First Impressions One Tamriel PC/MAC

ThePaleItalian · October 2016

I myself am a console peasant. But I am interested on people thoughts on the first day of One Tamriel.

I have seen some bugs and issues, but how is the overall feel of the scaling and dueling features?

milesrodneymcneely2_ESO · October 2016

I'm loving almost all of the changes, but something is happening graphically.

My game seems a lot more...grainy.

I'm running everything on Ultra and still getting 60+ FPS like before. I haven't changed any settings, either - in-game or in my NVidia control panel.

But everything still seems a bit more gritty than before, and I have no idea how to fix it.

Siphoneer · October 2016

Elder Lag Online

Taleof2Cities · October 2016

Having had only DC characters for the 2 1/2 years of playing this game, I was really curious about what the starter zone chat was like in Vulkhel Guard and Davon's Watch. So, I traveled to those areas and did some errands (crafting, banking).

Frankly, it was almost a let down

... it really wasn't much different than Daggerfall chat.

There was one slightly bewildered DC member in Davon's Watch who needed directions on how to get to Bleackrock Isle ... which I politely replied to find the boat out.

Mojmir · October 2016

More lag,more chat spam,dungeons still easy,*** drops from undaunted chest:200 keys,150 we're training prosperous.

Pandorii · October 2016

My game has crashed a lot more than usual. I've also noticed that my game freezes a lot more than usual. I can still hear the sound of the game, but my character is not moving. I have to force close my game and restart.

I don't think it's a One Tamriel problem directly, but I'm guessing that the patch had brought some people back so there are more people playing that usual.

phairdon · October 2016

Finding the npc enemy slightly tougher with the scaling. Lots of people around in zones. New armor sets. All good so far.

Armitas · October 2016

First thing I did was pug tank CoA. The dps didn't stand a chance on the daedroth boss. It was silly to buff the health of the dungeon because of out of control 60k dps players. DPS in this game isn't all together obvious, most of these pugs are doing 6-8k dps. They should have reigned in the high dps, not make things nearly impossible for new players.

Tandor · October 2016

Excellent thus far, enjoying the scaling and no adverse effects performance-wise. I do think it was a big mistake, however, in combining the update to the launcher, the single game client, and One Tamriel all in the same update. Patching and logging in were a pain and logging in to the EU server continues to be so as I each time I log in I have to switch server selections and wait for the EU server to set.

Phinix1 · October 2016

Particle effects and quest tracker aren't working, lag is pretty bad with mobs just standing there at 50% health bar then falling over 5 seconds later...

I will come back in a day or so and let you know.

Rohamad_Ali · October 2016

I'm enjoying it so far . Getting gear is much easier now . The graphics look great and the audio is more clear now . Still trying different things out .

Phinix1 · October 2016

AsteriaStarfall wrote: »

I had this issue as well. Solution for me is as follows. Change the following two lines in the usersettings.txt file to match what is shown below. Mine were set to 0

SET RequestedNumJobThreads "-1"
SET RequestedNumWorkerThreads "-1"

Can confirm, this fixed both problems (missing particles AND missing quest destinations).

I have always liked idea of One Tamriel.

I do hate the new Keeneye node tracking effect though quite a lot.

JkahrrRadnar · October 2016

Haven't got a chance to play yet (and will probably wait until the novelty dies down a bit) so specific question: Can you still identify ppls alliance in PvE via their name tag? (Pls no)

Preyfar · October 2016

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

I'm enjoying it so far . Getting gear is much easier now . The graphics look great and the audio is more clear now . Still trying different things out .

The lava in Stonefalls almost seems impossibly bright now. They've done a lot of tweaking and it looks great.

DrScott59 · October 2016

Like: The loot scaling, and not having groups of NPCs in starter zone fall over with one shot. Did a Dolmen in my starter zone (Glenumbra), and it was actually fun & got some good loot. Treasure chests have better loot, as well. Performance is better than I expected, even in the busy spots like Raw'laka (although definitely some lag there). From a technical perspective, this is a HUGE update and I have had zero issues with update, login, graphics, launching, and so forth. Maybe I'm just lucky, but even with some issues being reported it is clearly a big achievement for Zenimax to have this up & running.

Dislike: Too crowded, not just in the busy spots like Wayrest and Raw'laka, but elsewhere as well. For example, went to Gold Coast for Arena and Folly, and there were 25 people in the group with more spamming zone chat wanting to join. The entire fight was over so quick there was no challenge for anyone. Got an Order of the Hour motif, so that's cool, but it was just too easy with that many players. Went to a random Dolmen in Reaper's March, and as soon as the horn sounded about 6 players swarmed it -- too many for it to provide anyone a challenge.

Where do I sign up for the L-MMO (Less-Massive Multiplayer Online) version? :-) I am going to miss being able to solo group dungeons, dark anchors, world bosses, and so forth.

Nyghthowler · October 2016

So far I seem to be one of the lucky. No problems with the update, no problems launching the game, no graphics issues.
Only problem I've had is a slight re-learn in play style. Groups that were pew-pew I have to stop and strategize a little about.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · October 2016

First impression:

Sweet stars above, Craglorn is CROWDED. I've never seen that many people there, ever, before today, and it's a bit of a shock.

skrigger · October 2016

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

First impression:

Sweet stars above, Craglorn is CROWDED. I've never seen that many people there, ever, before today, and it's a bit of a shock.

I was able to complete all the anomalies and mines in Craglorn in about an hour, there were always people around. It was fun!

RDMyers65b14_ESO · October 2016

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

First impression:

Sweet stars above, Craglorn is CROWDED. I've never seen that many people there, ever, before today, and it's a bit of a shock.

This x100. All the extra characters are triggering my anxiety. I prefer the not as crowded. I know, give it a few days and maybe the zone chat will mature to at least the first grade level, people will stop camping the WBs, and the people will thin out to a moderate level.

CP5 · October 2016

Lag, pve zergs farming everything, but all the new sets. Nice patch, but it does have its flaws.

bottleofsyrup · October 2016

Been dueling guildmates since I got home from work. Having a LOT of fun with it!

C0wrex · October 2016

Loving all the changes

Rohamad_Ali · October 2016

Preyfar wrote: »

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

I'm enjoying it so far . Getting gear is much easier now . The graphics look great and the audio is more clear now . Still trying different things out .

The lava in Stonefalls almost seems impossibly bright now. They've done a lot of tweaking and it looks great.

I need to go there and look .

tinythinker · October 2016

Not happy with map exploration and quest progress being wiped for all characters in Craglorn. If you rediscover places that you completed they still are "found" filled in/white, except for burial grounds & anomalies, and achievements are still there, but you have to redo the whole set of quest lines for the entire zone for each character you've taken there, and if you were in the middle of one or three, too bad.

Eweroun · October 2016

DrScott59 wrote: »

Dislike: Too crowded, not just in the busy spots like Wayrest and Raw'laka, but elsewhere as well. For example, went to Gold Coast for Arena and Folly, and there were 25 people in the group with more spamming zone chat wanting to join. The entire fight was over so quick there was no challenge for anyone. Got an Order of the Hour motif, so that's cool, but it was just too easy with that many players. Went to a random Dolmen in Reaper's March, and as soon as the horn sounded about 6 players swarmed it -- too many for it to provide anyone a challenge.

Where do I sign up for the L-MMO (Less-Massive Multiplayer Online) version? :-) I am going to miss being able to solo group dungeons, dark anchors, world bosses, and so forth.

everyone is farming new set pieces, motifs,... like after every patch.
except know there are so many new things, it affects every single place now...

wait some weeks and everything returns to normal

greylox · October 2016

Enemies slightly harder, world bosses harder (still solo-able but not face roll), new guild dailies a bit meh, seems to be more people around, zone chat has more kids chatting ***, lots of new sets.......mostly good, nothing ground breaking.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · October 2016

My first encounter with a Flesh Colossus at a Dolmen was a surprise, even if it did go down in less than ten seconds courtesy of the large number of people present.

I also forgot just HOW MANY daily quests Craglorn has.

I spent a solid three hours yesterday JUST on those, and i only did them on one character. And still missed a few. I need to find out if the blue coffers have a better Motif drop rate than the green; if they do I might just focus on those.

Gargath · October 2016

I can't say I fully accept the stats we get from the very beginning, for lvl1 already like we were lvl50. Same with weapons, found a Staff with over 1k damage, felt weird, I think it lowers much the immersion of progressing up in levels gaining more and more stats with each level. That's also a bit inconsistent, since we get increased base stats and regen without any armors, but not the criticals. That is a bit confusing.

Other impression: much much much lower amount of raw mats found due to much much higher amount of players around. Economy should suffer from this, or our wallets

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Tyrion87 · October 2016

As you asked for our first impressions, mine were:

1. Where are my add-ons?! Why my Minion can't locate them anymore?
2. What is the Live-archive folder? Where is the previous Live-EU folder?
3. Which folder is now my default: Live or Live-archive?
4. Why I can't log in to EU server? What should I do? What have I done wrong?
5. Why I need to click "OK" on the system message every time I run the launcher?
6. Where are my characters?! I quit! I will sue them! Sue them all!
7. Why I need to select EU server every time I want to log in?
8. How can I do this properly, since MOTD on the log-in screen still shows NA server, even after EU was selected?
10. Why am I assigned to NA server again, after I succeded to log in to EU server finally, closed the game and tried to return?
11. Why ZOS has changed all of this and didn't even explain, step by step, how I can REMAIN on the EU server PERMANENTLY?
12. Why... why... why?!

100. Why are kids allowed to duel in the CITIES, especially in the BUILDINGS, making my FPS drop to 20?!

My all excitement for One Tamriel has just turned to ashes...

DeadlyRecluse · October 2016

1. 90 percent of the changes are great.
2. Keep a spreadsheet or notebook if you are a serious gear farmer. Location, location, location. If you want a dungeon-dropped set, be ready to run it a bunch of times. On the other hand, helms always drop, which is great.
3. At the moment, the lag is real, especially in popular cities and zones with desirable gear. Feels like it might need to be sharded a bit more : /
4. Dueling is fun. Ended up spending 2 hours dueling with some friends last night. Nothing serious or ego-trippy, just us all swapping on and off chars in some meadow in greenshade and beating on each other.
5. Having reasons to run original story dungeons (formerly normal dungeons, silver pledges, etc.) at max level is super fun. They aren't particularly difficult, obviously, but it's fun to play with mechanics that we've been able to pretty much ignore since very early in the game.
6. If you are leveling an alt, make lowbie armor for it. Make it every few levels. The scaling can be kinda punishing in some instances if you are out of your armor by a few levels.
7. If you spam duel requests and talk trash in zone, be prepared to be punished publicly.

raglau · October 2016

Mostly this patch is good and well executed. Main issue is the EU server connection issue in the new launcher, just makes me think ZOS did not even bother to test it against the EU server, which takes the *** as my ESO Plus ££ are just as useful to them as the $$.

I don't like the scaling, I feel it's immersion breaking, having the world conveniently rise around me. But others may feel differently of course.

It's nice to finally get some decent loot from dungeons, prevents them being a tedious box ticking exercise.

Overall, I am quite impressed, I honestly did not think ZOS had it in them and was dreading this.