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Hi all, Just wanted to follow up with some info. We will have a live stream today at 1pm ET with Gina, Rich, and Brian to chat about Cyrodiil Champions. It will be on the shorter end of things, but solely focused on the test. Info is below. ZOS_GinaBruno;d-672417

Hi everyone! We've been seeing a lot of questions about the Cyrodiil Champions test currently on the PTS. To help clarify a few points, we will be hosting a very brief (15-20 minute) livestream today at 1pm EST on twitch.tv/bethesda to answer some common questions including what the goals of this test are, how this current test is different from what will be on Live, what success looks like from our end, and more. This is not taking the place of the written Q&A that is in progress and we do not plan to cover any other topics. Looking forward to seeing you all in a few hours!

Grendalism;c-8257626

@ZOS_Kevin Any update on when the Hotfix will be released?

Team is working on it now. It will be today. Everyone is doing checks and such to make sure things are correct, so we should have an update later today.

Yes, we do have news. We have goblets in and are just about ready to ship. You should be seeing an email next week to confirm shipping information and then the goblets should be on their way.

Thanks for the ping! No, they are not limited to location. All the pages are in one loot pool, so it is working as intended. The list in our article was meant to highlight what you can get, rather than where you can source them from.

Confirming there is no belt at all. So please place a customer service ticket to get your event tickets back. Looks like a template was left and sometimes the item does not get made. Edited to add help link: https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/#en/answer/68550

Hi all, we are aware of the issue with the Apocrypha Expedition Belt here. The team is working to fix for this. However in the meantime, if you would like your tickets back for the belt please put in a ticket.

Hey all! Quick update here. We did in fact forget to tell the fish about the curation in certain zones. However, we are getting that fixed today in a hotfix. The team is reviewing now. Thanks for flagging.

So that we can try and get back on track, we checked in with the team for an order of operations for this test, between PTS and the Live test in March. So hopefully this will help and we can get back to the core feedback needed for this portion of the test.

• Functionality on the PTS server is first and the goal of that is to make sure we can provide the best play experience when this goes to the live server in March.
• We look at the data from the PTS functionality test to ensure things are working properly for the live test.
• If everything looks good, we move on to the test on the live server.
• After the test on the live server is done, we shut down Vengeance and review the data.
• Next steps will be determined based on the data. Nothing else related to the test will immediately go into the live game, including any Vengeance Class/Skill kits.
• We will share next steps once we evaluate the data.

katorga;c-8256663

sarahthes;c-8256354

My thought is that if they don't get meaningful data, cyrodiil eventually just gets shut down if it can't be fixed.

I think shutting down Cyro and IC is the goal. BGs only.

It is not. Improving the overall experience is the goal. And getting the data needed is essential to improvements.

Yes, there is a 100% passive exp. point boost during the event. The article now reflects that as well.

DrGIggles80;c-8256739

@ZOS_Kevin tell me why completely gut everything all at once and hope you can tell what the issues are? wouldn't it make more sense to eliminate one or two things per test? also as a year one player, I have always enjoyed theory crafting, playing my own way as has always been eso moto.. now i get this is only a test but you are literally looking at ways to take all the options away from the pvp community. wrong direction. Think you also need to look at the drag the old gen consoles are causing... only mmo this old that doesnt have a minimum operating system requirement...

There seems to be a misunderstanding here about the test. The point of this test is purely for the sake of performance, and getting calculations as low as possible on the server. So eliminating one or two things at a time will not help in the data we are trying to gather. This test for March as of right now, is purely for performance data on the live server so that we h... Read more

Destai;c-8256245

Already knocked out 7 of them on this status call. Glad to see them back, these are fun. I'm glad to see rewards tied to milestones rather than individual Pursuits. @ZOS_Kevin just a heads up - there's still some a minor issue with claiming rewards, at least on PS5. When a reward is eligible to be claimed, and I select the claim all button, I have to close out the whole Golden Pursuits screen and relaunch for the reward to be recognized as claimed and the prompt to go away.

Thanks for noting this. Have you placed a ticket in for this? If not, that would be helpful. Will still pass it along on my end, but wanted to make sure this doesn't fall through the cracks.

i11ionward;c-8256284

Is the team going to look at feedback about how balanced the skills and classes are? I really liked the overall idea of the campaign, but I wish there were more build options. Adding weapon skills would definitely help with that.

So the goal here in PTS is to test performance. We understand everyone is looking at skill/class balance. While that is important, it's jumping several steps ahead of what we are trying to accomplish with the test. Before we can realistically look at balance, we need to make sure things are working as intended for performance. It is why we are stressing the importance of answering the questions in the first post. If we can't get in info needed to make things work properly, then balancing means nothing anyway. This isn't to ignore thoughts on balance, but rather to make sure we are clear about the objective of this test on PTS.

Hey @acastanza_ESO, we understand why the balance topics you are calling out are important to you. We want to stress that for PTS specifically, this is a functionality test only, ahead of the live test and the test overall is designed to prioritize game performance to see what is possible. For this functionality test on the PTS, we are focused on the questions in the first post. Remember, the core point of this test is to see how Cyrodiil performs overall in a barebones environment, rather than on class kit focus.

i11ionward;c-8256254

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggb3VnHce8M Not bad, please make the same animation speed on the live server too.

Hey, @i11ionward. Thanks for the video. Can you provide a little more context? Just so that our teams understand your point about the animation speed.

Just wanted to follow up here. We have passed this on to our team. The difficulty here is getting this issue to be reproduced internally to pinpoint the issue. But we will pass along the linked videos to try and narrow down the potential issue. Izar_Berning;d-667846

Its happening everywhere. I'm not in zone voice chat. Playstation 5 EU Server. Getting a small half a second of people talking. The persons name is showing up in the bottom right corner Players voice still there even when players voice is turned all the way down in audio settings. Also still the same on Playstation NA server. Had reports from other users its happening to them also, its super frustrating!

We've added feedback threads and bug report threads for both Cyrodiil Champions and Jester's Festival.

Please report any issues you run into while testing the Jester's Festival Event. In general, we prefer you to use /bug in-game but if you’d rather submit a report here, please give us as much information as possible, including screenshots and/or video if applicable. Thank you!

This is the official feedback thread for the Jester's Festival Event. Specific feedback that the team is looking for includes the following:

• How do you feel about item drop rate during this event?
• How did the event feel? Did you have fun playing this event type?
• Did anything not function to your expectations?
• Do you have any other general feedback?

Hey everyone! We wanted give you an update on how the PVP Q&A is coming along. As noted in the message above, we got a lot of thoughtful questions. There are so many we'd like to answer that we are going to split the Q&A into two parts, with the first part focusing on questions about the upcoming Cyrodiil Champions test on the live servers. There have been, understandably, many questions about that. Timing-wise for Part 1, we're looking at either next week or the week of Feb. 4. Part 2 of the Q&A will focus on more of the broad PVP questions, and follow the first batch. Thank you!