[Consoles] State of the game: Abysmal

johu31 · August 2016

This is a plea on behalf of every console gamer in ESO. We need help, and need it now. DLC after DLC we get bug after bug, with little or no fixes or temporary work arounds that occasionally work. Sadly, it looks like we're going to get more next week based on our sneak peak from pc. It's like a damage over time effect that just keeps stacking and stacking.

Orsinium DLC:
Guild Roster UI resets to top every time someone logins of logs out. Utterly impossible to use and manage a guild. This is where the roster went from pages to a scrolling list. No response what so ever from Zenimax.

Wrothgar crashes. Expect to be dashboarded when trying to get to this area and a few more times wherever your going within.

TG DLC: no fixes to the above and my memory slips me as to which bug came where.

Dark brotherhood: The straw that broke the camels back for a lot of console gamers. Load screen central. Invisible enemy's, broken COH, and my personal favorite the crash loop. With responses from Zenimax like "don't go to that area" "if your stuck in wrothgar, we can move you.. Only once" "try deleting all your quests". The crash loop was somewhat fixed but the load prioritization is still broken.

Incremental patch: nothing above fixed, the birth of the audio bug. All chats including XBL party are broken. Every load screen to every leisurely stroll down the streets of wayrest, comms drop. To fix it you have to begin the tiresome process of unplugging your headset and then plugging it back in over and over, usually during the heat of battle. The latest zenimax response "link to Xbox sound troubleshoot page". What's the purpose of an mmo if you can't communicate?

These are ongoing issues that imo are game breaking for consoles. It does not even include the countless skill, pvp, art, or mechanic bugs that each dlc brought, things we can over look.

Being outside the master race when it comes to gaming, we are not used to this. We demand quality performance because it's all we've ever known from games.

I urge zenimax to take a hard look at the state of the game on consoles for the fear that it's player base will disappear entirely from repeatably being passed off and ignored... which will ultimately lead the to end of this game.

Sneaky-Snurr · August 2016

Oh my sweet summer child. :>

Toc de Malsvi · August 2016

Indeed.

SolarCat02 · August 2016

We had a group of four to do a random dungeon tonight.

Get an error that someone 8n the group doesn't have the DLC so the group can't queue for the random.

Try to pass the crown to the only person without the DLC. Silently fails. Nobody can pass him crown.

Disband group so he can invite everyone. He gets told we all turned down the group invite. We get told we failed to join group.

He gives up, leaving us to reform and queue for a 2nd DPS for the random normal dungeon.

Hour later with still no 2nd DPS, everyone decides to just go to bed rather than manually hunting for one.

This is why most of my playing time consists of wandering around picking flowers and talking in guild chat. It's the only parts that still work.

Er, when I am not unplugging and replugging my headset 20 times because the sound cut out during that last random load screen, that is.

RAGUNAnoOne · August 2016

this is why I am on break from the game.

Wreuntzylla · August 2016

Once upon a time PC was the console beta. NOT ANYMORE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

FloppyTouch · August 2016

It's so bad right now in xb1 I'm afraid to go to any dlc right now in fear of losing my main and max crafter with 9 traits all finished.
ZoS fix ur game please!

PrinceBoru · August 2016

I've been playing other games on XB1.
It is fun to play titles that actually work.

ArgoCye · August 2016

I'm on PS4 and have experienced many of these issues but what is worse is the deterioration in frame rates. It seems in the past month frame rates have dropped alarmingly - particularly in lit areas like delves. I get that lag in PVP is just an unsolvable mess, but frame rates never used to be this bad and can see no reason for this decay.

nk474 · August 2016

Bad thing about this is the stuff that is broken and patched on pc within a week, zen still sends the old bug gets sent to consoles.

Unsent.Soul · August 2016

Wreuntzylla wrote: »

Once upon a time PC was the console beta. NOT ANYMORE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

We're not looking to incite a war with pc/ console. Comments like this are foolish when we only inquire about the state of the game.

We just NEED things fixed or I feel this will die out on consoles rather quickly.

ZOS needs to expedite these fixes to keep this title popular among console players.

iam_slickone · August 2016

johu31 wrote: »

This is a plea on behalf of every console gamer in ESO. We need help, and need it now. DLC after DLC we get bug after bug, with little or no fixes or temporary work arounds that occasionally work. Sadly, it looks like we're going to get more next week based on our sneak peak from pc. It's like a damage over time effect that just keeps stacking and stacking.

Orsinium DLC:
Guild Roster UI resets to top every time someone logins of logs out. Utterly impossible to use and manage a guild. This is where the roster went from pages to a scrolling list. No response what so ever from Zenimax.

Wrothgar crashes. Expect to be dashboarded when trying to get to this area and a few more times wherever your going within.

TG DLC: no fixes to the above and my memory slips me as to which bug came where.

Dark brotherhood: The straw that broke the camels back for a lot of console gamers. Load screen central. Invisible enemy's, broken COH, and my personal favorite the crash loop. With responses from Zenimax like "don't go to that area" "if your stuck in wrothgar, we can move you.. Only once" "try deleting all your quests". The crash loop was somewhat fixed but the load prioritization is still broken.

Incremental patch: nothing above fixed, the birth of the audio bug. All chats including XBL party are broken. Every load screen to every leisurely stroll down the streets of wayrest, comms drop. To fix it you have to begin the tiresome process of unplugging your headset and then plugging it back in over and over, usually during the heat of battle. The latest zenimax response "link to Xbox sound troubleshoot page". What's the purpose of an mmo if you can't communicate?

These are ongoing issues that imo are game breaking for consoles. It does not even include the countless skill, pvp, art, or mechanic bugs that each dlc brought, things we can over look.

Being outside the master race when it comes to gaming, we are not used to this. We demand quality performance because it's all we've ever known from games.

I urge zenimax to take a hard look at the state of the game on consoles for the fear that it's player base will disappear entirely from repeatably being passed off and ignored... which will ultimately lead the to end of this game.

i hate how it gets worse with every DLC/ patch fix. loading screens everywhere just to find that you've been killed during thr loading screen. have to keep plugging and plugging in my mic every 5 min. enemies take over a minute to become visible, usually get a load screen to get them visible just to load in with you dead body on the ground. textures are noticeably worse with no improvement to the game performance.

bedlom · August 2016

I am really hoping that update11 makes the game playable again.
Everything takes forever to load, audio keeps cutting out, constant crashes and loading screens etc.

RebornV3x · August 2016

State of the game: pushing the limits on what unplayable means.

This game is so unstable and being playable is a stretch can't remember the last time Ive played this game without less than 5 disconnects in 4-8 hours I think Ive disconnected from this game at least once a day since Imperial City but DB made it worse alot worse. Why is it I can play any other game and go days or even weeks without 1 disconnect I'm lucky if I go 30 minutes in ESO without the game freezing and kicking me back to the dashboard.

JD2013 · August 2016

The game on console is really, really bad.

Apparently there's a ton of fixes coming with the base patch of update 11 for console, but it's been left to fester too long. I hope it gets sorted for you guys.

Alcast · August 2016

JD2013 wrote: »

The game on console is really, really bad.

Apparently there's a ton of fixes coming with the base patch of update 11 for console, but it's been left to fester too long. I hope it gets sorted for you guys.

Mainissue with console is how they have to handle incremental patches as it always seems to have to go through Microsoft or Sony which makes the process of fixing stuff long. Plus ZOS has to pay to let them review the patches so it will not happen that often.

DRXHarbinger · August 2016

Did pvp last night...it was bad. Pop locked main campaign. No sound for most of it..disconnected at every capture...couldn't see if I was on swords or staff...on the plus side I was gifted with invisisiege..so that raked in a whole 60k AP for me alone at a 1hr siege last night. The kills were immense I kid you not.

Bonzodog01 · August 2016

I wonder if the XBox EU servers are somehow different?

Whilst the greater majority of us do have these problems in Wrothgar and Cyrodiil, outside of that, there is almost no problems.

I was on for 8 hours yesterday, no chat problems, no crashes, no loading screens (unless of course I was wayshrining or using a closed area).

However, this was whilst levelling a low level character in the alliance zones. None of these bugs are present for me in the alliance zones.

I actually had my crafter out and went farming around Wrothgar with her as well for a good hour or so, no problems at all. As long as you avoid the writs section of Orsinium city, its all good.

Cyrodiil can be its own mess of crashiness, but it does depend on the population near your character. In the last few days, I have run around in Scourge for 3 or 4 hours with very little lag, no crashes or loading screens. The only time I got lag and loading screens was if I decided to get into one of the big fights around a fort or resource. Stay away from the large scale fights, and no problems.

And I can play Azura's Star endlessly with absolutely zero problems.

wolfxspice · August 2016

every load screen my audio cuts, one of my guild leaders haven't been able to start a group in three weeks, i get mobbed by invisible enemies every ten minutes, maelstrom dashboards me between 6 and 7 EVERY SINGLE TIME, countless load screens, i dont even fast travel to mournhold anymore at risk of dashboard, been avoiding my writs at risk of dashboard, getting stuck in my skill screen leaving me unable to move forward or backward only left or right, that's a hard reset.

really i could go on forever, i hope they at least get the audio issue fixed.

johu31 · August 2016

JD2013 wrote: »

The game on console is really, really bad.

Apparently there's a ton of fixes coming with the base patch of update 11 for console, but it's been left to fester too long. I hope it gets sorted for you guys.

I hope your right. I can look past the occasional dashboard and things like the old pink textures of wrothgar, but the things I listed are must haves. They are core gameplay mechanics.

I know @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom are very busy and work hard but it would make some of us feel a lot better to know when these specific bugs will be fixed, some are very old, some never acknowledged.

Kas · August 2016

wow, this sounds really bad. meanwhile pc went through more than a year of abysmal (with no new pve content and more-than-just-laggy pvp) and finally imrpves a TON on both fronts. maybe they have two competent developers who got moved to console for the release and are now back on pc

meanwhile interns on minimum wage handle the rest

johu31 · August 2016

Alcast wrote: »

JD2013 wrote: »

The game on console is really, really bad.

Apparently there's a ton of fixes coming with the base patch of update 11 for console, but it's been left to fester too long. I hope it gets sorted for you guys.

Mainissue with console is how they have to handle incremental patches as it always seems to have to go through Microsoft or Sony which makes the process of fixing stuff long. Plus ZOS has to pay to let them review the patches so it will not happen that often.

I'm ok with the 2 week delay, even appreciate the insight we get from pc users when patches drop before ours. But 90 to 120 days of the same bugs is just unbearable.

Ch4mpTW · August 2016

Abysmal isn't even the word for the current state of the game on console. It's atrocious. It reminds me of when That Batman game (I believe Arkham Knight) came out for PC, and was so bad WB had to retract it from steam. Irs pretty rough on console. Boys. Pretty damn rough.

Skinzz · August 2016

Take a wayshrine and get a loading screen which is normal, after load screen, take 5 steps and get a random load screen, get out of that load screen and take another 5 steps.. oh look another random load screen.

GeneralLee · August 2016

Regrettably I have to agree with the above comments.
I started ESO on PC, but I loved the idea of playing my favorite MMO with a controller from my couch.... I have come to regret that decision immensely... I regretted having no text chat and the downgraded graphics... but I could live with that.

However, as stated above the game on console (PS4) has really become so annoyingly bugged, that I quit ESO 2 months ago and am now playing FFXIV. Even though i prefer the ESO setting, graphics, questing, crafting, combatstyle etc... its SUCH a big relieve to be able to play an mmo that runs smooth, without crashes, 1h+ dungeon finder times, loading screens, long loading times in a new area etc.... If ESO would ever get fixed, i would not doubt for a second to go back to playing it. I have spend over 300€ on ESO, because I like it so much. Its really unfortunate that the game runs so abysmal

If there was an option to convert my PS4 account back to a PC account, i would pay for it with out a doubt in my mind. Sadly i've spend too much time and money on the ps4 account to start all over again on pc.

LordSock · August 2016

I'm in same boat. I gave it up for now, and cancelled my ESO+ I'm waiting for things to get better before I come back. Currently enjoying Neverwinter

Duxes · August 2016

Worst feeling in the game is running into the heat of battle ready to kill only to be close lined by a loading screen lol.

SolarCat02 · August 2016

I am waiting until the DLC next week. History says it will break the game worse than before, but I still want to hope.

I will likely be canceling ESO+ about two weeks from now, though. On the plus side, that will fix so many problems!
- I will be able to be leader of dungeon groups for random queues, because I won't have access to the DLC, so I would be the one triggering that error.
- I will be able to do writs again, since they will be turned in at Craglorn. So I will never get stuck in Orsinium again!
- I won't have to put in tickets to get my ESO+ reinstated, or my Crowns sent, after every upgrade, because I won't be paying for them anymore.
- I will be able to stop wondering why I am paying monthly for such a broken game. Because I will be one of the "Buy to Play" people again.

I will miss the crafting bag, but what else can I do?

DinOwned · August 2016

+1 for all the issues stated above.

Help us @ZOS_GinaBruno and @ZOS_JessicaFolsom you're our only hope!

TheValkyn · August 2016

"It works fine on consoles!" - Chest Puffing Console Player.

"Wait for it..." -Veteran PC Player.

bebynnag · August 2016

RebornV3x wrote: »

State of the game: pushing the limits on what unplayable means.

This game is so unstable and being playable is a stretch can't remember the last time Ive played this game without less than 5 disconnects in 4-8 hours I think Ive disconnected from this game at least once a day since Imperial City but DB made it worse alot worse. Why is it I can play any other game and go days or even weeks without 1 disconnect I'm lucky if I go 30 minutes in ESO without the game freezing and kicking me back to the dashboard.

^^this^^

just tried to do normal pledge vaults of madness jump down 1st hole, lad screen, died from fall damage, reserected, another load screen came bk, dead from fall damage AGAIN! didnt even realise you could die from fall damage at this point!