Normal PS4, EU, first party hard drive.

Like many people who work full time, I have limited time to spend on playing video games.

Today I got home from work and thought I could do some pvp and get transmutation crystals. I logged on to my first character and queued up for battlegrounds. The queue didn't take very long, but the loading screen going into Ald Carac immediately gave me the message "This may be an unusually long load time". I waited for 10+ minutes looking at the same screen before deciding to close the application and try again. I log back into my character and notice I can't requeue for battlegrounds - I have a 17 minute deserter penalty.

That's fine, I have four other pvp-ready characters. I log into character number 2 and queue for battlegrounds. The queue is slightly longer this time, but the loading screen into the Arcane University Chaosball game is mercifully over within 30 seconds. We get into the game and it is immediately obvious that there is a degree of lag, with abilities firing about 0.5 - 1 seconds after they are pressed. That's fine, I can try and compensate for that a little bit with my gameplay. We play for a couple of minutes uneventfully, I get some kills, and then I get taken down by the opposing team. There are only 2 seconds left on the respawn counter so I think myself lucky. Not so. I get into a loading screen instead of respawning, with the all-too-familiar and not at all unusual message emblazoned in white across the top. I can hear battle music but cannot do anything as I look helplessly at this loading screen. I look at this screen for a further 5 minutes before closing application yet again.

This time I'm smart enough to know that there's no point logging into that same character again, since I've obviously broken the rules of the battlegrounds and, for my sins, will have been hit with the deserter penalty again. I log into character number 3 and decide to go into cyrodiil instead. 2 bars across the board on the main campaign, as to be expected just before primetime. I get the ballistas out the bank and use the transitus shrine to move to a remote keep, not even on the frontline, to get my bearings. Immediately we have an unusually long load time again. Exasperated, I stare at this screen for nearly another 10 minutes, until I get up out of my chair and give up on ESO for the night.

I had ESO running for nearly an hour, in which time I was able to get about 5 minutes of gametime. By all accounts, this is NOT acceptable.

I've played this game for over two years on PS4 EU, have twelve maxed characters, have regrettably spent hundreds of pounds on the crown store... and this is the closest I have come to vowing to never return to this malfunctioning mess ever again. The player experience is currently atrocious, there's no two ways about it.

You guys need to sort this out quickly before more long-term players get completely disillusioned and quit for good. Please focus on providing an experience that is even bordering on playable instead of simply pushing out new content from the pipeline. I have cancelled my ESO+, I'm not going to pay money just to have my time wasted. Anyone sharing my sentiments - vote with your wallet.

PC-NA

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 six-core
No SSD
Loading screens are in abundance everywhere, but Cyrodiil is especially bad. Activities done while these loading screens occur include:

- Rezzing at a keep
- Rezzing at an outpost
- Rezzing at a forward camp
- Rezzing at a town (especially Bruma)
- Repairing a wall (inner or outer, doesn't matter)
- Repairing a door (inner or outer, doesn't matter)
- Running between objectives (NOT using a transitus. Just riding my horse and I get smacked with a loading screen. BRK to Chal, Ales to Glade seem to be the worst)
- Using the wayshrine to get in/out of Cyrodiil
- Using the transitus to port around Cyrodiil
- Zoning into or out of delves (Toadstool Hollow is especially bad)
- Large scale fights inside a keep will sometimes trigger a random loading screen.
- Zoning anywhere within Imperial City.

Vivec is by far the worst, but I've experienced these load screens on Shor and Sotha as well.

I'm currently in an infinite loading screen after porting from one keep to another in cyrodiil.

Megaserver: America?

PC processor: i-7 @ 3.4

SSD: Yes. Both SSD and a 2TB disk

Only time I can recollect getting an infinite loading screen is testing this out in cyrodill now.

CPU usage fluctuates between 18-25 with the mean probably about 20 in task manager. I don't have a 3rd party program to analyse what each processor load is.

My computer is very stable and secure. I conjecture you have a DOS worm problem between ISP and client. From there the problem could be anything.

There is also no great disparity between data sent and received on my network so I assume the program is crashed but thinks it's loading with a placeholder host maybe.

**EDIT long standing eso plus member on ps4 paying for god knows what**

Load screens are a joke they have been bad for 2 years but youre are royally taking the michael now pve content ie trials the only thing left for me to do isnt playable... pvp isnt playable... dungeons arent playable as you end up 4 meters back from where you were. STOP addidng whimsical features like glasses next to armour for research and for the love of god FIX THE BASICS!!!!!

Mine...are not as bad as described by some others.

PC-NA
I5 6600k
SSD: Yes

I really only get game-breaking ones in Cyrodiil.

1. For the groups I run with, if the group exercises tight "visibility checks" at the beginning of the raid and each time someone joins the group, the loadscreen issues are rare. Also if good discipline is maintained on kicking offline people. If the group does not, they are much more likely to occur.

2. They normally happen on transitus, but also happen when a keep flips or when a wall is repaired and there are a lot of people present. For the non-transitus cases, lots of people around make it more likely, and if active fighting is also occuring when it flips/repairs then it also seems even more likely.

3. I occasionally run in a group that has a lot of oceanic members and members from other places in the world. Load screens/crashes are a GREAT many times more likely even with viz checks with this group than with the NA groups, where following the viz checks rule eliminates a lot of the loadscreen problems.

All of RUIN gaming got stuck in a load screen when a keep flipped last night. A few of us murdered all 20 of them as they just stood there, it was hilarious. I was so happy! Normally I'm on the receiving end of that BS.

PS4 EU
Regular PS4
Factory installed hard drive

Only in trials when using doors that have a load screen.

Ballcap wrote: »

NA PS4 Standard with Factory HD. Primarily in Cyrodiil with transit shrines or death respawn gets a load screen that doesn’t end.

at this point - i'm gonna go out on a limb and guess just about every single iteration of the loading screen bug has been described ad nauseam...

taking a break from pvp at the moment...soon, probably taking a break from the game...

if anything - i'd just like to add:

It happens for me near every time I respawn after death in Cyrodiil on Xbox One X. It's so bad the player population on Cyrodiil (EU megaserver) has gone so low that, even at peak time, no faction population is near full on any campaign.

Ah thanks for the update! it is much appreciated and keeps everyone in the loop on what is actually happening.

Occasionaly before all these loading screens became an Issue, in Cyrodiil I sometimes got an issue where you have just respawned and the textures don't load (especially the dirt areas) and when you walk into them your character gets stuck and continously runs until the texture reloads, did anyone else experience this?

Ps4 na, cyrodiil currently is on a load screen extravaganza, if I die i might aswell close the app, cuz its a sure load screen

Xbox one Na. PvP, DG, on cities... me and all of my brazilians friends.

Xbox One, NA
Game saved on internal hard drive
Load screen in the following:
- Cirodill 100% of the time when Respawn after death.
-Cyrodiil using transitus wayshrines (50%)

-wayshrines in Alik'r, almost always
-50% of the time immediately after successfully porting to a wayshrine in a busy zone (mournhold, raw'l kha, wayrest)
-Severe lag everywhere but especially in the busy zones and in Grahtwood, Elden Root
-Sound cuts in and out
-frequently, guild chat channels fail to work

Unrelated: after porting to a wayshrine, players are those black silhouettes for apprx 3-5mns, and my character is completely invisible for about a minute or two.

PC NA - i7 - 16 gb ram - 1080 vid - win 10 is my main machine but have successfull reproduced the issue in multiple machines. When in a group and one of the players are invisible (only see their chevron but not the player) and someone ports to or away from the group, this will result in a loading screen. Happens about 80% of the time anywhere in cyrodiil or 50% of the time anywhere else outside cyrodiil.