Just what in the heck is going on!?

boombazookajd

The forums are rightly busy as all heck but can someone break down just what the heck is going on? Leave the complaining and ZOS bashing for those threads already established but is there a way we can put everything going on, and links to the appropriate threads? The whole world seems to be melting down here just what has gone on since DB/17 released?

thedude33

And I say, hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah
I said hey, what's going on?

boombazookajd

thedude33 wrote: »

And I say, hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah
I said hey, what's going on?

Take your awesome dangit

vyndral13preub18_ESO

To sum up...

https://youtu.be/Adgx9wt63NY

Nemesis7884

boombazookajd wrote: »

The forums are rightly busy as all heck but can someone break down just what the heck is going on? Leave the complaining and ZOS bashing for those threads already established but is there a way we can put everything going on, and links to the appropriate threads? The whole world seems to be melting down here just what has gone on since DB/17 released?

whats going on is that the game is much more broken than usual with bugs that where already known on pts but ignored in the hopes that they would just go away

Ardan147

Seems they're completely unable to roll out an update without completely breaking something totally unrelated that was working perfectly fine before.

SirAndy

boombazookajd wrote: »

can someone break down just what the heck is going on?

Logged on, played for a few hours, logged off, the end ...

VaranisArano

The Forum Meltdown: 2/12/18

1. PC/NA Dragonbones DLC update goes live on schedule, PC/EU gets an extra expected 12 hours of maintenance
2. PC/NA begins to experience the Outfit System and because a number of things got moved and the Outfit UI is a little confused compared to the normal dye system begin to meltdown over a number of misunderstandings and sticker shock.
3. PC/NA begins to report that exp in the Imperial City is increased 1000x with people getting 1.9 million exp for killing mobs as they farm tel var for the new storage chests.
4. PC/EU goes up ahead of schedule.
5. PC/NA and PC/EU are pulled down due to the issue with exp gain in the Imperial City.
6. Both servers com back up and there are persistent bugs like delayed weapon swapping and werewolf issues that will hopefully be addressed in Monday's incremental patch.
7. ZOS announces that they are dealing with the exp issue in Imperial City on a "case by case basis" after an audit: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/395122/pc-mac-na-eu-downtime-2-12-18-3-20pm-est-complete Naturally, that's like blood in the water on the forums.

Continuing Issues:
Bugs like Delayed Weapon Swapping (partial remedy: set your texture settings to low) and werewolf form
People struggling with the Outfit System or complaining about it (partial remedy: you can dye equipped gear for free with "No Outfit", using the "Outfit 1" option costs gold for styles and dyes.) I've got a thread For Outfitting and Dyeing 101 that addresses a lot of the confusion and misconceptions with the new outfit System: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/395390/outfitting-dyeing-101
The Imperial and Morag Tong Converter can no longer be used to convert actual gear to those styles (YMMV on whether that's an issue)
Everyone's waiting to see what happens with the Imperial City exp bug and exploiters, so the usual arguments about exploiting and the TOS are being made.


So in short, the rollout of the new DLC was(is) plagued by several large and high-profile bugs, plus implementing a new system that the playerbase initially struggled to figure out.

Edited to add: As several posters rightly pointed out, I left out a major bug with housing storage. Deleting characters can cause bound items to disappear from storage chests and as far as I know, there is not a eta on a fix. Don't delete your mules yet!
There was also the accidental sale,of the Coldharbor house for 1 Crown, which anyone who knows ZOS and Crown Store pricing knows is an O.o situation. As far as I know, there's been no comment about this little screw up, but the house is currently not available.

SirAndy

Also, don't delete any characters if you already bought and filled any of the new housing storage chests.

Apparently someone at ZOS thought it was a good idea to wipe all your bound items in those chests when you delete any of your characters.

vyndral13preub18_ESO

SirAndy wrote: »

Also, don't delete any characters if you already bought and filled any of the new housing storage chests.

Apparently someone at ZOS thought it was a good idea to wipe all your bound items in those chests when you delete any of your characters.

The new storage chest: The best way to free up more space!

krachall

VaranisArano wrote: »

The Forum Meltdown: 2/12/18

1. PC/NA Dragonbones DLC update goes live on schedule, PC/EU gets an extra expected 12 hours of maintenance
2. PC/NA begins to experience the Outfit System and because a number of things got moved and the Outfit UI is a little confused compared to the normal dye system begin to meltdown over a number of misunderstandings and sticker shock.
3. PC/NA begins to report that exp in the Imperial City is increased 1000x with people getting 1.9 million exp for killing mobs as they farm tel var for the new storage chests.
4. PC/EU goes up ahead of schedule.
5. PC/NA and PC/EU are pulled down due to the issue with exp gain in the Imperial City.
6. Both servers com back up and there are persistent bugs like delayed weapon swapping and werewolf issues that will hopefully be addressed in Monday's incremental patch.
7. ZOS announces that they are dealing with the exp issue in Imperial City on a "case by case basis" after an audit: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/395122/pc-mac-na-eu-downtime-2-12-18-3-20pm-est-complete Naturally, that's like blood in the water on the forums.

Continuing Issues:
Bugs like Delayed Weapon Swapping (partial remedy: set your texture settings to low) and werewolf form
People struggling with the Outfit System or complaining about it (partial remedy: you can dye equipped gear for free with "No Outfit", using the "Outfit 1" option costs gold for styles and dyes.) I've got a thread For Outfitting and Dyeing 101 that addresses a lot of the confusion and misconceptions with the new outfit System: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/395390/outfitting-dyeing-101
The Imperial and Morag Tong Converter can no longer be used to convert actual gear to those styles (YMMV on whether that's an issue)
Everyone's waiting to see what happens with the Imperial City exp bug and exploiters, so the usual arguments about exploiting and the TOS are being made.


So in short, the rollout of the new DLC was(is) plagued by several large and high-profile bugs, plus implementing a new system that the playerbase initially struggled to figure out.

You forgot that one of the most anticipated features of the DLC, home storage has a crippling bug that will delete items if the character that placed them is deleted. A bug which was documented and reported on the PTS but allowed to carry over to live servers with no warning for players.

This is been an epic failure from the start.

SirAndy

krachall wrote: »

You forgot that one of the most anticipated features of the DLC, home storage has a crippling bug that will delete items if the character that placed them is deleted.

It's actually worse than that, it happens whenever you delete *any* character, the items don't have to be placed by that character at all.

Ardan147

And to top it off some of us can't even effin' log in right now.

tourerttrwb17_ESO

Also coldharbour house cost was only 1 crown for 15mins after NA server went live

vyndral13preub18_ESO

tourerttrwb17_ESO wrote: »

Also coldharbour house cost was only 1 crown for 15mins after NA server went live

Well it is a big open space... seems about right.

Xoelarasizerer

VaranisArano, don't forget the poor unfortunate souls that cannot get the new levelling rewards because they have all their character slots filled with max level characters and they can't bring themselves to delete a character just to play the game again (MUH SKYSHARDS) or dare I say............ buy another character slot?!?!!! (HOW DARE ZOS, THE FIENDS!)

vyndral13preub18_ESO

Xoelarasizerer wrote: »

VaranisArano, don't forget the poor unfortunate souls that cannot get the new levelling rewards because they have all their character slots filled with max level characters and they can't bring themselves to delete a character just to play the game again (MUH SKYSHARDS) or dare I say............ buy another character slot?!?!!! (HOW DARE ZOS, THE FIENDS!)

If they have a chest I certainly wouldn’t be deleting anything right now...

DoctorESO

The bannings will continue until morale improves.

VelimOrthic

shills

VaranisArano

Xoelarasizerer wrote: »

VaranisArano, don't forget the poor unfortunate souls that cannot get the new levelling rewards because they have all their character slots filled with max level characters and they can't bring themselves to delete a character just to play the game again (MUH SKYSHARDS) or dare I say............ buy another character slot?!?!!! (HOW DARE ZOS, THE FIENDS!)

Sorry, that's not included because you can just buy another character slot for 1500 crowns (or the same cost as a single outfit slot for one character).
Is it an annoying money grab by ZOS? Yeah.
Are the forums in a meltdown over it? A month ago, they were. Now, not that I've seen.

MW2K

What the heck?

I'm only five foot one 
I got a pain in my neck 
I'm looking up in the city 
What the hell what the heck.

Apologies to the Iggy (the real Iggy btw)