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"Companions are no longer visible in Fargrave to aid in improving performance throughout the area."
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moleculardrugs✭✭✭✭Wish my companion could wear a helmet or mask or hat... but my Mirri is just a Mirri in a sea of Mirris
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Onigar✭✭✭I would be more interested in a "please be quiet" option.
for example Bastion, "what are you going to make with that" , ...good place for harvesting, and all the rest of the maybe 10 so many times repeated phrases.
Because of this tireless barrage I only have companions active for levelling their skills or a specific fight, otherwise, sleep time for you Mr/Ms.4 -
honglatongla✭✭✭moleculardrugs wrote: »Wish my companion could wear a helmet or mask or hat... but my Mirri is just a Mirri in a sea of Mirris
Now, now. Think how awful performance would be if all those helmets had to be rendered too. YEP0 -
SickDuck✭✭✭✭✭Exactly my thoughts. Hate to see all these clones everywhere.Holdviola - Khira'de Regalo - Lélekvadász - Used To Be An Adventurer - Zetor - Does-Not-Give-A-Duck - Lord Sugar - Tenar Arha - Da'rinka - Violent Moon - Extreme Runner1 -
EinionYrth✭✭✭✭Performance was fine, for me; finding the actual quest crucial npc in a sea of companions, not so much.9 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Can't wait to see the zone decluttered and with more acceptable frames / ping if that would anyhow help.2 -
ArchangelIsraphel✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Can you still see your own companion?PC l NA
Legends never die
They're written down in eternity
But you'll never see the price it costs
The scars collected all their lives
When everything's lost, they pick up their hearts and avenge defeat
Before it all starts, they suffer through harm just to touch a dream
Oh, pick yourself up, 'cause
Legends never die3 -
Rhaena✭✭✭ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »Can you still see your own companion?
doesn't sound like it, which I find annoying.2 -
LurgidBean✭✭✭✭As a console player I would appreciate this treatment everywhere. They're admitting the companions affect performance enough to disable them in Fargrave, what impact are they having everywhere else? Console is already struggling with performance issues, please do this in other areas.
It's still amazing to me that ZOS admits there is a performance and server issue, but also rolled out a mechanic that increased the population and the amount of character models to load by 25% (as a conservative estimate.) It seemed poorly thought out then, and is obviously causing issues that should have been foreseen.Xbox NA/EU
"Once I misplaced an entire roast chicken, so this doesn't surprise me."10 -
sup✭✭✭Agreed. This should be an option in the settings and work for every city, and it would be nice if it included pets, too.6 -
ArchangelIsraphel✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »Can you still see your own companion?
doesn't sound like it, which I find annoying.
That is irritating, especially from a roleplay perspective. Hopefully you can see your own.PC l NA
Legends never die
They're written down in eternity
But you'll never see the price it costs
The scars collected all their lives
When everything's lost, they pick up their hearts and avenge defeat
Before it all starts, they suffer through harm just to touch a dream
Oh, pick yourself up, 'cause
Legends never die2 -
Sambucca1973✭✭✭This is the best thing in this patch and wish it worked in every city. Or have an option in game settings to turn off seeing other folks’ companions.
And I’m just generally annoyed with companions. Fishing, someone joins you, and their companion walks in front of you and decides to agro a nearby critter. That also happens with summoned pets, so not entirely a companion issue.
I get that people like them, they’re no problem in general overland stuff, but they just get too much into everyone else’s business. 🙂
Full disclosure: I do have a companion and do use him if soloing a WB or needed to fill out a group.1 -
SeaGtGruff✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I would be more interested in a "please be quiet" option.
for example Bastion, "what are you going to make with that" , ...good place for harvesting, and all the rest of the maybe 10 so many times repeated phrases.
Because of this tireless barrage I only have companions active for levelling their skills or a specific fight, otherwise, sleep time for you Mr/Ms.
My "please be quiet" solution is also to keep them unsummoned until I specifically need to use them-- not so they'll be quiet, but so my inventory doesn't fill up any more than it already has with green Companion gear; the quiet is just a fringe benefit.
Edited by SeaGtGruff on November 15, 2021 4:37PMI've fought mudcrabs more fearsome than me!0 -
Nanfoodle✭✭✭✭✭I personally dont see a reason why we see companions anywhere in the game but your own. Seeing 30 Mirri only breaks the idea that she is your friend and only adds lag. Only place I think you need to see other peoples companions is if you are teamed with them.12 -
MajThorax✭✭✭✭✭Deadlands dlc was different than past story dlcs because it became available to all those who had Blackwood on day one. For the first 5 days Fargrave and the Deadlands were hard to load, navigate and enjoy because of the army of Mirris and Bastians. I still don't understand the point of adding companions in an mmorpg. Players are supposed to keep company to one another and usually they don't have to mute each other, because they don't repeat the same stuff over and over again. But companions are now part of the game and we have to live with that. Today's change in Fargrave needs to be a rule, not the exception. My rig hardly tolerates a crowded instance. Companions make it worse.2 -
Ermiq✭✭✭✭✭
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^^ This. ^^I personally dont see a reason why we see companions anywhere in the game but your own. Seeing 30 Mirri only breaks the idea that she is your friend and only adds lag. Only place I think you need to see other peoples companions is if you are teamed with them.
Definitely. Also, banker/trader/orc assistants should be invisible to other people as well.
Otherwise it all looks wrong and out of place completely.One of the two of us definitely has gone mad. It only remains to define whether this one is the whole world or just me.
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GrahamJoyce✭✭✭redspecter23 wrote: »Can we add combat pets to this list as well, please?
Agreed. I regularly use a sorcerer character and even I find my pet to be annoying and get in the way sometimes.
Pets should just be auto-unsummoned in cities in my opinion. Or maybe just force unsummon when you interact with a crafting station or NPC so it doesn't block other players from being able to see/interact with them. Or just make pets transparent in cities so you can interact with things that are behind them.
Resummoning is just one button press and duelists don't generally fight in crafting areas so disabling combat pets in those areas would not be too disruptive.Edited by GrahamJoyce on November 15, 2021 5:03PM5 -
TmzOS✭✭Fargrave looks a bit more heavy in comparisson with other maps, an extra polish can help (too many objects and effects).
Other games when dealing with "followers" usually throws a generic visual to other players companions to keep it different (WoW main quests are an example), but companions are not generic bots, they got some level of customization that affects visuals. I guess the best way to deal with it is creating an option to hide them in cities and keep other companions "generic", to leave it lightweight out of cities (hiding should be an option at least inside cities, since there are some interactions while in combat).
The problem on keeping them generic or invisible is the interaction. Sometimes companions can aggro bosses or provide effects and some players like to show off their companios with different costumes or whatever. So, a thing not so easy to deal with, because fun for one is different for others... performance either.0 -
ArchangelIsraphel✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I think they should turn off the ability to see the companions of others unless you are in a party with them, in which case I like/need to see the companions that belong to those I am playing with so I can tell where they are. Because I often play in a three man group, we tend to use one of our companions to fill in the fourth spot. I like to see where the companion is at especially if we are using it to tank something.
(I frequently help my mother, who is in her 60's, and father, who is in his 70's, play because they love these games and the questlines/dungeons in them, and the companion provides a much needed fourth person to fill the slot because playing with strangers makes them nervous. Companions make our runs much faster and have enabled me to help them through much harder content that they thought they'd never get to do. Then they get to relax, learn the mechanics, and enjoy playing without the pressure of worrying about being fast enough to meet the expectations of someone they don't know. Being able to see another's companion helps me orchestrate things in order to teach them mecs.)PC l NA
Legends never die
They're written down in eternity
But you'll never see the price it costs
The scars collected all their lives
When everything's lost, they pick up their hearts and avenge defeat
Before it all starts, they suffer through harm just to touch a dream
Oh, pick yourself up, 'cause
Legends never die8 -
phbell✭✭✭✭The more elegant solution would be to solve the underlying problem and boost the resources the game runs on. Hiding companions is similar to shoveling dirt on dog poop - you may not see it, but it still there and it still smells.2 -
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✭✭✭✭✭This should be a thing everywhere in the Tamriel.
It already is in most cities, although not always inside buildings (but honestly, the flappy-flap twilights are far more annoying there!).ArchangelIsraphel wrote: »Can you still see your own companion?
doesn't sound like it, which I find annoying.
Yes, you will be. It will be like most cities in Tamriel where you can see your own companions (and I think also those of any group members) but not everyone else’s.1 -
aipex8_ESO✭✭✭✭✭This should be a thing everywhere in the Tamriel.
It always has been, you only see your own companion in most cities (there are a few anomalies like Wayrest). I made a post about Fargrave companions when it first came out and many people claimed they saw others companions everywhere but no one could provide screenshots (except Wayrest).2 -
Vaoh✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Make other player’s combat pets and companions INVISIBLE in cities. Would be so much better that way.Edited by Vaoh on November 15, 2021 7:15PM1 -
Squeaky_Clean✭✭✭✭I thought the title was a kind of a very early April Fools joke ... then I checked the patch notes ...
Oh boy ... is this now the way ZOS deals with bad server performance? Have you come this far, only to turn off content you just introduced yourself this year? I am (almost) speechless ..
Maybe the next best step would be to turn ESO into a single player game!!?! I am sure that would improve server performance a great deal!2
