Lets talk about Cyrodiil LAG

Starlight_Knight · May 2018

This week while trying to enjoy some pvp its been horrendous, ive tryed playing with add-ons disabled and its still the same.
im no stranger to pvp and when its performing alright its by far the best part of ESO ( sure there are issues with sets and balancing but that's another story )

Lots of times my skills have completely greyed out and left me defenceless during small scale battles, The game stutters and jerks, im hammering buttons desperately fighting the lag trying to get skills off... and im still gap closing into load screens.

ive a reasonable internet connection and average around 150 ping with 30 - 40 fps and im on a medium to high end gaming pc.

What causes this lag?
The "mega servers were supposed to be very advanced in 2014 and were a selling point of the game.
What can be done about it?
is it just a case of ZOS being cheep with the servers, would throwing money at it help
What will happen in the future?
WIll it just get worse and worse untill we're all just playing on potato's?

Curious to hear what you guys have to say about it and how it makes you feel.

bg22 · May 2018

Lag is why I play my gankblad.

If it didn’t lag so hardcore in big fights I’d glady play my mag dk.

Ectheliontnacil · May 2018

Let's talk about Cyrodiil lag

Let's not.

JaZ2091 · May 2018

I been playing for a few months but from what I learned and read, it's been a on going problem for years.

bg22 · May 2018

JaZ2091 wrote: »

I been playing for a few months but from what I learned and read, it's been a on going problem for years.

Since before day 1.

idk · May 2018

The "mega" servers were advanced in 2014. Most games have smaller servers forcing their populations to separate.

This does not mean it is a perfect world. Clearly the servers cannot handle the load of major battles. I expect the solution will not be forthcoming in this thread.

It has not been getting worse overall that I have noticed. If anything it has improved some over the past 4 years so the potato comment seems to not be a concern.

Jameliel · May 2018

It's horrendous today. Too many bugs to mention as well.

Vapirko · May 2018

Wait, you don’t like getting hit with incapsubasaultmageswrathdawnbreakerofsmiting? And you know that group is over on coms going being like, “damn they got rekt, we just crushed that one guy.”

Bhaal5 · May 2018

Guild wars 2 did it right, large "mega severs" with full functional wvw severs (or in eso terms pvp/cyrodiil) with still a large community populating it.
Eso has done more than then dropped the ball, they busted it then buried it and forgotten about it in the backyard.

Which is pretty sad as console players only have eso for actual mass pvp and to have it still in this state is a joke.
A few small changes and the problems would go away and a few upgrades (which requires money yes, and zos has plenty of it considering there isbt much new content being produced) would bring life back to pvp.

kaiage · May 2018

Hayden_Knight wrote: »

cheep[/b]

what are you, chicken?

Starlight_Knight · May 2018

Vapirko wrote: »

Wait, you don’t like getting hit with incapsubasaultmageswrathdawnbreakerofsmiting? And you know that group is over on coms going being like, “damn they got rekt, we just crushed that one guy.”

kaiage wrote: »

Hayden_Knight wrote: »

cheep[/b]

what are you, chicken?

What

bg22 · May 2018

Hayden_Knight wrote: »

This week while trying to enjoy some pvp its been horrendous, ive tryed playing with add-ons disabled and its still the same.
im no stranger to pvp and when its performing alright its by far the best part of ESO ( sure there are issues with sets and balancing but that's another story )

Lots of times my skills have completely greyed out and left me defenceless during small scale battles, The game stutters and jerks, im hammering buttons desperately fighting the lag trying to get skills off... and im still gap closing into load screens.

ive a reasonable internet connection and average around 150 ping with 30 - 40 fps and im on a medium to high end gaming pc.

What causes this lag?
The "mega servers were supposed to be very advanced in 2014 and were a selling point of the game.
What can be done about it?
is it just a case of ZOS being cheep with the servers, would throwing money at it help
What will happen in the future?
WIll it just get worse and worse untill we're all just playing on potato's?

Curious to hear what you guys have to say about it and how it makes you feel.

Yesterday I was having a hell of a fight!

Then after rubberbanding I discovered that I was actually dead about 30 seconds ago, and none of my awesomeness actually occurred.

Jameliel · May 2018

Loaded up this morning, and as soon as I grouped up started getting long load screens. ZO$.....fix this garbage that's been going on for years. It needs to be a priority.

MakoFore · May 2018

the lag is the biggest problem with ESO- if they would have fixed it by now - I'm sure this game might have surpassed warcraft but u know. ZOS is cheap

Rygonix · May 2018

The servers are likely made of antique equipment. ZoS you are no indie company on a budget. So why treat your game like you are?

LegacyDM · May 2018

Hayden_Knight wrote: »

This week while trying to enjoy some pvp its been horrendous, ive tryed playing with add-ons disabled and its still the same.
im no stranger to pvp and when its performing alright its by far the best part of ESO ( sure there are issues with sets and balancing but that's another story )

Lots of times my skills have completely greyed out and left me defenceless during small scale battles, The game stutters and jerks, im hammering buttons desperately fighting the lag trying to get skills off... and im still gap closing into load screens.

ive a reasonable internet connection and average around 150 ping with 30 - 40 fps and im on a medium to high end gaming pc.

What causes this lag?
The "mega servers were supposed to be very advanced in 2014 and were a selling point of the game.
What can be done about it?
is it just a case of ZOS being cheep with the servers, would throwing money at it help
What will happen in the future?
WIll it just get worse and worse untill we're all just playing on potato's?

Curious to hear what you guys have to say about it and how it makes you feel.

I think Zos has finally figured out the issue. After the summer set update I'm getting better cyrodil performance. I think the changes they made from moving client to server side has helped a lot. However, there still is lag during prime time. There's is diffently more work to be done and there is certainly no excuse for Zos not being able to completely fix this in 4 years. Yet, I'm hopeful again because the lag has improved.

Vapirko · May 2018

LegacyDM wrote: »

Hayden_Knight wrote: »

This week while trying to enjoy some pvp its been horrendous, ive tryed playing with add-ons disabled and its still the same.
im no stranger to pvp and when its performing alright its by far the best part of ESO ( sure there are issues with sets and balancing but that's another story )

Lots of times my skills have completely greyed out and left me defenceless during small scale battles, The game stutters and jerks, im hammering buttons desperately fighting the lag trying to get skills off... and im still gap closing into load screens.

ive a reasonable internet connection and average around 150 ping with 30 - 40 fps and im on a medium to high end gaming pc.

What causes this lag?
The "mega servers were supposed to be very advanced in 2014 and were a selling point of the game.
What can be done about it?
is it just a case of ZOS being cheep with the servers, would throwing money at it help
What will happen in the future?
WIll it just get worse and worse untill we're all just playing on potato's?

Curious to hear what you guys have to say about it and how it makes you feel.

I think Zos has finally figured out the issue. After the summer set update I'm getting better cyrodil performance. I think the changes they made from moving client to server side has helped a lot. However, there still is lag during prime time. There's is diffently more work to be done and there is certainly no excuse for Zos not being able to completely fix this in 4 years. Yet, I'm hopeful again because the lag has improved.

It did help for some, I still notice lag but it’s somehow less like fighting in honey and more snappy. And the lag is pronounced and less over arching and more to specific moments. Others are having a horrendous time though. And there are some combat ruining bugs.

terrannova · May 2018

They dont even care.. nor the players, everyone has just accepted how it is for long now, no one complains but still knows its a problem that exists.

Players are used to it, and those with better ms rule on small scale battle, zergs rule in big scale cause the spamm stuff and Zos tries to implement some "improvements" like the current one from time to time.

But overal zos doesnt sell stuff in pvp so they dont even focus in cyrodill, instead push out more on pve that people pay and buy.
Ez money

mocap · May 2018

i don't know how PvP megaserver organized, but if it doesn't have mirrors then it's just one big mess of players.
You can face a group of players in Cyro and one of them could be from China, another from Siberia, European Russia, German, France, England. And server must synchronize all this mess.