Midyear Mayhem in a nutshell...

Sandman929 · July 2017

Seriously though, I went into Xarxes last night on Xbox, and it was great, no queue (at first), and the population started growing and we had some good fights...for about 10 minutes until the server was completely unstable and disconnecting, and at one point I was in some weirdo spectator mode, first person while mounted and all the usual trimmings of completely unstable gameplay.
Does Cyrodiil with another name fix the underlying problem of overloading the megaserver?

SwaminoNowlino · July 2017

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_GinaBruno What is being done to address last night's megaserver instability? The new campaign didn't address that, as people across campaigns and even in PVE mass dropped at several points throughout the night, despite your banner that the connectivity issues had been resolved. What assurance do we have that this will not occur again tonight, or any other night aside from players getting fed up and population decreasing?

Sandman929 · July 2017

Will these new campaigns, when they're inevitably removed, feature there own glitched out perma-Emp titles as well. Seems like they will.

Jailbirdy · July 2017

MissBizz wrote: »

Jailbirdy wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hi everyone,

We will be opening another Standard 7-day Cyrodiil campaign on all servers today. The campaign name will be Kastav, and we will begin spinning it up around 11:00 AM EDT. You should see the new campaign on all servers by 1:00 PM EDT today. Thank you!

...and for communications, how does the 75% of the player base know this when you have not posted it in any notices for console players?

Console players can be on the forums too, as well folks will be able to see the new campaign(s) when they look in game.

they generally aren't though.

Thanks for the obvious response though

MakoFore · July 2017

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BlazingDynamo · July 2017

ParaNostram wrote: »

148 person queue for Vivec, finally got in, ported to Bleakers, aaaaaand unable to connect to server. Hmm. Can somebody sneak into ZOS headquarters and feed the poor overworked gerbils powering their servers?

How's your Midyear Mayhem been thus far?

TheJez does it better

Gengulfus · July 2017

Only 451 suckers before me in the non cp Sotha Sil campaign - this is even worse planning than I see in my own org, and we are really crap.

Go for it ZOS. and remember READY - FIRE - AIM :-)

ZOS_JessicaFolsom · July 2017

During this morning's PC/Mac maintenance, we pushed the fix for the Pelinavant the Scourge Midyear Mayhem achievement. We also granted free Cyrodiil home and guest campaign reassignments to all players on PC/Mac. The campaign reassignment and achievement fix will roll out for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on Wednesday during the scheduled morning maintenance period.

Darlgon · July 2017

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

During this morning's PC/Mac maintenance, we pushed the fix for the Pelinavant the Scourge Midyear Mayhem achievement. We also granted free Cyrodiil home and guest campaign reassignments to all players on PC/Mac. The campaign reassignment and achievement fix will roll out for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on Wednesday during the scheduled morning maintenance period.

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom Care to ask Gina to edit the patch notes to reflect this? I literally just @ her in another thread on that.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom · July 2017

Darlgon wrote: »

Care to ask Gina to edit the patch notes to reflect this? I literally just @ her in another thread on that.

You mean this one? It's already in the patch notes from this morning.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Achievements
Pelinavant the Scourge: Fixed an issue so this achievement can now be completed.

Or if you were referring to the home and guest campaign reassignment, that's in the overview for the patch notes.

SwaminoNowlino · July 2017

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

During this morning's PC/Mac maintenance, we pushed the fix for the Pelinavant the Scourge Midyear Mayhem achievement. We also granted free Cyrodiil home and guest campaign reassignments to all players on PC/Mac. The campaign reassignment and achievement fix will roll out for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on Wednesday during the scheduled morning maintenance period.

@ZOS_BrianWheeler

Has any thought been given to eliminating the guest campaign lockout permanently? Having home campaigns locked makes sense, but it seems like overall performance would improve if people weren't restricted to 2 campaigns. You generally know there are two campaigns with active PVP, so you set your home and guest respectively, but if they both get full you're kind of stuck with just those two, even if there is action on other campaigns.

rhapsodious · July 2017

The bit about home campaign reassignments is there, too:

We’re also granting free home and guest campaign assignments for Cyrodiil as we recently opened the Xarxes and Kastav campaigns for Midyear Mayhem. The size of this patch is 166MB.

Cinbri · July 2017

So, no fix for deathmatches?

ZOS_JessicaFolsom · July 2017

Cinbri wrote: »

So, no fix for deathmatches?

We're still working on it. We promised an update early this week, and we will still deliver on that promise. We're looking at numbers over the next 24 hours and should be able to provide an update tomorrow. In the meantime, if you're on PC/Mac let us know if you notice any difference today compared to last week.

MissBizz · July 2017

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Cinbri wrote: »

So, no fix for deathmatches?

We're still working on it. We promised an update early this week, and we will still deliver on that promise. We're looking at numbers over the next 24 hours and should be able to provide an update tomorrow. In the meantime, if you're on PC/Mac let us know if you notice any difference today compared to last week.

I noticed I actually got quite a few deathmatches Friday night when I was queening as a full group. The rest of the weekend I would queue solo and never received a single one.

[Edit] Sorry to anyone that had to have me in their group

Darlgon · July 2017

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Darlgon wrote: »

Care to ask Gina to edit the patch notes to reflect this? I literally just @ her in another thread on that.

You mean this one? It's already in the patch notes from this morning.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Achievements
Pelinavant the Scourge: Fixed an issue so this achievement can now be completed.

Or if you were referring to the home and guest campaign reassignment, that's in the overview for the patch notes.

Yeah.. RIF fail. Sorry.

MisterBastahrd · July 2017

I love how everyone and their brother knows that even without the event, there's a 150+ person queue taking over an hour just to get into a 30 day CP campaign, but ZOS's response is: "hey, how about these terrible little unpopulated and completely unbalanced 7 day campaigns instead?" There's nothing fun or interesting about playing on a server where one faction is gating the other two.

How about you people at ZOS get with the program and add another 30 day CP campaign so that people who actually pay money every month to play this game can get at the content they want to enjoy instead of spending hours running around picking up flowers and rocks?

It took me FOUR hours to get into Vivec yesterday.

Enodoc · July 2017

MisterBastahrd wrote: »

I love how everyone and their brother knows that even without the event, there's a 150+ person queue taking over an hour just to get into a 30 day CP campaign, but ZOS's response is: "hey, how about these terrible little unpopulated and completely unbalanced 7 day campaigns instead?" There's nothing fun or interesting about playing on a server where one faction is gating the other two.

They're only unpopulated and unbalanced because people would rather sit in a 150+ queue for another campaign for hours instead of actually going into these campaigns. If those 150+ people went into these 7 day campaigns they would be neither unpopulated nor unbalanced.

AlMcFly · July 2017

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

We also granted free Cyrodiil home and guest campaign reassignments to all players on PC/Mac. The campaign reassignment and achievement fix will roll out for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on Wednesday during the scheduled morning maintenance period.

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

I'm on PC NA, but I can't help but feel bad for console players. A Wednesday morning update gives console players only 4 days to complete the final achievement for this event. FOUR DAYS. I think this warrants an event extension, don't you?

rhapsodious · July 2017

Enodoc wrote: »

MisterBastahrd wrote: »

I love how everyone and their brother knows that even without the event, there's a 150+ person queue taking over an hour just to get into a 30 day CP campaign, but ZOS's response is: "hey, how about these terrible little unpopulated and completely unbalanced 7 day campaigns instead?" There's nothing fun or interesting about playing on a server where one faction is gating the other two.

They're only unpopulated and unbalanced because people would rather sit in a 150+ queue for another campaign for hours instead of actually going into these campaigns. If those 150+ people went into these 7 day campaigns they would be neither unpopulated nor unbalanced.

Seriously, there are campaigns other than Vivec. The only difference between Vivec and Shor/Kastav is campaign duration, which is subjective as to how much it means - there's nothing functionally different between the two. Get your guilds to move to the less populated ones instead of trying to cram in the elevator going to Vivec.

And the Sotha Sil queue has been going swimmingly, if I might add. I got kicked last night during a big outpost fight at Sej and was still able to get back in within five minutes.

KingMagaw · July 2017

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

We also granted free Cyrodiil home and guest campaign reassignments to all players on PC/Mac.

You know right, that restricting Guest campaigns on ESO was never a thing, you could always Chat Console script it, regardless of having the campaign set as Guest or Home.

Was most likely best to either inform the sheep of the console command to enter any campaign that wasn't massively pop locked or let people enter in any as a Guest campaign (but i am hesitant of the latter as ZoS changing code always leads to bad things)

Sandman929 wrote: »

Will these new campaigns, when they're inevitably removed, feature there own glitched out perma-Emp titles as well. Seems like they will.

You are correct good sir )

KingMagaw · July 2017

rhapsodious wrote: »

And the Sotha Sil queue has been going swimmingly, if I might add. I got kicked last night during a big outpost fight at Sej and was still able to get back in within five minutes.

Interestingly enough the exact opposite of my experience. Waiting 2.5 hours to get in from 1:30PM GMT, played for 2 hours, then randomly booted, relog and am out of Cyrodill. Queued again and was given this:[img][/img]

rhapsodious · July 2017

KingMagaw wrote: »

rhapsodious wrote: »

And the Sotha Sil queue has been going swimmingly, if I might add. I got kicked last night during a big outpost fight at Sej and was still able to get back in within five minutes.

Interestingly enough the exact opposite of my experience. Waiting 2.5 hours to get in from 1:30PM GMT, played for 2 hours, then randomly booted, relog and am out of Cyrodill. Queued again and was given this:[big image]

Hm, maybe EU is way more receptive to no CP play than NA. I got kicked around 8 or 9 PM EST and the queue was only 64, and like I said it popped in less than five.

But that is what the other campaigns are for - so you don't have to wait in a queue for two hours. Is Vivec also a clustercluck on EU?

KingMagaw · July 2017

rhapsodious wrote: »

KingMagaw wrote: »

rhapsodious wrote: »

And the Sotha Sil queue has been going swimmingly, if I might add. I got kicked last night during a big outpost fight at Sej and was still able to get back in within five minutes.

Interestingly enough the exact opposite of my experience. Waiting 2.5 hours to get in from 1:30PM GMT, played for 2 hours, then randomly booted, relog and am out of Cyrodill. Queued again and was given this:[big image]

Hm, maybe EU is way more receptive to no CP play than NA. I got kicked around 8 or 9 PM EST and the queue was only 64, and like I said it popped in less than five.

But that is what the other campaigns are for - so you don't have to wait in a queue for two hours. Is Vivec also a clustercluck on EU?

Vivec has a longer queue than Sotha, that is yesterday i checked almost all day.

After ZoS closing down 2 campaigns, then opening up 3 for this Event, yet having people restricted by not being able to change to Guest for a new campaign as on cool down, was a stupid oversight - Much like not having those campaigns in place previous to the Event starting. Additionally achievements not functioning is poor form.

I am at a loss how something can be handled so incompetently.

Enodoc · July 2017

KingMagaw wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

We also granted free Cyrodiil home and guest campaign reassignments to all players on PC/Mac.

You know right, that restricting Guest campaigns on ESO was never a thing, you could always Chat Console script it, regardless of having the campaign set as Guest or Home.

Was most likely best to either inform the sheep of the console command to enter any campaign that wasn't massively pop locked or let people enter in any as a Guest campaign (but i am hesitant of the latter as ZoS changing code always leads to bad things)

In the meantime, have an add-on that queues you for all the campaigns at once, then you can join whichever one pops first: http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1770-CampaignQueueAll.html

Byron1c · July 2017

As a new player, here is my 2 cents worth on the first event Ive seen in the game:

* Why the long queues??
* Appallingly lacking in any explanation of what to do, ie. what am I supposed to do once I get into Cyrodiil
* I did not run into any other player in 30 minutes of travelling around (on Sotha)
* The event seems to completely disregard new players, and assumes a lot knowledge of the game to even be able to compete in the event. Eg. the instructions "Travel to your Alliance War faction's main gate in Cyrodiil using the Alliance War menu" gave me no idea on what I actually had to do.
* The map gives me no clue as to how how do I get through this barren boring maze of terrain to the other locations. Ie. I started in the top left corner (Northern High Rock Gate?), and had to get to the gate south of me (Southern High Rock Gate?). There is no semi-direct way through that I can see on the map, and exploration so far has led me to a lot of dead ends. According to the map I have to travel east to the middle of the map, then south, then all the way back to the west. The lines overlayed on the map are another misdirection.
* How do I get out of this wasteland? Dont tell me Ive got to go all the way back to the only wayshrine
* As I only got into Cyrodiil today, I wonder if should I even bother with this event, and people in forums etc are talking like we need to have started as soon as the event did
* Left me feeling frustrated with the whole thing

Im not interested in explanations, info etc... This is what I experienced. If I want to know more about PvP etc, I know I can look it all up. I just thought it was worth putting it out there so they can hopefully improve things for new players.

Enodoc · July 2017

@Byron1c You may not be interested in the explanations, but I'm going to answer some of the questions anyway in case someone else is in the same situation.

Queues are long because the campaign servers only have a certain capacity, and the event is pulling more people into Cyrodiil than usual. Vivec is currently the most popular campaign, so will have the longest queue.
Instructions for how to access the Alliance War and get around in Cyrodiil should be available in the Help Tutorials for new players.
New arrivals to Cyrodiil should accept the "Welcome to Cyrodiil" quest, which gives instructions on how to use the Transitus Network to travel between locations. The lines on the map indicate the Transitus Network links, and if you go to the icon at the intersection of the lines, that's where you find the Transitus Shrine.
So to get from Northern High Rock Gate to Southern High Rock Gate, you just need to activate the Transitus Shrine, and then it works just like the wayshrines.
Yes, the only way out of Cyrodiil is via the wayshrine. Or you could queue into a different Cyrodiil campaign, which will put you back at the border gate and right next to the wayshrine. A quick way back to your border gate is to get yourself killed and resurrect at the wayshrine, or run to the nearest friendly keep and use the Transitus Shrine.

method__01 · July 2017

scrubs taking over our siege engines while we repair or revive some dude

many ppl rubberband their controllers,creating large q lines for entering Cyro,most of them at main alliance gates