BEWARE!!!!!!! Multiple Walls of Frost cause crashes!!!

vestahls

molecule wrote: »

I find it hard to believe this would of slipped past the vigorous testing and QA that Zos have in place.

Genuinely had a chuckle 😂 Thank you for that.

josiahva

NoMoreChillies wrote: »

Olupajmibanan wrote: »

To add, Wall of Storms and Wall of Fire does not seem to cause crashes. Crashes appear to be exclusive to Wall of Frost cast.

NoMoreChillies wrote: »

just make Destruction Staff Frost for destruction please. Tanking/shielding does not belong

Are you serious? This is a game breaking problem that plagues a lot of end-game PvErs and PvPers alike and all what concerns you is frost staff being a tanking weapon?

yes i am serious. This change would fix the problem.

Speak for yourself, as a tank I love the ability to magicka block as needed...the ice staff is a good tool for the tanking toolbox...DPS never used frost staff before it was turned into a tanking weapon and they wont use it if ZOS turns it back into a DPS weapon so STOP WHINING ABOUT A WEAPON THAT WAS NEVER USED BY DPS TO START WITH. Tanks have exactly 1 weapon available to them...Magicka DPS have 3 currently(if you count frost staff). And no, just because we often backbar a lighting or resto staff does NOT make them tanking weapons.

zaria

Kilnerdyne wrote: »

molecule wrote: »

I find it hard to believe this would of slipped past the vigorous testing and QA that Zos have in place.

I think this fit better.

That if they was sitting on it.

Itzmichi

Olupajmibanan wrote: »

Hi,

I am writting here so everybody can see it and not fall into annoying crashes.

When two or more people cast Wall of Frost (any morph) at the exact same time, a random person around them (may include casters) will crash. We were able to replicate the crash in 100% of experimental cases. Sometimes casters crash, sometimes people around them. The only condition is that the cast of both (or more casters) must perfectly match.

After removing frost blockades from our trial group, we were experiencing significantly less crashes than usual. Not all crashes are caused by Wall of Frost, but at least you'll avoid the most frequent ones this way.

I suspect this happens due to graphic extensive frost shield animation but I'll leave this to ZoS to investigate.

Thank you and stay safe, uncrashed!

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_RichLambert @ZOS_BrianWheeler @Alcast @Masel @Nefas @T3hasiangod

Can you please give us some kind of footage? In general, I think the chances to match the same time are slim. So I would love to see how you can replicate the crashes.

Env_t

thanks for topic, now trolls in towns spamming this

Xairvaiss

Wow, nice research. Im confirming crash. I tested what you wrote with 2 necros with ice staff and 1 stam spamming uppercut on iron atronach 21M dummy.
Basically i used icy rage and spammed wall of ice the other necro gave colos and started parsing he insta crashed...
indeed its not single issue but i think cause of it is ice shield animation too heavy
@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_RichLambert @ZOS_BrianWheeler

Olupajmibanan

Itzmichi wrote: »

Olupajmibanan wrote: »

Hi,

I am writting here so everybody can see it and not fall into annoying crashes.

When two or more people cast Wall of Frost (any morph) at the exact same time, a random person around them (may include casters) will crash. We were able to replicate the crash in 100% of experimental cases. Sometimes casters crash, sometimes people around them. The only condition is that the cast of both (or more casters) must perfectly match.

After removing frost blockades from our trial group, we were experiencing significantly less crashes than usual. Not all crashes are caused by Wall of Frost, but at least you'll avoid the most frequent ones this way.

I suspect this happens due to graphic extensive frost shield animation but I'll leave this to ZoS to investigate.

Thank you and stay safe, uncrashed!

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_RichLambert @ZOS_BrianWheeler @Alcast @Masel @Nefas @T3hasiangod

Can you please give us some kind of footage? In general, I think the chances to match the same time are slim. So I would love to see how you can replicate the crashes.

I wanted to, but screenshots are not a good footage of such issue.

I was curious after reading responses here, so I tried it again yesterday. My group were gathering in HoF and we had some time before everyone arrived so we equipped frost staves to replicate the issue (already within HoF).
I let our tank spam Frost Blockade, and then I started spamming mine. Initally, nobody crashed but just about the time I tried to sync the cast with the tank (we were 100% synced like aquabelles, looked pretty cool, tho ), I and one other player without frost staff crashed.

And that's not all! after first try for TTT, we were arranging next one. I called for 15 minutes break before going again so I teleported to HoF and went AFK to do "some basic needs stuff". Then I returned only to see the message on my black screen "ESO has stopped working" and heard two players on discord laughing out loud. They told me then, that they synced their frost blockades to purposely crash me, trolls . In the process, one other player that was AFK, just as me, crashed as well.