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

Sluggy

It's just nonstop. One out of every five button presses is ignored. Half of my skills can be cancelled with a block or a roll dodge. And I get disconnected about four times an hour even on an empty map.

cptscotty

Yeah the lag is starting to pick back up now that the PvP event is live. Noticing it again in non-pvp areas as well.

DragonRacer

Figured I'd pop in here with my experience. For me, lag hasn't been too much out of the norm. I play on PS5 NA wireless connection Comcast for ISP. in a city, so not out in the boondocks on a spotty connection I occasionally have disconnects from ESO at the worst possible time - about once a run during vMA although I did manage to finally get Flawless Conqueror and sometimes when I am (coincidentally, I suppose) leading a ToT match, which that is kinda weird considering it shouldn't be very resource/bandwidth heavy given it's a card game? But boots are generally back to the main title screen with the usual random error code about lost connection which diagnoses nothing.

However, things I have noticed very specifically:

- Cannot say when it started, may have been back in May, but heavy attacks with a lightning staff are extraordinarily unreliable. Sometimes they will occasionally fire when I focus my aiming reticule on an enemy. More frequently, the attack will start and then stop midway through for no reason. Or will start the attack animation and then immediately stop. Or will fire backwards at an enemy behind me or beside me instead of the one currently eating my face off that I'm aiming at. It just makes no sense.

- Ever since its inception: Infinite Archive around Arc 2-3 gets so laggy, alone with a companion or with a friend, that it's nearly PowerPoint Slideshow levels of laggy

- Since the beginning of time: hitting up on the D-Pad to activate a Tri-Crown potion takes mashing the button frantically approximately 84 billion times during combat. About 25% of the time, it will finally register and restore my stats. 75% of the time, it acts like I am not pressing any buttons, I die, then it activates and wastes a potion after I am dead. That is nothing new but worth pointing out that it is an unending pipedream of mine that this work reliably some day.

- Since the July 24th patch SPECIFICALLY - lag when hitting buttons to cast skills. Sometimes I have to mash a skill 3-4 times before it will actually go off. This did not used to be a problem before this week's patch. I keep my controllers are fully charged and both relatively new (as, sadly, PS5 controllers do have to be replaced a lot because stick drift nightmare is so, so real if you game frequently), so it is not an error on controller input.

- As soon as Whitestrake's Mayhem started yesterday: final phase (having completed all three portal room mini-bosses) of final boss fight in Vateshran Hollows just boots me whenever I try. Granted, I only tried twice back to back and then gave up in frustration, and have not attempted again since. Videos of the disconnects in this thread: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/663029/vet-vateshran-hollows-final-boss-phase-bugged

SeaUnicorn

Photosniper89 wrote: »

SeaUnicorn wrote: »

MYM, brace yourselves, gamers. And One More Clash on weekend. Servers are not going to have fun times this week

honestly mym servers tend to be better. I think they boost em a bit rss wise.

Yep, at the expense of PvE performance, so us, trial enjoyers get to relive Marakarth and Harrowstorm DLC during this exciting time of the year.

FadeShade

I very much wish they would invest in more hardware. This reallocation of resources just does not seem to work very well at all for any players.

I looked forward to trying this pvp event out but it is very hard when even logging in seems to take much longer.

cptscotty

Woah...the lag is really bad tonight. What is going on?!

Cant complete a single Battleground without insane issues going on. Its getting to the point every match I get into now people just type in group chat about the insane lag and to just let the others win because we cant do anything.

Example....multiple times in the last match I just did a player on one team was able to damage a teammate repeatedly as I healed them. Kept them healed up, we stepped outside the mob of players to run away and a second or so later all that damage came in at once and blew them up without anyone near them. 35k+ nukes going off as people are skipping around the screen.

The ping is not even in the red...its 83 average...still a huge amount of lag in pvp making the event very hard to do.

ragnarok6644b14_ESO

I still think moving all the combat calculations server-side to support Stadia was one of the worst decisions ZOS ever made.

And I think U35 trying to undo some of it (and other attempts to move how the server does calculations now that Stadia is dead) makes for unpredictable performance.

dcrush

So far I’ve played for about 15 mins and spent 25 mins waiting to log back in after several disconnects. This joke is getting worse all the time.

tronco01

I don't know what is going on, but now I am getting lag spikes outside Cyrodiil. too. Usually I had lag spikes when moving to a new area, so it is not normal I am having these spike in the regular PVE areas after being there for a while already: skills not activating, etc. The game is becoming unplayable. What gives?

jaekobcaed

I haven't noticed much lag but I have noticed that it takes way too long to go from the login screen to the character select screen and I'm not sure why. It only seemed to start doing this for me since Gold Road launched.

thinkaboutit

Why don't they just put PVP on different servers...

Four_Fingers

thinkaboutit wrote: »

Why don't they just put PVP on different servers...

They obviously don't have the budget for it.

Photosniper89

SeaUnicorn wrote: »

Photosniper89 wrote: »

SeaUnicorn wrote: »

MYM, brace yourselves, gamers. And One More Clash on weekend. Servers are not going to have fun times this week

honestly mym servers tend to be better. I think they boost em a bit rss wise.

Yep, at the expense of PvE performance, so us, trial enjoyers get to relive Marakarth and Harrowstorm DLC during this exciting time of the year.

It's okay, we have had brutal lag and performance in ESO for the past 7 years during the "Non- MYM" times.

Let us have our small win.

Photosniper89

ragnarok6644b14_ESO wrote: »

I still think moving all the combat calculations server-side to support Stadia was one of the worst decisions ZOS ever made.

And I think U35 trying to undo some of it (and other attempts to move how the server does calculations now that Stadia is dead) makes for unpredictable performance.

Couldn't agree with this more. Yes, it can bring in some cheating aspects but then ZOS needs to improve their cheat detection software or just out right buy something.

linuxhell

Solution: make SA server
This way it relieves the NA server and leaves South American players with much better ping (instead of 190-230 ping we would have a maximum of 110-130 or less than that)

Photosniper89

rubberbanding is back @ZOS_Kevin full on 3-5 seconds lock up then fast fwd.

Just_Attivi

Though officially, its been 84 days, but the meme fits and the ships sunk.

I see people saying performance wasnt terrible, but last night in Evergloam was a slide show with 1-2 bar pops and a fight of only 5 EP (with emp) and 12 AD.

Just_Attivi

PS i love crashing everytime theres any sort of real fight. best pvp event ever! /s

blktauna

My new favourite (not) is the return of everyone standing still and me attacking for about a 5 gcd then everyone suddenly at triple speed doing whatever it was they were doing. Soon followed by incredible stutter lag.

cptscotty

blktauna wrote: »

My new favourite (not) is the return of everyone standing still and me attacking for about a 5 gcd then everyone suddenly at triple speed doing whatever it was they were doing. Soon followed by incredible stutter lag.

Wait till you try and prevent someone from capturing a relic in a BG and you shield bash them repeatedly...then all of a sudden they are gone with the relic.

Photosniper89

It's soooo freaking bad tonight. I wish they would have had maintenance and let the servers take a bit of a nap today. @ZOS_Kevin can we get an update? It's been a hot minute.

cptscotty

Half my guild just got booted from the game just now, all doing different things from pvp, to dungeons, to housing projects.

Error 103

cptscotty

Kind of weird that when we logged back in...we were all in the instance we left instead of getting booted. Thats a first. Even back into another persons house and into a cyrodil campaign without having to requeue

huskandhunger

999+ ping, ruff

Photosniper89

Yeah, last night there were mass crashes throughout all the factions. You'd see like 30 EP/DC just standing still and it went from crazy fights to a lot of like 1v1s in the court yards.

thinkaboutit

Maybe its time to tap in Phil Spencer?

M33tr3

@ZOS_Kevin its been almost a MONTH since the last "update" from you. what is going on?

React

@ZOS_Kevin

PC/NA. 11PM Eastern, 7/31. CP Imperial city.

This is the fourth time I've been disconnected in this exact manner during this event. The same thing has happened to my friends as well. Just instantly booted from the server, logging out immediately in front of allies/enemies, then receiving the "Please make sure you have a valid internet connection" error message. I have disabled all my addons and still had this happen. It isn't my internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfZ5O2F6Juo

fedouva

Yeah, something's definitely wrong. First I was kicked out, then just not allowed into the game, now even in pve in dungeons I have freezes and lags, if this goes on and on people will start to leave in more stable projects

Jaraal

And the longer they go without rebooting the servers, the worse it gets. Classic memory leak symptom.