mediocre coding causing permanent loading screen testing my loyalty

dsalter · February 2018

WHY is this still a thing? game has had more than enough time to fix something so VITAL.
just wasted an 80minute queue for sotha sil after dying on a typical zerg train rush into the keep, no biggy, i'll just revive at the next keep and help others. but nope! heres a loading screen that wont ever end.
why in the hells is this STILL happening after so god damn long? i'v never played any other MMO that has done this for longer than a week at MOST.
keeping the game stable enough so folks can actually PLAY the game is a pretty high damn priority.

ZOS_Edward · February 2018

Hey @dsalter

We're sorry to hear you ran into a loading screen that didn't want to end. We've heard the community's feedback on this and actually have some improvements for it on the PTS right now! You can find them called out in this set of Patch Notes.

We're continuing to investigate issues around loading screens that the PTS patch doesn't address. Check there for further updates.

dsalter · February 2018

ZOS_Edward wrote: »

Hey @dsalter

We're sorry to hear you ran into a loading screen that didn't want to end. We've heard the community's feedback on this and actually have some improvements for it on the PTS right now! You can find them called out in this set of Patch Notes.

We're continuing to investigate issues around loading screens that the PTS patch doesn't address. Check there for further updates.

fingers crossed it helps but in all honesty this should have had very high priority in being fixed just underneath connection and memory leak issues

JackDaniell · February 2018

dsalter wrote: »

WHY is this still a thing? game has had more than enough time to fix something so VITAL.
just wasted an 80minute queue for sotha sil after dying on a typical zerg train rush into the keep, no biggy, i'll just revive at the next keep and help others. but nope! heres a loading screen that wont ever end.
why in the hells is this STILL happening after so god damn long? i'v never played any other MMO that has done this for longer than a week at MOST.
keeping the game stable enough so folks can actually PLAY the game is a pretty high damn priority.

This is unfortunately the norm for PvP. In fact I (along with many) dont even bother to log into a full campaign, i mean on average it takes me 30 minuites of very laggy gameplay then I hit that unending loading screen. All to be booted form the campaign and have to wait hours in que of i want to go back. In the end its just a bad experience that has really tainted PvP for me.

So my question to ZOS is, how long does the average player last before they rage quit your bad PvP servers?

Fingolfinn01 · February 2018

bit confused?? PC version allows you to load straight into cyrodiil after being dced or ending the game via task manager when you hve a long loading screen.

xSkullfox · February 2018

ZOS_Edward wrote: »

Hey @dsalter

We're sorry to hear you ran into a loading screen that didn't want to end. We've heard the community's feedback on this and actually have some improvements for it on the PTS right now! You can find them called out in this set of Patch Notes.

We're continuing to investigate issues around loading screens that the PTS patch doesn't address. Check there for further updates.

Oh wow, changes go live and then it worse then before and gets removed.Then it takes another few months to put "improvements" on pts and the cycle starts again.

Ankael07 · February 2018

ZOS_Edward wrote: »

Hey @dsalter

We're sorry to hear you ran into a loading screen that didn't want to end. We've heard the community's feedback on this and actually have some improvements for it on the PTS right now! You can find them called out in this set of Patch Notes.

We're continuing to investigate issues around loading screens that the PTS patch doesn't address. Check there for further updates.

Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V

f047ys3v3n · February 2018

The loading screens that don't end in Cyr are terribad. For what it is worth I get them less often after getting an SSD. Not sure why that is as it is clearly not your hard drive load time that causes them but several other folks noticed the same thing when they got an SSD.

D0PAMINE · February 2018

It's really really bad. Quite frustrating and getting old.

NoFlash · February 2018

NO ETA on the fixes guys! We know its been going on for years but it's on the back burner! We will release a new dungeon and a pet dragon! Make sure you stock up on crowns.

agegarton · February 2018

I really do understand the potential difficulties, and I appreciate the amazing new content and regular updates - that said, the situation in Cyrodiil is more and more frustrating. If it’s not loading screens, it’s lag. Population control (in its current form) just minimises the player base and creates queues without effectively solving anything. The place is devoid of wildlife, which seems to have done little to fix the problems and detracts from the overall experience.

I’m not a serial whiner, but without a doubt “fixing” Cyrodiil is an area that needs more focus, more resources assigned, and a higher priority. I’d skip a dlc if that would bring PVP back to life for all players.

Taylor_MB · February 2018

Infinite loading screen in Oceanic Prime on PC/NA, when server is at it's lowest strain.

This certainly is a new low.

KanedaSyndrome · February 2018

I think that there's an element here of "the guys that made the engine aren't with the company anymore" and the people left at ZOS were basically given a toolkit to make content with, but the actual engine itself can't be updated.

makreth · February 2018

Hopefully they will be diminished but I doubt you can test this on PTS cyrodiil if there are not so many people as on live. It happens when the server is busy.. not on less crowded campaigns (which I guess PTS is the same right now). Unless people are called specifically to test that out and make it a day's event for the testers.

monktoasty · February 2018

I'm sure it's a difficult thing to pin down since it happens sporadically. They probably have a general idea and patch things up a bit but nothing is Guarented.

I think there should be no queue though..that would help not having to wait

RMerlin · February 2018

Fingolfinn01 wrote: »

bit confused?? PC version allows you to load straight into cyrodiil after being dced or ending the game via task manager when you hve a long loading screen.

... if you're lucky. If campaign is pop-locked, you have a high chance of ending up outside of Cyro.

Way too often I've spent 45 mins in queue, did 10 mins of PvP, got an endless load screen, and logged back in to another 45 mins queue, which usually leads me to say "screw this" and go do something else.

xaraan · February 2018

It's a test of loyalty we all must pass. Much like the questionable changes mixed in with good changes every patch. It is how they break you and finally, like some sort of Stockholm Syndrome victims, we become loyal servants to their daedric machinations.

eso_lags · February 2018

ZOS_Edward wrote: »

Hey @dsalter

We're sorry to hear you ran into a loading screen that didn't want to end. We've heard the community's feedback on this and actually have some improvements for it on the PTS right now! You can find them called out in this set of Patch Notes.

We're continuing to investigate issues around loading screens that the PTS patch doesn't address. Check there for further updates.

what about the lag that never ends. why is xbox so unplayable. the load screen issue is only half of the problem. i doubt any of it ever gets better, this has been going on for years and been VERY bad since morrowind.

kyle.wilson · February 2018

ZOS_Edward wrote: »

Hey @dsalter

We're sorry to hear you ran into a loading screen that didn't want to end. We've heard the community's feedback on this and actually have some improvements for it on the PTS right now! You can find them called out in this set of Patch Notes.

We're continuing to investigate issues around loading screens that the PTS patch doesn't address. Check there for further updates.

I don't know how long you've been around this game. But, for the last 4 years we have been promised "fixes", yet we are still here complaining about latency and lag issues.
My latency to EA's servers across wifi averages 40ms, yet I'm hardlined on my PC and average >100ms while in Cyrodiil.

dsalter · February 2018

just depressing that others like myself still think they will fix this issue...
well not anymore from my end, this has been years and only getting worse as time goes, give it a few years more and cyrodiil wont even let you load into the place anymore

Amadis001 · February 2018

This is just killing the game for me on XBOX1 NA. Not just in Cyrrodil. Walking around any city, loading into a dungeon, any time I hit a place where the zone is stitched together, I hit a loading screen that can last a minute or more. It wasn't like this a year and a half ago when I started playing. Something they did to try to fix it make it much worse.

Sawzallz · February 2018

Update I noticed that while your loading indefinitely you can move your character around the only way I know this is because my TV is too big and my screen isn't adjusted

Lylith · February 2018

just trying to sign in.

and i'm waiting...and waiting...and - it's been nearly 10 minutes and i'm still looking at the reaper's march load screen- waiting...and - let me check - waiting.

yeah, no.

task manager time, then.

load screens in cyrodil are one thing, but on sign-in?

Neoealth · January 2019

please fix the loading screens

Reistr_the_Unbroken · January 2019

Stop necroing old threads

Wildberryjack · January 2019

Reistr_the_Unbroken wrote: »

Stop necroing old threads

Seems an appropriate necro IMO, here we are almost a year later and oh look the same problem!

LeagueTroll · January 2019

Same thing happened in last mid year mayhem. Zos could have just make ppl complete 1 bg to get the 2 tickets so ppl complain less about cyro loading screen.

ZOS_RikardD · January 2019

Greetings,

We have decided to close this thread as it was originally created in February 2018 and the information contained may no longer be relevant.

Thank you for your understanding.