Not recently no, had a few normal pledges where we finished with someone's companion filling the fourth slot in the groups, different group in each run, group leader had us queued for a replacement in each case each dungeon ended up finished without a replacement ever showing up even for the DPS role.

Not a massive sample size maybe 6 different dungeon runs spread out over a few days, only really started up running dungeons again for the event.

I got in as a replacement, just in time to see the other three members of the group leaving the dungeon after finishing it. This was on the second day of the undaunted event (ps4eu)

Not recently, last time was several months ago, possibly over a year.

Admittedly I don't do dungeons that often, but I'd say at least once a month (rarely enough that I forgot what Undaunted keys are for, often enough that I had 50+ to use) and I can't remember the last time it did find someone. I just assume we're not going to get anyone else unless we find them ourselves.

Yes, just a few days ago.

DigiAngel wrote: »

Rarely..but it does happen.

Yup.
Did one of the new dlc dungeons on normal (the Druid one) and a dps dropped immediately. Got to the end boss and just before the pull, we had a full team.

Very rarely but it has happened. 99% of my replacement searches results in spawning a companion and completing the dungeon without the required role having a live player.

DigiAngel wrote: »

Rarely..but it does happen.

This. There was once we got all the way to the final boss before the replacement popped in.

There was another occasion where I WAS the replacement, and the group I joined was on the final boss. I didn’t ask how long they’d been waiting though, just thanked them for the really fast Pledge.

Yes...eventually. If it's one of the long dungeons I've seen a replacement at or near the last boss. If it's one of the shorter one, no I haven't seen it in many, many months.

As I've said before, this is related to how much longer it takes to get a dungeon if you Q as a group of 2 or 3. No problem Qing solo or as a 4-person group for a random.

I suspect there is actually a bug with Companions in dungeons: which is to say that, sometimes they prevent a player jumping into an instance because for some reason the game is counting them as a player.

I have noticed this both at the start of an instance (three players and one companion spawn into an instance, fourth player is unable to jump in) and in mid-instance (game says instance is already full and cannot pick another player). Asking all players to dismiss companions sometimes actually allows a replacement to be found, or the bugged fourth player to actually port in via teleport-to-player. This seems to happen most often if one player is having problems with lag.

Proposed solution: All companions should be automatically fully dismissed when players jump into a dungeon or trial, and NOT considered to be "still with the player but despawned because of group size limit". If you want your companion in a dungeon, you would have to summon it AFTER entering the dungeon (i.e. after dismissing them) even if you are doing the dungeon solo with companion.

Okay, this would also mean that when you came OUT of a dungeon, the companion would not be re-summoned... and if you were in a dungeon where a player left early, the game would not play companion roulette to see whose companion got summoned, it would not try to summon any of them, and the first person to CHOOSE to summon a companion would succeed.

Also, I suspect that "find a replacement" only finds people who have queued for a specific dungeon, not people who've queued for random.

Because there must be a HUGE pool of DDs queueing for random normal dungeons, many of them waiting 20-30 minutes, and yet the Dungeon Finder frequently takes just as long to find a replacement (often long enough to finish the dungeon) even if it's a DD that's needed.

Surely, if there were at an time (say) 50+ DDs queueing for RND (the only good reason for it to actually ever take so long for DDs to actually get a dungeon if they queue for RND), then if the dungeon finder for "Find Replacement" were actually LOOKING at the Random queue, it would pick the first person from that queue? And there would then be 49 DDs queueing for Random. This should make filling up a space in this way be pretty much instant. As in, the new guy should be in before the door has actually slammed on the quitter's posterior. The ONLY explanation can be that it is not, in fact, looking at the Random queue at all, only at people who queued for specific dungeons for some reason.

No. Every time on PS/NA we have lost a player in a PUG, we have not gotten a replacement. So the dungeon needs to be one that the remaining players can finish by themselves.

Separately, this is a royal PITA right now with the UI Error on consoles. If a group member gets the UI Error, and ends up getting disconnected and dropped from the group - no replacement.

yes it's an actual problem, there was already a thread made about it, here
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/612317/bug-dungeon-queue-replacement-function-does-not-find-player

ZOS_Hadeostry wrote: »

Greetings,

After further review we have decided to move this thread to a category we think is more appropriate for this topic.

Thank you for your understanding

@ZOS_Hadeostry can you please submit a report about this issue. It legit exists on PC na