Unsent.Soul wrote: »

I could somewhat give your statement some credibility or agree with some parts but I counter your entire argument with 1 word... Orsinium.

Strictly speaking on xbox 1.

What was so bad about Orsinium?

I played this game from beta till some time after 1.6. The most major complaint I have had was the overall rebalancing that occurred in 1.6 and the effect it had on hybrid mag/stam builds. I've been playing the game again for about two weeks now, and all I notice is how much the game has improved in almost all areas. Perhaps I'm misremembering, but it seems to me that the major issues I faced in the early days, including many skills not working at all (by which I mean, doing nothing whatsoever), with the remaining skills being mostly quite broken, tooltips almost never having any relation to what skills would actually do, characters constantly falling through the world, instances failing to load, or breaking part way through and barring completion, being unable to get kill credit as a healer, jumping while mounted would dismount you, various quests (including the main story quests) were broken to the point of being uncompletable, characters could even be lost to such quests, sometimes when deconstructing instead of deconstructing the thing from your bag it would deconstruct the gear you were wearing...

Could keep going. But I don't think it's fair to say things have only gotten worse. Like I say though, I'm pretty freshly back to the game so maybe I'm missing something. But as long as characters/items aren't accidentally deleting and most skills are associated with some effect, I think things have improved.

Where I think things have gotten much worse is in the actual combat gameplay. The early game is so trivially easy now, where once it was quite challenging. I made a new character and up to level 20 he still regularly 1 shots mobs, and kills packs before they get near him, very disappointing. Player characters need a major, major nerf, maybe just a flat reduction to 1/3rd of current damage in the overworld would do it. Or equivalently, tripling the health of all the lowbie mobs. There's no fun to be had from trivial combat as far as I'm concerned.

So I've been having all the usual issues, my main platform is Xbox but I've played on pc since beta and EA, also play on ps4. My main issue is my main damn toon is stuck AGAIN, PERMANENTLY, in Orsinium. I promise as soon as I'm able to retrieve him, we're leaving orsinium and NEVER coming back. That's a damn shame cuz I still have a few sets i need to get from their but O WELL. ANYWAY, today I went to Orsinium for the first time with my alt. I just wanted to finish the first quest and bail. I wanted to make sure I unlocked the wayshrine In the city before I left so I sprinted to it, when I go there I crashed BUT for the first time I get an error message in game. It said something along the lines of "Out of Memory" it was the kind of error message you get on pc when your add one become out dated only im on Xbox. Anyway I hope that helps the Devs some how.

Group finder for dungeons is still bugged for me

The game is fine. Drama queens on this forum sheesh

Triddle wrote: »

What was so bad about Orsinium?

I played this game from beta till some time after 1.6. The most major complaint I have had was the overall rebalancing that occurred in 1.6 and the effect it had on hybrid mag/stam builds. I've been playing the game again for about two weeks now, and all I notice is how much the game has improved in almost all areas. Perhaps I'm misremembering, but it seems to me that the major issues I faced in the early days, including many skills not working at all (by which I mean, doing nothing whatsoever), with the remaining skills being mostly quite broken, tooltips almost never having any relation to what skills would actually do, characters constantly falling through the world, instances failing to load, or breaking part way through and barring completion, being unable to get kill credit as a healer, jumping while mounted would dismount you, various quests (including the main story quests) were broken to the point of being uncompletable, characters could even be lost to such quests, sometimes when deconstructing instead of deconstructing the thing from your bag it would deconstruct the gear you were wearing...

Could keep going. But I don't think it's fair to say things have only gotten worse. Like I say though, I'm pretty freshly back to the game so maybe I'm missing something. But as long as characters/items aren't accidentally deleting and most skills are associated with some effect, I think things have improved.

Where I think things have gotten much worse is in the actual combat gameplay. The early game is so trivially easy now, where once it was quite challenging. I made a new character and up to level 20 he still regularly 1 shots mobs, and kills packs before they get near him, very disappointing. Player characters need a major, major nerf, maybe just a flat reduction to 1/3rd of current damage in the overworld would do it. Or equivalently, tripling the health of all the lowbie mobs. There's no fun to be had from trivial combat as far as I'm concerned.

The only complaint I have about this game, which has never been addressed is the combat system. But that is something which I can tolerate quite easily. Every other complaint I had prior was already fixed in prior patches. So, I gotta say that I'm with you on the whole "things have improved." statement.

CapnPhoton wrote: »

Unsent.Soul wrote: »

craybest wrote: »

what are you guys talking about? I don't pvp but in PVE i've had no lag at all so far.

People like you amaze me. If you've been present at all on these forums since console release, you could see the flood of complaint threads.

Maybe you're just lucky, or playing a different game...

I'm playing the same game and I rarely get lag and I'm on the lowest of the low...3 mbps DSL. For the past month it has only been occasional with quest pointers.

People are not even willing to consider that perhaps PART of the problem is their own set up or ISP. Its easier to just complain. Some of it may be server side, but are you sure you have absolutely no problems on your end 24 hours a day every day? Not even an IT pro with a certification in TCP/IP and networking could guarantee that they will have a great connection to all remote systems all the time.

I can hop on battlefield 4 and have ABSOLUTELY ZERO issues. No lag, I might get dropped from the odd game but that's once in a blue moon. I hop on ESO, no matter where I go or what I'm doing there is lag. There's an infinite supply of loading screens and the crashes they're constant. Play the division, no problems at all. But hop back on eso and it's non stop problems. So yes, I'm pretty confident the problem is on ZOS's end.

Averya_Teira wrote: »

CapnPhoton wrote: »

Unsent.Soul wrote: »

craybest wrote: »

what are you guys talking about? I don't pvp but in PVE i've had no lag at all so far.

People like you amaze me. If you've been present at all on these forums since console release, you could see the flood of complaint threads.

Maybe you're just lucky, or playing a different game...

I'm playing the same game and I rarely get lag and I'm on the lowest of the low...3 mbps DSL. For the past month it has only been occasional with quest pointers.

People are not even willing to consider that perhaps PART of the problem is their own set up or ISP. Its easier to just complain. Some of it may be server side, but are you sure you have absolutely no problems on your end 24 hours a day every day? Not even an IT pro with a certification in TCP/IP and networking could guarantee that they will have a great connection to all remote systems all the time.

The fact that ESO is the ONLY game where I get these problems proved that you are wrong...

I can understand the frustration people are feeling, but actually successfully connecting to other games doesn't prove anything in definite terms.

Every game requires different ports, and the connection to their service works differently than the next game or service. People are comparing their connections to FPS games. They use a different kind of connection protocol than MMO. MMOs will often use both packet based UDP and stream based TCP. I would be willing to bet that at least for some people here, they are not set properly in their own gear.

I remember when my son was having issues with just a Halo game. It would not connect to any match. Call of Duty was working fine. It was because of just 1 port that was not set to TCP. The same thing happened when I use to play another MMO. When entering an area, it would be 30 seconds before any NPCs would show. Again a port setting for packets needed to be enabled. My ESO is working fine, but a neighbor of mine can't stay connected. He has the same ISP and router. I don't know why he is having trouble because he doesn't want me to look at his gear.

I am just saying that there is a good chance it is a combination of issues. People may want to at least consider that possibility.

I'm on PC, mainly PVE, play from Australia and don't have any of these problems???

Still no word from zos? It's been a month now and nothing from them at all. @ZOS_GinaBruno can we have an update on the state of consoles please.

JohnnyQuantum wrote: »

I'm on PC, mainly PVE, play from Australia and don't have any of these problems???

I think this is mainly a console issue, I assume that's why "console" is in the title.

Nope

Unsent.Soul wrote: »

craybest wrote: »

what are you guys talking about? I don't pvp but in PVE i've had no lag at all so far.

People like you amaze me. If you've been present at all on these forums since console release, you could see the flood of complaint threads.

Maybe you're just lucky, or playing a different game...

I don't have any problems either.

Jimmy wrote: »

I love PC gaming.

Yea its great on PC PvP where you have flying characters dropping Meteors on you every two seconds and dont tell me they dont bc Ive seen the Youtube videos.