EMPEROR POWERS ARE LOST AFTER LOGGING OR ZONING - PC NA

magus.septim · March 2022

In the ravenwatch campaign, if you are emp and switch toons, and then switch back, you lose all your emp buffs. This has happened to my friend TWICE now in the raven campaign over the last few days ever since the servers have been an absolute MESS.
I don't even know what to say, this is unbelievably frustrating.
To do all that work to get emp and have this happen is a crime.
@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin please...
I can provide the player's name, I am writing this post on his behalf.
EP - Ravenwatch campaign.

magus.septim · March 2022

@ZOS_Bill @ZOS_Adrikoth @ZOS_KaiSchober @ZOS_ConnorG @ZOS_Psiion @ZOS_Icy @ZOS_SarahHecker @ZOS_Mika @ZOS_PeterT @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_QronC @ZOS_UlrikeP @ZOS_Lunar
Hopefully I tagged enough of you to get a response here. Please have a look, thanks!

magus.septim · March 2022

The Emp submitted a ticket on this a few days ago as well, here is the ticket number for your reference: 2230323-002273

Lebkuchen · March 2022

@magus.septim:
Emp has been broken on Playstation EU for months.

Sometimes you bluescreen the moment you get emp and then you never get the buff. If you are lucky and get the buff somehow, you are not allowed to take a break (some people like to sleep for a few hours, work, eat or shower...) because then you will lose the buff. So nobody has been serious about pushing emp for a while.

Just add it to the long list of bugs and performance issues that are being worked on ;-)

magus.septim · March 2022

Lebkuchen wrote: »

@magus.septim:
Emp has been broken on Playstation EU for months.

Sometimes you bluescreen the moment you get emp and then you never get the buff. If you are lucky and get the buff somehow, you are not allowed to take a break (some people like to sleep for a few hours, work, eat or shower...) because then you will lose the buff. So nobody has been serious about pushing emp for a while.

Just add it to the long list of bugs and performance issues that are being worked on ;-)

Wow thats a damn shame, its literally the most prestigious thing in the entire game, and its so broken

magus.septim · March 2022

BlossomDead wrote: »

PvP improvements just keep coming in I see.
Lovely new feature.

Yea this is a new bug for PC, never seen this before, and its probably one of the most disappointing

Lebkuchen · March 2022

I do not know if it is prestigious. I feel like it is a big responsibility and a lot of stress. People expect you to play for the campaign, be online all the time, and run good groups that can kill everyone else. If you can not provide that, you will be the target for a lot of bullying from your own alliance. The other alliances will focus you and pressure your alliance all the time to get rid of emp. You will get tbagged all the time and receive a lot of hatemail. People will tell you what to do and will talk about all the mistakes you make (in their opinions) in zonechat. And of course, the players behind you on the scoreboard will tell you to leave campaign, so they can get their turn.

At least it was like that years ago before everyone in their right mind left Cyrodiil and ESO because of bugs and performance issues. ESO PvP could be great, the best game i ever played, but most people gave up on the game after years of "working on it" promises. That's one reason why Cyrodiil is empty most of the time and i would really like to keep talking about it, but i guess this is not the right place :-)

Lydawobbles · March 2022

Been happening on PS for months as well. Made for an interesting Midyear experience

magus.septim · March 2022

a simple acknowledgement from ZOS of this issue would be enough right now, people aren't gonna want to bother with emp if its broken like this.

PvP_Exploiter · March 2022

Try posting in the bugs category?

spartaxoxo · March 2022

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Admins more likely to pay attention in bug reports. The people who move it have nothing to do with dev work

[edited to remove quote]

ZOS_Lunar · March 2022

Greetings everyone!

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magus.septim · March 2022

I just wanted to add some more data points here to help the team debug this issue:
We got emp again, and then emp bonuses were lost again when the emp entered a delve.
So this issue is not just related to switching characters, it much broader.
It seems you lose emp powers simply by zoning into a delve, logging off, or any number of other things.
@ZOS_GinaBruno can you please alert the dev team on this ongoing issue with emp powers in cyrodiil?
Thanks!

Bigmatt2 · March 2022

Yes, this is a known issue. You also won't get the Emperor buff if your faction gets you emperor and you aren't in Cyrodill at the time of Emp.

Once you get it, you can't do anything but stay online and defend it.

magus.septim · March 2022

Bigmatt2 wrote: »

Yes, this is a known issue. You also won't get the Emperor buff if your faction gets you emperor and you aren't in Cyrodill at the time of Emp.

Once you get it, you can't do anything but stay online and defend it.

I had none of these issues personally when I was emp for a couple weeks, so I'm surprised to hear this has been going on for some time. It would be nice to get some acknowledgment from ZOS on this.

Mankeyyyyy · March 2022

We've had this on xbox for a while now too. And yes, it happens if you leave cyrodiil for whatever reason or if you crash. Pretty ridiculous there's been no attention put on this imo.

ArgonianAustin · March 2022

Yeah my brother became emp for his second time during midyear and decided to play with the emp buffs since we dropped our first time emps for others in line and he joined a battleground with me and when he went back his emp buffs were gone.

Brazilionaire · March 2022

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin

Very sad day for me today. I've been playing this game for 6-7 years now. All I do is pvp, not much else. Today, for the first time, I managed to be crowned as emperor. I work 8h a day and have other responsibilities that prevent me from playing this game too much. I was ecstatic that I finally had the opportunity to be at the top of the leaderboard and my alliance supported me. All of that for my emperorship to last 10 min. As soon as I re-logged, I became a fake emp, no buff, just a meaningless title.
I work in the software development industry, so I fully understand that bugs are part of it. But please acknowledge this issue as it's been tough enough to be a pvper in this game as is, let alone when core mechanics stop working.

// Additional information that could help:
Server: PC-NA
Campaign: Ravenwatch (non-cp)
Things I tried to get the buff back and didn't work:
- Dying
- Capturing resources
- Killing delve boss
- Logging on/off from and outside cyrodiil
- Going into IC and back
- Going into Volendrung training place and back
- Changing mundus stone in cyro
- Different outfits
- Different morphs
- Removing/Reequiping gear

magus.septim · March 2022

Hey Brazil, sorry to see you are also experiencing this tragic issue with emp powers.
This issue seems to be occurring regularly now in the ravenwatch campaign with emp, especially after the multiple maintenance patches last week. Its disheartening and discouraging to see people work so hard to get emp, only to have it not working properly, and at the same time, not getting any acknowledgement from ZOS about the issue whatsoever. It would be nice to get some acknowledgement from ZOS on this issue, if only to know that they are aware of it being an issue.

Lebkuchen · April 2022

Yesterday, Playstation EU, primetime. Everyone was celebrating the great teamwork, until our new "Emperor" told us he was in queue during his coronation and did not get the buff.

Buggy emperor aside, did they change the max amount of players allowed on the servers again? Because yesterday felt empty, but there was a long queue. Very strange. Performance was better too, until the queue started.

Indigogo · April 2022

I'm so sorry. I've seen this happen a lot and it's so heart breaking to see people put so much effort in to have it taken away.

DRTE · May 2022

Lost my buffs tonight after a hard slog and my net decided to go down. Not very impressed. Its hard enough to push it but to loose the powers just because you log is ridiculous. Ongoing for months and still no fix for it. C'mon guys this is your job to fix this stuff.

PC-NA Greyhost.

magus.septim · May 2022

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin this issue has been going on for months now, still not a single word of acknowledgment from anyone at ZOS. Not even asking for a fix rn, just a word of acknowledgment. Care to respond?

NordSwordnBoard · May 2022

"Emp is broken right now, dont bother if it's your first try."
This is what we tell new people.
And maybe another player abandons Cyrodiil. It's a giant shame. The heart of the Empire needs a pacemaker before things get worse.

StamPlar_1976 · May 2022

And the only reply from anybody official is from a mod stating that they removed posts for violations.

Do better @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_ConnorG @ZOS_Kevin

RaikaNA · May 2022

My only advice is for people to stop working on emp push until after this bug gets addressed and fixed by the devs... complaining about it now after this has been going on for months is futile.

magus.septim · May 2022

RaikaNA wrote: »

My only advice is for people to stop working on emp push until after this bug gets addressed and fixed by the devs... complaining about it now after this has been going on for months is futile.

I agree to stop pushing for emp since it's broken and pointless, but if we don't bring attention to the issue, it will never get resolved. I think it's important to talk about it, but be as polite as possible.

Jaraal · May 2022

A simple acknowledgement that they are aware and looking for a fix would go a long way.

Karivaa · May 2022

It’s been like this for awhile on Xbox and we thought they said they would fix it with the next chapter.