Lag was so ridiculous 9/23 i logged for the night,

Dleatherus · September 2014

I logged in around 7pm PST to PvP with some guildmates on Thornblade

After a considerable wait (started at 82 in the AD queue) i log in and since the action is at Arrius, I transitus to Blue Road Keep

I can't even get out of inner keep be it via main door or postern door - all of them show the 'E' interaction button but i press E, stand and wait, nothing happens

so i try other actions - light attack, crouch into sneak etc - and lo and behold around 30 seconds whatever I attempt through keyboard commands actually happens on the screen

guildies tell me in voice comms that lag is pretty bad

so i sigh and Alt-F4 and get back in and no better - they suggest running up the stairs of the inner keep and jumping off the wall to get out

so i make it finally to arrius, and we are attacking from the mine - some DC come in - at the side of the mine and we are engaged in a relatively small 8 AD vs 3 DC battle - I can't use abilities to try to avoid button mashing that might add to the problem, and just use light attacks

screen freezes for 5-10 seconds, jumps to the current action, freezes for 5-10 seconds, jumps to the action - this goes on for a few minutes and although we 'win' it was so frustrating we decide to go off and do other things

Since the latest Patch I have personally experienced just 2 game crashes (usually would have numbered 12-24 in that same time frame before the patch on Monday)

however with the Patch i right away noticed that my screen seemed to be on a barely perceptible but continual 'stutter', and last night it escalated to where i quit out of the game

i run a custom built i7 with 32GB ram and dual grafix cards - ironically it was custom built specifically to play ESO so that there wouldn't be any problems

D.

Sallington · September 2014

100% agree that last night on Thornblade was the worst lag I've seen so far. I don't throw around the word 'unplayable' much, but it was as unplayable as it gets.

Dleatherus · September 2014

Sallington wrote: »

100% agree that last night on Thornblade was the worst lag I've seen so far. I don't throw around the word 'unplayable' much, but it was as unplayable as it gets.

yup, i've played through most of it and not quit yet - crashes, bugs, exploits, 3 FPS etc

but last night took it to a new level i haven't experienced before and for me personally is where the line is - i'll not 'PvP' when i can't move for 5 seconds, get a 1 second or less 'flash of action' and then freeze for another 5 seconds - rinse and repeat that for as long as you can stomach it

D.

Braidas · September 2014

Sallington wrote: »

100% agree that last night on Thornblade was the worst lag I've seen so far. I don't throw around the word 'unplayable' much, but it was as unplayable as it gets.

i dont know about that, there was some lag in beta and on old wabbajack that made me question reality o.O

Nestor · September 2014

There was some lag last night in PvE areas too. So, perhaps the servers had some indigestion.

ryanmjmcevoy_ESO · September 2014

I had the door lag also. The best was when I finally got it to work, I started running toward the outer wall, up the wooden stairs...then suddenly lagged and it put me back inside the inner keep in front of the same unusable door..

Sighlynce · September 2014

agree.. I just love it when trying to get somewhere while in a strobe light slow mo reality and all the sudden boom- dead.. I just missed all the animation that led up to this.. no idea what happened, i saw no one , lay there and look around and still no one $:\$ .. Maybe these invisible supernatural beings of death are also holding the doors shut. Either way, its rediculous

wafcatb14_ESO · September 2014

same around 900pm cst , i couldn`t use any hotbar ablities , but i could switch weaps and dodge just fine . , got tired of not being able to attack after reloging and reloading ui , just called it a night .

FluffiestOne · September 2014

This lag was nothing compared to wabba2.0

Knootewoot · September 2014

Thorn is my home campaign, but i havent been there since a while because of the lag.

Also not being able to enter a keep door might not be lag but a bug:

Sometimes i can't enter a keep door when i press "E", but i can when i switch weapons. If i can't use the keep door, i mostly also can't use light heavy attacks and weapon skills. If i swab weapon and i can use those skills/attacks i can use the door. It's odd. Also when i swab weapons and i swab to the "bugged" weapon it doesn't sheet/unsheet but just appears/disappears.

Monsoon · September 2014

ZOS consider the lag a feature... you should be happy you are able to log in Cyrodiil and not be fighting the hardest boss of the whole game: The loading and spinning wheel of death, a boss that teases you by spinning and spinning and spinning giving zero f'ing feedback on what it is trying to do and it it is in fact doing anything at all.

I think it was put in the game as a psychological experiment to test if it was possible to make people's blood pressure blow up and have them do something stupid and make the front page of the local newspapers by giving them the impression that something is happening when in fact you could replace the screen and the wheel with the black and white picture of Johnny Cash flipping the bird and a stamp that says $15 on the lower right corner instead.

90% of the time when I crash or DC I have to crash the client manually a second time because instead of loading anything the client just gets a brain aneurism and just stand there...spinning.

Some days I think the game is still in beta...Cyrodill that is, the PVE part is mostly stable and working fine...but ZOS doesn t give a rats arse about pvp

SeltzerDuke · September 2014

Knootewoot wrote: »

Also not being able to enter a keep door might not be lag but a bug:

Sometimes i can't enter a keep door when i press "E", but i can when i switch weapons. If i can't use the keep door, i mostly also can't use light heavy attacks and weapon skills. If i swab weapon and i can use those skills/attacks i can use the door. It's odd. Also when i swab weapons and i swab to the "bugged" weapon it doesn't sheet/unsheet but just appears/disappears.

Yeah, not to wander off the thread topic but I wanted to chime in and agree with pointing out this (post-1.4) bug. When I first started getting it, I used to think a disconnect was coming, since usually the first sign of one is that you can't activate anything or use resources, except I noticed i was still able to dodge roll w/ stam reduction showing up (my usual quick test to see if I'm lagging out or about to get disconnected) but nevertheless unable to go through doors etc. I happened to stumble on weapon swapping as a fix (previously I'd been logging); I think it happens after dying and then rezzing that the weapon bar that was active locks you up. Now as soon as I notice I can't enter a door or click on an npc, I weapon swap right away.

StienDeath · September 2014

Yeah.. we would like some news ZOS...