The game is in a very comfortable crown store offering place.

Balance, stability, lag, performance all of these things are in a terrible place. Zos is spinning in circles at this point.

The game is still very playable. I play on PS4 Pro and haven’t had any issues with invisible walls or missing textures. I am still getting low fps when entering certain zones as my console struggles to load everything, but that only lasts about 10 seconds. I was also in PvP the other day for hours and didn’t experience a single freeze. Right now, my main gripe is the long loading screens.

People rarely come to the forums to praise the game, the majority here are the ones with something to complain about (and a lot are justified). However, personally I'm having a blast with the game, I haven't had any issues with PvE or PvP content. I honestly feel the game is in a good place right now, way better than it was 4 years ago for sure.

I'd like to just add one thing. Cyrodiil PVP performance is in shambles. I cannot in good faith recommend coming back now if your focus is PVP. It does not matter if you have a dumpster bin PC or a NASA supercomputer, the result will be the same.

The rest of the game is orders of magnitude better than it was 4 years ago and I can highly recommend it if your focus is anything except PVP. Despite naysayers, I think PVE is in a really good spot.

Tholian1 wrote: »

The game is still very playable. I play on PS4 Pro and haven’t had any issues with invisible walls or missing textures. I am still getting low fps when entering certain zones as my console struggles to load everything, but that only lasts about 10 seconds. I was also in PvP the other day for hours and didn’t experience a single freeze. Right now, my main gripe is the long loading screens.

I was in PvP for a couple hours last night and saw on two different occasions where large groups of people (20+) froze. I think there might be a legitimate freezing issue in PvP regardless of the fact that I didn't freeze.

Danksta wrote: »

Tholian1 wrote: »

The game is still very playable. I play on PS4 Pro and haven’t had any issues with invisible walls or missing textures. I am still getting low fps when entering certain zones as my console struggles to load everything, but that only lasts about 10 seconds. I was also in PvP the other day for hours and didn’t experience a single freeze. Right now, my main gripe is the long loading screens.

I was in PvP for a couple hours last night and saw on two different occasions where large groups of people (20+) froze. I think there might be a legitimate freezing issue in PvP regardless of the fact that I didn't freeze.

I experienced terrible freezing after Summerset dropped, but for some reason had none the other day. I know there is an issue, but from my end, it seems much improved. Unless the freezing is random and I just got lucky.

The thing to remember most the people complaining about the game are still playing the game. That means for them at least despite the problems the game is worth their time.

geekboy09 wrote: »

Kingslayer513 wrote: »

I'd like to just add one thing. Cyrodiil PVP performance is in shambles. I cannot in good faith recommend coming back now if your focus is PVP. It does not matter if you have a dumpster bin PC or a NASA supercomputer, the result will be the same.

The rest of the game is orders of magnitude better than it was 4 years ago and I can highly recommend it if your focus is anything except PVP. Despite naysayers, I think PVE is in a really good spot.

Thanks. Do you know how bad the bots are these days?

I guess it varies between servers and zones, and on what you're doing, but personally I rarely encounter any (PC EU).

DuskMarine wrote: »

Kingslayer513 wrote: »

I'd like to just add one thing. Cyrodiil PVP performance is in shambles. I cannot in good faith recommend coming back now if your focus is PVP. It does not matter if you have a dumpster bin PC or a NASA supercomputer, the result will be the same.

The rest of the game is orders of magnitude better than it was 4 years ago and I can highly recommend it if your focus is anything except PVP. Despite naysayers, I think PVE is in a really good spot.

actually your kindve blowing it out of proportion. my computer isnt a godmode level computer but its still high end but i dont run into any of the issues people talk about since they changed it on pc even with over 200+ players in one area. so its alot better now for us on pc but on console its a horrible show that their slowly working to fix.

I would like to think that my i7-7700k cpu, 1080ti gpu, and 16gb DDR5 ram should have no issues running a game from 2014. In all cases except Cyrodiil, this game runs smooth as butter for me. But during Vivec primetime I have to pray to jeebus that even half my abilities will go off when pressed. Lag, constant split second loading screens, unbreakable cc, etc.

geekboy09 wrote: »

Thanks can anyone tell me how bad are the bots these days?

i heard they were way worse back when you were around. i'm newer so i didn't see the botpocalypse for myself.

people still complain about them, though, a lot. i think what the company does is compile a list of bot reports, and then every so often they try to go do a big cleanup at once. i think part of this is so that the most report-happy players don't get too inflated by immediately exercising some kind of "power" over another account, but maybe it's just a manpower thing, or another reason. but it leads a lot of reporters to go check on their pet peeve a week later and find them still there, and then complain the company is "doing nothing."

as far as i can tell, what the bots are doing most of the time is just bringing more Dreugh Wax into the game, making it cheaper for most players to afford to improve their chosen armor, which doesn't seem all that harmful. well, unless you're a legit Wax-farmer, that is.

Pheefs wrote: »

geekboy09 wrote: »

Thanks can anyone tell me how bad are the bots these days?

there are a few spots still known to have a little Bot Parade, approx one per alliance I think...
we report the avatars but they grow back like a fungus, tomorrow its Dfg5rbn instead of Gfd5rbn.

& it can be fun to disrupt them though!
there's one spot where if you time it right you can make them fight wamasu & get some of them killed (rinse & repeat!)
& the macro doesn't know how to get them back from the wayshrine to the Parade so they get stuck there

Lol funny, as long as it’s not as bad as in the spider cave shown in the angry joe video, I’m good.

geekboy09 wrote: »

It just seems the game is the same lackluster broken mess I left four years ago. I read reviews that it has gotten better. The issue is what I read in the forums are not promising. Between bad connection, lag, invisible walls and still has rampant bots has me deeply concerned.

The game mostly works. The only true ridiculously bad development shortcoming is the stability and performance in Cyrodiil. Sometimes it is literally unplayable.

That's really it. You could complain about general performance issues, but outside of Cyrodiil the game is 99.9% playable.

I keep up with gw2, eso, wow, and several other game forums.

They're literally all like this. Heck I once did a test - I stopped reading forums and found the game so much more enjoyable.