Undaunted Event – Activity Finder Feedback

crimeanerevar928b14_ESO · January 2020

This isn't about the activity finder in particular but I'd imagine the changes to the LFG, or the load on it, are a possible cause of this.

I've been hit with massive load screens. The load screen into Summerset (a populated area), wasn't so bad, but I had a load screen hang twice when trying to port into vet Maelstrom Arena (on the PC-NA server). It's to the point that I cannot get my weekly vMA runs done. I don't know how the changes or the amount of stress on the servers or what-not is affecting it and I'm not sure if it's on my end (I've always had so many bad load screens lately), but there it is.

Thanks for looking into this! I love ESO and want it to thrive, and these loadscreens are making it hard for me to do the things that I enjoy the most.

~ Dreams

Bloodraven187 · January 2020

Queue times seem faster, groups are coming more reliably. but if I DC at any time during a dungeon I get error 304 for at least 5 minutes. every time

DBZVelena · January 2020

Bloodraven187 wrote: »

Queue times seem faster, groups are coming more reliably. but if I DC at any time during a dungeon I get error 304 for at least 5 minutes. every time

log in to the other side of the server divide if that happens. So if you get 304 on EU. log in to NA. And then back in to EU. Or if you're on NA, log in to EU and then log in to NA.

This forces a account log out on the other side. thus letting you re-login.

And no, you don't need an extra account to do this. Any account can log in to both server sides. You simply only have toons on the side you normally play.

hackdrag0n · January 2020

Queued for a random normal this morning on my DPS. After 20 minutes the que popped, I hit accept, then it booted me out of the queue and told me I couldn't rejoin the queue because "you or a member of your group has queued too recently". While the tool seems to have improved a lot it still has some issues.

Mainman99 · January 2020

Detailed summary of the issue - Crash
Were you queuing solo or with other people? - Solo, 15-20 min
What took place prior to the issue? (possible ways to reproduce the issue - ) Chesthunting in Rivenspire
Platform/megaserver PC/EU
Include any screenshots/videos you have - nope crashed completely
Any additional comments or feedback? - I actually have worse soloqueue now as DPS since your "Fix"

kind_hero · January 2020

12 January 2020 10:00 PM GMT, gave up after 1:50 hours in que for a random normal.

I got a pop once after one hour and 20 minutes, but quickly dissapeared before I could react

IsharaMeradin · January 2020

Around 10 something Central time today (01-11-2020) I queued for a random vet dungeon as a damage dealer. I expected it to take some time. Maybe 5~10 minutes later I got the ready check. I pressed ready, got added to the team but did not get ported in. Seeing the other three were taking damage, I surmised that the dungeon was in progress and I was to replace someone who was kicked or disconnected. I could not port to them. It would try and then tell me that the instance was full. After a couple attempts of that, the system gave up and simply told me that I could not port to any of those players.

I explained what was going on in chat, left the group and waited out my penalty for leaving even tho I never actually made it to the dungeon.

I have no idea if any of this is specifically an issue with the dungeon finder or something else entirely. Sharing it nonetheless in case that it is dungeon finder related.

Alienoutlaw · January 2020

PC EU Pre-made group

queue for Vet load in to a normal
stuck in Activity complete have to disband and regroup
can still wait up to 5mins for load in at peak times

Solo Queue
Random Vet- up to 45min wait (dd)
Random Normal up to 1hr (dd)

VelimOrthic · January 2020

Lots of game log outs. Also got stuck in a stairway. I'm still attempting to get unstuck from the stairs after several full game re-logins.

Davadin · January 2020

first issue this weekend. full raid group starting nSS.

walked into courtyard. +999 ping. game crashed. can't login. can't find server.

did the hamsters died?

Cirantille · January 2020

Got kicked from server, now can't log in.

Getting different errors each time..................

FrancisCrawford · January 2020

I've used it once, Saturday evening. It worked as intended. I queued as a healer for what was surely a popular choice (vBC, which both gave an extra style page and was a pledge of the day). The queue popped in under 10 minutes. The group formed smoothly on the first try.

This was on PC/NA.

SmukkeHeks · January 2020

Besides the random wait-times, anything from 5 min (acceptable) to one and a half hour (not acceptable), the weapon swap thing seems to follow me from Cyrodiil. Now it’s wherever there are more than two opponents. Abilities doesn’t go off either.

But thankfully I do have the light attack’s - what would I do without the possibility to pew-pew-pew my way out of a fight!

zaria · January 2020

PC-EU First day, just after event started, queued as tank for vet pledge. Had to drop and queue again 3 times. After doing first pledge one dd dropped out we queued again. Had to drop and re-queue 3 times again.
Friday around 17:00 CET solo queue as tank nFg1, instant invite.
Saturday 15:30 normal pledges, 2 then 3 players, unable to get in by finder so we ported in.

In short mixed

FierceSam · January 2020

PC EU.

Queue as a group, pretty much instant

Queue as a dd for a normal random -

15 min wait, give up requeue

15 min wait, give up requeue

Rinse and repeat,... queue never popped

It seems OK at creating instances and pretty useless at actually finding groups - no hefties for me

It hasn’t killed the server, but it hasn’t enabled me to do any dungeons without a premade group

A very small step forward

redgreensunset · January 2020

PC/EU

Yesterday (Saturday 11th) I queued up for normal on my Argonian magplar healer at around 5pm CEST. Spent about 12 minutes in queue before leaving, lassoed three guildies and queued us up as a group. Spent 2-3 minutes in queue as a full group with nothing popping, removed us from queue without issue, requeued us and it popped in two seconds.
Further while we were grouped but before I queued us up the first time we all got a ready check which none of us initiated.

Today (Sunday 12th) I queued up for random normal on the same character at around 12pm CEST. Queue popped before I even closed the queuing window.

grkkll · January 2020

PC EU
CP190 tank

FG1 Specific dungeon

working perfectly, virtually instant dungeon

Jannisaries · January 2020

PC/NA qued as dps on both my accounts 8-10 min wait each time. No problems.

I haven't noticed any lag spikes or long load screens.

Cheers

HansK · January 2020

Worked as intended for me all weekend. As a dd queue times were sometimes a tad long, 15-30 minutes. I suspect them to be better as a healer or tank. No difference between NA and EU that I could see.

So congrats ESO, seems you nailed it this time.

DonRavello · January 2020

PC/EU:

Did about 20 quick normal Fungal Grotto 1 runs with a full group via dungeon finder. It worked like a charm.

So finally, I think, the main bugs in the dungeon finder were fixed. Congratulations!

Don

FierceSam · January 2020

PC EU

Long (10 min minimum) queues throughout the day for random as single, low level dd. Not sure if this is a Group Finder issue or just supply and demand of dds, tanks and healers of various levels.

Significantly fewer “you or one of your party declined the invite” error messages.. so once the group was collected, it seemed to be working better than previously

4 player premades got an instant pop using both ‘random normal dungeon’ and select a dungeon (where 2 vet dungeons were selected).

I did not use it as much as I expected due to not finding the Undaunted Event rewards very... rewarding. A view that appeared to be held by many of my guildies.

It hasn’t crashed, overloaded the server and ruined everyone’s game weekends. So hopefully something to build on.

Gratz all round.

As an aside, I found the ‘this is a real in-game live test’ concept refreshing.

unchainedzulu · January 2020

pre-formed group. queued and popped within seconds. loaded the dungeon quickly. no issues for us. PC NA.

Smaxx · January 2020

Queued with 2 players on Saturday for a selected set of dungeons (Tank + Healer), almost instantly got a Ready Check, us both and one DD confirming. The second DD never confirmed nor did we get a timeout or anything. It just got stuck. We couldn't disband the group nor could we stop queuing or leave the queue. Had to relog for the status to reset.

shalalaA7X · January 2020

Xbox na. Will be talking in group chat prior to queuing. As soon as the que pulls you into a load screen you loose group chat until you land. Then when you land often someone completely looses group chat.

Ethan312 · January 2020

Detailed summary of the issue
Just queued solo as a healer for a random normal, queue popped immediately and ended up in Arx Corinium but with only 1 other group member (a DD). Immediately I tried to queue for replacements (I was crown) but wasn't given the option. After a couple of groups of enemies, I tried again and was able to queue for replacements this time. After the 1st boss I noticed we were no longer queued, but no one else had been added to the group, so I queued for replacements again. Throughout the rest of the dungeon I had to requeue us a total of 4 times, it kept removing us from the queue but no one was ever added to our group. We completed the dungeon just the two of us.

Were you queuing solo or with other people?
Solo

What took place prior to the issue? (possible ways to reproduce the issue)
Had just completed 3 other random normals with same character with no problems at all with dungeon finder. All were just queuing solo as a healer.

Platform/megaserver
PC/NA

Include any screenshots/videos you have
Any additional comments or feedback?
N/A

Dawnblade · January 2020

Used it a few times Sat, most worked well enough - though queue times seemed high (~30 minutes, some a bit longer).

I did get one occurrence of the 'someone has declined the invite' loop, ultimately ending with my character no longer queued.

Used it a few times this morning, worked fine - queue times were short (less than ten minutes) and no issues.

Also the increased timer before getting booted from instance is nice, was able to complete several quests that normally would be impossible when players dropped as soon as last boss died.

On the other hand, unless I'm missing something, it doesn't appear one can get ported back to where they were without waiting out the timer (though can just port somewhere of course).

jazsper77 · January 2020

PS4 NA. RAN 4 accts every day as DPS with no issues. Longest Que 7mins, no issues.

Araneae6537 · January 2020

NA PC server

For most of the event, I queued solo for vet random or pledge dungeons and did not experience any problems.

However, last night I grouped with a friend to queue for random normals and we twice experienced the problem where we were interminably stuck in the queue:
The first instance was proceeded by a ready check that seemed to last extra long but the other DPS did not click ready so returned to queue. After waiting a while (>15 min), we left queue, requeue and got an instant pop.
The second time, we had just completed a dungeon and queued for another after the other two players had left the group. Again, we waited in queue for a long time. We left queue, reformed group and then requeued and got instant pop.

MrLenny · January 2020

Tried several times with my friend on PC EU ( tank and heal)

it worked maybe once within reasonable time, the other times we waited 45 minutes and still got nothing
at one point we even had a group of 4 and it still took the activity finder 10 minutes to find us a dungeon.

very disappointed considering the event barely lasted half a week

merevie · January 2020

Day 1 did not go well. 45min queue on heals twice -gave up both times.
Day 2-4 went with premade friends to avoid trouble -worked fine. (dps/heals)
Day 5 back to public queue -got in right away (3 declines but all very fast in succession) (heals)
PC NA