PS5, mostly NA, but sometimes EU.
I'm mostly just asking here if anyone else is experiencing this, or if it's my PS5, or if it's using more than 1 add-on.
BUG: At least once a play session, and often more than once per hour, I'm freezing. Everything around me freezes, I can't do anything, but if I just wait, I don't eventually get kicked like a normal Disconnect works. It would just stay there. I've not waited longer than 5 minutes, though. The only way I can play the game again it to turn off my PS5.
If I don't shut down and restart my PS5, when I try to log back in, I get the screen where the camera moves across a pond with an Ayleid ruin and waterfall, but "Press X to Start" never appears and I never get to the screen with Server Select.
I don't think this is the same thing as is being discussed in
ZOS, Massive Spike in Ping/LAG in Recent Days - What Gives?
I'm experiencing some of those things too, but this is pretty new, in the last 2 months.
What I've done to try to solve it:
Log out and log back in -> Ayleid ruin forever
Closing the game and restarting -> Ayleid ruin forever
Restart the PS5 without shutting it down -> Ayleid ruin forever
Rebuilding my database
Clearing my cache
Uninstalling all of my add-ons, rebuilding my database and clearing my cache.
Uninstalling the game, rebuilding my database, clearing my cache, reinstalling the game, reinstalling addons.
Many many iterations of add-ons installed and uninstalled.
What I haven't done for long: after reinstalling the game, I immediately reinstalled Dolgubon's Craft add-on, but played for a few days with no others. I did not get the bug.
If I install any more add-ons, the bug comes back, and stays even if I uninstall them.
Which seems like it's an add-on thing, but maybe I just didn't get the bug when I only had Dolgubon installed?
These are the add-ons I currently have, and I'm getting the bug:
Dolgubon Lazy Writ Crafter
Can Craft Master Writ
Crutchalerts
Fancy Action Bar+
Harvestmap (Shinni42 version)
Murf's Treasures
Votan's Minimap
if I have to choose between the bug and not having any add-ons, I"ll choose the bug. It hasn't happened during group play, but it has happened while in combat. If I were running a lot of dungeons and trials, it would be different, but mostly I'm just crafting/doing dailies right now.
Thanks for any insight.