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ESO Provides Update On Performance Improvements - MMORPG.com
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ESO Provides Update On Performance Improvements - MMORPG.com
ESO provided an update on performance updates earlier today, in a tweet and blog post.
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'bout time!!!
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
21 year MMO veteran
PvP Raid Leader
Lover of The Witcher & CD Projekt Red
Fully agreed. I haven't played the game since release and came back like 3 months ago, my character is like CP 300 right now because I'm on vacation. I must say I never imagined the game would be at such low perfomance with constant crashes in dungeons and mainly in Cyrodill exactly like it was on closed beta. I mean honestly this game is literally unplayable in RvR if you compare it to experiences some of you might have had in other games like DAoC or Warhammer Online. Desyncs, abilities literally taking 15 seconds to function, sometimes skills will literally not function whatsoever and its not like 300 people around fighting on a keep either. Just random skirmishes on a bridge and its still unplayable.
I've been crashing so much lately even on dungeons I'm definitely considering cancelling my ESO+ subscription once I'm done with all my DLC story lines.
That is why I dont pvp. I play ESO like a standard solo rpg. Your expected to do it in dungeons as well as dps. The rpg aspect of ESO is so much fun, trumps they sil;ly animation cancel. Does make me sad that battlegrounds are a struggle for me tho, as I enjoy competition.
Animation Canceling removal
Improve Your shitty 2005 animations in general
Smooth character models as well as armor.
Gut Out!
What, me worry?
Here's something funny for you straight out WOW Classic...
Classic is not an action MMO. It's an old tab target system with weapon auto-attacks and those weapon auto attacks are HUGE for your total DPS. They are actually more important for DPS there than animation cancelling is in ESO.
The problem is that using an ability in Classic can interfere with your weapon auto-attack timing and if you don't time it right you lose its contribution to DPS.
Enter a little addon called Weapon Swing Timer (yes, vanilla WOW 15 years ago had addons and so does Classic.) All it does is it gives you a very simple weapon auto-attack timer with a bar that changes from white to red: if it's white you're safe to cast and instant ability without disrupting your auto-attack and if it's red you will miss out on the next auto-attack.
If you're a hunter (whose ranged attacks are almost all instants) without this add-on your DPS will suffer and will be a large percentage less than a hunter with the addon.
This kind of shit with proficient players squeezing extra DPS out of whatever available mechanics a game features has been around forever. Use it or not - it's entirely up to you - but please stop whining about it. It makes you sound like noobs.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Idk how to even animation cancel in ESO. I have no need for it, but if I got into l33t stuff I'd do as the Romans do...
Gut Out!
What, me worry?
Thing is that there is no content in ESO that NEEDS animation cancelling to complete. That goes for trials just like anything else in PvE.
In 1v1 duels and small scale PvP? That's a different story and if you don't know how to do it you're at a disadvantage against someone who does. But even there that's just one of the things in PvP that can give you an advantage over others. The right gear, the right poisons and potions are even more important than animation cancelling.
But it's a convenient thing to blame if you're constantly getting your ass handed to you in PvP or cann't ge into 1337 raid groups. It's PvP and top of the line trial speed running where all the fretting comes from. Then regular run of the mill PvErs read about it in forums and they start to believe that it affects them too... it doesn't.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
I get how people who are into the combat aesthetics dislike it because it makes people doing it look like they're having spasms. That criticism is fair enough. Worrying about it on the basis of DPS output though is fretting over nothing.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
- Because I've completed many trials easily with groups that included DPS who did not cancel frequently or at all.
- And because the players would be screaming bloody murder if they needed to use it to complete content.
It is only needed if you want to go for leader board fastest time Hard mode trial clears. But you also want no deaths there because those add penalty time.The simplest form of it is light attack animation canceling and you do need to light attack with your weapon often enough but not for DPS reasons so much as to get the ultimate ability points ticking to get those abilities ready faster.
The sequence is LA > ability > LA > ability... rinse and repeat and swap in a heavy attack instead of a light one when you need resources because that's what HAs are used for. That's just the way you play this game.
That weapon attack weaving can be done with or without canceling. But once you get comfortable with a rotation it's actually really tough not to animation cancel light attacks even if by accident since the instant everything with no CD pace of combat just gets played faster by anyone who gets comfortable with the game and rotations.
Abilities can also be canceled but not by light attacks nor other abilities. Weapon swaps, blocks, bashes and roll dodges are what you use for that. People use mostly weapon swaps because the other methods have disadvantages (blocks stop your stamina regen for example.) But that's a more advanced form of animation canceling that very few other than the top 1% of the trials elite will do frequently or at all.
Yes I know how to do it, have done it for more than 5 years, have read hundreds of comments from expert players and I'm 100% certain that there is zero PvE content that needs it or is balanced around it. Any of the top players in the game (and I'm not including myself in that group) would tell you exactly the same thing.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
In pvp theres a big diffrence if someone is landing 6-7 extra autos due to cancel when the other guy doesnt, yes there is other factors like gear/chants and such, but its a mechanic that pays well to master in pvp.
As far as pve, ya, i seen people complain in vet dungeons mutliple times about dps not doing it (seems to be on 2H users alot, because of there AoE damage from AA seems to be the reason?) Several thousand dps is lost from not doing this mechanic and some pug vet dungeons groups dont appreciate it. Some groups dont care, but I ran into enough to know it does matter a decent pct of the time.
So ya, i saw with my very own eyes that it effects both aspects of the game at a casual level, so pls dont tell me it doesnt. You may have experienced diffrent, but this was mine.
I dislike it, for the reasons i stated earlier.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Sure people dont need it to succeed, but its like raiding in WoW with out deadly boss mods (I personally never used anything outside of recount for mods) anyone could do it, but if your not playing at max potential raid groups didnt want you.
Im a healer so animation cancel doesnt effect me at all in pve, so i dont really care if its ever changed, id like it too for when I pvp, but pvp is just a side thing in this game for me. Im playing ESO for its questing. I get along fine without it, i just stated how i felt and my exp with, I dont like every mechanic every game i played had, but I always had an aopinion on those mechanics which apparently equates to whining.
Remember the state of the game at release? It's hard to come back from a less than well received release, but they managed to do it.
Isn't this what we want from studios after release, attempts to improve the game?
It's a breath of fresh air when I see a studio actively making improvements vs. throwing the game in maintenance-mode. It's a bit of good news for gamers, even if it's not the game you're playing.