PVP: Forward camps

MountainHound · November 2015

If the rumors are true and forward camps are coming back... I just don't get it.

I mean fine, if you can have an x on x on x where there is 200 people in one keep and frame rates and ping don't go to *** with people crashing out every 20 seconds, fine. But deep down I think the current lag needs dealing with before the introduction of these come back.

I believe when they were out before the lag was not bad but then a lot has changed since then... I hope you are not thinking:

Forward camp era = no lag
This era = lag

Fix: Lets bring back forward camps.

Discuss.

Divinius · November 2015

First of all, could you cite the source of the rumor that forward camps are supposedly coming back? I've not heard anything about that...

Bashev · November 2015

ZOS_BrianWheeler wrote: »

Since most of this information is scattered about the forums here's a nice condensed "short answer" list:
Reintroducing forward camps with smaller radius', restrictive respawning within radius only and global cooldown.

Refactoring Siege damage (again)

Removing alliance campaign restrictions on your account

Allowing you to unassign yourself with cooldowns

Redo'ing the guards at the Scroll gates and putting them on the ground

More things to spend your AP on and updating current sets to higher levels

Most, if not all, of these changes should be in the next major update (barring issues with testing).

We are also staying vigilant about improving performance in Cyrodiil. There were a few ability changes made earlier this week and we're watching the performance after those changes, but we're still digging into getting the performance better.

MountainHound · November 2015

They should not even be on the discussion board until there is zero lag in prime time on Azura star (NA) - Fix the lag there and introduce what you want.

Divinius · November 2015

Bashev wrote: »

ZOS_BrianWheeler wrote: »

Since most of this information is scattered about the forums here's a nice condensed "short answer" list:
Reintroducing forward camps with smaller radius', restrictive respawning within radius only and global cooldown.

Refactoring Siege damage (again)

Removing alliance campaign restrictions on your account

Allowing you to unassign yourself with cooldowns

Redo'ing the guards at the Scroll gates and putting them on the ground

More things to spend your AP on and updating current sets to higher levels

Most, if not all, of these changes should be in the next major update (barring issues with testing).

We are also staying vigilant about improving performance in Cyrodiil. There were a few ability changes made earlier this week and we're watching the performance after those changes, but we're still digging into getting the performance better.

How the heck did I miss that one? Thanks!

Sounds to me like if they do come back, they will be severely restricted. I've always felt that completely removing them entirely was a mistake. What they needed was a middle ground between what they were, and total complete removal. Maybe they'll get it right this time.

Sausage · November 2015

I think the idea behind camps is that it creates lots more PVP-hotspots instead of zerging, I personally think, limit people's moving and add camps is great idea. Currently players just move from zerg to another zerg, way too easily, 1 sec and your attacked keep is full of enemies. This game is just becoming a freaking mess, as they stopped making Road Aheads, how the hell should we know what the plan is or direction of the game.

Speaking of lag, just get rid off everything what causes lag, like dolmens, dungeons, wildlife etc. Transform Cyrodil into stand-alone F2P and get tons of players to support better servers.

Weberda · November 2015

Wheeler has been talking about revamped FC's since the originals were taken out of the game months ago. Frankly I think it's just lip service to make it appear that they're actually working on Cyrodiil. After all this time it's darn near impossible to take it seriously along with most other generic statements about "improving performance in PvP". Most of us realize now that there is most likely zero chance they can do anything due to coding and hardware restrictions.

uso245 · November 2015

First thing is first, they did talk about reworking how FC works however PvP server performance takes priority over FC and this has been stated multiple times. Also when they finally do get introduced they are going to have a limited range where people within that range can spawn at them not having the entire map spawn and zerg rush a keep after like people did before.