PvP Performance During PvP Event is Egregious

neferpitou73 · February 2022

The title says it all. Imagine fighting at a keep for an hour, holding back waves and waves of enemy players, racking up AP and kills, wiping a ball group, only to have the victory stolen from you at the last second because you literally can't move your character.

Here are three videos of my group being literally slowed to a standstill, including one where Akotosh has apparently altered gravity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf1fMnWgZIk

https://youtu.be/_f7nM_Eu5fM

https://youtu.be/ziFsaZ7CnzU

You can also see the hour long fight preceding this incident on my channel.

And the performance is like this literally every night. And not just during the event. In fact I hope this event has shown PvErs the absolutely abysmal lag that PvPers face every day they log on.

My group has worked super hard to play like we do, put hours into training, theorycrafting, and raiding and are absolutely livid that ZoS can't fix their servers enough to see our hard work pay off. This needs to be fixed now. Not a year from now. Not “we’re working on it”. Now.

dem0n1k · February 2022

Yeah... it sucks when that happens. Or like yesterday.. was in a 1+ hour fight at Aleswell.. all 3 factions.. keep changed hands 3 times during the fight. I died twice but was able to rez at camps. Got disconnected before the dtick

KKolly · February 2022

It is honestly infuriating and ZOS' "stop complaining, we've done so much" can no longer belie the serious issues with PvP. This isn't a DC, EP, or AD thing. This isn't even an event thing, as its occurred to me outside of event time multiple times so far this year. I imagine every faction has suffered this kind of ridiculousness and its clear things like this are taking a toll on the entire PvP community. There's a reason why most campaigns are completely dead outside of prime-time. Its not because of toxicity. Its not because the PvP is bad. The fault rests solely on ZOS' complete inability to fix and improve their own product. Instead of actual fixes to back-end, they give us power creep in the form of broken sets like DC, Hrothgar's, and Plaguebreak. I can't imagine the absolute hell the news PvP sets are going to be.

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Jappanda · February 2022

This along with skills constantly not going off makes Cyro soooo painful. It would be nice to actually play the video game instead of spamming keys and standing still for several hours a night.

Janni · February 2022

Jappanda wrote: »

This along with skills constantly not going off makes Cyro soooo painful. It would be nice to actually play the video game instead of spamming keys and standing still for several hours a night.

I know, right? Like, imagine playing an instrument say.... a piano. Now imagine what a well practiced song would sound like if the piano worked like this game? Wouldn't be fun or enjoyable for anyone, huh?

Saccopharynx · February 2022

I ran the event last year and I'm running it again this year, and honestly it feels like it's gone downhill more.

The worst part about the lag that I personally have been experiencing is anytime someone hits me with Meteor (morph irrelevant) it's a guaranteed DC. This doesn't happen outside of Cyro whatsoever, at all, but anytime I try to run in Cyro I know that my time is literally dependent on when someone decides to meteor me out of the game.

More annoyingly, someone joined an xbox party I was in, found out about it, and was intentionally following me around in stealth for an hour just to DC me on purpose (he revealed himself in call and thought it was super funny). Its not funny. Its especially not funny when it caused my Xbox itself to lag after the last intentional DC.

I love PVP, but this nonsense here is why I intentionally avoid it. I would rather take a rare DC out of a dungeon or trial than struggle to participate in Cyro.

Roztlin45 · February 2022

I don't think the lag can be solved. The game engine , the instant demand and the massive number of calculations done server side just not going to happen. How do you slow.down combat on a game that would.he ruined it you do. Removing animation cancelling would.help but also not be well received. Removing cross healing? Move.items back to.client side without exploits? I would.guess everyone get on 1gig fiber and zos upgrade servers.

katanagirl1 · February 2022

Despite the claims that PvP gets better during the event, it has always been bad for me on PS server. Maybe you get better hamsters on PC.

I got dc’d three times within 30 minutes of queuing early this morning on Gray Host. I had to re-queue the second time.

When riding to a keep with other players around me, I see them drop behind and then suddenly appear in front of me over and over again as the game skips and stutters. Sometimes the game freezes for 30 seconds or so and I hope to still be alive when I come out of it. Often I die from standing in the red but I can’t see it, or all the damage hits me all at once and my health bar goes from full to zero in 1/10 of a second.

I am on wired connection with almost 200 mbs speed so it’s not my internet.

geonsocal · February 2022

I still remember when the destro ults first got released, I was looking over a keep defense of ash from that overhead siege perspective...

there were snow, fire and lightning storms all over the place...

at that time we had already been having a bunch of game performance issues...

at that time though, watching all the lovely animations going off all over the place I was pretty certain that was as good as game performance was ever going to get...

Vystari · February 2022

I play this game to have fun. It's a distraction from reality. When we have game play issues, it really makes me not want to play at all. It's quite stressful to try playing with such bad lag where no matter how hard you press a skill, it won't go off, and no matter your character movement speed, you can't move. I rarely get mad when playing a game, but the last few times playing PvP with my guild, it made me really upset when our group was slow-walking and the enemy group was running over us at full speed. Please, ZOS.. Fix this. A lot of us are loyal and even spend a lot of money for in-game items and ESO plus subs. Don't just leave a big part of your gaming community hanging.. we just want to have fun too.

Kwoung · February 2022

I have discovered a very effective method of combating the lag and it has been working perfectly for me lately. It is pretty easy to emulate, so here is how...

1. Hover your mouse over the ESO game launcher.
2. Don't click it.

Lag fixed!

AvalonRanger · February 2022

>>neferpitou73 wrote
Here are three videos of my group being literally slowed to a standstill, including one where Akotosh has apparently altered gravity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf1fMnWgZIk

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I've seen same bug at the Northern Elsweyr Dragon combat area twice.
Suddenly Dragon become just like "The Matrix" bullet time slow motion.
But only dragon became like that, players were acting like usual.