Drdeath20 wrote: »

To be fair most of your videos are at alessia when red owns it. Yellow definitely has a large presence nearby + red has a zerg already there plus your group of 15+. Cramming half the cyrodil pop at 1 keep. Just too much activity for 1 area.

No I dont think any are at alessia. Chalmen, brk, and aleswell lumber.. Regardless half of those videos were from like 2am on a week day. No excuse for this. If they wanted to make open world pvp, in the way that they have, they should have known people were going to meet to battle at keeps and made the servers stable enough to handle it. And if they cant then something needs to be done..

And i was never in a group of 15. But regardless, expecting like 2-4 full groups to fight at a keep should have been foreseen (if not more, usually more). Thats 48 - 96 players. Even if im not at chalmen while those groups fight ill still get their lag near the bleakers gate or even closer to bleaklers... And its always worse when its pop locked.. 2am on weekday? And lagging like that? The person i was in the group with quit an hour before me because of how bad it was for him.

And im not disagreeing with you completely. Massive keep battles with all alliances is going to create performance issues. But it should never be to the point where you literally cannot play. They should have known and prepared for it. And 2-3 years ago it was never like this... Not at all and thats the issue.. The downward spiral of performance every update. Let me give you an example of how bad it gets..

Last midyear mayhem (before this one) there was a massive 3 way fight at brk. This fight got AD a 230k tick ( i believe ).. It went on for hours.. I could not set foot near that keep without crashing. I knew the tick would be high so i kept trying to fight outside of the keep.. You could barely even move and casting anything was hard to do. But as it went on there came the crashing. Hundreds of people crashing. The chat was full of it.. I could not even go past the brk lumber mill (coming from chalmen) without crashing. I think i crashed 20 -30 times within an hour... And while the crashing has improved the performance has not at all.

I run ESO on it's own SSD on a PC where Windows is on a different SSD for performance reasons (not for ESO per se, but it ends up helping ESO anyway with loading, so the game and the OS aren't even sharing the same bus on the mobo), with a 6 core CPE overclocked to 5 Ghz and 16 Gb of RAM which likely makes a console seem like a calculator and I assure you I experience the exact same performance issues in Cyrodiil. Sometimes even while alone, far from a PvP objective, just riding past wolves and rocks. It's server performance, not your console. Though an SSD will almost certainly help loading times as disk read/write is really the only bottleneck that would make a difference. I'm not a console player but I'm rather shocked that the drives aren't solid state. Certainly seems like that would've been the standard for years now.

runagate wrote: »

I run ESO on it's own SSD on a PC where Windows is on a different SSD for performance reasons (not for ESO per se, but it ends up helping ESO anyway with loading, so the game and the OS aren't even sharing the same bus on the mobo), with a 6 core CPE overclocked to 5 Ghz and 16 Gb of RAM which likely makes a console seem like a calculator and I assure you I experience the exact same performance issues in Cyrodiil. Sometimes even while alone, far from a PvP objective, just riding past wolves and rocks. It's server performance, not your console. Though an SSD will almost certainly help loading times as disk read/write is really the only bottleneck that would make a difference. I'm not a console player but I'm rather shocked that the drives aren't solid state. Certainly seems like that would've been the standard for years now.

Thanks for the input. And ya you would think that especially on the newest xbox.. Pretty sure its a 1tb hard drive. Either way if it helps even in the slightest then ill do it.

Also i tried playing on PC for a while.. Got around 160 cp, got some gear, ran through vma in hopes of getting a 2h (got a resto) and then went into pvp. I experienced better performance in the time i played, however it was still the same overall performance issues. Just not as often. From then on i decided not to even bother grinding the cp on pc. Every other game on pc and xbox works fine. This game just has a dev team that doesnt seem to care about this stuff, sadly.