Group Finder is Broke

madman65 · April 2020

Just had group finder to queue twice then kicked all.

xXMeowMeowXx · April 2020

Yeap....lots of different issues going on.

*If you get stuck in a dungeon after finishing, just port to a guildie or your free room to avoid the fee.

Granicus · April 2020

Let me fix your title for you - Group Finder is *STILL* broke(n). 🙂

Just completed a pledge and exited the dungeon. I went to queue for the next pledge and the GF said I was already queued (?), though no dungeons were selected and all were greyed out. I could not Leave Queue. I logged off and restarted the game. I was no longer in a phantom queue, however Join Queue will no longer activate. JUST like a few weeks ago. Not really sure how the GF can get into these states between patches. Clearly ZOS does not know how to fix the Group Finder ...

madman65 · April 2020

If that happens again then walk or port into the dungeon, I`ve had that to happen.

FierceSam · April 2020

xXMeowMeowXx wrote: »

Yeap....lots of different issues going on.

*If you get stuck in a dungeon after finishing, just port to a guildie or your free room to avoid the fee.

Or to leave the dungeon, just walk out of the door (which is usually located near the final boss or will have a portal near the final boss). That will transport you back to you original location.

phaneub17_ESO · April 2020

When isn't it broke?

gatekeeper13 · April 2020

We are at vEH2 right now and we ve been waiting for 7 min to get 1 DD.

And I dont think there are no available DDs in queue...

Granicus · April 2020

The GF is displaying the same problems for me as it did last month. You can initially ‘queue’ (not really but you think you are) and sit there for 45 minutes, an hour, plus, without getting a group. If you map somewhere you are dropped from the ‘queue’. If you step into/out of your house your are dropped from the queue.

If you actually try to leave the queue it won’t let you.

Hitting Leave Queue either does nothing, or actually gives you a confirmation pop up. When you answer yes, it also does nothing. If you log out and then back in it will either let you ‘queue’, which again does nothing, or sometimes it will not even let you queue (the button does nothing).

Perhaps not everyone is experiencing this issue with the GF, but clearly some are, and in my case it has started doing it again after a few weeks of acting less buggy. Last time the only thing that ‘fixed’ this version of the chronically malfunctioning GF was a patch/maintenance event (my assumption here is that the server reboot reset something).

Again I say as I said a month ago in a similar thread, how can this company not provide a basic, simple function like a properly working grouping tool in a multiplayer game? They clearly have not fiixed the Group Finder, and I’m coming to the conclusion that they have no idea how to fix it!

snoozy · April 2020

broke... zos can't relate

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO · April 2020

Pointing out the obvious ("They clearly have no clue how to fix the group finder, or they would have done it years ago") tends to get threads closed. Let's see how long this one survives...

They rewrote the group finder from scratch a few patches ago. While that was a commendable and much needed effort, it didn't solve the problem, it just created slightly different problems that are just as bad. Some would argue they even made it worse. I'm not holding my breath for anything to happen any time soon on this front, so I just stop being surprised when the group finder bugs out on me.

Kingslayer513 · April 2020

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO wrote: »

Pointing out the obvious ("They clearly have no clue how to fix the group finder, or they would have done it years ago") tends to get threads closed. Let's see how long this one survives...

They rewrote the group finder from scratch a few patches ago. While that was a commendable and much needed effort, it didn't solve the problem, it just created slightly different problems that are just as bad. Some would argue they even made it worse. I'm not holding my breath for anything to happen any time soon on this front, so I just stop being surprised when the group finder bugs out on me.

GF is still broken but at least it's not completely broken like in the past. I think we all remember peak times with half an hour of "player declined, you have been put to front of queue" until you just give up.

Totally agree though that it feels like they squashed the major problem only to have 50 smaller problems pop up instead. At least with the smaller problems there's tricks and work-arounds for most of them.

phileunderx2 · April 2020

It often doesn't work when you are queuing with a full group.

Granicus · April 2020

It IS completely broken. For some. For the second time in the past 30 days I’m unable to use the GF at all account-wide. IF I can join a queue it goes no where. I can and have sat in queue for as much as 1.5 hours during prime time without grouping. When I attempt to Leave Queue it does nothing. If I map somewhere or log out it drops me from the queue. After logging back in the Join Queue button no longer works.

I had this problem 2-3 weeks ago and it only stopped after a maintenance patch, though I assume it was the server reboot that temporarily ‘resolved’ this issue, which is back now. And now I notice there is no regularly scheduled maintenance on the usual day. Yes, you can function without the GF, but that is not at all the point here. How long before everyone is experiencing this issue? It might be working now for some, but not for all. The Group Finder was never fixed and may never be.

Verbal_Earthworm · April 2020

It's meant to work?

bruderus7b16_ESO · May 2020

Granicus wrote: »

It IS completely broken. For some. For the second time in the past 30 days I’m unable to use the GF at all account-wide. IF I can join a queue it goes no where. I can and have sat in queue for as much as 1.5 hours during prime time without grouping. When I attempt to Leave Queue it does nothing. If I map somewhere or log out it drops me from the queue. After logging back in the Join Queue button no longer works.

I had this problem 2-3 weeks ago and it only stopped after a maintenance patch, though I assume it was the server reboot that temporarily ‘resolved’ this issue, which is back now. And now I notice there is no regularly scheduled maintenance on the usual day. Yes, you can function without the GF, but that is not at all the point here. How long before everyone is experiencing this issue? It might be working now for some, but not for all. The Group Finder was never fixed and may never be.

Have the same problem now, some friends of mine too.

EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE please!

Eifleber · May 2020

Group finder needs a major overhaul.

Since a few weeks queues have become REALLY long (healer queueing for daily undaunted = often 10-15 mins wait)

Also: must be harder to refuse READY signal by accident while busy fighting or porting or whatever.
It happens to me a lot and also quite often when waiting for the 2nd dd to accept. Very annoying and costs a lot of time.

Veles · May 2020

GF broken? cant be... I've seen few patch notes and it says GF fixed.

Skullstachio · May 2020

Group finder is about as useless as a screen door on a submarine. Queued for Normal white gold tower, 1 hour later, F this Sugar Honey Ice Tea I’m out.

Sandmanninja · May 2020

I'm trying to queue as a Healer for a dungeon.
I see the queue ready but instead of the usual prompt on the bottom middle of my screen, it just says "dungeon finder: ready"
I have to press N (for notifications) then I am prompted to press either E to Accept or (some other key) to Decline. I have tried both clicking Enter and pressing E but nothing happens.

After 30 seconds or so, the Dungeon Finder text on my screen says:
"Waiting on 4 players"
That tells me that NO ONE has been able to Accept.

Sometimes I am waiting 45+ minutes to get into a dungeon and to have this happen is beyond frustration.

madman65 · May 2020

This game is really messing up today. I`ve crashed twice not DC`ed so just bare with it. I figure there will be a maintenance notification soon.

Jayroo · May 2020

They need to give up and add a lobby, their "fix" did nothing

MaxJrFTW · May 2020

Haven't been able to do pledges today, the queue pops with 0 seconds left and i can't accept nor decline it. Good game

Universe · May 2020

If you're reporting about current issues it will be best if you will mention on which platform and server you're experiencing them.

Casterial · May 2020

Fix your title "Game is broken" ty!

Sergykid · May 2020

in any of the above cases just rejoin the queue.

if you don't get a group in 10 seconds as heal or tank then just rejoin until it pops, if a dd i think up to 5 mins should wait, dunno i don't join as dd

if someone left in ur dungeon and u replace, rejoin queue every 10 sec

if you finished a dungeon and joined with your group another and it's stuck in queue as 4 players, again: just rejoin queue until it pops if it doesn't work in 10 sec

madman65 · May 2020

I was watching the chat last night and someone said that the chance of getting a response from ESO/ZOS Bot is High. I just have lost all faith in this games devs/techs to the point of taking a break. I`ll see how it goes after the new update but I figure it will be bad or even worse.

Casterial · May 2020

madman65 wrote: »

I was watching the chat last night and someone said that the chance of getting a response from ESO/ZOS Bot is High. I just have lost all faith in this games devs/techs to the point of taking a break. I`ll see how it goes after the new update but I figure it will be bad or even worse.

Probably worse, you see any fix with Els? Els was released a year ago and it got worse and worse and worse...

newtinmpls · May 2020

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO wrote: »

They rewrote the group finder from scratch a few patches ago. While that was a commendable and much needed effort, it didn't solve the problem, it just created slightly different problems that are just as bad. Some would argue they even made it worse..

I would be one of those who thinks it got much worse.

I have regularly gotten:
Nothing ... and then suddenly a notification with 00 seconds to reply
The rest of the group gets the notification, but one person (usually the healer) doesn't, then the group is told that "someone declined" which is NOT what happened
Nothing until the group is disbanded, and re-queues then suddenly 2 seconds in we have a dungeon.
Nothing, we leave the group finder and then can't re-queue because "it's too soon"

Edited to add "PCNA"

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