Yes, this is happening consistently. I typically am on a negate tank build in groups in Cyrodiil so I've had the displeasure of forgetting and remembering this many times before I realized that it was a constant thing. It's every time two opposing negates are dropped in the same space.

That would be an interesting byproduct. I wonder if it's an intentional on or not.

Ever since U30 they did several changes to negate mechanics which they didn't even mention in the patchnotes after U30 (only until recently mentioning some vague things on PTS patchnotes iirc).
At first negates couldn't remove each other or other ground effects at all (U30), so they just existed both on top of each other, both applied silence properly tho (unless the caster themselves was silenced, which is a whole other topic why that is and how that works).
A while ago they changed negates back to removing ground effects, but they still could co-exist.
And the newest change, not sure when it got implemented, is that negates in most cases, can't counter negate anymore.
Testing and understanding negate's mechanics explains why that is.

NPC negates still work the old way (so can't be counternegated as well), if i made correct tests, but didn't spend a lot of time on it and it's a while ago, so might have changed already.
Negates were still removed by EG when we tested.

These are really unfortunate behaviours, cause in groupplay you rely on them working properly. And in this high damage meta, if this doesn't work reliaby, you will just get run over, if you try to play around it.
This removes tactical gameplay around countering and makes "all in playstyles" a lot stronger.

U30 also really messed up the area calculation for Negates, where you would get silenced despite standing like five meters outside of the actual area. I was initially pleased to see that they were 'fixing' this behavior but it seems as though the fix came with strings attached.

divnyi wrote: »

How do you even tell enemy and friendly ones apart?

You can use really gaudy colors for hostile and beneficial effects - I use sky blue for beneficial and hot pink for hostile.

There's also a mod called like Disco Color AoEs that will make harmful AoEs sparkle like an unmistakable disco ball.

The custom colors don't work for me on negates. I realize the enemy negate only through the word "Silenced" on screen (if it appears, often it does not) and by not being able to cast magicka skills and ultimate. I think the aoe colors don't work, because the negate is a globe, not a circle/cylinder.

@JayKwellen Yes it is, as far as I've seen. My negates have still been getting eaten by earthgore.

this is still a massive issue. When is negate going to be fixed? It's absolutely ridiculous that you cant counter negates right now, and half the time if you cast a negate an enemy is casting it also and it's impossible to tell whether you are walking into a good negate or not since they look exactly the same. The very least you could do is do a visual update so you can tell it's bad if you arent going to actually fix the mechanics of it

Zahktar wrote: »

All I'm asking is for open communication from ZOS about whether or not this is an intended change or a bug.

Usually it seems to be more effective to post on the Bug Reports section with stuff like this, sometimes you get answers there about the team being aware of the issue. Often pvp issues get posted in the pvp sections, not in the Bug reports. I don't know if anyway wrote bug reports in game about this. If noone tells them, they might not even know .