Cyrodiil tests

xillion

Hello,

I bought the game (20 EUR) and even recently upgraded to Greymoor (40 EUR) and I'm mostly playing in Cyrodiil. I see ZoS is running some test in Cyrodiil on the LIVE server, which is currently unplayable for me, cause I barely can use my skills. So, am I missing something, is this an Early Access game or is ZoS paying something to gamers to test their game?

Jaraal

xillion wrote: »

Hello,

I bought the game (20 EUR) and even recently upgraded to Greymoor (40 EUR) and I'm mostly playing in Cyrodiil. I see ZoS is running some test in Cyrodiil on the LIVE server, which is currently unplayable for me, cause I barely can use my skills. So, am I missing something, is this an Early Access game or is ZoS paying something to gamers to test their game?

It's still in year six of beta, they are actively working on reordering and balancing skills such as Alliance War, vampire, AOE spammables, and whatnot.

Hopefully they will have a finished product ready soon, but it's hard to tell.

Taleof2Cities

The above post is cynical and overall not very helpful, @xillion.

Here's a link to the official Cyrodiil testing threads ... one more testing week after this until it ends on Nov 2:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/544305/details-for-aoe-testing-in-cyrodiil#latest

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/539136/update-on-cyrodiil-performance-upcoming-aoe-tests/p1

xillion

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

The above post is cynical and overall not very helpful, @xillion.

Here's a link to the official Cyrodiil testing threads ... one more testing week after this until it ends on Nov 2:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/544305/details-for-aoe-testing-in-cyrodiil#latest

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/539136/update-on-cyrodiil-performance-upcoming-aoe-tests/p1

Well of course is cynical Taleof2Cities, I paid ~100 EUR and can't play the game!!! I can't even play Battlegrounds because group finder is not finding players!

xillion

Jaraal wrote: »

It's still in year six of beta, they are actively working on reordering and balancing skills such as Alliance War, vampire, AOE spammables, and whatnot.

Hopefully they will have a finished product ready soon, but it's hard to tell.

It's impossible to balance this game, it has too many sets, builds and skills. Currently I encounter many Wardens tanks with 40-45k health which do damage like some DDs. Ridiculous!

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Taleof2Cities

xillion wrote: »

It's impossible to balance this game, it has too many sets, builds and skills. Currently I encounter many Wardens tanks with 40-45k health which do damage like some DDs. Ridiculous!

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A more accurate statement is that it's impossible to balance the game around every single player request, @xillion.

Your idea of "balance" is different than every other 2.5 million in-game active players.

So, ZOS does their best to collect all the feedback together (as well as their in-game data) to make changes.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion ... but the PvP is better than the vast majority of MMO options out there.

Jaraal

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

So, ZOS does their best to collect all the feedback together (as well as their in-game data) to make changes.

You mean like the overwhelming disapproval of taking Rapid Maneuver away from people on the test server because after six years worth of data they finally decided that Vigor was more important? And then going ahead and pushing it to live? Or the overwhelming disapproval of taking 20 years worth of stealth lore away from Bosmer so they could partially replace it with a PvP only passive that literally no one wanted or asked for?


Ok.....

Taleof2Cities

Jaraal wrote: »

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

So, ZOS does their best to collect all the feedback together (as well as their in-game data) to make changes.

You mean like the overwhelming disapproval of taking Rapid Maneuver away from people on the test server because after six years worth of data they finally decided that Vigor was more important? And then going ahead and pushing it to live? Or the overwhelming disapproval of taking 20 years worth of stealth lore away from Bosmer so they could partially replace it with a PvP only passive that literally no one wanted or asked for?

These topics are best discussed in the other threads, @Jaraal.

98k Alliance Points is a walk in the park compared to other grinds in the game. Especially these last couple of months where double AP has been rewarded.

An opportunity that will be gone after next week by the way ...

Jaraal

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Jaraal wrote: »

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

So, ZOS does their best to collect all the feedback together (as well as their in-game data) to make changes.

You mean like the overwhelming disapproval of taking Rapid Maneuver away from people on the test server because after six years worth of data they finally decided that Vigor was more important? And then going ahead and pushing it to live? Or the overwhelming disapproval of taking 20 years worth of stealth lore away from Bosmer so they could partially replace it with a PvP only passive that literally no one wanted or asked for?

These topics are best discussed in the other threads, @Jaraal.

My response was to your statement about how they collect feedback and data to make decisions.

xillion

I played the game for only few months but I'm pretty sure ZOS has no incentive to balance the game, they just want to make it as easy as possible to play so they can sell more copies, that's it. That's why there're sets like Sheer Venom,
Venomous Smite, etc., so 8 yo kids can hit one button and kill somebody after 10s...

@Taleof2Cities you're right, everybody have different criterias, but the main problem for me is that when I bought the game it was one game and now (after only a couple of months) is A LOT different... So, I don't like the game right now and that's why I stopped playing it.