[Video][Bug] ZOS Housing Failure - no bigger copout since Burlesque "air rights"

Taylor_MB

Twin Arches in Bangkorai, otherwise known as the Bin Laden Compound, is a depressingly bleak house surrounded by the harsh desert and blazing sun. Most importantly it was cheap, and now it's mine, in all its beautiful starkness. Advertised as such - "It may be small but it’s solid, and it keeps the sandstorms out. The scenery is magnificent, but if you’re in the mood for civilization, it’s right outside the south gate of Hallin’s Stand."

Perfect! I'll just build a small tree bridge up onto the roof to witness this "magnificent scenery" beyond the jail like walls. Nope, this house has internal invisible walls. That's right dear friends, a Redguard home where you cannot access the defining feature of this races architecture, the roof/balcony.

https://youtu.be/lnAJBK-wsl8
There has been no bigger copout since Burlesque pulled that dumb "air rights" *** and dragged down what was an amazing movie.

Here is a screenshot of a home not 100 metres away in Hallin’s Stand.


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Dear ZOS, remove the internal invisible walls or take my home and refund my 73k (it's not much, but I had to pool all my toons (5 max level) gold to get it). There was no way to preview this terrible design decision short of downloading the PTS, which I don't possibly have the hard drive space for - I'm not deleting Burlesque are you crazy!?

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If anyone else has managed to build a jumping puzzle/ladder over this invisible wall please share with us!

WaTeR-aBuSeR

welcome to a month ago. several people already complained about this.

Taylor_MB

WaTeR-aBuSeR wrote: »

welcome to a month ago. several people already complained about this.

Can't read every post unfortunately . It's a pity they didn't fix it when others brought it up.

Mattock_Romulus

The housing is so unbelievably restricted. Some of the homes have large outdoor areas...but you can't use your mount to get around. Then there is the invisible walls, lack of storage and general lifelessness of them.

JWKe

The housing is essentially just ESO at launch. Little to none interactivity and highly restrictive. But, seeing as to how Zo$ has made much improvements to the current state of ESO I feel that Housing would also get a solid improvement. Hopefully soon.

Oh yes and I 2nd OP house refund request.

Taylor_MB

JWKe wrote: »

Oh yes and I 2nd OP house refund request.

There really should be a grace period where you can turn the house back over and get a full refund. The lackluster preview options clearly does not effectively demonstrate all the... quirks... of this design.

Internal invisible walls, it boggles the mind. What's wrong with infinitely high external invisible walls?

Yolokin_Swagonborn

Here is my thread from January 9th on the PTS forums highlighting that very issue on that very house (and several others).

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/313331/housing-invisible-wall-feedback-thread/p1

I even included screenshots for every house with spirit crushing invisible walls and tagged @ZOS_GinaBruno as well as put the same links and feedback into the general housing feedback

One of the most iconic and enjoyable aspects of Redguard Architecture is the flat roof. I told them People were going to be disappointed when they bought this house and couldn't get on the roof to enjoy that "Magnificent Scenery" the advertisement was bragging about.

I even included screenshots of Other Redguard houses you can find in Alik'ir and showed how amazing the flat roof was.

It is really discouraging to participate in the PTS, find an glaring issue like this knowing that other players will share in the disappointment when this goes live, mention it ONE MONTH IN ADVANCE, and still get completely ignored.

This really destroys any confidence one could have in the PTS.


I tried to fix this for you. I really did. I wanted you to sunbathe on your roof. and have rooftop BBQ. But to no avail.

-PTS tester

BlueViolet

Twin Arches was the only house I really wanted, Redguard style is my favourite, and it was the idea of what I could do with the flat roof area that really sold it to me.
That was before I realised that it was walled off.

Ermiq

The problem is they can't create a private separated home without cutting it from general world level zone.
To make a home for just one person and his friends they are forced to create homes as instanced zones.
I expected this would be like this, it always been like this in all of the games I've played.

Edit: oops. Nevermind. I didn't watch the video and I thought it's about invisible walls around the courtyard.

Yolokin_Swagonborn

Eremith wrote: »

The problem is they can't create a private separated home without cutting it from general world level zone.
To make a home for just one person and his friends they are forced to create homes as instanced zones.
I expected this would be like this, it always been like this in all of the games I've played.

Edit: oops. Nevermind. I didn't watch the video and I thought it's about invisible walls around the courtyard.

Yeah they have beautiful instanced environments all around the houses. You can't break out of the map and get to these environments, which is fine and the proper use of these walls, but with the INTERNAL invisible walls, you can't even enjoy the scenery they programmed.

altemriel

Taylor_MB wrote: »

Twin Arches in Bangkorai, otherwise known as the Bin Laden Compound, is a depressingly bleak house surrounded by the harsh desert and blazing sun. Most importantly it was cheap, and now it's mine, in all its beautiful starkness. Advertised as such - "It may be small but it’s solid, and it keeps the sandstorms out. The scenery is magnificent, but if you’re in the mood for civilization, it’s right outside the south gate of Hallin’s Stand."

Perfect! I'll just build a small tree bridge up onto the roof to witness this "magnificent scenery" beyond the jail like walls. Nope, this house has internal invisible walls. That's right dear friends, a Redguard home where you cannot access the defining feature of this races architecture, the roof/balcony.

https://youtu.be/lnAJBK-wsl8
There has been no bigger copout since Burlesque pulled that dumb "air rights" *** and dragged down what was an amazing movie.

Here is a screenshot of a home not 100 metres away in Hallin’s Stand.


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Dear ZOS, remove the internal invisible walls or take my home and refund my 73k (it's not much, but I had to pool all my toons (5 max level) gold to get it). There was no way to preview this terrible design decision short of downloading the PTS, which I don't possibly have the hard drive space for - I'm not deleting Burlesque are you crazy!?

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If anyone else has managed to build a jumping puzzle/ladder over this invisible wall please share with us!

this is just ridiculous, please ZOS fix this asap!!!


@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_RichLambert @ZOS_MattFiror

andreasranasen

Ugh I love that movie lol

SunnyBunny

I wish I had known this BEFORE I bought the house - but it my own over sight. It took me a while to finish the quest line to even get this house (I'm happy I didn't use crowns to buy it I would have been PISSED). So I am trying to love this one as much as I can and maybe later on if they don't fix the wall issue I will get another and use this one for crafting. (which is just an idea since it will take me a long while to save up for ANOTHER house)

Kodrac

Oh the injustice!

Taylor_MB

SunnyBunny wrote: »

So I am trying to love this one as much as I can

That is my sentiment exactly. It's a beautiful house in an amazing location, but it's surrounded by 10ft high walls. Roof access was the one thing that really sold this house.