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  • Seri
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    Brrrofski wrote: »
    Some advice - don't do certain dungeons with pugs. DLC ones, city of Ash etc - forget group finder.
    In many cases it's not like they're intentionally queuing. In my experience, the power of RNG means a 'Random Vet' search appears to have an 80%+ chance to hit a DLC dungeon. Don't ask me how but it does -_-
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  • Franieck
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    Magdalina wrote: »
    Franieck wrote: »
    Отличная точка. Люди, которые не говорят по-английски, действительно тоже меня разозлили!
    Нафиг выпендриваться, еcли, в отличие от меня, ты явно не знаешь русского? Иногда, чтобы сойти за умного, лучше промолчать ;)

    Pro tip - don't try to pass as a smartass by Google translating a language you don't know. It just might happen to be a language your opponents do know(and then you'll just look really stupid instead) ;)
    djdc1234 wrote: »
    Magdalina wrote: »
    ...what do you think of them?

    Now in before the...critical thinking I might get for this, English is not actually my first language. But I'd like to believe I speak it quite well. There was a time when I did not, and at that time I wouldn't dream of joining a teamwork-requiring activity without being able to communicate with said team whatsoever.

    I understand there're a lot of languages in the world and that for some people learning different languages really doesn't come easy. I realize it's not fair for those people to be cut out of a game they want to play simply because it has been released in a language they don't know. What I don't understand is why those people would queue for challenging group activities with randoms and assume it fine. There're a lot of language-specific guilds that they could join/start and run with people who would understand them, at least until they understand the mechanics perfectly. If they are from a land so distant almost no one there plays ESO, it really sucks but they should probably refrain from grouping until they get some grasp on English at least. Or if they do fill a dying urge to pug a vet dungeon without understanding a word of what's going on, maybe they should at the very least warn their teams at the start rather than assume everyone is fine carrying someone who won't be able to follow a single instruction. Google translating "sorry I don't speak English" isn't that hard in any language.

    It annoys the hell out of me. Maybe it's bad of me but omg...I'm fine carrying lowbies, fine wiping along inexperienced players for hours - long as we're communicating. But this...

    Just today I queued for healer/dps roles and there's someone else in the group also queued as healer/dps. Groupfinder assigns healer role to me and frankly I'd prefer it that way. Me:"So I heal then?" Silence. Okay. We move on and they proceed to spam Mutagen the entire trash pull. Me:"So who's healing?" Silence, more Mutagen on next pull. Me:"Okay, lemme swap to dps then. XXX, you have Drain right?" Silence. No, they obviously don't have Drain(nor do they have Spc, Orbs, Worm, Warhorn or Prayer, all of which I personally did bother to get before queueing as a healer for vWGT) so I slot one of my own and we proceed. Fortunately everyone else knows what to do and even the silent "healer" does apear to have some clue about mechanics so we proceed to Planar. We stop and talk it over in groupchat, deciding to burn her with tank holding her til blue phase. Of course, the "healer" grabs the pinion as soon as it opens, after which tank lucks out on 2 portal stages in a row and we wipe. "Please don't close the pinion til blue stage" - silence. We try again, "healer" takes it again and we wipe again. This time they actually speak up in broken English "why no take ball in the middle, plz take ball" and we all go "no, bad ball/no take ball/only take blue ball" all over again and this time it finally seems to make it through for they leave it alone and we make it.

    We made it, even hm, eventually, but oh my god. I'm super patient with pugs usually but lack of communication just drives me mad. Had another one, also in WGT, who didn't seem to know you gotta close portals on Planar whatsoever. We tried to tell him/her in whatever simple ways we could but they simply never closed them. They also never ressed for some reason(though heals were decent). I asked if they needed soulgems but they didn't answer. We asked them if they spoke English at all but they never answered. We gave up and disbanded the group and THEN they spoke up saying "sorry I don't speak English well". No ****, you don't, then why did you queue for this? And why didn't you tell us at the start? Or even at any of the points when we were asking you?

    Another time we had a lowbie dps - I don't actually know if they didn't speak English or just had something religiously against using groupchat but I can only assume they didn't speak English as they didn't even comment on "kick him?" talk going on in the chat - with really low dps and surviveability who kept hitting the scroll on Kena in vWGT. It was obvious we were not gonna make it after first try when both dps died within 10 seconds and then wouldn't stay up for more than a few seconds before dying again, but they hit the scroll again. And then again. And again.
    "Let's just do normal - *silence, scroll*"
    "We can't make it, let's do non hm - *silence, scroll*"
    "Stop hitting the scroll - *silence, scroll*"
    "YYY, why are you hitting the scroll? - *silent*"
    "YYY, do you speak English? - *silent, kicked* "

    /facepalm

    I just so don't understand people sometimes. Anyway, for the sake of this not just being a rant...what do you think about/do with people who don't speak English in your group?

    STOP queue for both healer/dps YOU ARE A BIG PROBLEM ... Q FOR 1 position, if not you mess the teams up big time

    How so? I can do either role. My dps dropped with Morrowind and I don't have all the new sets yet but I still well pull 25k+ dps single target in my dps outfit and I have Spc, Worm, Master Resto, Drain, Prayer, Warhorn, Orbs and Twilight for my healing one. How am I messing up the team with either of those?

    On side note, yeah, people who appear to speak English yet still refuse to communicate are also extremely annoying. But this thread was specifically to share my frustration about non English speakers XD Non communicating when being able and needing to is a choice(and one of a...not very smart person, too), queueing for a challenging team acitivity without even having an option to communicate if anything goes wrong is even worse imo.

    Man/Lady, either you are trolling back (if you are, I applaud you! :D )or you really seem to struggle to get jokes. And who is my opponent? Why are you a pro in this matter? SO MANY intriguing questions!
  • Magdalina
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    Franieck wrote: »
    Magdalina wrote: »
    Franieck wrote: »
    Отличная точка. Люди, которые не говорят по-английски, действительно тоже меня разозлили!
    Нафиг выпендриваться, еcли, в отличие от меня, ты явно не знаешь русского? Иногда, чтобы сойти за умного, лучше промолчать ;)

    Pro tip - don't try to pass as a smartass by Google translating a language you don't know. It just might happen to be a language your opponents do know(and then you'll just look really stupid instead) ;)
    djdc1234 wrote: »
    Magdalina wrote: »
    ...what do you think of them?

    Now in before the...critical thinking I might get for this, English is not actually my first language. But I'd like to believe I speak it quite well. There was a time when I did not, and at that time I wouldn't dream of joining a teamwork-requiring activity without being able to communicate with said team whatsoever.

    I understand there're a lot of languages in the world and that for some people learning different languages really doesn't come easy. I realize it's not fair for those people to be cut out of a game they want to play simply because it has been released in a language they don't know. What I don't understand is why those people would queue for challenging group activities with randoms and assume it fine. There're a lot of language-specific guilds that they could join/start and run with people who would understand them, at least until they understand the mechanics perfectly. If they are from a land so distant almost no one there plays ESO, it really sucks but they should probably refrain from grouping until they get some grasp on English at least. Or if they do fill a dying urge to pug a vet dungeon without understanding a word of what's going on, maybe they should at the very least warn their teams at the start rather than assume everyone is fine carrying someone who won't be able to follow a single instruction. Google translating "sorry I don't speak English" isn't that hard in any language.

    It annoys the hell out of me. Maybe it's bad of me but omg...I'm fine carrying lowbies, fine wiping along inexperienced players for hours - long as we're communicating. But this...

    Just today I queued for healer/dps roles and there's someone else in the group also queued as healer/dps. Groupfinder assigns healer role to me and frankly I'd prefer it that way. Me:"So I heal then?" Silence. Okay. We move on and they proceed to spam Mutagen the entire trash pull. Me:"So who's healing?" Silence, more Mutagen on next pull. Me:"Okay, lemme swap to dps then. XXX, you have Drain right?" Silence. No, they obviously don't have Drain(nor do they have Spc, Orbs, Worm, Warhorn or Prayer, all of which I personally did bother to get before queueing as a healer for vWGT) so I slot one of my own and we proceed. Fortunately everyone else knows what to do and even the silent "healer" does apear to have some clue about mechanics so we proceed to Planar. We stop and talk it over in groupchat, deciding to burn her with tank holding her til blue phase. Of course, the "healer" grabs the pinion as soon as it opens, after which tank lucks out on 2 portal stages in a row and we wipe. "Please don't close the pinion til blue stage" - silence. We try again, "healer" takes it again and we wipe again. This time they actually speak up in broken English "why no take ball in the middle, plz take ball" and we all go "no, bad ball/no take ball/only take blue ball" all over again and this time it finally seems to make it through for they leave it alone and we make it.

    We made it, even hm, eventually, but oh my god. I'm super patient with pugs usually but lack of communication just drives me mad. Had another one, also in WGT, who didn't seem to know you gotta close portals on Planar whatsoever. We tried to tell him/her in whatever simple ways we could but they simply never closed them. They also never ressed for some reason(though heals were decent). I asked if they needed soulgems but they didn't answer. We asked them if they spoke English at all but they never answered. We gave up and disbanded the group and THEN they spoke up saying "sorry I don't speak English well". No ****, you don't, then why did you queue for this? And why didn't you tell us at the start? Or even at any of the points when we were asking you?

    Another time we had a lowbie dps - I don't actually know if they didn't speak English or just had something religiously against using groupchat but I can only assume they didn't speak English as they didn't even comment on "kick him?" talk going on in the chat - with really low dps and surviveability who kept hitting the scroll on Kena in vWGT. It was obvious we were not gonna make it after first try when both dps died within 10 seconds and then wouldn't stay up for more than a few seconds before dying again, but they hit the scroll again. And then again. And again.
    "Let's just do normal - *silence, scroll*"
    "We can't make it, let's do non hm - *silence, scroll*"
    "Stop hitting the scroll - *silence, scroll*"
    "YYY, why are you hitting the scroll? - *silent*"
    "YYY, do you speak English? - *silent, kicked* "

    /facepalm

    I just so don't understand people sometimes. Anyway, for the sake of this not just being a rant...what do you think about/do with people who don't speak English in your group?

    STOP queue for both healer/dps YOU ARE A BIG PROBLEM ... Q FOR 1 position, if not you mess the teams up big time

    How so? I can do either role. My dps dropped with Morrowind and I don't have all the new sets yet but I still well pull 25k+ dps single target in my dps outfit and I have Spc, Worm, Master Resto, Drain, Prayer, Warhorn, Orbs and Twilight for my healing one. How am I messing up the team with either of those?

    On side note, yeah, people who appear to speak English yet still refuse to communicate are also extremely annoying. But this thread was specifically to share my frustration about non English speakers XD Non communicating when being able and needing to is a choice(and one of a...not very smart person, too), queueing for a challenging team acitivity without even having an option to communicate if anything goes wrong is even worse imo.

    Man/Lady, either you are trolling back (if you are, I applaud you! :D )or you really seem to struggle to get jokes. And who is my opponent? Why are you a pro in this matter? SO MANY intriguing questions!

    I'm a lady. And Russian just so happens to be my first language so the joke's on you ;)

    Another pro tip - never google translate Russian. You'll just end up looking really stupid to the people who know it rather than a smartass that you'd like to appear. You're welcome to try to google translate my response up there, I'm genuinely curious how well that'd go :p

  • Franieck
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    I thought that if your first language is Russian you'd be a russian native speaker instead of a pro! I guess I am a German pro then *-*

    I really thought people would have to google translate it to get the joke, the fact that you speak russian cracks me up hahah!
    Anyway, translated your text! Duly noted!

    Best wishes,

    Smartass


  • thechangenow
    Hold on, so you are pugging and complaining there is no communication. Wow, just wow. Get your own friend, los.. i mean pugger.
  • Saturnana
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    I don't think language is the problem here. A lot of groups seem to do fine even when communication is.. sub-optimal? ;) And sometimes communication is sublime but the group gets wiped nonetheless. Knowing the mechanics and being able to pull your weight is much more important, I think.

    Also, I feel as though NA and EU for the servers are being commonly mistaken for USA and UK, whereas there's a whole bunch of people from a lot of different countries on the servers. Therefore, it's a bit weird to ask people to learn/speak/type English for group content. Can you imagine what it would be like if French-Canadian, Mexican, German, French (or any other country's) users started doing that, all of a sudden? Kicking someone from the group should not be about language skills, but about gaming skills.
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    Turelus wrote: »
    Console might be harder, but it shouldn't be an issue because Google Translate is a thing.

    Even with the mistakes it will make you should be able to confer basic messages to sort issues that come up with a PUG.

    I wouldn't say language barriers are as much of an issue as they once were unless it's forced to voice only.

    How do you google translate in the middle of a dungeon?

    In fact... how do I copy from the chat window so it can be pasted into a webpage?
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    Magdalina wrote: »
    Spc, Orbs, Worm, Warhorn or Prayer

    Going into group finder with expectations was your first mistake.
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    As soon as they start chatting in russian, I leave.

    No offense but whenever I play with them regardless of helping them, they are awful...words can not describe....

    Leech is an understatement...

    Plus they play very selfish, never for team and they never share loot, ever.

    I am never normally like this with players but I have had so much bad experience with them in game, I have zero patience for it now.

    Edited by Troneon on June 6, 2017 3:00PM
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    Magdalina wrote: »
    Anyway, for the sake of this not just being a rant...what do you think about/do with people who don't speak English in your group?
    If they don't speak English, I try to communicate in one of the other official eso languages with them (German / French) or just carry on without talking.

    btw. I'm pretty sure that German is the most common native language on the EU server, so if you want to set up a mandatory language for the groupfinder there, it should be German :p

    Ha! I was going to say that ESO has clients in 3 languages (English, French and German). Then I remembered we have a Japanese client too. I guess I need to work on my Japanese skills. My French and German are functional enough that I could join a group activity in that language.

    OP: Would you be happier if you could choose to only group with people who have their game set to the same language as you?
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  • zaria
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    Russians has to understand English to play the game as its no Russian version, you have an French and German one but less likely they can it and not English.
    Know some Russians I tend to get dungeon run invites from.

    Few French or German speakers who play video games don't understand English.
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  • Dantaria
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    zaria wrote: »
    Russians has to understand English to play the game as its no Russian version, you have an French and German one but less likely they can it and not English.
    Know some Russians I tend to get dungeon run invites from.

    Few French or German speakers who play video games don't understand English.
    Russian here and that's... not true.

    I mean, it is for PS4 and XBox. But on PC we have addon RuESO - translation made by fans. It's not complete yet, but the vast majority of the game is translated. And in fact quite a lot of my guildies (actually, from what I see - the majority :/ ) do not know English. They don't need it, because there is RuESO.

    So... you're wrong, alas.

    English isn't my native, apologies for any mistakes.
  • Magdalina
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    Franieck wrote: »
    I thought that if your first language is Russian you'd be a russian native speaker instead of a pro! I guess I am a German pro then *-*

    I really thought people would have to google translate it to get the joke, the fact that you speak russian cracks me up hahah!
    Anyway, translated your text! Duly noted!

    Best wishes,

    Smartass


    Haha yes, of all the languages in the world you chose THE one you shouldn't have used to troll me ;)

    And "pro tip" is just a phrase in this case, it's not really about me being "pro" there. Was more of a joke than anything.
    AlnilamE wrote: »
    Magdalina wrote: »
    Anyway, for the sake of this not just being a rant...what do you think about/do with people who don't speak English in your group?
    If they don't speak English, I try to communicate in one of the other official eso languages with them (German / French) or just carry on without talking.

    btw. I'm pretty sure that German is the most common native language on the EU server, so if you want to set up a mandatory language for the groupfinder there, it should be German :p
    OP: Would you be happier if you could choose to only group with people who have their game set to the same language as you?

    I don't really care about their native language (as I said, mine is Russian) or client/localisation, I just want them to have some ability to communicate. If their English is...imperfect it's okay. If they sound silly or ask me to rephrase a mechanics explanation because they don't get it/don't know the word, that's fine, I'm the absolutely last person to laugh at that. I have actually run with a lot of people with pretty bad English and it was just fine - long as they knew something and did make an effort to communicate when needed. My issue is when people literally appear to not know a word and don't bother. You call out their name in groupchat, ask questions, suggest advices, nothing.

    I feel it's super selfish to engage in an activity requiring teamwork without being capable to communicate with the team at all. And veteran dungeons at least definitely count for such activities. It can work if you're really so perfect in the content you can adjust to your teammates on the fly if needed without communicating(which you'd only be able to achieve by running with people speaking your language to begin with), but personally I don't think I could do it to my team even then. I just can't imagine it if something goes wrong and you can't even talk over the strategy and then everyone does something and you haven't the foggiest about what's going on. How do these people do it?

  • Magdalina
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    lnsane wrote: »
    I don't think language is the problem here. A lot of groups seem to do fine even when communication is.. sub-optimal? ;) And sometimes communication is sublime but the group gets wiped nonetheless. Knowing the mechanics and being able to pull your weight is much more important, I think.

    Also, I feel as though NA and EU for the servers are being commonly mistaken for USA and UK, whereas there's a whole bunch of people from a lot of different countries on the servers. Therefore, it's a bit weird to ask people to learn/speak/type English for group content. Can you imagine what it would be like if French-Canadian, Mexican, German, French (or any other country's) users started doing that, all of a sudden? Kicking someone from the group should not be about language skills, but about gaming skills.

    I'm a Russian user. And I advise my Russian friends against running dungeons with randoms if they don't speak English.

    Thing is the gaming skill in question can be improved by communication
    (especially since we're talking about a group activity where it's not just individual performance but also teamwork that matters) - different strategy, an extra shield/heal slotted, etc. But if there's no communication option whatsoever, no chance. Obviously it stops mattering if a run goes flawlessly but 99/100 vet dlc pugs do not. And then you're like "hey guys, let's try this.." and then 10 paragraphss of text and 5 wipes later you realize they don't actually understand a word you say nor care enough to mention this insignificant detail. THAT's when it gets annoying.
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    I have no opinion. Sometimes they throw something in a random barbaric language like "Hallo Leute! Wie geht es?" but as a humble human being I tend to ignore people being that savage and proceed with the dungeon.
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