TineaCruris wrote: »

Nanfoodle wrote: »

No high end PvE is broken as well. Lagging on skills wipes PvE raids as well.

So none of the end game content in ESO works as advertised?

PvP has one advantage, most people are having the same problems. In PvE NPCs suffers no such handy caps.

I'm having severe lag spikes & my abilities don't register half the time even when I try to do DPS parses on a target dummy in my house.
PVE(including my respectful target dummy) doesn't work good enough too.
Server: PC EU...

TineaCruris wrote: »

In reading these forums and playing a lot of ESO while on quaranteen I've noticed a shocking difference between PvP and PvE game play. It literally is like ESO is two different games when you try to PvE vs. PvP. The PvE aspect of things works nearly perfectly as far as I can tell. The PvP side of the game does not work at all for the most part. The lag in cyrodiil makes it unplayable even at off peak times, because, imagine this, in an MMO, sometimes there are more than 5 people in the same location. As soon as there is a group in the same location on the map at the same time, PvP ceases to function correctly.

How can there be such an insane dichotomy in terms of performance in PvE vs. PvP?

I suspect it is to do with things like people in small areas firing off multiple aoe's etc, and the server can't handle it. Certain skills have a lot of visual effects, like the necromancer ultimate.

Zos doesn't respond because most of the complaints here are of the hyperbole nature, and look ridiculous in the light of day.

They also most likely either can't or won't fix pvp cyrodil, hence why are quiet over the more sensible complaints. Trials I hope will improve when the number if people logging calms down a bit. I hope.

I run battlegrounds, random normals, delves and dolmens etc, and have no real problems. Pc eu has struggled for a year now, and there are an awful lot of players logging in right now, which doesn't help. I swapped over to pc n.a. a year ago, and noticed a big difference in performance.

And no, I don't play house or dress up game's. Unless my wife is out;)

ZOS_RachelM wrote: »

Greetings! We've removed some posts from this thread due to baiting.

We understand that everyone has their own opinions and frustrations they want to express, but we also want the forums to be a constructive platform for ESO and its community. Feel free to continue discussions of said topics, just be mindful of the community rules/ToS when doing so, as well as doing so in a constructive manner.

But these aren't opinions, the things mentioned are actually fact.

Us & them. Doesn't help either cause.

It's cute that you think PvE works.

Tandor wrote: »

The one thing that may be different in Cyrodiil is the anti-cheat programming, but sadly that's an inevitable fact of life with competitive play. Whether the same programming is applied in trials and battlegrounds I wouldn't know, but again they involve competitive play. A lot of forum PvPers have said over the years that performance in Cyrodiil took a plunge when ZOS switched a lot of stuff from client-side to server-side because of cheating.

Yes, I think that this is a good point.

One thing that I think hasn't been mentioned is that ESO fell over a lot more this time last year, with a much lower player count, and a login limit was introduced. Apart from falling over once about two weeks ago, the server hasn't done so since, even with approx 50% more players, based on the Steam stats, and comments from Zos.

This suggests one of two things; either Zos has purhased a new server to help capicity (unlikely), or they have done a similar thing to Netflix and reduced bandwidth per account. I suspect it is the latter. This would result in a more stable server, but more lag for those doing more taxing things like trials. It would certainly explain a lot if true.

I haven't done battlegrounds in a week or so, but they were perfectly fine then. The only real lag I had was the guild bank and store, but this looks to either been fixed by Monday's patch, or simply there were more players using the bank and store during the event. Probably both, and the bank and store seem much better than in recent weeks and months.

If my guess above is correct, it would seem that trial performance will return to pre coronavirus levels once the bandwidth has been returned to normal. I would imagine that it might be a month or so after Greymoor is released, as there will likely be a huge increase in my fellow Skyrim fanboys and girls. It might be a bit of a wait.

I would imagine that Cyrodil pvp will be unlikely to improve, and that a lot of that playerbase will move on. It might be for the best.

I always thought PvE worked too. I was even jealous.

Until I entered a vTrial.

It is a Power Point Slide Show, just like PvP.

If you wanna quest in Auridon, it is fine though.