LFG Stress Test Today on PTS - 7/17 @ 2pm EDT

Zer0oo

Any kind of porting in a different zone will let you leave the queue (bg and dungeon)

Zer0oo

while being in the queue for a random normal i tried to que for cyro. It told be that i am on waiting potion 1 for cyro? (done from crag)

i had to port first since the que for cyro was stuck at one

Second time i got in cyro but again kicked from the dungeon que.

Ilsabet

Attempt 1:

First I queued on a CP 810 healer, assuming that a healer would get a group faster like it happens on Live. I queued for the following specific normal dungeons:

Fungal Grotto 1
Spindleclutch 1
Banished Cells 1
Darkshade Caverns 1
Wayrest Sewers 1
Arx Corinium
City of Ash 1

I sat in queue for half an hour and nothing happened, so I left the queue and joined it again to see if it would pop instantly like it did for someone else. It did not, so I left queue again after a minute.

Attempt 2:

I then switched to a level 28 DPS and queued for a random normal. The queue popped immediately, which I would not expect for a solo DPS. I hit ready, but the ready check stayed in notifications and the timer kept counting down. I spam clicked the checkmark for several seconds and was kicked to login.

Attempt 3:

Back on the level 28 DPS, I queued random normal and again got a ready check immediately. It did the same thing going to notifications after I hit accept. I hit the checkmark a few times and then waited. When the timer hit 0 seconds the ready check went away and I went back into queue. I let that sit for 5 minutes and then left queue.

Attempt 4:

Level 28 DPS. Queued random normal and immediately hit Alt to get out of the party window in case that made a difference. Ready check did not pop immediately. Was in queue for a minute before the "Stress Test Completed" system message came up. Left queue.

As for the OP questions:

Did you queue for random or specific dungeons?
Once for multiple specific normal dungeons, 3 times for random normal

Did you queue solo or in a premade?
Solo

Did you encounter any issues while queueing for a dungeon?
The queueing process was the same as it always was; the wait time was excessive for the healer but I don't know if that's just because there were relatively few people in the queue

Did you encounter any issues during the Ready Check?
Yes; the two times I got a ready check to pop, the notification did not seem to acknowledge my clicking accept and either kicked me to login when I clicked too many times or put me back into the queue with no error message after the timer ticked down

If a member of your group left during a dungeon, did you encounter any issues finding a replacement?
Didn't get that far

Did you encounter any issues when the dungeon completed?
Didn't get that far

Any additional comments or feedback?
I guess I can think of worse ways to waste 40 minutes, but it would have been nice to actually get into a dungeon for my trouble. The ready check staying in notification thing is a definite bug that needs to be addressed.

Cinbri

Zer0oo wrote: »

did Queue for a bg but i could not get any after 10min i gave up.

Random normal did work fine.

Bug:
getting in or out of cyro gets you out of the battleground que

patchnotes 5.1.1:
"Battlegrounds are currently unavailable while we test the new system. Note that it will appear as though you can queue for them, but you won't be transferred into the battleground."
So I guess it was straight dungeon test.

umagon

Did you queue for random or specific dungeons?
I queued for 1 random vet and 2 random normal dungeons.

Did you queue solo or in a premade?
Solo.

Did you encounter any issues while queueing for a dungeon?
No.

Did you encounter any issues during the Ready Check?
No.

If a member of your group left during a dungeon, did you encounter any issues finding a replacement?
It took a few minutes but the system did back fill missing group members.

Did you encounter any issues when the dungeon completed?
No.

Any additional comments or feedback?
In the Lair of Maarselok I forget its name but the one npc who drops seeds you have to run to the center hive didn’t drop a seed one time.

SeaUnicorn

Would have participated, but like many others at work. Stress testing should be done during prime time, for PCNA it's roughly 7pm est and 1am est. That's when I notice incease in cyro lag and overall more ppl online.

Auldjohn

code65536 wrote: »

You posted this only 1.5 hours before the test...

I live in PDT and just discovered the post at 1:35 PM PDT.

Glory

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

code65536 wrote: »

You posted this only 1.5 hours before the test...

All of this info was also in the very top of this week’s patch notes too.

"We’d encourage you to help us stress test this system on Wednesday, July 17 from 2-4pm EDT."

You even BOLDED it

heribertus

Did you queue for random or specific dungeons?
- Both, worked fine for normal

Did you queue solo or in a premade?
- With premade of 2 and 3, the group was formed on the first time

Did you encounter any issues while queueing for a dungeon?
- We queued for the same dungeon after we finished it, it didn't reset.
- We didn't find group with all vet DLC dungeons selected, but we found a group for random vet

Did you encounter any issues during the Ready Check?
- So far not, the first check put us directly into the loading screen

If a member of your group left during a dungeon, did you encounter any issues finding a replacement?
- We kicked one, got immediately a replacement. And one time we waited around 5 mins for a replacement

Did you encounter any issues when the dungeon completed?
- We queued for the same dungeon after we finished it, it didn't reset.

Any additional comments or feedback?
- I travelled to a player and we got kicked out of the queue (we didn't accept)

Blinkin8r

SaltySudd wrote: »

Is there going to be stress test which will be held during the prime time for NA? Most of us are going to be at work or in school at 2pm EST...

code65536 wrote: »

You posted this only 1.5 hours before the test...

Tommy_The_Gun wrote: »

Aren't you worried that people who downloaded PTS is maybe like less than 1% of player base ? What is the point of stress - test then ?

That's the point to everything above lulz

ZOS_RogerJ

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idk

code65536 wrote: »

You posted this only 1.5 hours before the test...

This, exactly.

Zos should be very keen that there is a much smaller population on the PTS to begin with. The short notice makes means the test will not have near the number of players queueing to demonstrate your fix is near successful.

On top of that the test is during EU prime time yet it is NA characters that are copied to the PTS which would also suggest a smaller population available during the test time.

Though I do see even with a smaller that required population errors are occurring.

Stebarnz

The traffic you will have received is not in any way a 'stress test' why does this community have to tell you this?

If you don't want this feedback call it a code test or group finder test but stress test means to handle traffic volume, this forum was always gonna call you on it.

ManwithBeard9

idk wrote: »

code65536 wrote: »

You posted this only 1.5 hours before the test...

This, exactly.

Zos should be very keen that there is a much smaller population on the PTS to begin with. The short notice makes means the test will not have near the number of players queueing to demonstrate your fix is near successful.

On top of that the test is during EU prime time yet it is NA characters that are copied to the PTS which would also suggest a smaller population available during the test time.

Though I do see even with a smaller that required population errors are occurring.

They announced it yesterday though . . .

Anethum

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Today from 2:00-4:00pm EDT on the PTS, we'll be stress testing the changes that are currently active for the Activity Finder, which will be published in a future update. During this time, we’ll be keeping a close eye on the LFG system and its behavior, and some of the development team will even be queueing for dungeons with you! Remember, while the UI itself looks the same visually, the backend has been completely rewritten. This rewrite should make the Activity Finder much more reliable, especially under heavy load. Please be sure to review the known issues listed here.

Throughout the test, simply use the LFG system to queue for dungeons. You can queue up and play them as you normally would on the Live megaserver; nothing fancy necessary. While you're doing this, please take note of any odd behaviors you see that don't match what you would expect, including both UI and queueing issues. Specific feedback that the team is looking for includes the following:

• Did you queue for random or specific dungeons?
• Did you queue solo or in a premade?
• Did you encounter any issues while queueing for a dungeon?
• Did you encounter any issues during the Ready Check?
• If a member of your group left during a dungeon, did you encounter any issues finding a replacement?
• Did you encounter any issues when the dungeon completed?
• Any additional comments or feedback?

For better result of such tests - good thing will be to give some rewards, maybe uniq ones special for testers for taking part in test. On Live server sure. Like Crates or Giveaways on Bethesda Live. Special costumes, mounts, personality. It will encourage people to kill space (90 gb current? And u need 180 free to able to install?) at PC with PTS client. And time with collecting different errors/new content bad things, high ping for EU players etc.
Without this - it's cool that very small minority of community coming to play at PTS (which I think is minority of minority presented at forum), but let's be honest u can't get enouch people there just on this.
It's not stress test.
Especially because of many years of forcing people to gamble with Crates, which is profitable ofc, but leave it's trace in community behaviour and trust to Company. It's a model.

Tester is a job. With payment, stressfull, routine work. Why beta tester isn't at least somehow in game, as I described above?

Morgul667

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

code65536 wrote: »

You posted this only 1.5 hours before the test...

All of this info was also in the very top of this week’s patch notes too.

LOL, as if this was a good excuse or a good way to entertain a stress test

Seriously ZOS please stop taking your players for idiots

The idea is good but you are messing it up with bad communication and bad management (as usual)