First impression of ESO

Deeferg

I've started playing this game almost a month ago and it was quite interesting and fun at the beginning. Now, when i've approached to some actual content, like endgame dungeons and bg's, i've realised this grouping system is completely broken. How do you f up something basic like this? Like, there is so many factors that prevent me from just enjoying the game, because group queue could just stuck and form group for eternity, until you realise it and relog. It could send you hundreds of messages with "someone declined the invite" and after it will force the whole group to alt+f4, because loading screen is taking forever. You could *** your keyboard by pressing F button over and over again while waiting for bg's, and after finally getting into it you see that groups are not even fully formed, so you forced to leave with a deserter penalty again and again.
I've actually expected to visit forum and see a *** of complains about this but there is no such thing, so it's obviously that ZOS will just continue making new fancy dlc's instead of fixing major problems.
Can i please just have fun with your 80$ game? In it's current state it sucks the biggest tentacles of Hermaeus Mora.

AlnilamE

There are certainly threads about the group finder having issues. It does not affect everyone equally, so if it happens to you, submit a bug so they can try and pinpoint what exactly is happening.

DaveMoeDee

Actually, they fixed group finder. And then broke it again. So they aren't actually ignoring GF.

SirAxen

If you only started playing a month ago, you should have PLENTY of things to do that don't require grouping. That said, it's an MMORPG and grouping should be way easier. .....Also, I haven't personally run into any problems grouping so.....

Davor

We get lots of complaints about this. This is going on 4 years now.

Sailor_Palutena

I'm about to complete a month into the game and besides some bugs here and there, I'm a veteran in Bethesda games to name a few: Oblivion, Skyrim (PC/Switch), Fallout 3, New Vegas and 4... so nothing that gives me a real bad impression. I knew what to expect and compared to the aforementioned games, I am having a blast.

Waffennacht

The month following a release is always the most buggy.

Old bugs even.come back

As for the group finder, if everything goes as usual, it'll be working better soon ish

Ashtaris

Deeferg wrote: »

I've started playing this game almost a month ago and it was quite interesting and fun at the beginning. Now, when i've approached to some actual content, like endgame dungeons and bg's, i've realised this grouping system is completely broken. How do you f up something basic like this? Like, there is so many factors that prevent me from just enjoying the game, because group queue could just stuck and form group for eternity, until you realise it and relog. It could send you hundreds of messages with "someone declined the invite" and after it will force the whole group to alt+f4, because loading screen is taking forever. You could *** your keyboard by pressing F button over and over again while waiting for bg's, and after finally getting into it you see that groups are not even fully formed, so you forced to leave with a deserter penalty again and again.
I've actually expected to visit forum and see a *** of complains about this but there is no such thing, so it's obviously that ZOS will just continue making new fancy dlc's instead of fixing major problems.
Can i please just have fun with your 80$ game? In it's current state it sucks the biggest tentacles of Hermaeus Mora.

We have been complaining about the grouping tool almost since beta so that’s why you don’t see any more messages complaining about it, we just gave up. I’m not sure if they will ever get it working correctly, so we live with what we have.

Tandor

Bear in mind also that in any MMO these days, a group finder tool is really only a last resort and even when fully working will only give you a random PUG that's unlikely to work well together. If you're seriously into group content then you're far better off joining a decent guild and running with them.

ArchMikem

Deeferg wrote: »

while waiting for bg's, and after finally getting into it you see that groups are not even fully formed, so you forced to leave with a deserter penalty again and again.

You know if you load into a group of two or three in Battlegrounds the game continues to try and fill your team as the match goes, and there is a 30sec wait time before the start to give your team a chance to be filled. Kind of a waste to just immediately leave like that without giving it a chance to find more players.

Also the lengthy queue times for Dungeons is to be expected if you play as a Damage Dealer, which 80% of players do. If you built a Tank or Healer you would see your queue time shrink drastically, most not even taking 20 seconds to find a group. As long as the majority of players prefer to hit things really hard, there will always be a long queue for them.

zaria

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

Actually, they fixed group finder. And then broke it again. So they aren't actually ignoring GF.

Repeatably.
You also has general issues.

Jeremy

Deeferg wrote: »

I've started playing this game almost a month ago and it was quite interesting and fun at the beginning. Now, when i've approached to some actual content, like endgame dungeons and bg's, i've realised this grouping system is completely broken. How do you f up something basic like this? Like, there is so many factors that prevent me from just enjoying the game, because group queue could just stuck and form group for eternity, until you realise it and relog. It could send you hundreds of messages with "someone declined the invite" and after it will force the whole group to alt+f4, because loading screen is taking forever. You could *** your keyboard by pressing F button over and over again while waiting for bg's, and after finally getting into it you see that groups are not even fully formed, so you forced to leave with a deserter penalty again and again.
I've actually expected to visit forum and see a *** of complains about this but there is no such thing, so it's obviously that ZOS will just continue making new fancy dlc's instead of fixing major problems.
Can i please just have fun with your 80$ game? In it's current state it sucks the biggest tentacles of Hermaeus Mora.

It is a little annoying having to keep hitting the ready button when waiting to get into a battleground. But I consider it a mild nuisance. It's certainly better than not having one at all (as was the case in the beginning).

And you don't have to leave the group once you get inside just because it's not a full group. You're probably better off just staying in. It's likely that empty spot will be replaced during the match. And if not - it's still better than getting hit with a penalty by leaving early instead of just sticking out that round. BG matches usually don't take that long.

Deeferg

ArchMikem wrote: »

You know if you load into a group of two or three in Battlegrounds the game continues to try and fill your team as the match goes, and there is a 30sec wait time before the start to give your team a chance to be filled. Kind of a waste to just immediately leave like that without giving it a chance to find more players.

I do not immediately leave, the last time i've waited 30 mins till the group filling. For science, of course. Group not filling at all, match is not starting, people leaving. And i've got this situation three times in a row, which made me dead inside.

Tandor wrote: »

Bear in mind also that in any MMO these days, a group finder tool is really only a last resort and even when fully working will only give you a random PUG that's unlikely to work well together. If you're seriously into group content then you're far better off joining a decent guild and running with them.

Group finder is one of the main things that should properly work in MMO, imo. Btw, i was having problems even with a premade group, when it still says "someone declined the invite" for no reason. Current grouping system can be implemented much better, considering it work at all. Like, the only requirement for the dungeons that i found is cp160 for a few of them. Why do you even have this 5 star rating of your gear in a character sheet? Why dont they make this value an actual number, make it more precise and list it as the requirement for the dungeons, make the cp requirement higher, i dunno. So many ways to improve it, instead of waiting 30mins for a single dungeon.

Bevik

They said they are going to have a fix in the next big update which comes in 1.5 month. So keep waiting. They fixed it many times and yet still broken.

pdblake

Sailor_Palutena wrote: »

I'm about to complete a month into the game and besides some bugs here and there, I'm a veteran in Bethesda games to name a few: Oblivion, Skyrim (PC/Switch), Fallout 3, New Vegas and 4... so nothing that gives me a real bad impression. I knew what to expect and compared to the aforementioned games, I am having a blast.

I've not played a Bethsoft game yet that wasn't full of bugs, but fully enjoyed them all.

ZOS_JesC

Greetings, since we already have several threads open on this topic we have decided to close this one. Thank you for your understanding.