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

shadyjane62

I am here on the forum because lag just killed me. And kicked me off the game.


Again.

TheMrPancake

I was also booted out of the game at approximately 9:15pm AEST (the same time as shadyjane62).

There were major lag spikes in the hours leading up to and following this kick.

It happened to everyone on my friends list, who are all located in various parts of Australia.

Just_Attivi

approx 8:30am EST, PC NA, Alikr Desert

has been a string of lag spikes, sometimes setting ping to 999, othertimes not changing ping but jsut making everything a slide show, long delays on skills/enemies moving/looting etc. Confirmed by others in zone as well, was occurring for about 10 min every 30 sec or so at the time of this writing

BretonMage

Lag (took 2-3 seconds just to open containers) and disconnections from about 6am EST. I was just questing in Murkmire.

moderatelyfatman

Same here tonight. I tried selling things to the vendor in my house an there was a 3-4 second delay until the items started selling.
Yes, my vendor is lagging so badly I'm struggling to play the game.
This is not a good sign for next week.

AzuraFan

The lag was terrible this morning. It's the first time skills have appeared not to fire (this is in PvE overland). Very confusing at times as to what was actually happening during combat. I was in Shadowfen.

JanTanhide

IDK what's going on but I see lag spikes constantly now. My character zips from place to place just moving at normal speed as if my Internet is wonky. It's not. In dungeon runs last night I was Tanking and when I used the skills it would take a second or two to activate then it was like slow motion. Example: I tried to chain in Ads and the chain would go out to the Ad then stop then a second or so later it would pull back in with no Ad then the Ad would come flying to me.

The game is horrible now. It's definitely server side. I have a few streamer friends and they are experiencing the exact same lag spikes.

thinkaboutit

JanTanhide wrote: »

IDK what's going on but I see lag spikes constantly now. My character zips from place to place just moving at normal speed as if my Internet is wonky. It's not. In dungeon runs last night I was Tanking and when I used the skills it would take a second or two to activate then it was like slow motion. Example: I tried to chain in Ads and the chain would go out to the Ad then stop then a second or so later it would pull back in with no Ad then the Ad would come flying to me.

The game is horrible now. It's definitely server side. I have a few streamer friends and they are experiencing the exact same lag spikes.

Just submit a ticket, at this point im pretty sure Microsoft has left ZOS understaffed.

ArchangelIsraphel

I was creating a new character last night on one of my alternate accounts, and the game was even lagging out during character creation (menus not switching, features not changing until after a delayed period of time)

Then the tutorial itself had ping spikes, and there was no one else around.

These definitely are not problems I've ever had before.

KlauthWarthog

Uh.
Communication seems to still be deteriorating somehow.
Impressive.

JanTanhide

Lag is so bad now I can't deal with it. Can't even farm nodes without a few seconds of delay. Chat delay, mount delay, skill delay, etc.

It's abysmal.

JanTanhide

thinkaboutit wrote: »

JanTanhide wrote: »

IDK what's going on but I see lag spikes constantly now. My character zips from place to place just moving at normal speed as if my Internet is wonky. It's not. In dungeon runs last night I was Tanking and when I used the skills it would take a second or two to activate then it was like slow motion. Example: I tried to chain in Ads and the chain would go out to the Ad then stop then a second or so later it would pull back in with no Ad then the Ad would come flying to me.

The game is horrible now. It's definitely server side. I have a few streamer friends and they are experiencing the exact same lag spikes.

Just submit a ticket, at this point im pretty sure Microsoft has left ZOS understaffed.

I did. Thanks though for reminding me. I usually don't do that. The last two I've submitted I received no response.

Seravi

I am also sending in game reports with each instance. They have a flood in coming today. Just trying to do the morning writs and it is taking forever due to the lag spikes. Did all the usual testing on my side with no packet loss and a nice 3ms to the server. What happens to me once I am logged in is causing this lag.

Mansquito

Constant rubber banding and massive spikes in Cyrodiil. A few.of us left as it was unplayable and decided to do PvE content. Lagging in dungeons in just the same way.

CrazyKitty

It's still happening today. Major lag, rubberbanding etc. I feel lucky to have gotten my cold fire ballista packed up before getting disconnected. It's getting to where people wont even set up valuable siege because they know there is such a high likelihood they'll lose it to a disconnect or some other lag related issue.

Tallon_IV

My ping doesn't go up, but my character keeps becoming unresponsive.

Kainarel

Tallon_IV wrote: »

My ping doesn't go up, but my character keeps becoming unresponsive.

Yes, that happens, and then everything "catches up" within a second with ping going up into the sky for 999+ for that said second.

Please, please, bring us some news, any news at all about how these issues that are week-long at the very least are being addressed, @ZOS_Kevin
Please, help us, it's getting worse by the day for all of us affected.

thinkaboutit

Kainarel wrote: »

Tallon_IV wrote: »

My ping doesn't go up, but my character keeps becoming unresponsive.

Yes, that happens, and then everything "catches up" within a second with ping going up into the sky for 999+ for that said second.

Please, please, bring us some news, any news at all about how these issues that are week-long at the very least are being addressed, @ZOS_Kevin
Please, help us, it's getting worse by the day for all of us affected.

This is going on for at least 2-3 weeks now. Since the issue with PTS/LIVE

Photosniper89

Just some updates here @ZOS_Kevin if you're still tracking this thread.

I was curious last night if others were running into the same issues with the massive rubber banding (it's gotten much worse since the original thread post) so I pulled up some twitch streams.

Every time that I experienced a massive spike/freeze followed by rubber banding the twitch streamers did as well (about 3 seconds later but I'm just assuming that's the delay with Twitch getting to me)

We also had multiple mass disconnects last night where there were people just standing around in keeps (no fighting near) and then boom crashed. When I cam back in the keep had like 3 people in it and everyone in chat was asking if anyone else crashed.

Seravi

Yes it took me almost two hours to do daily writs for 9 characters. Now I am seeing a lot of what would appear to be lag but my latency is fine. I try to sell out of inventory, fill my guild store, go through quest menus, etc. I finally finished the Stibbons quest in Blackwood after four attempts. The server would not place the markers for him to stand on so I had to log out and back in or just sit there for 30 seconds or more before the gold circle showed up to place him. I had to abandon twice because the game just would not place the markers so I was stuck.

Just_Attivi

Currently in PC NA Grayhost its.... just a slide show. everyone is complaining about the lag. you get a handful of good playable seconds out of every minute.

constant siezing up, even if my ping reads fine, constant latency spikes to 999, and it is being called out by numerous people, and forget playing melee, you or your target will teleport before you can land a hit. Performance has never been this bad before (heres a fun game, lets see how many times in this thread performance somehow gets worse than previously posted.... because pretty much every day is worse).

this is week 3 of daily degrading performance (arguably this started toward the beginning of april, but those were nowhere near as impactful as this is. Id take those cyrodiil rollbacks we had over this lag any day, and that is sad)

Just_Attivi

and.... just got booted out of cyrodiil.... *claps*

jcaceresw

Currently, I am getting lots of disconnects. Just in the four hours I have played today I have been kicked from the game about 3 times. Yesterday I got just two because I did not play a lot. The day before yesterday got about 4 disconnects. Guess the hamsters are dying.

ZOS_Kevin

Photosniper89 wrote: »

Just some updates here @ZOS_Kevin if you're still tracking this thread.

I was curious last night if others were running into the same issues with the massive rubber banding (it's gotten much worse since the original thread post) so I pulled up some twitch streams.

Every time that I experienced a massive spike/freeze followed by rubber banding the twitch streamers did as well (about 3 seconds later but I'm just assuming that's the delay with Twitch getting to me)

We also had multiple mass disconnects last night where there were people just standing around in keeps (no fighting near) and then boom crashed. When I cam back in the keep had like 3 people in it and everyone in chat was asking if anyone else crashed.

We are still tracking the thread. We are chatting with folks on our side right now about the reported issues.

To help assist us with this, if you are able to place a ticket for this issue, please do so. You can so that here. Make sure to note examples of what you are seeing.

If you have submitted tickets already, please note them in the thread so we can surface those faster.

thinkaboutit

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Photosniper89 wrote: »

Just some updates here @ZOS_Kevin if you're still tracking this thread.

I was curious last night if others were running into the same issues with the massive rubber banding (it's gotten much worse since the original thread post) so I pulled up some twitch streams.

Every time that I experienced a massive spike/freeze followed by rubber banding the twitch streamers did as well (about 3 seconds later but I'm just assuming that's the delay with Twitch getting to me)

We also had multiple mass disconnects last night where there were people just standing around in keeps (no fighting near) and then boom crashed. When I cam back in the keep had like 3 people in it and everyone in chat was asking if anyone else crashed.

We are still tracking the thread. We are chatting with folks on our side right now about the reported issues.

To help assist us with this, if you are able to place a ticket for this issue, please do so. You can so that here. Make sure to note examples of what you are seeing.

If you have submitted tickets already, please note them in the thread so we can surface those faster.

240528-007947 - already closed i guess taken as a 'feedback'?

Ramber

Its making all aspects of game play horrible. seconds long freezes followed by whatever happened happening instantly including damage and a death here and there cause you couldnt move. its really bad, as bad as ive ever seen it in pve since launch.

Seravi

Tickets submitted today in game so far:

240529-002379
240529-002857
240529-003331

ArchangelIsraphel

Trying to play ESO with family today on PC NA , and it's been a nightmare of ping spikes to 999+, rubberbanding, and all of us DCing at once.

On PC-NA

4 family members on the East Coast of the US (including me) all DC'ed at the same time (Different households).

2 family members in the Midwest US DC'ed a few seconds later.

2 In Germany lagging badly but managed to stay connected (strangely enough having less ping than those of us close to the server, but still experiencing problems)

1 In Canada DC'ed at the same time as us on the East Coast

4 In Hawaii DC'ed At the same time as well


We were all out in a remote location in Craglorn, away from other players, having a dueling contest when we dc'ed

Oznog666

It would be great if everybody would use UTC because then we could compare whether it happens at the same time worldwide.

Sakiri

I just got booted from the game with the error saying I was hitting the message rate limit, aka spamming. Had hit 999+ latency just before.

I hadn't said a word in chat since I logged in.

Lulz.