too so I get the lag, but I tend I just have to keep trying and it gets straightened out eventually. I normally play with 460-600 ping and it's playable though, so I think something is eating at your network connection.
Im on the NA server... maybe this is the issue. I wish it was something eating my connection because that would be an easy fix. But ive got other guild members complaining about the same thing.
I have about 280-400 ping on NA server adsl2+ and i rarely experience desyncs, Illawarra region.0 -
dem0n1k✭✭✭✭✭
✭I am on the NBN fibre to the home connection in Brisbane & according to speedtest I am in the top 5% of AU for the speed of my connection... but I still get a ping around 250-400ms (NA PC Server) most of the time & it can still drop to 400-999+ in Cyrodiil at times.
Even with my decent internet connect the fights in Cyrodiil can be totally unresponsive... where the enemy players get me in CC & I am mashing my dodge roll button but my toon is just standing there in CC... then the death log pops up with a whole heap of attacks I never saw coming. So I don't think it's just a network speed problem.
My suggestion to ZOS is to relieve the NA server of the load, they should start a new Australian server to spread the load out!!
I would jump on that in a second! NA Server [PC] -- Mostly Ebonheart Pact, Mostly.0 -
Artjuh90✭✭✭✭✭
✭I am on the NBN fibre to the home connection in Brisbane & according to speedtest I am in the top 5% of AU for the speed of my connection... but I still get a ping around 250-400ms (NA PC Server) most of the time & it can still drop to 400-999+ in Cyrodiil at times.
Even with my decent internet connect the fights in Cyrodiil can be totally unresponsive... where the enemy players get me in CC & I am mashing my dodge roll button but my toon is just standing there in CC... then the death log pops up with a whole heap of attacks I never saw coming. So I don't think it's just a network speed problem.
My suggestion to ZOS is to relieve the NA server of the load, they should start a new Australian server to spread the load out!! I would jump on that in a second!
would be fair if you australians could take your chars with... like they did with pc to console.
otherwise you guys would be screwed
p.s. im europian, doesn't mean i have to hate others
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MrDerrikk✭✭✭✭✭
✭I am on the NBN fibre to the home connection in Brisbane...
Brisbane gets fibre to the door?! Here I am in the country having to use my phone as a hotspot because teh nearest town will never, ever get the fibre to the node NBN even...
EU is awful in Cyro on an Aussie connection, but I can teamspeak and do Group Dungeons fine. Trails will probably melt my network though...I have departed into the great unknown that is outside the game and the forums, and wish you well in your Tamriel adventures!
DC - PC - EU - Australian
VR11 Mrderrikk: Breton Stam Sorc (Vamp) | VR16 Derrikkinblack: Dunmer Mage DK | VR3 Cuts-Until-It-Dies: Argonian Magicka NB
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dem0n1k✭✭✭✭✭
✭Yeah I was lucky enough to be in the very small percentage of Brisbane suburbs that got the initial roll-out of FTTH NBN. All the new work happening is FFTN. Thanks Liberals !
Artjuh90 : Even if I had to start new chars on a new AU server... I'd do it! I would prefer if my existing chars could be ported over.. but for a solid low ping I would definitely start new chars!
NA Server [PC] -- Mostly Ebonheart Pact, Mostly.0