Inconsistency in the visual appearance of the Meridian lens structure at Sunport Rampart Camp

gabbo1928 · October 30

Just out of curiosity, are the visuals for the Sunport Rampart Camp bugged on PC NA? I don't mean recently, I mean for the whole event so far. I got the impression from what was said before the launch of the Battle for the Grinding Wall event, that the visual appearance of the siege camps would update throughout Phase 1 and 2, as we got closer to breaching the wall. The Sunport camp has that Ayleid arch structure for the Meridian lens, but the visuals look completely random each time I visit, rather than showing a steady, linear progression.

Sometimes there are ornate stained glass portions inside the top of the archway. Sometimes the arches themselves are inscribed with glowing glyphs/runes. Sometimes there are reflectors in place on two stands near the arch. Sometimes none of that is there. Sometimes some are there, but not others. It's like it keeps getting built up and broken down, randomly. If they had one of those logic tests where you were presented with a series of images and had to put them in chronological order, I would fail miserably, because what I'm seeing in-game is nowhere near my assumptions.

I'm curious if this is the intended behavior for some reason, or if ZOS has acknowledged it being bugged somewhere, and I just missed it.

Just some examples. This was on Oct 14th. A large stained glass medallion is in place with nothing around it.

On the 15th, there is more ornate stained glass, but a noticeable gap where the medallion had been. The archway is now glowing.

On the 16th, all of that was gone.

And all of the various aspects of this structure seem to come and go at random. It's almost as if they coded it to change with the completion percentage, but have it looking at the ones digit instead of the tens digit, so it keeps reverting.

Syldras · October 30

It's bugged.

lillybit · October 30

Yes, elements are randomly not there. It looks very pretty when everything appears. I think I've seen it once!

spartaxoxo · October 30

I mostly see the empty place so I was wondering forever what the lens even looked like.

Aylish · October 30

Same on PC EU. I saw at least 4 lense variations + active/inactive beam on each of them.

ghastley · October 30

Was that series taken with the same character?

Since I'm an altoholic, I have been doing the quests with random characters, not consistently the same one, so variations in what I see don't register as anything special. I have probably seen the same but dismissed it as due to character progress, not "all users" progress.

Syldras · October 31

ghastley wrote: »

Was that series taken with the same character?
Since I'm an altoholic, I have been doing the quests with random characters, not consistently the same one, so variations in what I see don't register as anything special. I have probably seen the same but dismissed it as due to character progress, not "all users" progress.

It's just bugged (and I already reported that a few days after the event started, never got any reaction). The whole construction changed arbitrarily all the time. Normally it was supposed to progress with the number of times you do the vitrified souls fetch quest, I think. At least the construction did change when I turned that quest in; from fully functioning with the Light of Meridia emitting a beam - to first removing the Lens, the second time even removing the mirrors

At first I thought they accidentally inverted the progress, but I've been watching it a bit more over a few days and it indeed didn't seem to follow any pattern at all. It just looked different every time you arrived there.

Well, now in phase 2 it's supposed to beam all the time, so fixing that bug has become obsolete. Unless it still happens despite the new phase. Didn't check yet.

twisttop138 · October 31

Syldras wrote: »

ghastley wrote: »

Was that series taken with the same character?
Since I'm an altoholic, I have been doing the quests with random characters, not consistently the same one, so variations in what I see don't register as anything special. I have probably seen the same but dismissed it as due to character progress, not "all users" progress.

It's just bugged (and I already reported that a few days after the event started, never got any reaction). The whole construction changed arbitrarily all the time. Normally it was supposed to progress with the number of times you do the vitrified souls fetch quest, I think. At least the construction did change when I turned that quest in; from fully functioning with the Light of Meridia emitting a beam - to first removing the Lens, the second time even removing the mirrors At first I thought they accidentally inverted the progress, but I've been watching it a bit more over a few days and it indeed didn't seem to follow any pattern at all. It just looked different every time you arrived there.

Well, now in phase 2 it's supposed to beam all the time, so fixing that bug has become obsolete. Unless it still happens despite the new phase. Didn't check yet.

I had the exact same experience, but now I see it beaming since we're in phase 2 on PS5 na. At least it was beaming yesterday. Today the whole thing might be gone. It seems this meridian lense is as fes up with the event as the players.

gabbo1928 · October 31

ghastley wrote: »

Was that series taken with the same character?

Since I'm an altoholic, I have been doing the quests with random characters, not consistently the same one, so variations in what I see don't register as anything special. I have probably seen the same but dismissed it as due to character progress, not "all users" progress.

Yes, that was all on my main. He runs all of the quests. My alts only do the crafting ones for quick bonus XP when I have time.

gabbo1928 · October 31

twisttop138 wrote: »

I had the exact same experience, but now I see it beaming since we're in phase 2 on PS5 na. At least it was beaming yesterday. Today the whole thing might be gone. It seems this meridian lense is as fes up with the event as the players.

I just saw the beam for the first time today, right when I appeared at the Rampart Camp wayshrine. It was only active for a couple of seconds, then it was gone. This is on PC NA, and we're still at 96.7% of Phase 1 at this point.

metheglyn · October 31

gabbo1928 wrote: »

twisttop138 wrote: »

I had the exact same experience, but now I see it beaming since we're in phase 2 on PS5 na. At least it was beaming yesterday. Today the whole thing might be gone. It seems this meridian lense is as fes up with the event as the players.

I just saw the beam for the first time today, right when I appeared at the Rampart Camp wayshrine. It was only active for a couple of seconds, then it was gone. This is on PC NA, and we're still at 96.7% of Phase 1 at this point.

I've seen that beam before, on the first day of the event. I've also seen the various stages of the Meridian lens with no discernible pattern. The great mystery of the second era.

Syldras · October 31

It's still bugged. Now it's even so bugged that it beams without the Lens

Syldras · October 31

I'm really not sure how this construction works

twisttop138 · October 31

Syldras wrote: »

I'm really not sure how this construction works

Arcanist really is op huh.