Feedback: Midyear Mayhem

Tasear

So far so good here. Spent a little time in cydrolli in malcetbeth doing the town dailies without issues and watching some action go down. One disconnect, but I think that was my vpn not like akamai. Now I must say a lot better this year in battlegrounds. I had a good mix of type of gameplay, but what I really like was the double xp from bgs. So on that note thanks for added double xp to this version of the event. Also with lots of sets in boxes the rewards feel exictings (cough compared to new life festival). Having had enough experience in cydrolli during the event, but overall battlegrounds are a lot better, performance wise.
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How's the event going for others? Are you guys enjoying this event more this time?

JamieAubrey

I've been fine in Vivec, I only had one crash and only lagged when I was on MY OWN

Garish

The campaigns are full and locked at prime time. Can't get in. BG's keep getting stuck on players joining. Give us more campaigns and give us better bg servers or whatever it is that is causing the queues to get stuck like that. Otherwise, I am quite enjoying the event.

Oh, also, put the damned ticket timer on the reset with all the other resets. It's really annoying the way it is set up now.

Zacuel

Had a blast in the imp city and sewers.

RogueShark

Vivec got really choppy for me the first time I tried it.
Had one disconnect in Shor on the first day... sometimes it gets a little choppy when we have really big-scale battles and there's a lot on screen.

I haven't had loading screen issues (I've gotten maybe 2-3 random loading screens while running through Cyro, but only for a couple seconds each), nor have I dealt with really bad lag or countless disconnects.

I've been playing Shor and the Malacath or w/e map. Did some IC as well as basic pvp in Cyro.
Been having a lot of fun even tho I'm garbage at pvp. ^^

That said, I know there are a lot of people who do deal with frustrating issues, so I hope for them things can be improved in the future.

Tasear

Garish wrote: »

The campaigns are full and locked at prime time. Can't get in. BG's keep getting stuck on players joining. Give us more campaigns and give us better bg servers or whatever it is that is causing the queues to get stuck like that. Otherwise, I am quite enjoying the event.

Oh, also, put the damned ticket timer on the reset with all the other resets. It's really annoying the way it is set up now.

Tickects reset at the same time each day. Actually think it's with other resets, but this not having daylight savings confuses me each year.

Tasear

RogueShark wrote: »

Vivec got really choppy for me the first time I tried it.
Had one disconnect in Shor on the first day... sometimes it gets a little choppy when we have really big-scale battles and there's a lot on screen.

I haven't had loading screen issues (I've gotten maybe 2-3 random loading screens while running through Cyro, but only for a couple seconds each), nor have I dealt with really bad lag or countless disconnects.

I've been playing Shor and the Malacath or w/e map. Did some IC as well as basic pvp in Cyro.
Been having a lot of fun even tho I'm garbage at pvp. ^^

That said, I know there are a lot of people who do deal with frustrating issues, so I hope for them things can be improved in the future.

Nothing is perfect, but if we can give all types of feedback, it might help us improve the game, but letting developers understand what is working and what isn't working. Also to give our thanks when things are working better.

phairdon

I was fairly hesitant to venture into Cyrodiil due to the bad lag, freezes, so forth in the past. Got a surprise today. Pop locked vivec campaign. No lag, no freezes, no stuttering. Even caltrops would lag the game up for me in the past. Not today. Had trouble at one stage when unable to use any skills or swap weapon. The weapon swap bug rared up later on in pve too.

Oh yeah. Was not awarded AP three times in a row for helping capture resources. This happened in the past too.

barney2525

Its complete crap. Thanks for asking. All the towns have been taken by the enemy so you can't even do dailies and therefore NO EVENT TICKETS.

Complete crap

Hippie4927

I've been going to Shor everyday and the only issue I've had is the 'stuck in combat' bug but it only happened once. Other than that, no lag, long loading screens, freezes, crashes, or anything else.

Ryath_Waylander

@barney2525 There is a town in the 3 'o clock position called Cheydinhal where you can do dailies and one in the eight 'o clock position called Chorrol. They are neutral towns just keep your eyes peeled and be careful about swimming across the river in Cheydinhal. It's generally safer to do these dailies (there is another quest provider at an abbey somewhere) as the towns are not strategic assets. Bruma, Cropsford and Valastrus are inherently risky for this reason, that and you can't approach npc's when it's an enemy town. Give it a try in the quieter campaign.

Hurbster

It's not friendly to people who cannot log in on quiet hours (job, family, ect).

Beardimus

Tasear wrote: »

So far so good here. Spent a little time in cydrolli in malcetbeth doing the town dailies without issues and watching some action go down. One disconnect, but I think that was my vpn not like akamai. Now I must say a lot better this year in battlegrounds. I had a good mix of type of gameplay, but what I really like was the double xp from bgs. So on that note thanks for added double xp to this version of the event. Also with lots of sets in boxes the rewards feel exictings (cough compared to new life festival). Having had enough experience in cydrolli during the event, but overall battlegrounds are a lot better, performance wise.
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How's the event going for others? Are you guys enjoying this event more this time?

I had no idea it was double XP for battlegrounds?! You mean.just on kills or the random daily is 200k XP?

Beardimus

Feedback wise event is great. Stay out of vivec is my advice, having some great fitghts in shor and extra AP for it and q load of free stuff from boxes on top. Good times.

wolf486

Least enjoyable event. Logged in yesterday, had no issue getting into vivec, but anywhere near a keep was hitting below 15fps. Left Cyro as the tickets are not worth the hassle of dealing with pvp and the rewards are trash

Beardimus

wolf486 wrote: »

Least enjoyable event. Logged in yesterday, had no issue getting into vivec, but anywhere near a keep was hitting below 15fps. Left Cyro as the tickets are not worth the hassle of dealing with pvp and the rewards are trash

AP is prettttty handy to buy MH & shoulders from the golden no?

And if you don't want lag, avoid vivec.

wolf486

Beardimus wrote: »

wolf486 wrote: »

Least enjoyable event. Logged in yesterday, had no issue getting into vivec, but anywhere near a keep was hitting below 15fps. Left Cyro as the tickets are not worth the hassle of dealing with pvp and the rewards are trash

AP is prettttty handy to buy MH & shoulders from the golden no?

And if you don't want lag, avoid vivec.

Zos should have made it cost nothing to change campaigns during the event tbh. In a year I only purhcased one MH item from the golden, and have around 2million gold in the off chance I need something else (although I still have lots of AP from when I use to go into Cyro). While I see AP being useful for many, just not worth it for me.

Thorstienn

As always, the event highlights the problems they already have.
I've been doing the BG thing as too many of my characters have slow horses, and man this matchmaking/groupforming is broken.
4v4v3
XvXvTeam
Clearly inexperienced players match against grouped BG veterans.
I would always think the PVP community and the dev's would want an event like this to get more players interested in PvP, but the system and players prove otherwise.

Double AP is nice though; less matches for PvE characters is always nice.

Tasear

Beardimus wrote: »

Tasear wrote: »

So far so good here. Spent a little time in cydrolli in malcetbeth doing the town dailies without issues and watching some action go down. One disconnect, but I think that was my vpn not like akamai. Now I must say a lot better this year in battlegrounds. I had a good mix of type of gameplay, but what I really like was the double xp from bgs. So on that note thanks for added double xp to this version of the event. Also with lots of sets in boxes the rewards feel exictings (cough compared to new life festival). Having had enough experience in cydrolli during the event, but overall battlegrounds are a lot better, performance wise.
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How's the event going for others? Are you guys enjoying this event more this time?

I had no idea it was double XP for battlegrounds?! You mean.just on kills or the random daily is 200k XP?

Yeah need cp or to level a skill this way is easy. Win or lose their is value. Also only 10 mins for a battleground.

Tasear

Thorstienn wrote: »

As always, the event highlights the problems they already have.
I've been doing the BG thing as too many of my characters have slow horses, and man this matchmaking/groupforming is broken.
4v4v3
XvXvTeam
Clearly inexperienced players match against grouped BG veterans.
I would always think the PVP community and the dev's would want an event like this to get more players interested in PvP, but the system and players prove otherwise.

Double AP is nice though; less matches for PvE characters is always nice.

What would make more people interested?

Moonsorrow

I love the event!

Best event there is and all been working well at Cyrodiil for me. Yeah queue times can take a bit, but there has been fun action around the clock. Was really nice to get this event again.

Nice rewards, plenty of ap to spend on Golden. Most importantly fun. And see a lot of new to Cyrodiil players having fun also.

Thorstienn

Tasear wrote: »

What would make more people interested?

Having fun!
NOT being in a 3v4v4
NOT getting rofl stomped by premades
NOT getting rofl stomped by a "prepared" pvp player out of your league.

I agree with the old sentiment that losing can help you learn. But a new player (most likely coming from pve with pve appropriate gear) is not going to learn much, much less have any fun/desire to repeat, getting stomped 400-0 against a coordinated group wearing gold shackle breaker plus choice, with Impen, and map awareness.

I'm always amazed how many online games struggle to deal with simple match making, then wonder why PvP isn't booming; leading to PVP players complaining about long queues etc.

Zathras

Tasear wrote: »

So far so good here.
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How's the event going for others? Are you guys enjoying this event more this time?

So far so good here as well.

I approached this event differently than the others, just because of the added dynamic of PvP. So, I chose a quiet, non-CP campaign (Sotha Sil?) and did town quests as well in the off hours. In, and out.

One thing I'd like to add, is that tying tickets to these events somewhat forces me to engage in them, even though they may be out of my comfort zone. Usually I'm a crafter and solo explorer that loves a good (non vet) dungeon crawl. I have PvP'd in my gaming past, but I pretty much avoid Cyrodiil. Having to dip in every day has piqued my interest in exploring it further.

SugaComa

barney2525 wrote: »

Its complete crap. Thanks for asking. All the towns have been taken by the enemy so you can't even do dailies and therefore NO EVENT TICKETS.

Complete crap

You know there are more than just the town dialies that can be done ... And it doesn't take much to flip a a town back to your needs

lardvader

So far so good! Queues are long but I just hang in a less populated campaign until I get into the main one. As of all the events MM is actually my favourite one. Made around 2 mill. ap so far and will work on all the characters I'm not yet sergeant with.

Finally got my base model of the mount and will leave it at that. Best thing about the event is double ap after all.

Have a great weekend all and happy hunting

Veuth

Why is it so much harder and more tedious to get a frickin colour for your mount than actually getting the mount in an other event? Really don't like this event at all, there's better things to do in this game than spend hours grinding for a colour.

AcadianPaladin

I'm fine with the event for a PvE player. I've run several chars through Cyrodiil for Vigor/Caltrops in the past and am running two up during this event. Both are in Malacath campaign (PC NA). No disconnects and smooth performance. I see that the campaigns can get full during prime times but expect that might get a bit better after the weekend.

Bought my first berry on day one so my tix counter was then 2/12. To me that means 5 scouting missions during the entire event which is not bad. They take a bit of time and caution but are relaxing enough. Then perhaps help some others with resource/keep captures and enjoy the double AP. First character is already 'done' (Alliance L6 for Caltrops) and second is making fine progress.

I want to finish the event with 12/12 tix and see no problem. My concern is actually more the upcoming TG and DB events since none of my chars are thieves nor assassins. Am curious to see what potential those events will have for me.

Overall fun event.

myskyrim26

PC EU. I set Kyne for my 39 lvl sorc, but yesterday visited Malacath with a friend. No performance issues at all, and PVP is fun despite I'm a PVE player.
I love th event!

barshemm

I think people saying performance is ok should also say what campaign they are playing.

In Shor, not prime time I was getting ok performance. Vivec, no matter what time I am getting horrible performance.

I was high enough on the leader board to get gold jewelry think campaign before the event. Hope I haven't lost that position because the event has kept me out of Vivec.

TerraDewBerry

This event and the IC event are my favorite ones of all of them. I have not had any problems (yes, I know I'm fortunate.. but I turn off most of my addons before coming to Cyrodiil) so far and it's been really fun for me!! I'm also happy to see new people trying out PvP. Hopefully, we'll turn some of them into PvPers!

Vulsahdaal

Ive been having fun with it, getting my tickets and plenty of boxes and AP with no issues.

The only technical problem I ran into was with my DC character. I was 1v1 with an EP when I noticed several things in a split second. My abilities were not firing, I could only light attack, he had frozen in the air as if he was jumping and was not taking any damage.

At first I thought I had disconnected, but then the screen flashed and I was dead on the ground and he was just walking around me, perhaps as confused as I was. I still have no idea what that was about, but at least it only happened just that once.

Though the most fun I have had with this event occurred late yesterday. My DC character picked up a scout report somewhere deep in EP territory. Did it, then decided to go to nearby Cheydinhal for some easy quests.

Snuck in carefully, alert for any hiding and skulking enemies. Didnt see any, (yeah I know the good ones you will never see anyway) got the first quest when 2 EP came riding up on me.

I froze as I noted they were both 100+ CP more than me and were very high rank compare to my measly grade 1 sergeant. Obviously not some PVEers looking for some peaceful event quests.

But to my surprise they left me alone, and I was more than happy to do the same. As time went on more EP showed up, as well as AD, and even a small handful of my own.

We all just quested together. If we were attacking the same NPCs, we were careful to take turns and not hit each other. Then run back together to turn in. I have seen before 2 sides work together in the past (usually against the 3rd), but it was the first time I have ever seen all 3 do it. It was a pleasant experience (for Cyrodiil) and a lot of fun.

But I forgot one thing. War never changes.

I hate to admit it, but I was the first casualty. I ran up to the guy quest giver and was turning it in when I heard the noise and saw the red ring. As I backed out to fight, he delivered the killing blow. I never had a chance.

I didnt rez, I just watched. The EP rogue ran over to the female quest giver and hid. Meanwhile 3 EP had rode up to my corpse. An AD ran up to turn in at the female and met the same fate as me just as several other AD and one DC arrived.

They took turns and quickly sent the renegade EP straight to oblivion, while his own just sat there and watched. The dead AD as well as myself were rezzed by our own. The EP was not. We went back to questing.

Even though dead, it was probably the most fun moment I ever had in Cyrodiil. So yes, to me this event is a success so far.