Adventures in lag, PS4 PVE edition!

El_Borracho · July 2019

Jumped into an NSS pug run yesterday morning. Took about 10 minutes to get the group together as one random player kept disconnecting every time they tried to port in. Finally got the group together. First boss was umm, interesting. First group of atronachs spawns and there are no frost atros. Everyone laughs, expecting the worst to come in the second round. Instead, everyone freezes with the boss flying around overhead. Then everyone dies with 8 players dc'ing. A minute passes, everyone is back. Lots of AOE's from the boss in the wrong place, as in the color is in one place, then the AOE is in a totally different location. Anyways, we make it through that and kill the boss.

But for the off-tank constantly freezing and getting killed in bizarre and entertaining ways, the second boss was uneventful. Actually suffered no dc's by traveling back to the beginning instead of running the last sets of adds; a minor miracle given how the trial has gone to this point. Final boss was eventful. Adds conveniently grouping for kills was nice. The unpredictable flames through the center added a new surprise. Got to the color-change/end of the fight and boss decided to kill 10 players for no reason without warning. No damage recap available. Impressively, the 2 who survived rezzed the group and we finished. Scored a whole bunch of False God hats and Lokkes Lightning Staffs for the trouble. Sweet....

On the bright side, ran 3 VHRC runs in a row with no lag or glitches, which is a personal record.

I still love ESO, but this is getting to be a bit much.

AbysmalGhul · July 2019

Mrs Ghul made a funny montage of everything she's encountered that's broken. I haven't cried laugh in a good while.
At least the issues provide some entertainment.

elantaura · July 2019

I thought it an entertaining read, but agree with you been playing from console release . I’ve had a couple of breaks adding to about 4 months. But it’s getting to a point where It’s getting too much. I do love the game I don’t want to go, but playing it is just exasperating. I’ve been disconnected emoting in my own house, server is kind of broken if it can handle even kowtow lol.

DragonRacer · July 2019

I've found it's definitely gone from "unusually" long loading screens (which really is just the standard loading screen, let's be honest) to full-up FREEZING and having to close app/re-launch game on loading screens with frightening frequency post-Elsweyr.

For the love of God, travel to Riverhold and then just hoof it into Rimmen versus attempting to port there. 50/50 shot of actually beaming in on first attempt otherwise.

Also kinda weird to have to stand around forever at a dragon fight you've run up to and wait for everything to actually load in so that you can start participating in the fight. Also, I highly recommend NOT using rapids on a mount with full riding speed to approach the dragon because that has also lagged me out of the game multiple times. Forego the rapids.

El_Borracho · July 2019

@elantaura With you. When it is running well, its one of the best games out there. But the annoyances have become a slow burn. First it was the unusually long load screens as @DragonRacer pointed out. Then there were the mount/lag/desync issues whenever you port into a zone. Then voice chat took a dump for months making trials not-so-easy. Then there was/is the constant bugs in HRC. Then there was the problems grouping for anything. Now, with Elsweyr, there are frequent desync/lag issues everywhere, even in overland content.

Again, I'm not at the point of quitting, but come on. I became a ESO+ player because the game, content, and performance was great and reliable. I expect bugs and lag whenever there is new content, but I also expect old problems to be fixed, along with new kinks being worked out. Neither seem to be happening with any frequency on console. But hey, here's a new house!

I hear there is a new fix or update coming in the next few months. I hope they can bring this back to where it was.

LadyLethalla · July 2019

I get the old unusually long load screen message probably 98% of the time... the other 2% will be me afk so not seeing the message. Remember all those jokes about how long Anthem's load screens were (and possibly still are)? ESO is going to take that crown soon.
Other issues: getting D/C'd while fighting dragons, dying to an unseen dragon attack and getting booted to the char menu instead of respawning so I missed out on loot AND it didn't count for the daily -_-

On a better note, I've done NSS twice and I think only one person disconnected... which wasn't me. Amazing!

RayneHalo · July 2019

PS4: I'm becoming half decent at walking into what appears to be any empty delve/dungeon whatever and dropping an AOE and attacking the numbers that appear. I played tonight for about 2 hours, doing pledges and not once did anything load up correctly.

Great_M · July 2019

Last couple of weeks I have dc’ed to almost everything pve, pvp, even just recalling my banker

basically I just don’t log back in after that.

Kalante · July 2019

I don't even play eso more than once a week and when I do I can just play for about two hours after that I can't take no more where as three years ago I could play all day long with barely any lag. The game is just at a terrible and neglected state right now.