Jumping in ESO

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Jayman1000 wrote: »

The 1st point Im not sure about. If gravity were higher it would be more difficult to jump over stuff, which would require changing alot of places where you suddenly wouldn't be able to jump over. I think this would hurt gameplay and require alot of manual changes from the devs all over the game world. Not worth the time investment imo, and jumping height isn't that bad really.

I agree with the 2nd point. It always feels weird to get slowed down when jumping during sprint. That's not how sprinting usually works, and I see no reason to it. The fix should also be easy for ZOS to implement, just don't slow character artificially down during jump. If it works on a mount why not on foot?

I think the low gravity complaint is about what happens after you jump - it often seems to go into slow motion - you move forward and down a lot slower than you would expect based on your speed before jumping, it's like those videos of people jumping on the moon. That and sometimes if you stick on an object your character gets stuck in the jump pose sliding very slowly down, but apparently that's a 'fix' for the original problem of rebounding off objects and going flying backwards.

Sting864 wrote: »

**Sigh** Jumping, like combat, requires practice... I had trouble at the very beginning, but I bought some crates, barrels, and boxes and set up a little training course in one of my guildhall's back yard. I notice a difference when questing with new guild members, in that it takes them 3-4 attempts to jump over an obstacle... whereas with practice some obstacles can be cleared on the first try....

Sure it's possible to learn to jump over a single object. But if you want to jump onto one, or climb up/down the scenery you're going to be disappointed most of the time. Your forward speed when you jump seems to have no bearing on how fast/far you go and even the direction you're facing doesn't always match up exactly. And if you do land a jump you're very likely to hit an invisible wall, slide off the object (even flat roofs) or get stuck on the edge and slowly slide down.

NeKryXe

driosketch wrote: »

SirAndy wrote: »

Jumping used to be a lot higher and smoother, the current implementation is a half-assed attempt at preventing people from exploiting geometry.

This. I can recall at least twice that they have nerfed jump height, early beta, and momentum, around TG update, to get to where we are now. This is largely on purpose.

if all the jump bugs were created on purpose then it would be one of the most stupid game design ideas i ever knew. usually developers try to do it better and not worst, and in this case, i don't remember any game with such a bad jump mechanics since the 80's - and i'm talking pre ZX spectrum.

it's ridiculous that in this game i can't even jump most of the time that i press the key to jump. even bad smartphone games are more responsive than ESO.

cyclonus11

I'm gonna jump over this small rock!

*jumps off to the side instead and falls into a pit of bad guys, aggroing the entire zone*

BozzyTheDrummer

Jumping in this game is a pet peeve of mine, especially when trying to jump over a small wall that you know you should be able to clear.

Jumping in ESO kinds of feels like jumping in Oblivion, when you haven't raised your acrobatics skill very much.

For example, yesterday I was jumping down a high cliff to lower rocks until I reached the bottom. I jumped ever so slightly to the right, to get onto a lower rock and my character starts dramatically moving to the right, completely missing the rock as if I jumped with force, ultimately falling to my death.

NeKryXe

what about addons? is there any addon to help with jump?
are the jump problems something possible to fix with an addon?

in my case, that the jump rarely works when i press only one time on space, maybe it would help something to duplicate my press on space.

NeKryXe

i was hoping to see the jump fixed on summerset update but nothing changed, the jump problems are the same, it only works randomly.

NeKryXe

since i started to play this game that i always had problems with jump.

i changed computers, systems, keyboards and the problem remains.