Combat Team News and Updates

Mojomonkeyman

All the best to Wrobel, thanks for your passion and hard work! Despite all the critisism you have co-created the game that kept me playing for many years now, I can respect that.

LadyLethalla

@ZOS_BrianWheeler Good Sir, may we have our shields unnerfed, please, at least for PVE? That change made me pretty much stop playing, because my ESO life revolved around VMA, and I don't have the reflexes, or masochism, to go any further on any of my stam characters. Not with the amount of lag I already have to deal with.

Pretty please...?

essi2

Good Luck Wrobel.


And welcome to the hotseat Brian

Ethoir

I cannot say I was fond of some of Eric's changes in the combat mechanics, especially in the past couple of years. But all the same I wish him luck in his future endeavors, wherever they are.

dan958

Sad to see Eric go. I really enjoyed him when he was on ESO Live. At least everything is in good hands with Brian.

profundidob16_ESO

@ZOS_BrianWheeler has picked up Volendrung. Everyone jump on him now ! =P

Kalante

I am blasting the crab meme song full volume.

HappyLittleTree

Best of luck my friend!

pod88kk

Hmm wonder what happened there, best of luck to Mr Wrobel with his future endeavors

goldenarcher1

Shame to lose someone with as much experience from the ESO team.

Good luck,wherever the road leads......

https://youtu.be/TzMSfaNXYZg

Kuramas9tails

Best of luck to Eric Wrobel!

SugaComa

Darkmage1337 wrote: »

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

I wanted to let everyone know that Eric Wrobel is no longer with the company. We appreciate his efforts over the years on ESO and wish him well in his future endeavors.

Going forward, we will be restructuring the team to encapsulate both PVE and PVP teams, with Brian Wheeler taking over as Lead Combat Designer. Brian has years of experience in MMOs and combat – on both Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online, he was heavily involved in class balance in both PVE and PVP. I know the team is in good hands and look forward to seeing what the future brings for that team.

PS - Bashing or trolling will NOT be tolerated at all in this thread. You have been warned…

@ZOS_RichLambert So with @ZOS_BrianWheeler taking over as Lead Combat Designer, who is taking over @ZOS_BrianWheeler's former position as Lead PvP Designer?

EDIT: Also, congrats @ZOS_BrianWheeler!

Going forward, we will be restructuring the team to encapsulate both PVE and PVP teams, with Brian Wheeler taking over as Lead Combat Designer

I assume he is doing both from this

Odovacar

Congratulations! Good Luck @ZOS_BrianWheeler !

gepe87

Any change on combat design plans?

dimensional

1mirg wrote: »

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

Brian Wheeler taking over as Lead Combat Designer. Brian has years of experience in MMOs and combat – on both Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online, he was heavily involved in class balance in both PVE and PVP

I'm just gonna come out and say this:

I played both of those games and I loathed the combat in them as I found them too stiff. So, having list those games does not make this feel like it's in "good hands" in my point of view. But I'll just keep silent and watch how things play out under his leadership in combat design.

I played both of those games and LOVED the combat in them as I found them very fluid and dynamic. So, having those two games absolutely makes me feel like it's in "good hands", no, actually GREAT hands. I am super excited for this change.

electromagnets

Apparently this job requires a last name beginning with W.

Galarthor

Those are suspiciously many "Awsomes" the OP got there.

Thorvarg

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

I wanted to let everyone know that Eric Wrobel is no longer with the company. We appreciate his efforts over the years on ESO and wish him well in his future endeavors.

Going forward, we will be restructuring the team to encapsulate both PVE and PVP teams, with Brian Wheeler taking over as Lead Combat Designer. Brian has years of experience in MMOs and combat – on both Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online, he was heavily involved in class balance in both PVE and PVP. I know the team is in good hands and look forward to seeing what the future brings for that team.

PS - Bashing or trolling will NOT be tolerated at all in this thread. You have been warned…

It's from January 2017 The difference between german and english spelling of the date.

Cheezits94

Thorvarg wrote: »

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

I wanted to let everyone know that Eric Wrobel is no longer with the company. We appreciate his efforts over the years on ESO and wish him well in his future endeavors.

Going forward, we will be restructuring the team to encapsulate both PVE and PVP teams, with Brian Wheeler taking over as Lead Combat Designer. Brian has years of experience in MMOs and combat – on both Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online, he was heavily involved in class balance in both PVE and PVP. I know the team is in good hands and look forward to seeing what the future brings for that team.

PS - Bashing or trolling will NOT be tolerated at all in this thread. You have been warned…

It's from January 2017

@Thorvarg If you hover over the Date, you see the full time of day and the year.
You must be from Germany or a country with a similar date format. January 17 was yesterday, today is January 18.

Thorvarg

Cheezits94 wrote: »

Thorvarg wrote: »

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

I wanted to let everyone know that Eric Wrobel is no longer with the company. We appreciate his efforts over the years on ESO and wish him well in his future endeavors.

Going forward, we will be restructuring the team to encapsulate both PVE and PVP teams, with Brian Wheeler taking over as Lead Combat Designer. Brian has years of experience in MMOs and combat – on both Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online, he was heavily involved in class balance in both PVE and PVP. I know the team is in good hands and look forward to seeing what the future brings for that team.

PS - Bashing or trolling will NOT be tolerated at all in this thread. You have been warned…

It's from January 2017

@Thorvarg If you hover over the Date, you see the full time of day and the year.
You must be from Germany or a country with a similar date format. January 17 was yesterday, today is January 18.

So sorry, i just saw January 17, which means in Germany January 2017. But certainly you are right!

Jitterbug

What will this mean for the term "wrobeled" going forward though? "you've been wheelered"?
Anyway, Wheeler is a super cool guy, so even though I admired Wrobel's conviction, I take this as good news.

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

so in the future we expect complete revamp on how pvp/pve combat will works? like overhauls? I cant rly recall how combat was in daoc and WH:O but I guess its different than eso?

Ahzek

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO wrote: »

so in the future we expect complete revamp on how pvp/pve combat will works? like overhauls? I cant rly recall how combat was in daoc and WH:O but I guess its different than eso?

They wont change the core combat of ESO at all (most likely). They just cited brians prior experience to show us he is qualified for the task.

Thorvarg

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO wrote: »

so in the future we expect complete revamp on how pvp/pve combat will works? like overhauls? I cant rly recall how combat was in daoc and WH:O but I guess its different than eso?

It was more character based, not so much E-Sport.

charley222

my honest opinion i play eso from day 1
eso have a lot of good features and improvement from release, but personally my main issue with the game are the combat and after coding for the performance issues the game have , i love eso but over these year i can not take it anymore and i just leave 5 month ago , like many other 2013 14 veteran, i always believe eso have everything to be a top rpg mmo but the level of combat only reach the casual level with major balance issue , i think any change in the combat at this point is a good news and give hope to the player , btw i just comeback to day and find anything ? about eric Wrobel posting something to the community before he leave ???

btw sorry for my poor english i`m french

Vaerth

ZOS_RichLambert wrote: »

I wanted to let everyone know that Eric Wrobel is no longer with the company. We appreciate his efforts over the years on ESO and wish him well in his future endeavors.

Going forward, we will be restructuring the team to encapsulate both PVE and PVP teams, with Brian Wheeler taking over as Lead Combat Designer. Brian has years of experience in MMOs and combat – on both Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online, he was heavily involved in class balance in both PVE and PVP. I know the team is in good hands and look forward to seeing what the future brings for that team.

PS - Bashing or trolling will NOT be tolerated at all in this thread. You have been warned…

PLEASE focus on combat animations / impact. Have him look at the stamina animations, like 1H&S Puncture. Just look at it, and he will hopefully notice what must be done lol. Beautiful game world, but man combat (at least melee) really needs some work.

Vaerth

If you need to see good combat animations / gameplay look at Neverwinter MMO. Powerful, meaningful animations making your character feel strong. ESO currently seems like a little slap with melee weapons, sluggish and stiff. The ONE thing I do not like about ESO is the combat feels poorly done. If that got fixed, this game would be unrivaled.

Claire

And I *just* made the final mortgage payment on my "Wrobel Home" last month!

Best wishes to both Eric and Brian.

If you are at PAX West this fall, looking forward to talking with you again @ZOS_BrianWheeler!

Casdha

Best of Luck to ya Eric Wrobel, just be glad you didn't agree to get an ESO tattoo.

AhPook_Is_Here

I missed DAOC but Warhammer Online was a blast, and one of my favorite PVP games ever, favorite as far as MMOs go. Might have to dust this game off at the next combat balancing PTS.