ZOS, Massive Spike in Ping/LAG in Recent Days - What Gives?

LadyGP

Yeah this game has gotten to such a disgusting state and the amount of time it takes to get even the most basic update from ZoS is just.... insanely unacceptable if I'm being blunt.

silky_soft

So after maintenance.

Because melee heavy attacks are not heatseaking from range they are still broken. Ambush is constantly pooping instead of moving, even from close range with no Z interference. My skills are still not going to the tab highlighted player and some random person that's off the screen.

Had a good one today when a nb direct 90 to my right came out of cloak and my ice staff shot him instead of the guy in melee range.

KaironBlackbard

Imperial City is dead on Xbox.
Pact toon went in and got 800 tel var easy as pie. Not a single player in the sewers.

Aldmeri on PC on the other hand... Ran into half a dozen players roaming the sewers. One guy even followed me almost to the center trisection of the sewers.

Both are the CP variants.

silky_soft

Just did a bg and was getting micro sutters. Like when you use eso to take a screenshot and it locks up your whole pc. 3 Other people in the game reported the same. This didnt happen before the patch.

Seravi

Just canceled my subscription. Ten years and it's now over. Hope they fix this for you guys/gals.

Destai

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

LadyGP wrote: »

Any updates on this? I know you were still working on an update @ZOS_Kevin to get the other questions answered.

No update yet. I've been told folks are reviewing questions to answer, but nothing else.

Where are they with getting our questions answered? Again, just looking for a status on what's been previously tested, what's being currently testing, and what the internal priority/severity is. Can we please get that in a status update? These are pretty standard fare questions in the professional world. If you're actively working on something, it should be pretty straightforward to detail what that effort is.

CrazyKitty

Seravi wrote: »

Just canceled my subscription. Ten years and it's now over. Hope they fix this for you guys/gals.

I cancelled after over 8 years of continuous sub when U35 went live. It made me realize how little I was getting out of the sub to begin with, and took a lot of the edge off of dealing with so many bugs and AI generated customer service.

Sarannah

davidtk wrote: »

I think I have to try to play again after a long time on NA server.
I stopped just because of a lot of problems with lags and non-functioning abilities.

I've had the experience of having ability lags in ESO where simply the ability wouldn't fire, the lightning staff wouldn't fire either (some LA and most of HA). Everything else like other MMOs and stuff worked fine. Only ESO had a problem.
I thought it was a problem with either the game or my ISP. I had a router from Asus RT-AC58U V2 (when the wife made pars on dummy unplayable for both, disconnects) and from Tenda AC-10 (ability lags and occasional disconnects but playable pars or trials together), so for the needs of my own big home network (little nerd home so) I was looking for a better router and went the route of an expensive Mikrotik. All the problems with the ESO disappeared. Even loading screen are shorter.
I honestly don't fully understand it, anyway I'm playing on an EU server where everything works miraculously.
Anyway my devices can't be compared to each other, I still have to try traceroute to NA and EU servers and try to play on NA server.

Have suggested getting a gaming router to many players having issues already, if they have those types of issues. But noone ever believes the solutions I give them, giving some poor excuses like "other programs work fine" or "my specs are higher than recommended". Not realizing they are comparing apples to oranges, and that MMO's and gaming is a whole other beast.

Checked the specs on these Mikrotik routers and the other two you listed, and unlike your previous two these Mikrotik routers all have RAM(and cpu)! Meaning they are actually gaming routers!
The difference between these types of gaming routers and other routers comes down to this: The ESO client expects data in realtime, to show it on your screen directly and to know you are connected to the server. This goes for both internet data as well as graphical data. In the case of internet data, if the ESO client does not receive this data it will disconnect you, thinking you are no longer connected to the ESO server. When your router cannot process the packetload(internet data) fast enough or at all, it will discard the packets or stop sending them. Meaning the ESO client will not receive the data it should have received and expected to receive. The ESO client not receiving the data it needs/wants, means the client thinks you are no longer connected, and will disconnect you. By disconnecting you, the ESO client forces you to re-login, syncing the client with the server again.
Now the gaming router: When the gaming router gets overloaded with too many packets(internet data), instead of discarding those packets or not sending those packets to the ESO client at all, it will put them in queue(RAM) for sending to the ESO client. Due to adding these to a queue for sending, it will slightly increase your ping under (very) high packetloads, but it will not disconnect you. Afterall, the ESO client expects latency and will always still receive those packets. Due to the client constantly still receiving all the packets it needs, it has no reason to disconnect you. But under heavy load and extreme load, your ping will go up slightly(30-50ms), due to your packets being placed in a queue and being sent a little 'late'.
Note: Your second router disconnected you fewer times, because it had better specs. Meaning even under high load, it performed somewhat better than your first router. The lag you noticed, were the packets being sent to the ESO client too late, but they were mostly still being received by the client. Causing some delays and the occasional disconnect still, but overall a better experience than with your first router.

MMO's and gaming requires strong gaming routers, gaming routers should be a recommended spec for ESO(and other games).

PS: Do with this information what you must/want!
PPS: Do not forget to assign bandwidth for each device, to prevent one device choking another's connection.
PPPS: A fast connection is not a stable connection, these are two different things.