Is there an actual plan to address the lag?

Dreth · April 2019

Coming back after about a year break and wondering how I ever dealt with this. Been playing another open world PVP MMO and holy crap ESO feels terrible comparatively. Skills, bar swapping, rubberbanding...its a complete mess. I came back excited for the Elsweyr changes but wow this completely killed any hype I had.

frostz417 · April 2019

Lmfao no

kpittsniperb14_ESO · April 2019

Faction lock will fix the lag, dead servers= no lag

Gilvoth · April 2019

what mmo were you playing?

FleetwoodSmack · April 2019

No ETA

Plasma_Elf · April 2019

Hoping that making Imperial City its own instance will help things!

Honestly though, I think the lag will be with us for quite some time.

Alomar · April 2019

No, no, no, and oh btw no.

[snip] Example: Look at the combat bugs we have to deal with that were fixed 3 years ago and are now unfixed, look at the list of 50+ bugs in Cyrodiil that have been there for years, and look at how often permanent load screens is either fixed or unfixed based on the patch.

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Minno · April 2019

Alucardo wrote: »

kpittsniperb14_ESO wrote: »

Faction lock will fix the lag, dead servers= no lag

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Agreed. We also haven't seen the patch notes too so we don't know if they are making changes to cyro/ic for performance. They do like to sneak those in.

But if you all really want to fix lag, get off the zerglane with your earthgore/proc sets and stop slotting 3x defense sets and start dying [snip]
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Nerftheforums · April 2019

After 5 years of server issues we finally got login queues for pc EU. They'll come soon for pc NA.

What's your guess? After 5 years of performance decreasing steadily, what do you think?

Minno · April 2019

Nerftheforums wrote: »

After 5 years of server issues we finally got login queues for pc EU. They'll come soon for pc NA.

What's your guess? After 5 years of performance decreasing steadily, what do you think?

Lol they gave us an ETA on the server que/upgrades. [snip]

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Dreth · April 2019

Gilvoth wrote: »

what mmo were you playing?

GW2. They have their own issues with lag but it is nothing close to this.

Trying to weave was completely pointless and my death would be preceded by 2 seconds of me just not being able to move before I am brought to a death screen.

kpittsniperb14_ESO · April 2019

Alucardo wrote: »

kpittsniperb14_ESO wrote: »

Faction lock will fix the lag, dead servers= no lag

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Thanks for your input, my idiotic, ridiculous and baseless comment is from past experience when the servers were faction locked and all servers were dead apart from the single main campaign that had enough population to ensure that one faction was unable to completely dominate and gate camp the other two 24/7 until they simply logged off in frustration. This led to additional pop coming into the campaign for the winning faction and a giant sucking sound as the remainder of the underpopulated factions went elsewhere leading to......wait for it...….DEAD SERVERS. One could hardly argue with a straight face that we have a larger population in pvp now than before One Tamriel, so I hardly think that we'll see a different outcome from trying the same thing. Idiotic comment, no...baseless, no....ridiculous, no.....a proven track record, unfortunately yes. And I did not state that anyone would quit, but they will hump the single campaign that provides some balance ensuring that campaign will be a lagfest 24//7 with a constant queue.

But I get it, you are for faction locks and think it will solve all problems that plague your played server and platform of choice and unwilling to acknowledge that there will be unintended consequences. A better solution would have been to demand population control mechanics and/or a reasonable cooldown on switching factions.

But this thread is about lag and I've derailed it, so I'll stand by my original post thank you very much.

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Alucardo · April 2019

kpittsniperb14_ESO wrote: »

But I get it, you are for faction locks and think it will solve all problems that plague your played server and platform of choice and unwilling to acknowledge that there will be unintended consequences. A better solution would have been to demand population control mechanics and/or a reasonable cooldown on switching factions.

But this thread is about lag and I've derailed it, so I'll stand by my original post thank you very much.

There's going to be consequences regardless of what they do. If they do nothing, then people will continue to exploit and profit from being able to swap alliances at will. If they add the faction lock, then it may significantly alter populations - who knows?
But yes, it's my belief that it's the better of the two evils. One thing I can't stand in online gaming is exploitation.

kpittsniperb14_ESO · April 2019

Alucardo wrote: »

kpittsniperb14_ESO wrote: »

But I get it, you are for faction locks and think it will solve all problems that plague your played server and platform of choice and unwilling to acknowledge that there will be unintended consequences. A better solution would have been to demand population control mechanics and/or a reasonable cooldown on switching factions.

But this thread is about lag and I've derailed it, so I'll stand by my original post thank you very much.

There's going to be consequences regardless of what they do. If they do nothing, then people will continue to exploit and profit from being able to swap alliances at will. If they add the faction lock, then it may significantly alter populations - who knows?
But yes, it's my belief that it's the better of the two evils. One thing I can't stand in online gaming is exploitation.

Emperor was swapped from day 1, AP boosting was done from day 1, stealing scrolls was done from day 1...with faction locks. Your problems may not be as blatant after the lock as before but they will still be there. I understand that EU servers have different issues than NA, PC from Console etc and I don't mean to minimize anyone's concerns however, blaming players for developer short sightedness and asking for lazy fixes isn't the right way to go about it. How about we all get together and demand actual fixes like population balancing mechanics? I really don't want to derail this guy's thread further so we'll just agree to disagree here.

MalakithAlamahdi · May 2019

Lag is never going away. It's been laggy like hell for years. [snip]

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Mr_Walker · May 2019

I like you OP, you make me laugh!

frozywozy · May 2019

As I mentioned in a different thread, I have kept track of any communication from ZOS regarding Cyrodiil performances very closely. Since Summerset got released more than 8 months ago, there has been only one post in the Alliance War section of the forums addressing something different than TOS violations and it was not even regarding performances.

Only very recently during some live streams introducing Elsweyr, Rich Lambert had a brief approach regarding an upcoming project to address Cyrodiil performances by taking a look at terrain rendering and anything related to a character. It was told that this would be a long term goal and could take between 8 to 10 months to see any results.

Although it is always appreciated to hear back from ZOS about Cyrodiil performances, in my book, they have alot more to accomplish and to communicate before they get any sort of forgiveness and understanding from me. Going dark for 8months is absolutely unacceptable and disrespectful toward the entire community.

Turelus · May 2019

From my understanding they want to, and they have some ideas. I don't know if they have a fixed plan they're working on to address it though.

Haashhtaag · May 2019

Basically every expansion they promise performance fixes yet never deliver. Gotta keep the hope up to sell those expansions

Ghostbane · May 2019

Lag
127.0.0.1
Port 10800

Dear Sir / Madam,

idk · May 2019

Matt himself said Zos was "killing it". Not sure what you guy see as a problem. No lag, PC/EU is operating smoothly and GF is working perfectly.

As long as we have Matt's genius mind on the job these great days will just get better. He is the source of all these good and perfect functioning game servers we have.

UppGRAYxDD · May 2019

idk wrote: »

Matt himself said Zos was "killing it". Not sure what you guy see as a problem. No lag, PC/EU is operating smoothly and GF is working perfectly.

As long as we have Matt's genius mind on the job these great days will just get better. He is the source of all these good and perfect functioning game servers we have.

Ohh they "Killing It".... like with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire...

As for performance, The current engine is old.. it was old at game release... We're not going to see any major changes til the next iteration of ESO is released coinciding with the release of the next gen consoles in 2021/2022 or later. They're not going to spend the money when they could just milk the crown store till then..