Cyrodiil - Unplayable = FPS drop / Silver Bolts

Xael · June 2014

I am not sure what you did on 6/24/14's patch, but whatever it was, it ruined Cyrodiil for me and many others.

The FPS dive was bad enough prior to this when dealing with zergs, but this... this is unplayable. I am inside Roe as I type this trying to repair walls with a staggering 3fps. There is no fight going on here. Everytime my FPS tanks, I have to log out and log back in only to have it drop again once I go near any fighting. I have several features disabled in Settings and I have been playing this game since last year, Cyrodiil has never been this bad.

I have a decent rig, again, in the past 8-9 months of playing in Cyrodiil, I have seen nothing like this.

Lastly, Silver Bolts/Shards/Leash. This ability right now is one shotting vamps for 1900-2900 dmg a pop. I am a VR12 and I should not be 1 shot by a level 10 nightblade. This is absurd. Moreover it is equally ridiculous when everyone is running around spamming Silver Bolts and killing people in 1 hit. This is gamebreaking. I am all for a 5% to proc extra damage against Vamp/WW, but a 1 shot? HELL NO.Right now it seems I keep getting 1 shot by anyone using it. This is happening all the damn time. Again, a level 10 should not under any circumstance 1 shot a VR12. Moreover you should realize people will be farming an insane amount of points in tandem with this bug.

Before this past week, despite the numerous bugs and irritations, I still enjoyed playing. The only reason I even play this game is PvP. If this isn't hotfixed or worked on immediately I and many others will unsub and never look back. I have no desire to dump money into a broken game I can't even play. Please address this.

Draxys · June 2014

Agreed, the FPS problem has to be fixed. Sitting on 14 fps at the freaking gate. I'm literally the only person around me.

Screw fixes like the better lighting they added, who gives a crap about that? It looks weird anyway bc it's over saturated and doesn't match the outside lighting. There are bigger issues like the FPS drops that Zenimax could be devoting more time to, and should be.

Xael · June 2014

At least you are 14. I have been as low as 3. I am not sure which bothers me more, the low fps or the silver bolt bs.

Xael · June 2014

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zulikab14_ESO · June 2014

The performance gets worse with every patch. I don't care about the silverbolt thing, i just want to be able to play.

RinaldoGandolphi · June 2014

Silver Bolts/Silver Shards/Silver Leash is fine as it.

Silver Bots/SilverShards/Silver Leash does NOT "Always" one shot you....that skill has a "chance" to Instant Kill Undead/Daedric Enemies...your a vampire, which means your undead which means every so often the RNG will not work out in your favor and it will kill you.

This is not different then the Storm Calling disintegrate passive that gives a 10% chance to instant kill low health targets....

As you can see from the images above, Silver Bolts doesn't instant kill you every time..it has "a chance" of instant killing you, its always been like this, read the tooltip...they just finally fixed the skill in PVP because it was intended work that way to begin with.

the only people complaining about the "insta-kill" are vampires....being a Vampire is a curse...you should have real disadvantages instead of sparkling in the sunlight and mad power....Silver Bolts evens the odds..and its insta-kill doesn't proc all the time...it relaly ony procs 10% of the time at best..if your getting killed your just on the bad end of the RNG no different then when deconstruction matts and not getting any materiels...it happens...

wllstrt75b14_ESO · June 2014

actually silver bolts is jacked, as the benefit for using it is against undeads, so why does it crit for 800 plus against non undeads? the ability should not outperform many normal abilities while also adding the extra crit for undeads, as it is now it should br a must on every players bar and thats just wrong.

Brizz · June 2014

woodsro wrote: »

Silver Bolts/Silver Shards/Silver Leash is fine as it.

Silver Bots/SilverShards/Silver Leash does NOT "Always" one shot you....that skill has a "chance" to Instant Kill Undead/Daedric Enemies...your a vampire, which means your undead which means every so often the RNG will not work out in your favor and it will kill you.

This is not different then the Storm Calling disintegrate passive that gives a 10% chance to instant kill low health targets....

As you can see from the images above, Silver Bolts doesn't instant kill you every time..it has "a chance" of instant killing you, its always been like this, read the tooltip...they just finally fixed the skill in PVP because it was intended work that way to begin with.

the only people complaining about the "insta-kill" are vampires....being a Vampire is a curse...you should have real disadvantages instead of sparkling in the sunlight and mad power....Silver Bolts evens the odds..and its insta-kill doesn't proc all the time...it relaly ony procs 10% of the time at best..if your getting killed your just on the bad end of the RNG no different then when deconstruction matts and not getting any materiels...it happens...

Since patch the 5% chance to proc this extra damage is now 70-100% chance. Get with the program bud.

RinaldoGandolphi · June 2014

Since patch the 5% chance to proc this extra damage is now 70-100% chance. Get with the program bud.

my apologies, I thought folks were complaining about the insta kill chance of the skill.

if it really is buggec to 70-100% then that needs to be fixed.

SPECVSTV30_ESO · June 2014

Same problem bad FPS drop and can't play

Katniss_Everlark · June 2014

Xael wrote: »

Cyrodiil should get a huge rollback, people are farming points from this obvious exploit.

I disagree with a huge roll back. Only because I don't use that ability. Why should I loose everything I earned in Cyrodiil?

Sihnfahl · June 2014

woodsro wrote: »

if it really is buggec to 70-100% then that needs to be fixed.

Look at the dev tracker. It's bugged.

Warraxx · June 2014

Xael wrote: »

WOW!! Song of Lamae actually works.

Tankqull · June 2014

tbh i do like those changes to silverbolts and i´m saying that as a vamp, as fire vulknurability in pvp is not really working as well. in pve i´m toastet in seconds by firewizzes while i don´t bother fireattacks in pvp...
so with the the strange behavior of the bolts currently it is actually a true risk vs reward for at least vamps - wws are f4cked anyway :P

Laura · June 2014

agree on the FPS

Think you vamps should deal with the silver bolts issue for a while.

phtony06b14_ESO · June 2014

I'm experiencing these fps drops in pve as well. Always during battles, usually with at least 1 other person near me. Go from 60-100 fps to 8-10. I suspect the lighting they added has something to do with it. Also graphics settings were adjusted by the patch so if you had say shadows turned off, you will need to go back & turn them off again.

tino.antoninieb17_ESO · June 2014

I have fps problems as well . Never had any fps issue before last patch . I am experiencing that in Cyrodill and Craglorn . I dont know what caused that problem but i am sure about two things - it asks for immediate action and second thing is that problem is not on players side.

Ardeni · June 2014

Another thing to the list: On the course of yesterday and today, the whole campaing of Goldbrand froze (you can move and block, but not cast skills and you can't see anybody else move or do anything). After the relog, which was the only way to fix the freeze, we usually end up at the beginning of map which lost us an important keep yesterday.

Edit: The same issue seems to freeze our enemies as well, not only us.