Main issue is login - character swap and zone change loading screens (for me)

character screen can take so long that it actually times out at the server

Character log in does feel more sluggish. And I noticed my CraftStores window is taking half a second to load, which freezes the game In the meantime. It didn't use to happen.

I've also had to relog today halfway through picking my surveys in Craglorn because suddenly enemies were invisible and untargetable, and the same went for resource nodes. I could see the glow but they were not there at all, both regular and survey nodes. Went back to normal after relog.

Could it have to do with it as well? Perhaps. But the performance in Craglorn has always been poor for me, and I don't mean FPS in the city. I mean trees and environment flickering and glitching constantly for no reason. It only happens in Craglorn, and it's happened in several computers/setups so I don't really think it's something on my end.

Agreed, it is been really bad since maintenance. Lag has gotten worse, bar swap not working, tiles of textures on ground not load, and if you go through the clearly visible line to the not loaded area you get stuck in the line, not able to move at all, sometimes for even 5 minutes. More disconnects than ever, random loadscreens in middle of nowhere (that usually no loadscreen expected) more than before.

No idea what happened at the maintenance or what was the software update you did to the server, but things just got worse.

And yes, nothing changed in my own setup and yes, my connection and other games work just fine.

ZOS should finally try to get the extact same servers as they have in NA, same hardware and software.

If something pops up on one server, the same problem mights popup on the other (not that is a good thing tho)
but atleast they only have to fix one thing, and then copy the solution over on the other server.

Furthermore its now prettymuch prooven, that the EU servers are "worse" in terms of performance, which alone should be a reason to either upgrade the servers drasticlly or change them completly.

but unbelievably it will Cost money, and gian no money...so ZOS wont do anything
maybe the few ppl which cancelled sub where noticed by ZOS, and they will finally start to amp up the servers performance

Everything takes longer for me (login, guild vendor, etc) and I get lag spikes more often than before.

visionality wrote: »

and we should be as loud and noisy as possible to make them recognize and acknowledge it.

I agree with you that we should be vocal about it, but also fact that ZoS cannot see it by themselves and they need players to point out massive problems with server performance is a joke by itself. So its hard to react with anything else then sarcasm when you see what is their attitude towards EU server and its problems.

PC NA Master Race

SaltySudd wrote: »

Kilnerdyne wrote: »

Dragons! Necromancer! Here's another DLC! Hey look over there! *jumps out the window*

Does anyone else feel like this is ZOS' last ditch attempt to keep players happy and from leaving the game?

"Let's give them all of these things that the community has been asking for this year so that they don't leave!"
"But we said that dragons won't be in..."
"ALL OF THE THINGS!"

In all seriousness, it has crossed my mind. A number of upcoming changes are long-standing requests by the players, from UI overhauls to race balances, necromancer class and yes, dragons. There have also been staff changes that I interpret as an attempt to break with past tendencies. Unfortunately, this doesn't fix the main issue I have with the game - apart from monetization - which is a lack of mid- and long-term vision. I wouldn't call it last ditch, though. You'd be amazed how long MMOs survive after they start to die off. It's not easy to give up the time (and sometimes money) investment in these games.

I agree the EU server still has something wrong. I also get disconnected a few times a day now and some textures don't load properly. Some of the npcs seems to flash sometimes too. It all started happening after Tuesday's server boot.

I think there may be some hardware issue with the server or at the very least database problems.

PVPing in Vivec tonight, here is a collection of server failures commonly or constantly happening in small scale (3-4 players engaged), mid scale (<20) and big scale ALL THE SAME. The number of players present at any location an any time does not make any noticable difference in terms of server performance:

* low health desync: when getting low on health, the server desyncs, not updating health. Approx 2-4 seconds later health dropps dramatically. When you react on it, healing and potions pop but dont take any effect, approx. 2-4 seconds later you drop dead (you have lost the potion, though, because for the server you used it while dead )
* target desync: targeting your target is a game of luck with more than one enemy around, server is obviously not able to synchronize targeting anymore. Skills often hit players that passed the area a few seconds before. Most drastic example tonight: I activated soul assault on a player right in front of me, active beam pointed 90 degrees to the right (out of my sight), attacking another player that was at the targets location approx 3 seconds earlier
* skills desync: skills fire not at all or with massive delay. BUT the next three skills might fire completely normal again, making any sensible skill rotation or reaction to situation impossible
* every second streak uphill costs full magicka and does not move char a pixel

zone chat is flooded with complaints

guess this list will get even longer if I continue playing ...