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I feel disconnected from the game after recent patch

silky_soft
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Since the recent patch I feel completely disconnected from my character. Skills, movement, damage in or out, healing.

What's changed?
This recent update has made me sad. Sad for the game. Sad for the community. Sad to pay whatever it is now. I want the previous eso back.
  • blktauna
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    I know what you mean. Its very sluggish, I hit keys and the skill is horrifically delayed or sometimes I get a different skill altogether, when you tab target something the shot will completely not hit it... sometimes they just stand there and do nothing... Its like the buffers are full and never clearing
    Edited by blktauna on March 17, 2025 3:24AM
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  • Two_Ears
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    Oh, I thought it's my connection. But seeing everything else works on my end, - same for me! feels like combat is rubber-banding 70% of the time.
  • Pixiepumpkin
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    Same here. Abilities firing after a key press seems delayed, if even by a microsecond. Sometimes nothing happens at all. I actually had to check to see if the keys on mouse and keyboard were working.

    There also seems to be massive delays when I target an enemy in that my ability does not go off because even though on my screen there were in my crosshairs, on their screen they were 20 feet away.

    I notice this a lot on a sorc when using heavy attack lighting staff. Pressing and holding the mouse button for a HA does nothing. The sorc makes a fast "about to attack" animation, but does not carry through with the attack. I have to make multiple engagement attempts for it to fire.

    I am also (in PVP) going from full health + shield to death screen without ever seeing combat. I literally just go from alive to dead as if the combat portion was edited out. Makes no sense.
    "Class identity isn’t just about power or efficiency. It’s about symbolic clarity, mechanical cohesion, and a shared visual and tactical language between players." - sans-culottes
  • AzuraFan
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    I've noticed the sluggishness in skills firing. In this game, skills not firing has been a problem, but when they did fire, they fired right away. Now there can be a delay, which is really noticeable because the skill sound is delayed.
  • Jaimeh
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    I'm having the same issue, there is a very noticeable delay between pressing the button and the skill firing that has been consistently happening in past few weeks. sometimes 2 seconds pass by before the animation even starts, while my character is just standing there, it's as if the skill is somehow queued and delays to fire. There are no ping spikes when this happens and my connection is fine. At first I thought it was my controller but I swapped it and it still persists. It's happening on both PC NA/EU and the PTS. Could @ZOS_Kevin please weigh in whether the team is aware of this?
  • Estin
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    PvE and PvP I've noticed this as well. I wasn't sure if was me, but I do not remember delays being this bad before the update. One thing I really noticed is that I'm not firing spec bow a lot despite pressing the skill after doing my 5th LA. I press it but it's a dead input. Nothing has changed with my timing of the skill, but I'm suddenly missing it a lot. There have also been several times where skills I knowingly activated are not actually on, such as wall of elements and flames of oblivion. Casting Synergies also puts an extreme delay on your character. I play a lot of ZenDK in PvE and have gotten used to using every synergy I see pop up. Synergies are supposed to be on a separate cool down which means they shouldn't block skills or LAs, but when I'm using a lot of synergies, I can see and feel my character running behind on inputs as if they're being queued by 1-2 LAs + skills and being played out automatically. I have to stop and let the queue complete or else I'm going to end up missing inputs.
  • Xarrant
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    I am glad to see I am not the only person having this issue. Recently I've started having an issue where the screen goes black (no signal) but I can still hear the game. I always have to reset/reboot to clear it.

    I found posts from 2021 saying to shut off Multithread Rendering which seems to have helped the black screen issue but I am still having lag with skills and interacting with objects.
  • silky_soft
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    Same here. Abilities firing after a key press seems delayed, if even by a microsecond. Sometimes nothing happens at all. I actually had to check to see if the keys on mouse and keyboard were working.

    There also seems to be massive delays when I target an enemy in that my ability does not go off because even though on my screen there were in my crosshairs, on their screen they were 20 feet away.

    I notice this a lot on a sorc when using heavy attack lighting staff. Pressing and holding the mouse button for a HA does nothing. The sorc makes a fast "about to attack" animation, but does not carry through with the attack. I have to make multiple engagement attempts for it to fire.

    I am also (in PVP) going from full health + shield to death screen without ever seeing combat. I literally just go from alive to dead as if the combat portion was edited out. Makes no sense.

    Yea I thought it was my mouse and keyboard. So I went through my boxes and pulled out my old set. But it's the same feeling.

    Going full alive to dead in 1 frame. Instant skills stuck at first animation frame while the world goes on around. Missing cast animations on the cast skills and just insta damage, sometimes even while I'm in cc. Tabbed to a target in front, but skills fire to the left as another player leaves or flanks the fight. Heavy and light attacks animate but no damage only the skill. Some aoe skills hitting a target Dodge rolling, being hit in the Dodge animation but not 1s after the finish of the Dodge animation.

    It's a full detachment from what's going on the screen. Even when it's been horrible latency you can adjust to what's going to a degree. But there is no cadence to hold on to.
    Edited by silky_soft on March 17, 2025 9:16PM
    This recent update has made me sad. Sad for the game. Sad for the community. Sad to pay whatever it is now. I want the previous eso back.
  • moo_2021
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    I was repeating grappling in VH for achievememt. The point was right in front of me but often it took 1 secomd to pull. Sometimes I could even use other abilities during the delay.
  • Pixiepumpkin
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    silky_soft wrote: »
    Same here. Abilities firing after a key press seems delayed, if even by a microsecond. Sometimes nothing happens at all. I actually had to check to see if the keys on mouse and keyboard were working.

    There also seems to be massive delays when I target an enemy in that my ability does not go off because even though on my screen there were in my crosshairs, on their screen they were 20 feet away.

    I notice this a lot on a sorc when using heavy attack lighting staff. Pressing and holding the mouse button for a HA does nothing. The sorc makes a fast "about to attack" animation, but does not carry through with the attack. I have to make multiple engagement attempts for it to fire.

    I am also (in PVP) going from full health + shield to death screen without ever seeing combat. I literally just go from alive to dead as if the combat portion was edited out. Makes no sense.

    Yea I thought it was my mouse and keyboard. So I went through my boxes and pulled out my old set. But it's the same feeling.

    Going full alive to dead in 1 frame. Instant skills stuck at first animation frame while the world goes on around. Missing cast animations on the cast skills and just insta damage, sometimes even while I'm in cc. Tabbed to a target in front, but skills fire to the left as another player leaves or flanks the fight. Heavy and light attacks animate but no damage only the skill. Some aoe skills hitting a target Dodge rolling, being hit in the Dodge animation but not 1s after the finish of the Dodge animation.

    It's a full detachment from what's going on the screen. Even when it's been horrible latency you can adjust to what's going to a degree. But there is no cadence to hold on to.

    I know what you mean. I constantly get killed while iframing in a dodge roll...how? I dunna...but when my best option for not being hit is not working...well it crreates a lot of frustration.
    "Class identity isn’t just about power or efficiency. It’s about symbolic clarity, mechanical cohesion, and a shared visual and tactical language between players." - sans-culottes
  • shadyjane62
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    I have spent a lot more time playing other games. It has felt old and boring lately.
  • Juju_beans
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    I have spent a lot more time playing other games. It has felt old and boring lately.

    I'm doing the same...playing other games for now.
  • magnusthorek
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    Same here. At first, I thought it could be the crappy Dell keyboard I'm unfortunately bound to use for a good while, but I'm glad it's not only here. After patch, I went to IA for some dailies and everything was broken — beam wasn't firing at the tab-targeted mob, Force Pulse was VERY slow (slower than usual), even my movement was sluggish!

    Right now, I was wrapping up a solo run, then near the end of a Stage everything stopped, I got booted to log-in screen and only managed to get back after many random errors. And guess what? Instead of merely losing a thread, which would be bad, but manageable, the WHOLE INSTANCE RESET!!!

    I really don't get it. What's the point of an “infinite” content, if in order to ACTUALLY enjoy it “infinitely” I must have a flawless connection with 100% uptime (which is impossible); and if I get tired, I have to “cheat” with some sort of macro to spam a cheap skill indefinitely, so the thing doesn't shut down?
    Edited by magnusthorek on March 23, 2025 1:37PM
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  • Vulkunne
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    Its noticeable yes. Def a delay in there coming from somewhere.
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  • reazea
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    Feels like forced lowering of APM with the last patch.
  • MrGarlic
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    The game used to be fast and free-flowing. That was it's draw compared to other similar games.

    Now it feels like running in honey.

    Skills seem to buffer and then spring all at once. Blocking is a 50-50 chance despite reacting to enemy telegraphing.

    I even interacted with something as innocuous as a Lorebook this morning and it took about 2 seconds to respond.

    The game is getting old and it feels like it too.
    'Sharp Arrows'Mr.Garlic
    Hidden by darkness, a shadow in the night,A sped arrow dissecting the gloom,Finding it's target, such delight.
  • silky_soft
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    What ever has been done to make the game more responsive since last patch needs to be rolled back.
    This recent update has made me sad. Sad for the game. Sad for the community. Sad to pay whatever it is now. I want the previous eso back.
  • EvilGoatKing
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    Confirming that since the latest update skills take ages to go off and gameplay in general feels like playing through sludge. Thankfully Im a toxic casual, if I was trying to raid or pvp in this id lose my mind.
  • huskandhunger
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    I've been experiencing this delay in cast and sound timing response in using abilities too in both PVE and PVP contexts. It feels sluggish and delayed. @ZOS_Kevin did the servers get scrambled in an attack again?
  • Ardriel
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    I can confirm that. Skills not firing is worse than ever. I often have to press the ulti button 3 or 4 times before it finally fires... Many times bar swap doesn't work and I cast the wrong skill. Especially annoying as a tank when you want to taunt or when the wrong ulti fires as a dd or someone dies because a heal didn't fire. :|
    It really annoys me that I had to subscribe to eso+ to be able to play the new dungeons. I certainly won't be spending any more money on ESO any time soon. It's outrageous to announce improvements and then everything is just worse. :/
  • magnusthorek
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    I've been experiencing this delay in cast and sound timing response in using abilities too in both PVE and PVP contexts. It feels sluggish and delayed. @ZOS_Kevin did the servers get scrambled in an attack again?
    Considering you ALSO seem to have sound stuttering, are you by any chance on a wireless headset? For some very weird reason, sometimes, in such scenario, game starts lagging bad out of sudden. And it's not a combate-related exclusive, it can happen anywhere, anytime, even during a Tales of Tribute match. o.O
    I am the very model of a scientist Salarian, I've studied species Turian, Asari, and Batarian.
    I'm quite good at genetics (as a subset of biology) because I am an expert (which I know is a tautology).
    My xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian, I am the very model of a Scientist Salarian.
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