Game breaking footage captured - ZENIMAX PLEASE RESPOND

BladeBoques · October 2014

The video showcases this perfectly, but there were prolonged duration of large numbers of people immune to damage while the server seemed semi-responsive. Abilities fired minutes later, ultimates and siege weapons did not work and it ended up being a ridiculous multi-faction rave. According to speedtest.net I was still at 25 Mbps DL and 20 Mbps UL.

I love this game, I became the Emperor twice in April and recently came back after a few months off and want to know if this is the accepted quality of play now or if we can hope to see major improvements in stability.

What do you make of this? http://www.twitch.tv/bladeboques/c/5393813

riverdragon72 · October 2014

It's been that way for months now.

Sindala · October 2014

mite want to try posting that on Reddit as you sure wont get a reply on these forums

killedbyping · October 2014

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Nestor · October 2014

It's probably more the issue discussed in this thread than any server lag issues

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/134419/in-case-anyone-is-wondering-why-aoe-caps-are-being-removed-here-is-the-video/p1

Evergnar · October 2014

LoL, when this happens I also run around and check out peoples armor too. Then I get bored and leave or log out. The game can just not handle these larger battles anymore. It's a shame really because I thought we'd see continued improvement in PvP stability since beta. Instead we've seen deterioration.

jeevin · October 2014

If this game relied solely on Cyrodiil for it's end game it would have been shut down by now. There's plenty of games out there that offer a fun,polished pvp experience.

Teargrants · October 2014

I say, ask not what ZOS can do for you, ask what you can do for ZOS. Be the first to take action and donate a hamster for the servers!

Sablemane · October 2014

It is so disheartening to see things are not improving stability-wise. I'll donate a mint condition mud crab to the cause.

Teargrants · October 2014

Mud crabs can't run on wheels. Hamster or gtfo.

tordr86b16_ESO · October 2014

this is why i don't even bother with PvP. It's completely broken, please add /duel and 4v4 pvp as cyrodiil is just one huge cluster f.

Sablemane · October 2014

Teargrants wrote: »

Mud crabs can't run on wheels. Hamster or gtfo.

The servers run on oscillating cylinder steam engines. Mud crab or gtfo.

Nestor · October 2014

briandivisionb16_ESO · October 2014

It isn't that bad. Numbers in Cyrodiil show it is at least tolerable

Few tweaks and we'll be right as rain!

RSram · October 2014

Enabling friendly player and horse collisions in PVP areas is one major change that could ease the demand on the server. It would reduce the number of players that could bunch up and spam AOE weapons and spells which are overloading the server.

Several other players have already suggested this in previous posts.

I suggested this several months ago using the /Feedback option. Once the player leaves the Cyrodill base camp, the friendly player collision is enabled.

Has anyone tried PVP in the 1.5 update? If so has it fixed this PVP issue?

I was hoping that update, 1.5 would fixed these issues.

If ZOS can't fix these issues in house they need to hire someone who can because there is no way ESO will be successful if this continues.

And forget about porting this game in its present state to the PS4 and XBox. Console gamer's are not going to pay $15 a month on top of the fees they already pay to play a buggy game.

Reilech · October 2014

AoE-Cap is going to be altered. Lets see.
Friendly fire or player collison is dangerous because of trolls.

GnatB · October 2014

BladeBoques wrote: »

According to speedtest.net I was still at 25 Mbps DL and 20 Mbps UL.

Learn to internet? Bandwidth has virtually nothing to do with how well the game will play for you. The measurement you're looking for is measured in ms, not Mbps. And is usually called "ping".

I could get massive Mbps by fed exing a crate full of terrabyte harddrives. I'm not going to want to try to play ESO via fed ex though.

Also, speedtest.net only measures your bandwidth to speedtests servers. Not to ESO's.

All that said, looking at what's actually going on in the video, yeah. While it's *possible* you aren't taking damage because your data packets to the server are failing to make it due to some sort of connection problem, so you aren't actually where you think you are, (which your "speedtest" wouldn't report) there's enough other people visibly moving around that seem to have the same issue that makes it unlikely. Since you're seeing them moving around, the server must know they're there to tell you that. Though I *suppose* it's possible, though very very unlikely, that they all think they're someplace completely different than that mosh pit. Unlikely, though.