Question to all: Where do you see the state of PvP in the near future

GnGEmpire · March 2016

Was wondering what you guys think will be the state of PvP in the next 6 month - 1 year or so, especially performance wise.

Judging by the data, it won't get much better because performance has only been declining since launch. Hopefully I'm wrong.

I tried some PvP today even tho I promised myself that I wouldn't. Went into 1 campaign with fairly high population and ping with literally 700+ all the time.
Then tried a campaign with low population and ran around for ages and couldn't find a single battle.

@ZOS - I'd be happy to get some input from you too. Are you optimistic? Have you already given up?

Ghost-Shot · March 2016

Dead as far as Cyrodiil goes, I imagine those that don't jump ship to BDO or CU will enjoy arenas and BGs though.

Wollust · March 2016

If you had asked me 1.5 years ago I'd have said they will have the performance fixed by now.
They haven't.
They won't.
Ever.

Tryxus · March 2016

In Cyrodiil

GnGEmpire · March 2016

I wonder if they actually want all the PvP'ers to leave the game already so that they don't have that headache anymore

Palidon · March 2016

If the issues plaguing PvP play were going to be fixed they would have by now. For whatever reasons ZOS might have they have completely dropped the ball when it comes to PvP. Instead with every new update or dlc PvP just gets worse. A excellent example is the recent complete loss of audio when engaged in large battles or large population areas in Cyrodiil with the Thieves Guild update. Prior to the Thieves Guild DLC I never had audio problems just the lag which at times made Cyrodiil completely unplayable.

VincentBlanquin · March 2016

state of pvp will be still mess mess messy at all, because dev responsible for pvp combat dont know what he is doing.

and performance wise? who knows? not very optimistic, zero hope for me, but gaming world is full of surprises. if you hear last show, they make a LOT OF PROMISES for near future, for incrementals, but it can be marketing talk easily

Bam_Bam · March 2016

I think they will focus the issues affecting PvP eventually - if not for the DB update, then the one after that.

I remember at launch, the game was a total clusterf*** but ZoS met the challenge head-on. When I returned after an enforced break, the changes to the game were awesome and the amount of bug-fixing was amazing.

I was talking to my brother (he works for TT Fusion as a coder and tooler) about the lag. He was quite sympathetic towards ZoS. He thinks you would need the team to dedicate themselves to fixing the lag, rather than a few people releasing patch after patch. But if you do that, then you have to stop working on DLC for at least one release. And at the end of the day ZoS do need to get paid.

However, I would be way more happy to spend my money on crowns more often, if this game ran smoother AND at least one DLC focused on PvPers and the many PvP issues.

Sausage · March 2016

Ghost-Shot wrote: »

Dead as far as Cyrodiil goes, I imagine those that don't jump ship to BDO or CU will enjoy arenas and BGs though.

You forget Funcom's Conan Exiles thats going to be massive. Fast-paced small scale PVP sounds like fun for this period of time.

Johngo0036 · March 2016

My big issue is that the lag is getting worse,
NOT only in cyrodiil but also in PVE content,

This was never an issue but now it is becoming an issue... i was doing COH the other evening,
Tanking away at the final boss and we all hit a latency of around 5k for 5 seconds,
no skills would work, longest 5 seconds EVER,

Also the servers seldom crashed to the extent that i have seen since Thieves guild release...
3 times in 2 days..... WTF!!!

Unless Zenni make some serious changes/fixes to this i dont see any hope for the game and that would be terrible as i do love this game sooooooooo much..

Julianos · March 2016

eso is dead so much lag that they cant fix

Tdroid · March 2016

With the current amounts of lag I'm experiencing, I can't really claim to "see" it at all. Its like I am fighting ghosts. And unlike Morrowind and Oblivion, using enchanted weapons don't seem to help with that.

Necrelios · March 2016

I probably wouldn't expect any miracles performance wise this late in the game, it's still a struggle just for stability without crashing every 15-20 minutes for a lot of players. Once the arena mode is introduced, I don't see many serious players hanging around Cyrodiil going for objectives.

That being said, fewer players could mean better performance so for players that like the objectives based PvP thing they will probably jump in to score some keeps every once in a while with their friends just for fun. Loosing and changing some of the campaigns really kind of overwhelmed the remaining normal campaigns with huge amounts of players which really seemed to degrade the performance lately. It certainly wouldn't hurt to open another campaign, unless they are expecting a huge exodus of players.