Great

Absolutely intolerable

I think is consoles only, Pc na nothing out of ordinary. (I mean....we obviously have load screens, but it's not worse than usual)

Not only in pvp but also in pretty much empty instances in pve! I've spent 10 minutes in loading screen and the only thing that fixed it was having to close the game and start it over to get out of it! It's just ridiculous, this needs to be fixed asap!

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Thanks all, we're actively looking into this on all platforms.

Finally! Thanks Gina

The load screens seem to be exponentially worse this update than in any previous (save that dastardly issue from a few years back where the number of quest completes affected load screens.)

Loading into trials, zones, pvp areas yesterday (even right after patch when we can assume population was low), resulted in long load screens necessitating closing the application and restarting it.

Forget it if you were in pvp and wanted to transitus shrine somewhere... that was just select the area, wait 10 seconds and close the app simply because you knew it wouldn't load you in.

Definitely heaps more load screens for me in Kyne while using transitus shrines after the update. Seemed that if the resource I was travelling to/from was being attacked (but not yet showing as under siege) I got a never ending load screen.

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Thanks all, we're actively looking into this on all platforms.

And I'm actively looking for other games that I can actually play.

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It seems to me that reducing the loading screen time-delays must include Bethesda. Reportedly they provide the network and the game host severs, whether Bethesda personnel are directly involved in the administration and/or operation of the hardware and its attendant systems software. Of course, the efficiency with which the game client and the game host, respectively, can process the input and output transmitted via the Internet is germane to overall performance, too.

Since Clockwork City was released, the time required for "transitions" has increased at least 25 - 50%, and they were too long for anyone's comfort before that. The transition times have become intolerable for logging-in to play and selecting a character, in particular.

Also, recently I began encountering significant delays while my character is (a) using a wayshrine to move to another wayshrine; (b) "teleporting" to a wayshrine or to a homestead; (c) passing through a gate or a door into a delve, dungeon, trial, or another area such as a zone; or (d) using a "portal", such the one between a Guild hall and Eyevea or The Earth Forge.

LOGGING-IN
Logging-in to play TESO reminds me of Carly Simon's song, "Anticipation" ( https://youtube.com/watch?v=4NwP3wes4M8 ). Indeed, probably I can listen to the entire song after I enter the password on the main log-in page before I can play the character which I have chosen. (But are these the "good old days", and for whom?)

• Ordinarily, I must wait at least 5 MINUTES after entering the password on the main log-in screen to play the game, before the game client displays the Character Select screen.
• Then at least another 15 - 30 seconds pass before the game software acknowledges any of my input after the Character Select Screen appears.
• Usually, I must wait at least 3 MINUTES after selecting a character before the game client shows the HUD.
• Then the game client ignores any and all input for at least another 30 - 60 seconds while the Frame Rate wobbles between zero and 30, and the network latency -- displayed in red digits -- eventually drops from 999+ to about 110 - 136 ms., displayed in white digits.

LOGGING OUT
The logout count-downs are a bad joke. The message "You will log-out after 0 seconds." is displayed for 10 - 30 seconds (sometimes longer) before either (a) a transition screen is shown after choosing ESC > Log Out, or (b) the OS desktop is displayed after choosing ESC > Quit.

• After I choose ESC > Log-Out on the character's HUD, a count-down dialog is shown, then the game client displays either (a) the Character Select screen, or, far more likely, (b) yet another transition screen for at least 1 - 3 MINUTES before the Character Select screen appears. After either outcome, the game client ignores my input for another 10 - 20 seconds, whether I want to select another character, select the same character, or choose the Back option instead.
  • After I choose a character on the Character Select screen, I must wait at least 3 MINUTES before the game client shows the HUD. It doesn't matter whether the character was the one most recently selected.
  • Then the game client ignores any and all input for another 30 - 60+ seconds while the Frame Rate wobbles between zero and 30, and the network latency -- initially displayed in red digits -- eventually drops from 999+ to about 110 - 135 ms., displayed in white digits.
• After I choose ESC > Quit on the character's HUD, a count-down dialog is shown, then either (a) the OS desktop is displayed (sometimes after the screen is blank black for about 5 - 10 seconds), or, much more likely, (b) the game client displays a transition screen for about 1 - 3 MINUTES before the OS desktop is displayed.

After I choose Back on the Character Selection screen, usually a transition screen is briefly shown before the game client displays the main Log-In screen.

Note that the situation that I describe above is not just with PvE, but, according to other posts and discussions, for PvP too.

Note also that the above remarks concern only "transitions", also called "loading screens". But be aware that they are not the only delays that players increasingly encounter with regard to the performance of the game software and the network with which it operates. Those in particular will, if they continue unabated, eventually render the game unplayable.

For what it is worth, if I recall correctly, TESO transition delays began increasing after One Tamriel was released. At the time, I accepted longer delays as probably caused, primarily, by the notable increase in the number of active players. That is, apparently neither ZOS nor Bethesda were prepared for the sudden influx of new players, along with returning players. Be that as it might have been, these delays have become increasingly intolerable. Whether they are related to the continuing release of DLCs and the Morrowind "chapter", I can only speculate.

Regardless, it seems that releasing the Clockwork City DLC has produced a tipping-point in two respects. One is the number and variety of apparent flaws and errors in the design and implementation of the game software, i.e., the accumulation of "bugs". The other is that the game system performance has slowed to a crawl. If Zenimax Media, Inc., believes that these are irrelevant to enough players to maintain their profits, then may I observe that greed makes the wisest of men a fool?

What is happening... I have to quit out and restart after every load screen in cyrodiil....