Lore text on loading screens pointless

Yggdrasil_Gof · September 2015

The text at the bottom of the loading screen seems pointless. It's supposed to give tips, and give a little info on the dungeon/area. Even with long loading times the text disappears so quickly you have no time to read it. It's not a really big issue, but really it should be displayed for longer for those that want to read it.

Potenza · September 2015

Yea, so were the digital road signs in my state were suppose to give road tips and road condition info, lately all they read is "drive sober or get pulled over" or " click it or ticket" or " obey the sign or pay the fine". sheesh.

Zeth163 · September 2015

actually i agree with this. i love the lore in this game but i just dont get enough time to read it a shame really

bareheiny · September 2015

The text can be useful....now if only we had a chance to read it before it was replaced by the "Real GMs have X beside their name...don't get fooled!" type messages.

Groggpuffar · September 2015

I totally agree, the text in loading screens need to be fixed. It always skip to the next text immediately so there's no way I can read about the place..

PS4

Marques · September 2015

I wonder if someone knows if this bug has been acknowledged by the developers?

For those passionate about Tamrielic lore it can be really annoying how quickly the bits of lore text vanish so that irrelevant tips are displayed for a long time in every zone/delve/dungeon/instance loading screen.

This really needs fixing. Those bits of lore are interesting, providing depth and insight to each location...

Turelus · September 2015

People asking for longer loading times... not sure if trolling or serious...

Glaiceana · September 2015

No we aren't asking for longer loading screens, just for longer lengths of time the text info is displayed. Sometimes there's an interesting piece of information and then it's replaced by another within a second.

Kuroinu · September 2015

I submitted a bug report for this, since the IC patch they have been switching too fast that you can't always read even half of what the description says for the current area you are entering.

DovresMalven · September 2015

Riko_Futatabi wrote: »

I submitted a bug report for this, since the IC patch they have been switching too fast that you can't always read even half of what the description says for the current area you are entering.

I miss the sweet lore

Glaiceana · September 2015

Hoping that the devs/mods/admins actually see this. Haven't seen it mentioned before but it is actually a small problem that people would like fixed. I'd imagine it's an easy one.

Enodoc · September 2015

Is this a bug on consoles? On PC, you get one loading screen message for the entire duration of the loading screen.

Glaiceana · September 2015

It is on PC for me. And I do get 2 or 3 pieces of text depending on how long the loading screen is. I've linked this thread to a couple of admins just in case

Kuroinu · September 2015

Enodoc wrote: »

Is this a bug on consoles? On PC, you get one loading screen message for the entire duration of the loading screen.

I'm on PC and I've noticed this happening right after the IC patch. It doesn't happen all the time, but it's often enough.

Marques · September 2015

This bug does indeed happen on PC, both Windows and Mac. I only noticed it after the Imperial City update so it was probably introduced with that patch.

Lets hope to see some input in here from the devs soon.

grumlins · September 2015

Was thinking the same the other day having two vets and still being told about the level 15 weapon switching. Where are the tooltips for how to level alts more quickly and how to level crafting more quickly? Something useful.

PinoZino · September 2015

It's an usability issue.

A solution could be:

1) Computer first calculates how long the loading screen was visible

2) Later the computer should estimate how long it would take to read the text by a human, they could use a simple algorithm counting the words and combine this with the length of the words. Add a small ‘bonus’, cause some people read slow.

3) Now compare 1) and 2). If 1) < 2) then ask the player to push a button to continue. Unless, the player received the ‘advice’ before.

Yggdrasil_Gof · September 2015

@Turelus I'm not asking for a longer loading time, just for the lore about the area you are loading into to remain on the screen long enough to read before it changes to the game tips and other game related info, such as press and hold the option button to interact with other players, which remains on the screen far longer than it needs to. This is PS4, probably the same on Xbox, don't know about PC. I've had this since I first got the game, well before the IC patch. No one wants longer loading times, so hopefully you'll realize I'm not trolling just asking for certain information not to flash up and disappear before I've got to read more tha 3 words.

Lightninvash · September 2015

Yggdrasil_Gof wrote: »

The text at the bottom of the loading screen seems pointless. It's supposed to give tips, and give a little info on the dungeon/area. Even with long loading times the text disappears so quickly you have no time to read it. It's not a really big issue, but really it should be displayed for longer for those that want to read it.

I think its a l2r issue if you could read at a moderate -fast pace it is fine. watch some English sub anime and you will get faster

Kuroinu · September 2015

It has nothing to do with learning to read fast or w/e. I never noticed this switch in loading screen dialog before the IC update, I was also able to read whatever amount of text the loading screen threw at me before it finished loading and I have ESO installed on a SSD. But now post-IC patch, more often than not I get about 2~5 seconds before it switches to different dialog, which as I said before wasn't apparent pre-IC patch and in fact I didn't even know that the dialog could switch until this mess happened lol.

Most likely it's tied in with the long loading screen issue because it's clear that something has went seriously wrong there.

code65536 · September 2015

To clarify, the problem is that the description text of the area you're loading into is getting replaced by useless in-game tips (like "press T to cycle quests") too soon.

(OP, you might want to change the thread title to make this more clear.)

The loading screens are still too long, but now almost all the time is spent on useless junk that we all know about. I've now started to take screenshots when I load into a new place so that I can finish reading about it after the text changes after a couple of seconds. But, hell, sometimes it changes so fast I don't can't even press the PrtScn button fast enough.

neueregel · September 2015

But I need something to read while the zone loads for 5 minutes...

UltimaJoe777 · September 2015

I think it would be best if the player could have an account setting to choose either enable lore only, tips only, or both (the last one resulting in what happens now). Since the tips generally lose purpose at some point due to catering more to new players than old being able to disable them for lore only text would be very much appreciated!

Marques · September 2015

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

I think it would be best if the player could have an account setting to choose either enable lore only, tips only, or both (the last one resulting in what happens now). Since the tips generally lose purpose at some point due to catering more to new players than old being able to disable them for lore only text would be very much appreciated!

I agree. I would very much prefer a lore-only version of those tips and text. The lore snippets are interesting and aid in immersion of the different cultures found across Tamriel. The other tips are mostly irrelevant and distracting of the experience.

Yggdrasil_Gof · September 2015

@Lightninvash irony is I've been watching dubbed anime since the 80's no problem their. Japanese live action movies on the other hand are a different matter, but I can still just keep up with them. The problem is that you are given 4-5 seconds to read a paragraph of text. I might get 2 lines in before it disappears. Maybe I'm just getting old.

@code65536 hope the title change brings some clarity.

Lightninvash · September 2015

Yggdrasil_Gof wrote: »

@Lightninvash irony is I've been watching dubbed anime since the 80's no problem their. Japanese live action movies on the other hand are a different matter, but I can still just keep up with them. The problem is that you are given 4-5 seconds to read a paragraph of text. I might get 2 lines in before it disappears. Maybe I'm just getting old.

@code65536 hope the title change brings some clarity.

who knows

I read em just fine but could just be me idk

@Yggdrasil_Gof

Senet · September 2015

I sometimes find it hard to read them fast enough, but then again I am a slow reader.

For the sake of being able to read the lore later, I found out that you could hit screenshot while on the load screen. I've started doing this and have a good collection going of Lore pics.

Lightninvash · September 2015

Yggdrasil_Gof wrote: »

@Lightninvash irony is I've been watching dubbed anime since the 80's no problem their. Japanese live action movies on the other hand are a different matter, but I can still just keep up with them. The problem is that you are given 4-5 seconds to read a paragraph of text. I might get 2 lines in before it disappears. Maybe I'm just getting old.

@code65536 hope the title change brings some clarity.

tho I agree they should slow down just a tad haha tho if zeni messes with them they will prob break the load screens even more haha

Yggdrasil_Gof · September 2015

@Lightninvash True, best not tempt fate. :b

Lightninvash · September 2015

Yggdrasil_Gof wrote: »

@Lightninvash True, best not tempt fate. ;b

I just think that they'd either "fix" it and they are nonexistent because so fast cant read but a blur or load times haha

ArrerBoy · September 2015

Yes please. When all I had to play Skyrim was a laptop, the loading times were just as long, if not longer than ESO's. What kept me from just closing the game was the lore tidbits. Something to make the waiting less boring.