Veteran BrokenStar Arena?

LinearParadox · August 2016

So I was just trying out the 'new' vDSA with some guildies and such, was having great fun, challenging mechanics but nothing too bad... until we got to the ice level.
Now, before I go any further, I'd like to mention that, before this patch, about a month ago, a buddy and I duo'd up to lvl 5. My point in mentioning this is that I do know how to do vDSA... my group was not wiping to bosses, or damage or mobs. No, it was wiping to BUGS.
Group member relights a fire, torch is consumed, fire doesn't relight. Awesome.
Round starts with NO TORCHES, everyone dies for no reason.
Round starts with 1-2 torches missing with no explanation.
Group wipes and rezes at wayshrine, two groups members have to suffer an extra death to get the stacking cold debuff off them OUTSIDE THE ARENA, AFTER DYING THE FIRST TIME.

This... this is unacceptable. I have beaten ICP and WGT, I ENJOY a challenge, I was having fun with my runs of the new CoS even though it's brutally punishing for even a SINGLE group member to miss a SINGLE mechanic, it was still fun. A great challenge. I will battle mechanics all day, I will happily 'git gud' to beat content... I. WILL. NOT. FIGHT. BUGS.
I will not accept dying to bugs, I will not accept impassable content due to unreliable mechanics/spawns/attacks/procs/interaction etc.
And this is on 'new'(relatively) content, something that many players, myself included, were excited for. Well, excitement BLOWN. I am extremely disappointed.
Someone let me know when this crap is fixed.

EDIT: Removing incorrect information, as pointed out by Brrrofski, so as to not accidentally mislead anyone. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO · August 2016

ALWAYS respawn at way shrine. ALWAYs. Saves souls gems and stops a lot of the bugs you are talking about. Except for that players being frozen after respawn. Haven't figured that out yet.

LinearParadox · August 2016

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »

ALWAYS respawn at way shrine. ALWAYs. Saves souls gems and stops a lot of the bugs you are talking about. Except for that players being frozen after respawn. Haven't figured that out yet.

Thank you for the tip, honestly. I appreciate it, but it doesn't change the fact that I shouldn't have to avoid bugs, they shouldn't BE THERE in the first place. Hell, I'd even accept the cop-out of preventing respawning by soul gem if they KNOW it's messed up. It's a total cop-out, and doesn't reflect well on their programming team that they can't FIX it, but I'd at least respect them for acknowledging the problem and implementing a stop-gap measure.
Right now, we're getting what feels like 0 accountability, as well as 0 fixes.
It's like the stereotypical "Government agent" type that answers every question with "I can neither confirm nor deny that." until you GET TIRED OF ASKING because they're not going to give you any real answers.

Brrrofski · August 2016

What round insta kills three people?

Is that new? The v14 version doesn't have that.

LinearParadox · August 2016

@Brrrofski
My mistake, was speaking from (a wrong) memory, but I was referring to Stage 5. The "Shadow casters" You can read about it in this guide.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138249/dragonstar-arena-hm-guide/p1

The night my friend and I were duo'ing it, it seems we failed to notice the 'platform' mechanic, and that combined with my faulty memory led me to believe that the scaling number of players cursed was some sort of challenge mechanic for the last player left alive to... it doesn't matter. I was wrong, thank you for pointing that out. I'll edit my original post so as to not spread misinformation.

Shazgob · August 2016

LinearParadox wrote: »

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO wrote: »

ALWAYS respawn at way shrine. ALWAYs. Saves souls gems and stops a lot of the bugs you are talking about. Except for that players being frozen after respawn. Haven't figured that out yet.

Thank you for the tip, honestly. I appreciate it, but it doesn't change the fact that I shouldn't have to avoid bugs, they shouldn't BE THERE in the first place. Hell, I'd even accept the cop-out of preventing respawning by soul gem if they KNOW it's messed up. It's a total cop-out, and doesn't reflect well on their programming team that they can't FIX it, but I'd at least respect them for acknowledging the problem and implementing a stop-gap measure.
Right now, we're getting what feels like 0 accountability, as well as 0 fixes.
It's like the stereotypical "Government agent" type that answers every question with "I can neither confirm nor deny that." until you GET TIRED OF ASKING because they're not going to give you any real answers.

'they shouldn't BE THERE in the first place.'

To this I say, Welcome to Zenimax Online Studio. It'll get fixed in 6 months, and if it isn't then, it never will be.

Izaki · August 2016

Oh if you only knew how many stupid deaths happened to me in Maelstrom while I was going for the no death run... (Getting stuck in heavy attack animations, slow bug, a dead Daedroth on the other side of the room killing me) But the worst is probably the one where you can't cleanse the poison in Stage 7 because the purify spots don't spawn at all in the beginning.