When ZOS announced the performance improvements to come with this update, I chuckled quite a bit; however, I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt and some credits for developing and continuously adding to an immensely expansive game. Well, it's been a week now for consoles, and I was getting head scratchy as what the improvements suppose to be. I mean, I'm still getting blue screen crashes intermittently, lagging and movement stutters, skills lagging and misfiring, long loading screens and even the weapon dragging under the feet is still around. Oh heck, Cyrodiil is a mess with long loading screens still popping up during a fight and crashes; even more often with this patch. I'm even getting random dungeon queuing issue where it isn't working at all. The queue continues on and on, but nothing.

Come on.. I figured there has to be something. There has to be some improvements to the game with this update. [snip] You know what.. I finally realize the improvements ZOS had been talking about. Farming nodes has been great. It is faster. It is so fast, sometimes, I didn't even see the axe chopping or bending down animation. It just goes straight to the items popping up. So quick, so awesome. Damn, good job on nodes farming improvement, ZOS. I can also say good job on ridding the wayshrine crashes. Man, prior to this update, I used to get crashes practically every time I port into or from the Gold Coast's Anvil and CWC's Brass Fortress wayshrines. So far, it hasn't crash once yet. Damn good job on fixing this issues. Hope it lasts.

At least there are some improvements with this update, and ZOS didn't really come out all empty. You know what.. despite the frustration with all the current issues still plaguing the game and how choatic and toxic players and zone chats can be, I can still enjoy the game by romping and frolicking around Tamriel with chat turned off. The graphics and sceneries of the game still look good. Also, the toons or characters look quite good. So, overall, it doesn't help my sanity for cursing out ZOS for the ever-so-lasting issues with the game and more issues with each patch and updates. The game is still, generally, enjoyable. You make it how you can. It also doesn't help banging your head on the wall or smashing the controller on the floor. You gotta give some praises to ZOS and the devs for maintaining such as expansive game.

Keep up the good work, you good folks at the ZOS lounge, and if you all ever get those issues taken care off.. man, that would be something.

[edited to remove political reference]