The night market is a disaster

Trundik · May 3

My guild chose the red ones. The only useful thing in the whole event is the blue monster set. This says something about the developers already. But that's not what I'm here for. Since the appearance of this event, playing on ps4 has become almost impossible. Any content involving NPC enemies turned into a fight with a shadow and teleportation back through the loading screen. They are simply invisible, they cannot be targeted. Archive, dungeons - everything is broken. It's like *** your own players. Thats it. I rly hope it wont return.

LittleLionLeone · May 3

12-13 year old hardware, at some point they'll just have to drop support if they want to continue making stuff like this.

Trundik · May 3

how about optimization, Jesus? I'm a customer, i have eso+. Why i should suffer?

LittleLionLeone · May 3

True they could do better I'm sure, but also I'm sure there's limitations with that old hardware.

tomofhyrule · May 3

Trundik wrote: »

My guild chose the red ones. The only useful thing in the whole event is the blue monster set. This says something about the developers already. But that's not what I'm here for. Since the appearance of this event, playing on ps4 has become almost impossible. Any content involving NPC enemies turned into a fight with a shadow and teleportation back through the loading screen. They are simply invisible, they cannot be targeted. Archive, dungeons - everything is broken. It's like *** your own players. Thats it. I rly hope it wont return.

There's your problem.

ESO added support for PS5 a while ago, and games are dropping support for last-gen left and right. There are even posts here about how upgrading from PS4 to PS5 made it feel like a whole new game.

Oh, and as for "how about optimization?"
They did that. That was the entire animation pass they did last year was to optimize the game. But 1) that broke a lot of things, and 2) there's only so much optimization that will get this game to run on a console with 8GB RAM, especially if half of that RAM is used for the console OS in the first place.

PS4 is now 12 years old. PS5 is now 6 years old. Most console lifetimes are around 8 years, so yes, PS5 is soon going to be obsolete.
At this point, it needs to be understood that PS4/XB1/Old PCs are no longer able to handle a game in 2026.

karthrag_inak · May 3

how dare they stop selling tires for khajiit's 1927 Ford Model T as well!

Apollosipod · May 3

Well I play on a SNES and it looks horrible! Why won't ZOS cater to my play style?!

Trundik · May 3

Two weeks ago, the game was working.
Moreover, out of five of my visits to the archive in the last two weeks, one in the middle of the day was acceptable in terms of performance. It's not about the console, although, perhaps, directly in the market, it would be much worse because it's a big location (brilliant decision). The fact is that it was at this time, apparently, that all the schoolboys and old shouters about bad hardware took their farts out of the event and went to do their business elsewhere.

In other words, ps4 handles the game when the server is not overloaded with this event s**t.

Orbital78 · May 3

Queues Lady Thorn: "suffer"

Sephyr · May 3

tomofhyrule wrote: »

Trundik wrote: »

My guild chose the red ones. The only useful thing in the whole event is the blue monster set. This says something about the developers already. But that's not what I'm here for. Since the appearance of this event, playing on ps4 has become almost impossible. Any content involving NPC enemies turned into a fight with a shadow and teleportation back through the loading screen. They are simply invisible, they cannot be targeted. Archive, dungeons - everything is broken. It's like *** your own players. Thats it. I rly hope it wont return.

There's your problem.

ESO added support for PS5 a while ago, and games are dropping support for last-gen left and right. There are even posts here about how upgrading from PS4 to PS5 made it feel like a whole new game.

Oh, and as for "how about optimization?"
They did that. That was the entire animation pass they did last year was to optimize the game. But 1) that broke a lot of things, and 2) there's only so much optimization that will get this game to run on a console with 8GB RAM, especially if half of that RAM is used for the console OS in the first place.

PS4 is now 12 years old. PS5 is now 6 years old. Most console lifetimes are around 8 years, so yes, PS5 is soon going to be obsolete.
At this point, it needs to be understood that PS4/XB1/Old PCs are no longer able to handle a game in 2026.

I really feel that "Old PC" bit. Even when I had a 1060 GTX I was feeling it in larger scale content. My current set up is a little better (2070 super, pretty nice processor that runs the FFVII remakes, and decent internets), the only time I truly lag is when my VPN has a hiccup. I was actually shocked the difference it all actually made though. I'm also sure that the optimization that you mentioned last year also helped. I don't know if my last poke at the game was before or after though (I also didn't stick around as long as I have this time around).

I can actually use Streak strategically now. God, it's so satisfying when tanks line up the enemies in the Night Market. That's where it reeeeeally shines.

Malprave · May 3

Your first problem is you’re playing on console in the first place. And it’s an old one, really old at this point. Zos isn't to blame here.

Nemesis7884 · May 4

Next year new consoles and xbox will come out...good chance and hopefully the old hardware will no longer be supported so the game is not held back by memory issues anymore which i would assume would allow for more content or new classes etc

katanagirl1 · May 5

It’s not the Night Market, trials were like that on PS4 5 years ago. If you can step up to PS5, the game runs fine in NM.

twisttop138 · May 5

It's PS4 man but to be fair, when my wife and I game together she usually takes the PS4. Our TVs our right next to each other and I see everything she sees. Blacked out npcs has been commonplace on PS4 after teleporting since almost the beginning. But we played extensively this weekend and didn't notice much difference than normal.

DenverRalphy · May 5

ESO became unplayable on my PS4pro one update before Gold Road dropped. At that stage of development it was impossible to participate in incursions during big events because they'd be completed before the black sillhouettes could be resolved. Bosses were dead before their models could load in and even be targetable.

[edit] And by unplayable, I mean that I hit my tolerance threshold. The game was playable if there were fewer than maybe a dozen other players in the zone. Which I personally found unacceptable. I do know a coupe players still rockin their PS4's in ESO.

Umbracat449 · May 5

Digital technology is not like a car or some piece of mechanical technology. It simply gets too old, really quick.