Dragon encounters in Elsweyr are an utter mess.

Seraphayel

The title says it all. Who thought this would be a good idea?

The dragon animations are horrible, the sound is bugging out all the time or is delayed by several seconds, same goes about the skills by the dragon. Basically the entire area you fight that dragon in turns into a time bubble where everything is either bugged or delayed. And don’t get me started with the horrible performance when you fight a dragon. I am playing on a One X which can handle ESO just fine most of the time but the dragon battles... and did I already mention how bad the animations for the dragons are? Just wow.

I mean the feature was a nice idea but it feels like it was implemented 5 minutes before PTS went down and hasn’t been fixed or at least improved after that.

ArchMikem

I've never had delay lag, only a tiny bit of audio static during a Shout, but like everything else in the game, performance worsens with higher amounts of players in the same area.

Glurin

So in other words, you're telling us that the dragons are broken?!

EVERYONE RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! IT'S A DRAGON BREAK!

Uzikolanod

I am playing on a One X

There's your problem; time for xbox two.

Benzux

I play on an X myself, and the few times I've fought Dragons (both the Overland ones and the ones in Sunspire), I haven't encountered any of the issues you mentioned. Are you fighting Dragons with 40+ people? That might affect your performance. I've also heard that having ESO on a separate hard drive (like I do) helps with performance/loading times, though I'm not sure how much truth there is in that statement / If that applies in this situation.

Mathius_Mordred

I can report none of the issues you are having when playing on a PC with 20+ players. The only issue I think needs more polish is sometimes when the dragon turns it looks a bit like it's on rails.

On another note, the Dragons are somewhat disappointing that they don't randomly drop anywhere outside cities, they are always in the same spots, it was far more fun in Skyrim when you never knew when one would drop in for some toast!

Other than that they are great fun and challenging to fight, good rewards and exciting, super sounds and animations, no lag at all for me. So perhaps your console is the majority of your problem here.

Nimrhys

The fights are fine for me but rather fast and a little dull, the loot isn't really worth the bother.

BomblePants

I’m on PS4 EU and not having these issues with the dragon fights.... must be lucky I guess....

They are great fun.... love it when the dragon turns and like kills ten players all standing in the line of fire.....

I wish they could roam about too....

Tensar

BomblePants wrote: »

I’m on PS4 EU and not having these issues with the dragon fights.... must be lucky I guess....

They are great fun.... love it when the dragon turns and like kills ten players all standing in the line of fire.....

I wish they could roam about too....

10 players dying of this? I think they didn't fight a lot of dragons then, each time I fight a dragon I see everybody (or almost) wil go outside the dragon area, everybody will wait he finished his move...


Dragons are not dynamics, they are boring.

BomblePants

@Tensar Yeah it makes me chuckle.... the dragon breathes the fire and then there are loads of little white crosses in its wake.....

I guess there’s a few new players around...

SantieClaws

BomblePants wrote: »

@Tensar Yeah it makes me chuckle.... the dragon breathes the fire and then there are loads of little white crosses in its wake.....

I guess there’s a few new players around...

Ah you mean this yes

Yours with paws
Santie Claws


Don't stand in the middle ...

ApostateHobo

The only issue I have is the buggy audio, but I've been getting that outside of dragon fights too mainly in dungeons. Something with the elsweyr update made audio during combat get all screwy.

Mathius_Mordred

ApostateHobo wrote: »

The only issue I have is the buggy audio, but I've been getting that outside of dragon fights too mainly in dungeons. Something with the elsweyr update made audio during combat get all screwy.

For you, not for everyone. I haven't noticed any audio problems with the game, plenty of others such as no friend's list or guild history, Dungeon finder and so on, but audio is one area they have yet to fook up for most.

Moonsorrow

Dragon fights are working all good for me.

Also fun, when do them at 4am times when not many around, takes a bit longer and feels more epic.

And yeah, good laugh always when see several get burned riperoni by that breath.

delenn35

I've experienced all of the issues... but I don't care - I still freaking love it!!!

randomkeyhits

PS4 EU

Dragon fights so far have been pretty smooth regardless of numbers doing them.

Only once had a big lag pause which was when I got hit by a dragon attack, about five seconds later, movement resumes and I find the bugger had stacked on me and it was soul gem time.

Hardest bit is getting to the fight in time on my necro with the oh so not levelled horsey.

LadyHeloise

I have to say I'm really enjoying these. Don't care if I die in one, it's all part of the fun. Does get a bit laggy when there are loads of people, but it's better than the usual dolmens, which are v. dull (once you've got the Savior of Nirn title).

agegarton

Hmmm interesting. Am playing on PC/EU and haven't really experienced any issues - well, not with Dragon encounters anyway ;-)

I actually thought the dragons were really well designed and executed.

Another of those dichotomies that make up the game: most of the game is great and looks awesome, but ZoS seem to keep breaking it, are too slow to fix ongoing problems, and then don't tell paying customers what's going on.

Nemesis7884

I never had any of the issues and really like the idea of these spontaneous open world group content...sure it can be fine tuned over time and im sure it will....but i really enjoy it - great addition to the game and the dragons look and move great too for an mmo

BomblePants

SantieClaws wrote: »

Ah you mean this yes

Yours with paws
Santie Claws


Don't stand in the middle ...

Yes! Haha... yes that is exactly what I mean Santie

Dragonnord

Never had any issues at all. ZOS even improved how the dragon turns around (smoother now).

Dragon fights are great, no complains, and I really have fun doing them.
  

Seraphayel

Uzikolanod wrote: »

I am playing on a One X

There's your problem; time for xbox two.

The One X isn’t the problem, it can handle ESO very well. The problem are solely those encounters and it’s hard to believe that these issues don’t occur on PS4 or PC (I found some other threads about this / posts complaining about the abysmal performance in Elsweyr). I mean a PS4 (or the One S) compared to the One X is basically a toaster so the problems must be quite remarkable (with a decent amount of players) there too.

It’s just so ridiculous when you approach a dragon everything is turning into slow motion with horrible audio delays.

RANKK7

ApostateHobo wrote: »

The only issue I have is the buggy audio, but I've been getting that outside of dragon fights too mainly in dungeons. Something with the elsweyr update made audio during combat get all screwy.

The audio is so bugged, I was looking for a survey in Elsweyr and out of nowhere I've heard WAAAT TAH CHAAAAAA- I turned around wtf and there was nothing, I said ok, must be a dragon close somewhere ain't nobody got time for dragon now, let me finish the surveys because I have a gazillion, after a while again, and again, it freaking followed me around. And this is new, never happened to me before this patch.

Mathius_Mordred

Seraphayel wrote: »

Uzikolanod wrote: »

I am playing on a One X

There's your problem; time for xbox two.

The One X isn’t the problem, it can handle ESO very well. The problem are solely those encounters and it’s hard to believe that these issues don’t occur on PS4 or PC (I found some other threads about this / posts complaining about the abysmal performance in Elsweyr). I mean a PS4 (or the One S) compared to the One X is basically a toaster so the problems must be quite remarkable (with a decent amount of players) there too.

It’s just so ridiculous when you approach a dragon everything is turning into slow motion with horrible audio delays.

But it just doesn't, not for me and nobody else was complaining about it. This link is from last night's twitch feed and should start at a Dragon fight, you'll notice it looks fine (assuming you can stream the video)

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/438143043?t=00h42m53s

Seraphayel

Uzikolanod wrote: »

But it just doesn't, not for me and nobody else was complaining about it. This link is from last night's twitch feed and should start at a Dragon fight, you'll notice it looks fine (assuming you can stream the video)

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/438143043?t=00h42m53s

It happens. I’ve read complaints now that it’s happening on all platforms / servers. The question now is under what circumstances because it doesn’t seem to happen all the time.

bmnoble

I play on PC/NA

I have noticed a bit of lag at times, some delayed audio when the Dragon does its strafing run but other than that not to much.


Only real problems I have with the Dragons is the loot/XP, is just not worth the time and effort riding from one Dragon to the next.

I don't want a dolmen like circuit for Dragons but I do feel, that if your going to spend the time to ride to the Dragon fight, the loot should be decent or a large quantity of sell-able trash from each Dragon and a decent amount of XP, should be way more than it currently is.

I will probably join in killing Dragons every now and then until I have the achievements and then probably won't bother with them much until the loot and XP is revised.

Kuramas9tails

PS4/NA

Seems fine until you get a load of people and the lag kicks in but for a good size group, it's fine on my behalf.

Myrm

Benzux wrote: »

I play on an X myself, and the few times I've fought Dragons (both the Overland ones and the ones in Sunspire), I haven't encountered any of the issues you mentioned.

Me either. I have got involved in two dragon fights, both times of which had a fair number of people involved. I haven't noticed any problems yet.

Robo_Hobo

Never had any delays in animation or audio there, I was actually quite impressed with how Dragon encounters turned out in ESO, I wasn't expecting much but they went above and beyond. It'll probably be even better once there's less people at them all the time though.

Kagukan

No problems at all on PC NA. I think the dragon fights are very well done and I enjoy doing them.

AhPook_Is_Here

Uzikolanod wrote: »

I am playing on a One X

There's your problem; time for xbox two.

They should make the next X box "0"m then there can be hugs and kisses!