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100% Crash to desktop rate prevents completion of main clockwork city quest and other bugs

f047ys3v3n
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I did my best to play though the Clockwork quest line on PTS (Because I still enjoy questing content in the game but am way to pissed about balance, combat, and cheat engine decisions to pay one red cent more to this game.) Unfortunately, the stability of this combat is terrible even by ZOS standards. In particular, a variety of combat situations cause crashes to desktop. Some of these can by bypassed by simply bursting so much damage that the enemy dies before he casts whatever the offending skill is but this is not always the case. At the end of the key retrieval from the blackfeather court part of the main quest you have to activate a light switch during the fight when the enemy is at 60% or so. I crash 100% of the time at this point so the questline is blocked.

Other fights I had the same crash to desktop issue:
- Killing the little things to get the oil to present as a gift in the first quest (if they damage you it crashes)
- You always crash to desktop when in windup mouse form for one of the quests and you take any damage from the traps.
- Fighting a grievous twilight lord at one of those open world events causes a crash to desktop with his first attack every time.
- The boss you fight at both the beginning and end of the quest where you retrieve the traitor leader dude who had the key stolen from him by the crows. If either gets off a specific one of his attacks you die so they have to go down right quick.

Other issues I encountered:
1) Provisioning writs can no longer be completed. They all just say you don't have recipe improvement 6 when you do.

2) Enchanting hirelings deliver mats every zone transition.

3) Heavy / light attack scaling is broken (Has been since morrowind and half your raiders have quit but apparently not a problem.)
-Damage from medium attacks (partially charged heavy attacks) was nerfed 15% because they give back resources except that they don't give back resources.
-Damage from fully charged heavy attacks was not nerfed the 15% stated though the duration was shortened so they actually received a buff in damage / second as well as a return of resources. The damage now jumps directly from ~8k to ~12k at around 1.7 seconds on a fire staff when the medium attack becomes a full heavy and also returns resources.
- The animation for a fully charged heavy is still 2.2 seconds and has not been changed in two skill duration changes (it should be 1.7 seconds). It is also an animation that does not have any movement during most of it's duration so the player has no visual que for learning when a "fully charged heavy" has occurred and the player has qualified for the massive damage gain and resource return.

4) Wrobel still has a job. I can only assume that one of the fabricants has a short circuit that has prevented this from being remedied. Either that, or you have a Daedra infestation. Also, I tried to name my toon "Fire Wrobel"..... It was taken.

Anyhow, that is what I know so far about the bugs.
Edited by f047ys3v3n on September 21, 2017 6:28AM
I am currently worried for the future of ESO. Population seems like it is in free fall and the cancellation of the North America in-person gathering feels very much like pulling the plug. Kudos on fixing the in-game economy though. Clearly whatever gold shenanigans were happening the last couple years are fixed.
  • feyii
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    f047ys3v3n wrote: »
    Other fights I had the same crash to desktop issue:
    - Killing the little things to get the oil to present as a gift in the first quest (if they damage you it crashes)
    - You always crash to desktop when in windup mouse form for one of the quests and you take any damage from the traps.

    This must be caused by something specific, e.g. your game settings or maybe used addons. Those two things I did yesterday and I also got damaged in both, but for me the game didn't crash at all. It might be good if you could try to switch some things around in your game to see, if you can get it to a version where it doesn't CTD. Then the culprit for the crashes would be easier to find.
  • Darlon
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    feyii wrote: »
    f047ys3v3n wrote: »
    Other fights I had the same crash to desktop issue:
    - Killing the little things to get the oil to present as a gift in the first quest (if they damage you it crashes)
    - You always crash to desktop when in windup mouse form for one of the quests and you take any damage from the traps.

    This must be caused by something specific, e.g. your game settings or maybe used addons. Those two things I did yesterday and I also got damaged in both, but for me the game didn't crash at all. It might be good if you could try to switch some things around in your game to see, if you can get it to a version where it doesn't CTD. Then the culprit for the crashes would be easier to find.

    Same here, both worked fine for me...
  • rhapsodious
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    Darlon wrote: »
    feyii wrote: »
    f047ys3v3n wrote: »
    Other fights I had the same crash to desktop issue:
    - Killing the little things to get the oil to present as a gift in the first quest (if they damage you it crashes)
    - You always crash to desktop when in windup mouse form for one of the quests and you take any damage from the traps.

    This must be caused by something specific, e.g. your game settings or maybe used addons. Those two things I did yesterday and I also got damaged in both, but for me the game didn't crash at all. It might be good if you could try to switch some things around in your game to see, if you can get it to a version where it doesn't CTD. Then the culprit for the crashes would be easier to find.

    Same here, both worked fine for me...

    Thirding. I was able to get through the main quest with no crashing.

    Although, to be fair, you mentioned they had to do with specific attacks... and I bursted down the bosses so hard I think I skipped a lot of the sequences. I don't remember if I even had to shut the light off for the crow dude.

  • f047ys3v3n
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    feyii wrote: »
    f047ys3v3n wrote: »
    Other fights I had the same crash to desktop issue:
    - Killing the little things to get the oil to present as a gift in the first quest (if they damage you it crashes)
    - You always crash to desktop when in windup mouse form for one of the quests and you take any damage from the traps.

    This must be caused by something specific, e.g. your game settings or maybe used addons. Those two things I did yesterday and I also got damaged in both, but for me the game didn't crash at all. It might be good if you could try to switch some things around in your game to see, if you can get it to a version where it doesn't CTD. Then the culprit for the crashes would be easier to find.

    Ill try screwing with the settings today. I did have a few add ons running so that could certainly be the case.
    I am currently worried for the future of ESO. Population seems like it is in free fall and the cancellation of the North America in-person gathering feels very much like pulling the plug. Kudos on fixing the in-game economy though. Clearly whatever gold shenanigans were happening the last couple years are fixed.
  • idk
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    Has OP disabled addons? There are some addons that will cause the game to crash and freeze on the pts.
  • f047ys3v3n
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    idk wrote: »
    Has OP disabled addons? There are some addons that will cause the game to crash and freeze on the pts.

    It was an add on causing the combat crash.
    I am currently worried for the future of ESO. Population seems like it is in free fall and the cancellation of the North America in-person gathering feels very much like pulling the plug. Kudos on fixing the in-game economy though. Clearly whatever gold shenanigans were happening the last couple years are fixed.
  • danno8
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    f047ys3v3n wrote: »
    idk wrote: »
    Has OP disabled addons? There are some addons that will cause the game to crash and freeze on the pts.

    It was an add on causing the combat crash.

    Yah for PTS ( and I suggested they add a sticky to the PTS forums) if you experience any problems the first thing to do is disable addons.

    It's frustrating when you always hear from support "What addons are you using?" but I get why they do it. Wasting tonnes of time tracking down problems when it is an out of date addon would be a huge drain on dev time.
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