Xbox EU Cyrodiil Lag, Skills not firing.

Sn00ps · July 2023

During the first midyear mayhem event the entire server began experiencing extreme lag causing skills to not fire correctly, it takes around 5 pushes of a button to trigger one skill over a roughly 5 second period and then there is further delay in that skill even triggering on enemy players, this causes the game to become unplayable. This issue is being experienced by every single player on the server as is apparent from zone chat discussion as well as community discussion from guild chat, discord and xbox eso club chats. The player count has dropped drastically since this first became an issue, there was a two week period during the second midyear mayhem event where Zenimax managed to fix this issue and the server was working as normal again, however after the maintenance that occurred at the end of the most recent Midyear Mayhem event the lag has returned worse than ever, I am concerned that the player count will continue to drop as many players including myself refuse to take part in Cyrodiil alliance war when this level of lag is present because there is no joy to be had when the game does not function correctly. The situation is pretty desperate and I encourage anyone from Xbox EU to leave a comment below with your thoughts on the current lag in Cyrodiil so that we can draw more attention to this issue in the hope that Zenimax will be encouraged to fix the issue promptly. I hope to see this fixed as soon as possible as a member of the game since its first day of console release many years ago now, if any staff are able to escalate this issue to the development team after reading this I would be hugely grateful and it will be of benefit to the company and the player base to have this fixed as players will stay, play and pay for the game if it works correctly however currently sadly the Cyrodiil alliance war is completely unplayable and broken.

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Syiccal · July 2023

Its not just midyear Mayhem, it's been like that for years! I can't remember the last time I went to cyro other than for the monthly transmutes as its just unplayable most the time. Battlegrounds and imperial city are much better and have imo little to no lag making fights between players much more fun

Sn00ps · July 2023

Syiccal wrote: »

Its not just midyear Mayhem, it's been like that for years! I can't remember the last time I went to cyro other than for the monthly transmutes as its just unplayable most the time. Battlegrounds and imperial city are much better and have imo little to no lag making fights between players much more fun

Although there is typically some lag present in Cyrodiil historically, there is now a newer much more obvious amount of lag which is at a worse level than ever before and makes the game genuinally unplayable. Usually the game works much better than it currently does, something must have been broken on the backend during a maintenance or update.

Poss · July 2023

The lag was pretty much fixed after they had that unscheduled maintenance late one evening when we were all booted off the server. They needed to perform a reboot or something. Afterwards it was miraculously fixed all the way through the second event.

Alas, the maintenance this week (as we expected) reverted something and we’re back to how it was

Perhaps the devs just need to do the old ctrl + alt + delete every once in a while?

Mansquito · July 2023

Syiccal wrote: »

Its not just midyear Mayhem, it's been like that for years! I can't remember the last time I went to cyro other than for the monthly transmutes as its just unplayable most the time. Battlegrounds and imperial city are much better and have imo little to no lag making fights between players much more fun

Lag is definitely worse now than when 'normal' bad lag is occurring. We've become so used to the normal lag that we accept it, as the game is still somewhat playable. However, now the lag, similarly to the first mym event this year, has rendered the PvP unplayable and yet we still can't get any answer from anyone official,.they take money but treat this element of the customer base with utter contempt and it's exceptionally disappointing in my opinion.

Sn00ps · July 2023

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Bill @ZOS_Icy @ZOS_Adrikoth @ZOS_KaiSchober

Arrow312 · July 2023

After First MyM i stopped playing. I came Back a week ago. The First day cyro was OK and in the the next day it was the Same [snip] Like MyM.there is still No Date for the Upgrade and this state is unplayable and i don't get the point why so many ppl crying because of lag and all the Thing but still Join every day this broken game.many went to NA or quit but the amount of Players are still to high. It seems Like those ppl Love pain.

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Syiccal · July 2023

Jesus,, I just went in cryo , me and one ep on a farm..neither if use could use skills, no one else around for miles....

Sn00ps · July 2023

We need a response from the developers and more importantly a fix for the Cyrodiil server lag on Xbox EU

Arrow312 · July 2023

Latest answer was that they have no date for the Upgrade. I think we will get it around sep to dec. This could be to late to get player back from NA or bring player back. 1/2 year later then the others -.-

Mansquito · July 2023

It's not even the upgrade, there's just something fundamentally wrong with the server. I'm on now, 0 bars total and skills don't work lol. Have to press like 6 times with major rubberbanding as well. Disgraceful.

Arrow312 · July 2023

They need to rework the code. The upgrade will only be the first step. as I said this is hilarious me and my friends playin in Germany where the Server is and we have the same probs like you. meanwhile on NA Server we have nothing it works.

every months without the upgrade kills pvp more and more. Sometimes i want to play log in press the buttons and when it is like you said i log off because i dont want to play in this state of game anymore.

But as long as we have enough players play they will change nothing. Normally every PvP should take a break for one, two month an stop playing and pay for this.

We all write tickets give our feedback here and nothing happens...sometimes i think the only way ZOS understands is money and playing accounts.

Mansquito · July 2023

I'm just so annoyed. Spent hundreds if not a few thousand hours to grind sets and put money into the game, to play in Cyrodiil, only for them to just let it rot.

I wish they'd just let us transfer our stuff to NA. Honestly, the lack of response from them is disgraceful. I won't ever give my money to them again, not now, not in the future.

Arrow312 · July 2023

Mansquito wrote: »

I'm just so annoyed. Spent hundreds if not a few thousand hours to grind sets and put money into the game, to play in Cyrodiil, only for them to just let it rot.

And that is the answer why they don t transfer our accounts. I play since 2016 grinded several chars for pve and pvp. With the first MyM they broke me. before i thought ok it will be better server comes soon...but this event showed me "hey we just give a ....of you. Spend your money on Crown Store and ESO+ and [snip]".

How many threads we have only here for X EU performance, how many players point out what is wrong...any response? NOPE just phrases which say nothing.

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Sn00ps · July 2023

We dont even need the server upgrade as badly as we need a cyrodiil server fix. I will check the performance after the maintenance today and post here if there was any changes to the laggy unplayable state that the game has been in for the last couple of months but I doubt anything will have changed.

Arrow312 · July 2023

Last Time i need around 1 h from hey great to [snip]. Best/worse Case you Check it at Maingate when skills don't work

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Mansquito · July 2023

I think the annoying thing about this is in gam and on Discord, I have come across well over a hundred people who say the same, probably into the 2-300 region. All are experiencing the same thing and this is on just one alliance.

However, the feedback on the forums does not reflect this, the amount of hurdles you need to jump through in order to get on the forum in the first place is putting people off and therefor not giving a fair reflection of the outcry there is about the state of Cyrodiil.

So many have already quit and moved on, I REALLY want to but it's a great game when it's working, operative word being 'when'.

Sn00ps · July 2023

Still broken, skill delay and unbearable lag. @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Bill @ZOS_Icy @ZOS_Adrikoth @ZOS_KaiSchober Why do we never get a response or more importantly a fix for Cyrodiil server lag on Xbox EU? Please help

Arrow312 · July 2023

They are done with the Info that there is no date at the moment for the upgrade. Had heard that the lag is in Trials now, too.

We are just a few X EU PvP Player here because the most dont give feedback and just stop playing. I wish some of the Devs play on Primtime EU and see with her/his own eyes how the state is.

Was yesterday in IC for a short time there was nothing just npcs but still lag...

Sn00ps · July 2023

We need better communication from the developers as well as a fix for this Cyrodiil lag ASAP... Xbox EU will die eventually otherwise its currently on course to be dead within a year or so

Poss · July 2023

Or if they refuse to help us, fix the servers, or even acknowledge that we even exist then at least start the process of working towards na/eu cross platform play

Syiccal · July 2023

I think it's been somewhat dead or close to for a while, as I said I was on a resource with 0 bars across the board me and 1 ep and neither of us could hit the other as no skills could be pressed just light attacks (barely) I left cyro and went to Imperial City where I will always find small scale fights with zero lagg. I really don't understand why we are beating a dead horse with cyro when bg is decent imo and imperial city has zero lagg. What do you really get out of cryo, ask you self, if the answer Is pvp fights, why not do it where there is no lagg.

Lebkuchen · July 2023

Syiccal wrote: »

[...] I really don't understand why we are beating a dead horse with cyro when bg is decent imo and imperial city has zero lagg. [...]

Battegrounds are like the card game. They are cheap unfinished copies of other games.

Cyrodiil is unique and could be great. It's incomprehensible why they neglected this awesome game mode for so long and just let it die a slow and painful death. Cyrodiil had so much potential, and i will never forgive them for messing this up.

Poss · July 2023

Lebkuchen wrote: »

Cyrodiil is unique and could be great. It's incomprehensible why they neglected this awesome game mode for so long and just let it die a slow and painful death. Cyrodiil had so much potential, and i will never forgive them for messing this up.

I agree. There has never been, nor will there likely ever be, a gamemode quite like Cyrodiil.

Andeh_s · July 2023

Hopped on to see how Saturday night, prime time PvP was looking - 1/9 bars in Gray Host

Arrow312 · July 2023

Normal with this state. Not many want to Play with this delays and all the Others stuff or get kick by defense a keep

Poss · July 2023

Andeh_s wrote: »

Hopped on to see how Saturday night, prime time PvP was looking - 1/9 bars in Gray Host

Seemed alright today, lag wise. But the population is beginning to look kinda sad. Saw you bunny hopping in the distance at one point. Wisely chose to go the other way of course

Janni · July 2023

Syiccal wrote: »

I think it's been somewhat dead or close to for a while, as I said I was on a resource with 0 bars across the board me and 1 ep and neither of us could hit the other as no skills could be pressed just light attacks (barely) I left cyro and went to Imperial City where I will always find small scale fights with zero lagg. I really don't understand why we are beating a dead horse with cyro when bg is decent imo and imperial city has zero lagg. What do you really get out of cryo, ask you self, if the answer Is pvp fights, why not do it where there is no lagg.

If the entire population of Cyrodiil decided to play in IC instead of Cyrodiil I assure you that people will be asking why we put up with it when we could all just go to Cyrodiil because it never lags there.

Sn00ps · July 2023

The server is dyeing more and more every week, we really need a proper fix for the lag as well as some action to bring more players to the server. I feel the best solution would honestly be to offer a transfer to NA if its not going to be fixed considering how the player count has suffered irreparable damage already. @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Bill @ZOS_Icy @ZOS_Adrikoth @ZOS_KaiSchober Please give us something, any kind of response to at least let us know you are aware of the issues with the Cyrodiil server lag on Xbox EU...

seventy_kg · August 2023

at this point you should realize they just don't have the capacity to fix the lag, it's the structure of the servers and the netcode, they are outdated noodle codes
there will never be a fix for cyrodiil lag

Sn00ps · August 2023

seventy_kg wrote: »

at this point you should realize they just don't have the capacity to fix the lag, it's the structure of the servers and the netcode, they are outdated noodle codes
there will never be a fix for cyrodiil lag

Since the server upgrade last week there has been no lag at all, even in huge fights. Its been great! Come check out Xbox EU for yourself.