Props to ZoS for a smooth launch

Yuffie91

I think it's safe to say this was a good launch!

Aerenthir

Can't deny it. Smooth launch. Job well done.

Chaos2088

I did slate them saying it was going to be a mess. But very happy to eat my words.

Sambucca1973

I agree with OP. Congrats to ZOS for a smooth update.

I’ll add congratulations for: a beautiful new zone, some interesting and well-done NPCs, and interesting new story lines.

You did a great job. Especially when you factor in the difficulties of the past year.

Thanks.

ADarklore

"Due to a hardware issue, the North American PC/Mac megaserver will be taken offline for maintenance."

So much for that smooth launch.

amir412

smooth? I literally need to re-equip my gear every time I change zones...

etchedpixels

Been mostly ok so far. Done the whole main story line and some other bits

Two crashes to desktop so something is still broken there, one 'had to logout and back in' to progress the main questline and a couple of 'companion randomly vanished'

Outside of the questing area of the game it's a bit of a disaster zone though. Stamina on blocking is broken so it's basically impossible to tank dungeons properly (sometimes a hit seems to happen twice, sometimes your stamina suddenly drops to nearly nothing for no reason), and the changes to the proc sets and monster helms were not toned back down from the overdone mess on the PTS, so instead of everyone wearing identical sets of mother's sorrow and medusa in PVP we now have the same farce in PVE if not worse because you also don't want a monster helm but two pieces of crit gear or one and a mythic item.

Hopefully the stamina bug will get hotfixed, and in time they'll do something more sensible with the proc set scaling.

Some addon breakages but that's not Zenimax problem. Craftstore blows up every time you loot a companion item for example. No doubt they'll get fixed pretty fast.

So happy overall - much smoother than the Greymoor mess.

Rogue_WolfESO

The opening cinematic scene was choppy, but I got through it. Loading times, moving around in Blackwood, and the few hours I got in chasing down the companions and killing a few world bosses was flawless in terms of server response and fluid gameplay. The zone itself is gorgeous. Congrats on a smooth transition ZoS!

Extinct_Solo_Player

No major bugs? Lol and pigs can fly....

xSurge

ADarklore wrote: »

"Due to a hardware issue, the North American PC/Mac megaserver will be taken offline for maintenance."

So much for that smooth launch.

If it's truly a hardware issue, you can't always predict when something like that goes off. The launch itself and the state of the game is what people seem to be talking about here.

Sylvermynx

LalMirchi wrote: »

In general a very good launch day I had similar issues with the download, repair and a little persistence succeeded after three hours.

Addons were the biggest issue but I had a long session disabling all the out of date ones. The error messages then disappeared. I've kept them as it's too early to discard the out of date addons as the API has changed and the addon authors will hopefully update them.

I just updated the API version in the addon text files manually - they all still work just fine.

Starlight_Whisper

xSurge wrote: »

ADarklore wrote: »

"Due to a hardware issue, the North American PC/Mac megaserver will be taken offline for maintenance."

So much for that smooth launch.

If it's truly a hardware issue, you can't always predict when something like that goes off. The launch itself and the state of the game is what people seem to be talking about here.

Still we were tried of server going down after launch. Also EU just had hardware issue so one can wonder why didn't they look at NA too before this happened.

Sidonius

Bhaji wrote: »

EXCEPT FOR THE ADDONS NOT WORKING AND THE OUT OF DATE CHECK BOX DISAPPEARING

Do you have Minion? I updated all my addons while still playing (10-15 seconds) and when I jumped on another char, they where working fine.

Elsonso

ADarklore wrote: »

"Due to a hardware issue, the North American PC/Mac megaserver will be taken offline for maintenance."

So much for that smooth launch.

Still a smooth launch...

Hopefully that new hardware is coming. Soon™

edward_frigidhands

agegarton wrote: »

Now I might be a bit early - maybe I'm jumping the gun, but.......

Congrats to ZoS for what must be the smoothest launch of a new Chapter yet!

The download was fast, initial load was smooth, no major bugs, no crashes, patch notes were early, and you finished and brought the servers up early. Of course, somewhere in an alternate reality @ZOS_GinaBruno is running around with a fire extinguisher in the server room, but here in my reality....... we're all good!

You don't have to put salt on my wounds like this.

Dragonredux

Hello, back again. So after a day, game was mostly smooth. Few lag spikes but nothing major and only dc'd once in Rockgrove. Overall good launch really heard nothing major like last year.

Goregrinder

Yeah it was pretty smooth, spent 10 minutes patching, updated my addons with minion, logged right in. Stayed logged in for a good 3 hours before logging off. Frame rate felt normal, ping was as normal as it can be in ESO, and the only thing I noticed was load times between zones took twice as long as usual but I mean...no crashing. Pretty smooth for me!

LalMirchi

Sylvermynx wrote: »

LalMirchi wrote: »

In general a very good launch day I had similar issues with the download, repair and a little persistence succeeded after three hours.

Addons were the biggest issue but I had a long session disabling all the out of date ones. The error messages then disappeared. I've kept them as it's too early to discard the out of date addons as the API has changed and the addon authors will hopefully update them.

I just updated the API version in the addon text files manually - they all still work just fine.

Yes, I used to do that but this time I thought that with substantial changes in the API one could disable them until they are updated. As long as Dolgubon's Lazy Writ Crafter and Bandits UI are up to date I'm sort of golden

Ryath_Waylander

So.... looking at it from the other end of launch week

FantasticFreddie

Yup. Aged like milk.

Jaimeh

The launch was smooth because they were saving all the downtime for the following days

irstarkey57

Smoothe launch huh. Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Still think it’s a “smoothe launch?”

shadyjane62

If this launch was so smooth how come I am playing Solitaire and writing comments on this blog.

Again.

scorpius2k1

This topic unfortunately was posted prematurely and aged poorly, I was hyped too.

Maybe it will be better next ye......

Nevermind.

Sju

Yuffie91 wrote: »

I think it's safe to say this was a good launch!

Aerenthir wrote: »

Can't deny it. Smooth launch. Job well done.

AnyOldIron wrote: »

Big round of applause here. Well done team ZoS! Keep up the good work 😁

Sarannah wrote: »

Agreed, very smooth! Thank you ZOS!

Shantu

scorpius2k1

Sju wrote: »

Yuffie91 wrote: »

I think it's safe to say this was a good launch!

Aerenthir wrote: »

Can't deny it. Smooth launch. Job well done.

AnyOldIron wrote: »

Big round of applause here. Well done team ZoS! Keep up the good work 😁

Sarannah wrote: »

Agreed, very smooth! Thank you ZOS!

agegarton

Okay......okay.....okay.....okay.

Note to self: wait a week next time.

SirCyanideRose

the only thing ZOS does smoothly is collect your money....

Elsonso

shadyjane62 wrote: »

If this launch was so smooth how come I am playing Solitaire and writing comments on this blog.

Again.

My thought is that today and the hardware failure maintenance has nothing to do with Launch. The hotfix debacle from last week to fix companion gear, then to fix companion gear AND the exploit they created with the first companion gear fix, was launch related, though.