The sad thing is, you get used to lower standards. I'm quite happy that I've been at, at least 3 seiges last night that had 50k tics, without crashing. Times were, I couldn't get within 500m of the keep without it crashing to the login page. So it's bad, but I want to play, so I'm happy for scraps. That being said, I'm a healer. It must be absolutely untenable on a dd.

100% the same experience - except I had no 1year break.

Since U25 I always liked MYM and was waiting for the next event, bc performance wise it was always the best time.
This is the first MYM where I can't say it's better then "normal", bc the maybe (some ppl say it's better) difference between 5- and 6 is to low for me to recognize. It remains unplayable for me.

I actually got bored and times it earlier today. I had a 7 second cast time on dizzying swing for about 1 hour or so and most of the skills in the game don't even fire. I watched as a lot of the people in the area didn't so much move as they just jumped from place to place as the server couldn't seem to keep up. Also really fun getting a death report that shows you die, then your skills go off and the person you were fighting dies like 5 seconds after you are dead. Really top notch game experience for a big event showing off PVP.

Performance has degraded significantly lately. With the MYM and possibly the additional resources allocated, it is slightly better but still on the unplayable level. Last night for example was particularly horrendous. A lot of people crashed (pc eu gray host, ofc), the lag and other issues.

Seriously demotivating a lot of players. Personally, either this, or a potential attempt towards a more p2w mmo will be the reason I'll quit eso someday. Former one seems way more likely tbh.

What is "utterly unplayable"? Low frame rate? Or input lag?

Frame rate is fine on PS5 and great on PC, input lag is acceptable, much improved over a year ago and you can actually use normal rotations in fights.

Dunno, I haven't had game breaking issues. I have had a few hiccups when there were large amounts of players on the screen, but nothing that made it hard to play. I just get killed because I suck at cyro.

Skills not firing twice in like 5 hours there. Then imperial city can't go back into base cause queue full in 1 bar server, error like 10 times (no joke).

Otherwise it worked but cydrolli is super meh compared to battlegrounds

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Skills not firing twice in like 5 hours there. Then imperial city can't go back into base cause queue full in 1 bar server, error like 10 times (no joke).

Otherwise it worked but cydrolli is super meh compared to battlegrounds

Yeah, the queueing error with IC is the other major issue, and is absolutely ridiculous. I'm now at the point where I just leave for 2-3 minutes, then come back and THEN try to jump between base and city or vice versa. For some reason, there seems to be a token or something identifying you in the queue, that doesn't get removed from the queue right away when jumping. Just...dumb.

@ZOS: I hope you guys are paying some attention here...nearly 80% of players who have responded so far, are saying PvP is slow to unplayable. Why don't you guys put any effort into solving this issue? Its systemic, and it does matter!

I loved cyro for nearly five years but I am slowly giving up on it, doing some pvp there, here and now but if there's any MMO coming out with similar faction pvp I'm out of eso far quicker than anyone could fire skills in cyro at prime time.

As a software engineer and architect of over 30 years...it baffles me that ZOS cannot figure out a way to test the issues with Cyrodiil. If that indeed really is the problem, and not just them avoiding spending money on necessary upgrades to the megaserver infrastructure in order to handle the kind of load they have these days...which I cannot help but suspect could also/alternatively be the issue.

Anyway, this really shouldn't be that hard to test. There is a very simple example of the problem. Summoning your horse. That usually takes several seconds in Cyro, whereas its usually instantaneous anywhere else. I suspect whatever causes that, is probably also playing a role in the rest of the issues in Cyro...it doesn't really feel like "lag", although when pings get up to 300ms or so, that is definitely a compounding issue. The issue is more of a sync issue or something, where the server is working and that takes a while, before it can respond back to the client that its acknowledged (I don't know the inner workings of ESO's protocol, so I'm just hypothesizing here).

That really shouldn't be hard to test. Set up a test server. Create a bunch of artificial actors to stand in for humans, and program them to behave like players. Dancing around, attacking a lot with weaves, smashing each other to mush with executions, jumping around the zone, completing quests, etc. Stuff to saturate the communications channels to the server, and swamp the server. Then just log out everything that happens, with timings, with the communications protocol and server execution path for just ONE of those actors. Trace the sequence of behavior, identify the bottleneck(s), and...fix em.

Testing is a critical developer skill. ZOS should have at least one person capable of handling creating and executing effective testing scenarios for issues like this. This should not be a hard problem to solve...