Vet Vateshran Hollows Final Boss Phase Bugged?

DragonRacer · July 25

First time trying to complete this arena at all, and on vet. I make it to the final phase of the final boss fight and get booted to an error screen on main screen. Second try, lagged out to character select.

PS5 NA. Wireless connection. I have had random drops before, but still managed to get vMA Flawless Conqueror. This is consistently happening ONLY in the final phase of this fight, though. And I’ve never lagged out to character select before.

Is this arena bugged? Or has Whitestrake’s Mayhem destroyed everything in this game? I don’t think it’s my Internet connection but I’m gonna be pretty bummed if I can never complete this arena because of some server code issue or something.

Make it make sense.

https://youtu.be/qFdUgqYm68E?si=OMrNa01YuGAPSkpu

https://youtu.be/6xLQQuo7bTg?si=cz_Ojuic20M6HicK

BasP · July 25

Damn, that is some bad luck. I just did the arena as well to see if the same thing happened to me, but I didn't experience any errors during the final battle (I'm on PC EU though).

Something similar to your second video did happen to me twice before getting to the last boss, but I didn't get booted to the Character Select screen - after a second or 6 I could resume playing normally.

Necrotech_Master · July 25

yeah that seems like unlucky disconnecting

both cases are disconnecting, but the first one happened more instantaneous where the 2nd one took its time

BasP · July 25

I experience that second thing relatively often these days - the game seems to pause for a handful of seconds, during which I can still move my character and seem to be able to use skills that are slotted on the bar I was on (though I'm not sure if the game actually registers them). I've never been disconnected myself when this happens, luckily, but when I can resume playing ESO's built in Ping indicator almost always shows 999+ and then slowly goes back down.

I managed to catch this screen in VH today, for example:

DragonRacer · July 25

I just want an honest chance at getting my first clear. If I die, I die, but this incompleting due to the game kicking me in the same phase every time is hot garbage.

And being I’m on console, there’s not a whole heck of a lot of diagnostics I can run or tweaks I can make.

Necrotech_Master · July 25

DragonRacer wrote: »

I just want an honest chance at getting my first clear. If I die, I die, but this incompleting due to the game kicking me in the same phase every time is hot garbage.

And being I’m on console, there’s not a whole heck of a lot of diagnostics I can run or tweaks I can make.

disconnections are always hard to diagnose the exact cause

sometimes it could be the server hiccuping, other times it could be your connection, or it could be any of the numerous hops your ISP takes between you and the server

spartaxoxo · July 26

That sucks. I'd just try again on another day. It's been a long time since I've been in there, but I don't doubt they changed anything during that time either. It might not be arena boss causing the issue. Fingers crossed!

Sluggy · July 26

It's not the arena. It's just the game. There's a 31-page long thread going back a couple months about this issue now.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/658253/zos-massive-spike-in-ping-lag-in-recent-days-what-gives

VouxeTheMinotaur · July 26

in the second video you've posted, I've experienced a bunch of times in ESO, primarily in dungeons and trials since that's what I run the most. I'm also on PS5/NA, so I wouldn't say it's your ISP or the arena itself, it's just how ESO has been lately since mid-May and becoming a growing issue. Heavily effecting PC players and mildly effecting a handful of console players it would seem.

Extremely frustrating since, like the second video shows, it happens mid-fights during mechanic heavy situations, and even worse timing when I'm on my tank holding bosses for groupmates / healer during hard hitting situations, only to come back dead and/or everyone else dead. Very disruptive to gameplay for everyone.

AnduinTryggva · July 26

VouxeTheMinotaur wrote: »

in the second video you've posted, I've experienced a bunch of times in ESO, primarily in dungeons and trials since that's what I run the most. I'm also on PS5/NA, so I wouldn't say it's your ISP or the arena itself, it's just how ESO has been lately since mid-May and becoming a growing issue. Heavily effecting PC players and mildly effecting a handful of console players it would seem.

Extremely frustrating since, like the second video shows, it happens mid-fights during mechanic heavy situations, and even worse timing when I'm on my tank holding bosses for groupmates / healer during hard hitting situations, only to come back dead and/or everyone else dead. Very disruptive to gameplay for everyone.

Observed this too on occasions. The world seems to freeze and after a couple of seconds I get booted as in the second video of the OP. However this is a while that I experienced this.

However, I still get random kicks out of nowhere like in the first video. It was very very bad a couple of months ago, it got better later and now it has worsened again.