A one page Player vs Player (PvP) update was posted to the official forums Wednesday. This post follows a similar update on Battlegrounds based on a review of data collected over the Winter Break.
Here are the key notes
- ZOS (Zenimax Online Services) conducted a series of successful tests to collect PvP data over the last year.
- Similar to client-side improvements like multithreaded rendering to improve frame rates, they will be looking to rearchitect their servers to dramatically improve performance.
- He cautions it will take time as they will be testing and evaluated as they along.
- Plans were developed in the last four months and the work has started.
- Estimates project that this work will take most of 2022.
- In the meantime, Matt hints at potential special rulesets or weekend events to keep Cyrodiil and Battlegrounds interesting and exciting.
- They will focus on bug fixes affecting combat and will not be adding any new features to PvP until this work is complete.
- Matt thanks everyone for their patience.
You can read the post in its entirety and join the discussion using the link below. There is also a German version available at this time.
EN: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/595442/eso-pvp-update-january-2022
DE:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/de/discussion/595443/eso-pvp-update-im-januar-2022
Here are the keynotes of the Battleground discussion
- ZOS thanked everyone who participated in the battleground queue tests over the past few months.
- The addition of Deathmatch-only quests did not significantly affect Battlegrounds participation and population.
- They will not be implementing additional queue options out of fear it would splinter the Battlegrounds population too much and lead to longer queue times.
- They will be removing the Deathmatch-only queue option.
- Starting Update 33, the default Battleground options will be Solo Random.
- Solo queue will only include players that queued solo.
- Group queue will take solo, duo, trio, and full groups of players.
You can view the original post and join the discussion using the link below.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7488351/#Comment_7488351