Horrible lag, froze, skills cast all cost 1 sec and lag, no more animation cancelling possible, broken block, can’t swap bar in time, combat experience is horrible. Contents are lazy and nothing much to play or be impressed, no creativity found. Grapple was introduced Q3 2019 already. Bosses are copy and paste from other places.
The promised performance improvement plans that’s due are non existence, game performance and technical issues only gotten worse.
Performance makes me not want to play at all so cant even get to the rest of what showed up in the update. Performance is bad enough to be a show stopper.
On EU server:
a) Loading screens were noticeable faster after the 1st loading screen - 1st char loading was a long one.
b) Black jumpsuits still appear at populated areas like Vivec City crafting area but they appear for less time since loading it's a bit faster than before.
c) Skills don't fire properly (sometimes it's more noticeable) and sometimes I also had some difficulty swapping between bars, I guess its depending on the amount of data since it doesn't always happen in the same conditions.
d) No blue screens or crashes, only some desync music/sound related to actions performed (severe desync doesn't happen all the time but at some points).
e) After travelling to some way shrines on different areas, fps rate dropped a lot.
I will try some dungeons today, including the new ones. I will also jump a bit into Cyro, at EU prime time, to check how it runs with a populated server.
On NA server, my experience was very similar to EU but just with a bit more lag. Same stuff happening in the same situations and practically under the same conditions.
"Sweet Mother, sweet Mother, send your child unto me, for the sins of the unworthy must be baptized in blood and fear"
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For PS4 and Xbox, its been only a day since it dropped, I was only on yesterday for 2 hours (some of us work for a living...HA) I'm going to give it some time before jumping to conclusions however I did notice the guild member list was re-freshing every 20 seconds or so (I'm on PS4), making it difficult to find guildies. Already put in a ticket for this.
Because the performance has become god awful. I love the dungeons design, but good lord the mechanics on unhallowed grave are impossible sometimes because of the skill delay or lag.
I am in no hurry to complete the dungeons, although I have been in Icereach to see what it will take to solo it.
No performance problems to speak of, at this time. Mainly due to limited time spent in the game, and when I am, leveling a new character through the Morrowind-Clockwork-Summerset story. IRL sucks.
I cannot answer just yet, as it's only been 1 day on console and you obviously cannot get an accurate assessment that quickly, but I'd be interested to see the results from PC players a few weeks after the patch.
Can I have a moderately happy?
Great content update, shorter loading screens. Server lag, and occasional weird block behavior.
PC - EU - France - AD
Main character: Qojikrin - Khajiit Sorcerer Tank/Stamina DD - since March 25, 2015.
Guildmaster of Oriflamme: Focus on 4 player endgame content.
Member of Brave Cat Trade, Panda Division and Toadhuggers.
Working fine for me - has always worked fine for me, as I don't do any group content or pvp. Satellite being my only available connection, I don't see much difference in load screens etc.
1. I used to think "hey, nowhere to go but up — there's no way performance can get any worse!" Then the "performance update" dropped.
2. I used to tell myself "well, magblade can only get better from here, right?" Then they broke cloak again, so now the most garbage class in the game is just a little more garbo.
Congrats, ZOS. I didn't think you could do it, but you sure proved me wrong!
My ESO+ ends in summer so I automatically got the DLC
I havent done the dungeons because I am a PvP player and not much interest in them
So I can not say anything about content
Performance wise, as a Cyrodiil player I am displeased & disappointed.
Edit: Forgot to add the reason. Because first week went with crashes so there was no stable or continuous war going on.
Second week crashes were fixed and lag got worse.
As if one is fixed the other goes bad. As if both can not be fixed at the same time...
Skills or LA do not fire, you also randomly got booted from the server at times.
It is no exaggeration that your character makes the moves but looks like dancing around yet nothing happens.
Or gap closers are so delayed that you end up behind the enemy instead.
The redownload did nothing noticeable for the performance, however it completely killed server connection with unplayable instances, constant desync, ping spikes and disconnects. The balance changes are okay, but the Block changes are atrocious. The two new dungeons are mostly fine, but way too easy for my liking and the rewards are lackluster as well.
Poll option should probably use the standard Likert scale, because while I'm not "very happy" (that's never going to happen with dungeon DLCs until they do a story mode) I'm "happy" with it for some other changes made. I even took the plunge and did the dungeons yesterday and met some cool peeps willing to go through it at a slower pace.