What's wrong with this picture? A somewhat interesting PvP glitch ...

SirAndy

I've been playing this game for over a year now but this is the first time i had it bug out on me in this particular way.

I have been 'desynced' from the server before but normally the client and server will notice the lack of communication and throw you back to the login screen after a few minutes.

Last night however was different. We had been fighting around Faregyl (on Chillrend, playing for AD) and after getting some pretty bad lag all enemy players suddenly vanished.
I was sure i would be bumped back to the login screen soon, but to my surprise that never happened.

I kept running around and noticed that *ALL* interactive objects in the world were gone! No players, no NPCs, no mobs, no material nodes, no flags or guards at the enemy resources (see attached screenshot), all gone.
Anything that wasn't static was gone.


I ran around for over half an hour just exploring Cyrodiil to see what was missing and how far i could get.



As you can see in the image, the (enemy) flag and guards are missing.

k9mouse

You crated and visited a plane of Oblivion! You are Goddess of your own world!

Delvick

I got one of those

Merlin13KAGL

Interesting. We had a slightly different version of this about a week or two ago, except it was World Pause.

Everything stopped. Animations continued (magelight, etc), but everyone, well, everyone but you, was in suspended animation.

You could not use skills. You could not use weapons.

You could neither cause nor take damage or healing.

You could walk around, get in between the sorc casting shards and his intended target.

You could walk out to that far ledge on the postern wall and see that VR12 enemy DK with his shields, both physical and magical, in place waiting do fend off the three allies that had spotted him.

Siege weapons were in mid launch. Some only moment from being set aflame.

It was surreal.

After about 10 minutes, had to Alt F4 it, but it was interesting, in a broken kind of way, while it lasted.

Epona222

That happens to me occasionally - the cause is usually my husband turning his PC on and downloading or uploading something at full whack, causing me to be disconnected.

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO

The same thing happened to me in PvE in Stonefalls the other day. The world was empty for several minutes after I respawned at a wayshrine. However, I was thrown to the login screen after I ran far across the desolate landscape and entered a city. I suspect I had a total loss of communication with the server for a while.

driosketch

I had this happen to me weeks ago while trying to capture Ash on the Non-Vet. I was able to just stroll inside with no guards or players to hassle me. Unfortunately there were also no flags to cap.

Rodario

SirAndy wrote: »

As you can see in the image, the (enemy) flag and guards are missing.

Your clothes have also gone missing!

Elsterchen

Had this happen during beta-testing... but I was able to collect runes, and other crafting materials (so some interactables were still there), but no other players or NPCs. :-)

KariTR

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

Interesting. We had a slightly different version of this about a week or two ago, except it was World Pause.

Everything stopped. Animations continued (magelight, etc), but everyone, well, everyone but you, was in suspended animation.

You could not use skills. You could not use weapons.

You could neither cause nor take damage or healing.

You could walk around, get in between the sorc casting shards and his intended target.

You could walk out to that far ledge on the postern wall and see that VR12 enemy DK with his shields, both physical and magical, in place waiting do fend off the three allies that had spotted him.

Siege weapons were in mid launch. Some only moment from being set aflame.

It was surreal.

After about 10 minutes, had to Alt F4 it, but it was interesting, in a broken kind of way, while it lasted.

I had that happen to me last week, it was incredibly awesome, not least because it happened in one of the largest and evenly matched battles I have been involved in.

As you say, to see everyone else frozen in time, mid swing/cast was totally surreal. I only wished I could have filmed it.

What really struck me was, despite the chaos of 'live' battle, the frozen in time version showed there is actually more organisation and focus than is apparent. I was incredibly impressed with both sides

SirAndy

Rodario wrote: »

Your clothes have also gone missing!

Nope, all there, you just have to look a bit harder.

Hint: Her name is Likes-Her-Shackles ...

TheBull

Happened to me once. I tried to cap flags lol. Guards would see me and I'd run back in the wall, well were the wall was supposed to be.

Surfinginhawaii

Running around in your underwear and shackles, what a tease