Qbiken wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

All I see you "dealing" with, is getting zerged down because you've made yourself into an annoyance. When you're 1v1 or vs a small group you're wrecking people easily.

Being a solo player also doesn't have to be lonely. Zerg surfing.

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That is pretty funny.

I mostly PvP with my guild, but when I play solo, I watch the map for opportunities to contribute to ongoing attacks or defenses, scout, or look for opportunities to serve the campaign without attracting undue attention. You don't need to be part of a group to contribute, although it makes it easier, but you need to be realistic when selecting your objectives and willing to laugh it off (or celebrate, depending on what you hoped to accomplish) when 20 enemies descend on your poor ballistae.

To go and aim to play outnumbered,

Then complain about being outnumbered..

🤔

Vapirko wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

All I see you "dealing" with, is getting zerged down because you've made yourself into an annoyance. When you're 1v1 or vs a small group you're wrecking people easily.

Being a solo player also doesn't have to be lonely. Zerg surfing.

Let's just stop right there. Zerg sarfing is not solo play. The amount of times ive been hate whispered by people who claim they "are solo players and not with the zerg" after they got "2v1" by me and my buddy is crazy. If you were standing next to 15 other players you weren't solo and you werent Xv1'd lol.

So true.

CompM4s wrote: »

People who stick to a “zerg” will not fully know how to play as good as a solo player. “Solo players“ know how to properly los and utilize there own sustain. I personally prefer to go “small scale” groups or even 2vX due to the mass amounts of zergs. Im particularly talking about 12-24 people chasing one person across the whole map.

I agree, with the caveat that if the solo player attacks they’re fair game.

Too many times I see people whine when groups defend themselves. It’s never a question of IF they can take a solo person down, the reason they’re ignored is one person isn’t worth their time.

khajiitNPC wrote: »

So — with the exception of the first fight where you hit a terrible lag spike, it looks like you tried (emphasis on tried) to 1vX people who were better than you? 1vX only works on absolute potatoes. If you’re looking for 1v1 just go to the dueling hot spots.

I saw a top player get 1v3ed the other day. Getting Xed can happen to anyone who gets thirsty enough to forget to play well. The first two dropped as they were potatoes leaving the top dueler to die to a equally skilled player shortly after

phairdon wrote: »

My 2 cents worth. Why start discussions about soloing in Cyrodiil, when the alliance war was created for large scale combat. Want to tear my hair out every time the phrase zergling is bandied about. 2 vs 1, its a zerg, 5 vs 4, its a zerg, etc Too many ego's when it comes to pvp & cyrodiil. Still remember a former streamer/player who would abuse people in zone chat and put them on ignore before anyone had the chance to reply, after killing the player, because the player was in a group and not roaming solo.

Bro it's ok that you're a zergling. Doesnt have to be a derogatory term. Without zerglings I'd have nothing to do in this game. I dont enjoy 1v1, and I dont enjoy zerging myself. We love you guys, and we get that we only take you down because you're running group play builds. You don't build and play the way that solo players do because it doesnt make sense when you're fighting other organized groups. You gotta have your damage dealers, your healers, your main tanks ect. But any of those 3 are at a severe disadvantage when chasing down a player who can effectively do all 3 for him/herself and can take advantage a confused group not taking them seriously. This is the balance. You give up so much by committing to your one zerg role that you cant maintain without that zerg staying organized. Its and exercise in give and take, and I believe is balanced.

And also you are wrong. This game was made to be versatile. They made it for large scale, small scale, and 1v1 pvp. You can zerg in cyro, smallscale in BGs or cyro, and 1v1 anywhere so no it's not just designed with large scale pvp only in mind, even in Cyro. When you realize how intricate 1v1s are it will throw your large scale pvp only design theory out the window for you. This is an MMO, the solo lifers know it inside and out, and will punish you for your mistakes. Really if you're mad you should experience how frustrating it is to try to X terrible players who have one entirely unkillable super heal tank GOD keeping them alive when they would have all been slapped easily without the broken healtank.

Abyssmol wrote: »

Freakin_Hytte wrote: »

Unfadingsilence wrote: »

khajiitNPC wrote: »

So — with the exception of the first fight where you hit a terrible lag spike, it looks like you tried (emphasis on tried) to 1vX people who were better than you? 1vX only works on absolute potatoes. If you’re looking for 1v1 just go to the dueling hot spots.

Yep I tried yet most of the people of Xv1ed me have already been 1vXed by me in the video or early on this last week in my other videos. The key point is it's just a lonely lonely road in pvp as a solo player and getting a good 1vX now and then are pretty hard. BUT atleast I still have some wonderful 1v5-1v18 clips especially when they are max levels

I Don't really understand what you want to bring into the light with this clip. if it's the lagspike in the beginning, there are already hundreds of threads on that topic. If it's that you didn't do that well and just "trying" to brag about your 1v5-1v8 clips which aren't in the video, I don't know 🤔

Or do you want to shine the light onto that 1vX don't always work out? Because most people in cyrodiil have killed a solo player trying to 1vX

I think the point he is trying to make is that if you are in a group and you and your buddies kill a solo player and then you Tbag, my friend more than likely you are a potato that cannot kill anyone in a 1v1.

I see this all the time. Those brave t-baggers become great runners when they are by themselves and die quite fast. Potatos...

I agree. It's the t-bagging that makes it especially sad. If a team has to send an entire army just to kill one person... then they ought to be tea-bagging themselves instead.

And if people must resort to swarming lone individuals with entire armies they could at least do so without pretending as if they are accomplishing something worth mocking their opponents for.

Abyssmol wrote: »

Jeremy wrote: »

Unfadingsilence wrote: »

https://youtu.be/5gpB3Q6isUY

What I truly deal with on a daily basis in pvp 🤦‍♂️

Nothing is more pathetic than watching gangs beat up on lone players and then to see them actually have the nerve to teabag that person as if they did something special. People who gang up on others like that - especially when they chase them down like a pack of wild dogs - ought to be embarrassed it took so many of them to kill a single person, let alone should they be trying to brag about it afterwards.

But to your point, this game's PvP is terrible when the odds are uneven - especially if you are alone against multiple players. It 's just poorly designed for it. Night Blade (and possibly sorceress) are the only two classes who have a reliable escape ability, and even those have to be used quickly before you are focused by multiple players or even those can be risky.

It would be nice if numbers wasn't such a determining factor and players could actually strategically engage superior numbers and then get away before they died (it would make PvP on this game a lot more fun if you could). But sadly that's next to impossible to pull off on this game against competent opponents. In short; solo PvP on this game usually sucks. It's only rarely fun, and that's mostly due to inexperienced opponents or the rare unicorn of a fair fight.

If I were you, I would just grab resources or something when you go to Cyrodil (the PvE fights are actually pretty fun - a lot more fun than trying to go up against superior numbers in PvP). Spare yourself the torture, OP.

Only potatoes do that. Good players when on a group would kill you and move on because they know there's nothing special of a bunch of players killing one person

Yeah, not all players do it. A lot of them do though and seem to think they accomplished something of note when they do it.

There were several themes in my post though. While I did aim some derision at zergs who prey on lone individuals, I was also just commenting on the general ineffectiveness of trying to solo in Cyrodil. Keep Walls take forever to destroy alone and I don't recommend it. Outposts are more accessible, but are still usually not worth the effort. Stalking groups (at least in no CP) is also ill-advised, because unless you're a Night Blade or perhaps a sorcerers (and even then it's sketchy) you're just going to die because escape is nearly impossible.

Really the only activity I find worthwhile while solo in Cyrodil is taking resources, which can be mildly effective at slowing reinforcements to the front lines and can even be some fun since the PvE at those is some of the best landscape PvE this game has to offer in my opinion. You can also sometimes get some fair fights at those with other players. But that's about it. Otherwise I find running around as a soloist in Cyrodil to be something more resembling torture than fun.