Updates for Midyear Mayhem

casparian

Xsorus wrote: »

The only issue i find with adding more campaigns is you don't have enough DC players

Thursday for example during prime time you had most of the Campaigns for EP and AD locked, while DC had 3 to 2 bars on some.

This event has shown two things:

- There are many more players who are primarily PVE than those who are primarily PVP.
- There are many more AD and EP than DC.

Teridaxus

Xsorus wrote: »

The only issue i find with adding more campaigns is you don't have enough DC players

Thursday for example during prime time you had most of the Campaigns for EP and AD locked, while DC had 3 to 2 bars on some.

Welcome back to 2014/15

My current home campaign got red poplocked, my guest yellow until deep into the night.

gpreid81

Constantly being kicked out of pvp servers is not fun at all I've logged back in five times this morning after getting booted the same battle was frozen in time some how withe same ppl stood in the exact place aleswell PC EU

LadyDestiny

gpreid81 wrote: »

Constantly being kicked out of pvp servers is not fun at all I've logged back in five times this morning after getting booted the same battle was frozen in time some how withe same ppl stood in the exact place aleswell PC EU

It has been awful today. Everytime we take a keep, I freeze and crash only to miss out on the 20k++ tick. Almost every single time. So fed up.....

Riggsy

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Since yesterday, we have opened two new Cyrodiil campaigns – Xarxes and Kastav – on all platforms and megaservers to help alleviate some of the queueing issues. These are both 7-day Standard campaigns.

But not another non-cp campaign, thanks for nothing.

deathlikebean

Will the battleground achievement be retroactive? I completed the requirements for the Scourge achievement during the event but didn't get the credit and feel that as long as the task was completed during the event people should get credit. @ZOS_GinaBruno

rootimus

deathlikebean wrote: »

Will the battleground achievement be retroactive?

They've already said no, but naturally offered no explanation of why this isn't possible from a technical perspective.

MRusso89

Any chance that if you've already won a couple of Battleground matches that you will retroactively get the "Pelinavant the Scourge" achievement?

Latin

It has truly been a mid-year mayhem so far. Long queues into the regular campaigns coupled with increased lag in both existing and new campaigns. Increased number of crashes inside and outside of Cyrodiil.

Reminiscent of the days of Wabbajack, 3 years on.

Morgul667

This festival basically prevents me from playing the game

Please fix it

Open some no cp campaign and add extra time to existing 30 days campaign so players who cannot log in do not lose 10 days dof competition due to very bad implementation

Svartulv

Folks, anybody else having issues with Wrath of the Whitestrake achievement? Progression is still 0/50, though I should have at least 20/50, since I've completed the quest to kill 20 players.

Berenhir

Svartulv wrote: »

Folks, anybody else having issues with Wrath of the Whitestrake achievement? Progression is still 0/50, though I should have at least 20/50, since I've completed the quest to kill 20 players.

In contrast to the quest that counts kill assists from you or your group members, the achievement asks for actual killing blows, i.e. damage in the last fraction of a second of an opponents life.

Svartulv

Berenhir wrote: »

Svartulv wrote: »

Folks, anybody else having issues with Wrath of the Whitestrake achievement? Progression is still 0/50, though I should have at least 20/50, since I've completed the quest to kill 20 players.

In contrast to the quest that counts kill assists from you or your group members, the achievement asks for actual killing blows, i.e. damage in the last fraction of a second of an opponents life.

Ah, makes sense. Thanks!

Egonieser

I've actually been having a blast. No noticeable issues, crashes or lags. Ping hasn't exceeded 100 despite heavy fights and zergs. This to me has been the best Cyrodiil performance since 1.3 lol.
(EU PC)

Jitterbug

The performance has not been good. I mean, it's always a little shaky, but I have seen the return of empty battlefields (invisible players) and extremely low fps. I did manage to get my new Warden to Assault rank 10, so now I can stay in BGs, but it's really a shame the performance in Cyrodiil is so poor.

GrigorijMalahevich

After 4 Months of being away from ESO - decided to login and get some kills in the PvP event. As I play only NoCP, I was quite shocked to see 1 NoCP campaign and 5 cp campaigns with queue on the only NoCP campaign on PC-EU server - 850 players... Finished VMA twice just to get to 600 players before me. Not even funny.

Why open two normal 7 day campaigns when obviously NoCP is much more popular...

bebynnag

why dont you add extra time to the event?

you added extra time for PC plaers when the skull plunderer achivment was broken

you fix PC today, console has to wait another 2 days!

sick of the preferential treatment pc get all the time

MarrazzMist

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

[*] During next week’s maintenances (Monday for PC, and Wednesday for console) we’ll be granting free home and guest campaign assignments.

I was reading just the "free home" -part over over again And got pretty excited!

Ok, ok, that's free home campaign assignment, then... guess that's cool too.

Rainingblood

No DLC, no achievement...

MNsnowtaTy

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Pelinavant the Scourge Achievement

• Currently, this achievement cannot be completed which is preventing you from completing the Star-Made Knight achievement and obtaining the Midyear Victor’s Laurel Wreath. This cannot be hotfixed without incurring downtime, but will be fixed during next week’s maintenances (Monday for PC, and Wednesday for console).

If we have won a battleground event previous to this fix, it will be updated to count towards it, correct? @ZOS_GinaBruno

deathlikebean wrote: »

Will the battleground achievement be retroactive? I completed the requirements for the Scourge achievement during the event but didn't get the credit and feel that as long as the task was completed during the event people should get credit. @ZOS_GinaBruno

I too would like to know this @ZOS_GinaBruno. As I've done a few BGs before winning one with three of us total. The other times before were spent with one team member leaving and/or sitting in spawn for 90%, then queuing with one of the same guys the next round and him leaving right away, which we managed to win. I'd rather have this achievement be something like participate in BGs or get five kills over win. While it shouldn't be difficult, it's not fun when you're playing team death match and you're down a guy.

rhapsodious

MNsnowtaTy wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Pelinavant the Scourge Achievement

• Currently, this achievement cannot be completed which is preventing you from completing the Star-Made Knight achievement and obtaining the Midyear Victor’s Laurel Wreath. This cannot be hotfixed without incurring downtime, but will be fixed during next week’s maintenances (Monday for PC, and Wednesday for console).

If we have won a battleground event previous to this fix, it will be updated to count towards it, correct? @ZOS_GinaBruno

deathlikebean wrote: »

Will the battleground achievement be retroactive? I completed the requirements for the Scourge achievement during the event but didn't get the credit and feel that as long as the task was completed during the event people should get credit. @ZOS_GinaBruno

I too would like to know this @ZOS_GinaBruno. As I've done a few BGs before winning one with three of us total. The other times before were spent with one team member leaving and/or sitting in spawn for 90%, then queuing with one of the same guys the next round and him leaving right away, which we managed to win. I'd rather have this achievement be something like participate in BGs or get five kills over win. While it shouldn't be difficult, it's not fun when you're playing team death match and you're down a guy.

No, it's not retroactive. Even if there are logs somewhere on ZOS's servers saying "John Dragonborn won a battleground on 7/22/2017", it is far from worth it from their end to scrape those logs and retroactively award the achievement than it is for John to simply win another Battleground, as achievements are passive and not active (e.g. they receive updates/unlock notifications, and do not check/poll for them).

MissBizz

MNsnowtaTy wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Pelinavant the Scourge Achievement

• Currently, this achievement cannot be completed which is preventing you from completing the Star-Made Knight achievement and obtaining the Midyear Victor’s Laurel Wreath. This cannot be hotfixed without incurring downtime, but will be fixed during next week’s maintenances (Monday for PC, and Wednesday for console).

If we have won a battleground event previous to this fix, it will be updated to count towards it, correct? @ZOS_GinaBruno

deathlikebean wrote: »

Will the battleground achievement be retroactive? I completed the requirements for the Scourge achievement during the event but didn't get the credit and feel that as long as the task was completed during the event people should get credit. ZOS_GinaBruno

I too would like to know this ZOS_GinaBruno. As I've done a few BGs before winning one with three of us total. The other times before were spent with one team member leaving and/or sitting in spawn for 90%, then queuing with one of the same guys the next round and him leaving right away, which we managed to win. I'd rather have this achievement be something like participate in BGs or get five kills over win. While it shouldn't be difficult, it's not fun when you're playing team death match and you're down a guy.

@MNsnowtaTy @deathlikebean This has been answered previously.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/4350267#Comment_4350267

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Tyrobag wrote: »

Please retroactively give the achievement to those who have earned it.

Unfortunately, the fix won't be retroactive. Luckily, this is one of the easiest achievements in the bunch to earn since it requires only one won battleground and the event runs for a little under two weeks.

Sandman929

So having the usual monster sets in addition to the jewelry at the Golden during this event was deemed just too much for us? I swear, it's like ZOS looks for every opportunity to be just slightly annoying.

MNsnowtaTy

MissBizz wrote: »

MNsnowtaTy wrote: »

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Pelinavant the Scourge Achievement

• Currently, this achievement cannot be completed which is preventing you from completing the Star-Made Knight achievement and obtaining the Midyear Victor’s Laurel Wreath. This cannot be hotfixed without incurring downtime, but will be fixed during next week’s maintenances (Monday for PC, and Wednesday for console).

If we have won a battleground event previous to this fix, it will be updated to count towards it, correct? @ZOS_GinaBruno

deathlikebean wrote: »

Will the battleground achievement be retroactive? I completed the requirements for the Scourge achievement during the event but didn't get the credit and feel that as long as the task was completed during the event people should get credit. ZOS_GinaBruno

I too would like to know this ZOS_GinaBruno. As I've done a few BGs before winning one with three of us total. The other times before were spent with one team member leaving and/or sitting in spawn for 90%, then queuing with one of the same guys the next round and him leaving right away, which we managed to win. I'd rather have this achievement be something like participate in BGs or get five kills over win. While it shouldn't be difficult, it's not fun when you're playing team death match and you're down a guy.

@MNsnowtaTy @deathlikebean This has been answered previously.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/4350267#Comment_4350267

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Tyrobag wrote: »

Please retroactively give the achievement to those who have earned it.

Unfortunately, the fix won't be retroactive. Luckily, this is one of the easiest achievements in the bunch to earn since it requires only one won battleground and the event runs for a little under two weeks.

Sure that's fine and dandy for all the folks who can make it on to finish it, and are blessed with a good PUG. But for people playing on console whom maybe have plans for the remainder of week, it's particularly sucky.

I'm a supporter with an active ESO+ membership since very early on, with no plans of going anywhere. I'm also sure I'll get lucky and complete the achievement, on PS4 so Wednesday or later. But I decided to come in and stand up for once for those who put the time in to complete something, and aren't rewarded for their efforts, because what they got was broken.

As I mentioned I've played BGs and experienced a few 4v4v3s and 4v4v4 where one of my teammates sat in spawn and did nothing until it was over, the round right after got queued with the same guy that sat in spawn, but he was at least nice enough to leave this time. Thank heavens it was domination and my two other teammates were smart enough to just run around capping empty flags while the other two groups fought each other trying to take flags. BGs, isn't fun for me, I want to be in and out as soon as possible, and back taking/defending keeps for the massive AP pulls.

iDispaiir

@dodgehopper_ESO

I like the idea of screenshotting the bugged achievement. I will be gone on vacation before it's fixed, and I'm sure I'm not the only one

nikigwil

Does anyone know if these two extra campaigns are permanent or just for the event?
@ZOS_GinaBruno

EttinTheBreton

Just wanted to stop in and say thank you to everyone at ZOS for all the hard work keeping the servers running, investigating new issues, responding quickly to us in the forums, and getting us back online as soon as possible. It must be difficult to have to deal with unforeseen problems along with all the outrage from the community. Deep down, we all appreciate you!

Thank you for allowing me to keep on playing one of my favorite games.

Sincerely,
Ettin

Wamuli

Is it not possible anymore to get kills for the wrath of the whitestrake achievment? or is it only possible with a bow and sniping? im stuck at 15/50 with my healer since yesterday. killed a few players today (kill players - bounty)...so is this different sort of kill?

EttinTheBreton

Wamuli wrote: »

Is it not possible anymore to get kills for the wrath of the whitestrake achievment? or is it only possible with a bow and sniping? im stuck at 15/50 with my healer since yesterday. killed a few players today (kill players - bounty)...so is this different sort of kill?

@Wamuli Yes, it is possible. You must get the last hit for it to count towards this achievement (as far as I know), and this was intentional. Try searching the name of the achievement, I'm certain this was answered by ZOS_JessicaFolsom at some point.

Tip: I would say, be sure to use your most burst-y type damage right when you see someone below 20% health. I think your best bet when trying to complete this achievement is focusing on the final blow, like Jessica talks about below. Throw down some ground aoe if you've got it, and then secure the kill! It might take some time, but a harder achievement like this makes for a more satisfying accomplishment.

EDIT:

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Is the achievement for killing players final blow only (like kill achievements), or just tagging them (as per the dailies in Cyrodiil) ?

You must land the killing blow for it to count toward the achievement, similarly to Imperial City and Battleground achievements.

Paulington wrote: »

Will the leaderboards reflect the double XP or will they show the base XP earned by a player?

The PvP Leaderboards will show the AP each player earns, so during the event it will reflect the double AP amounts.

The above quote is from this thread: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/360510/official-discussion-thread-for-test-your-mettle-in-the-midyear-mayhem-pvp-event/p1