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Hoping ZOS can chime in and give some context as to what is happening behind the scenes (without giving away possible unannounced changes).
In recent days there has been a massive spike in PC NA ping/lag. Usually when the servers go down for maintenance the ping/lag improves for a few days but the spike we have seen the last week or so is abnormal. Affected areas are both PvE and PvP - I've experienced it most in PvP, though. Based on zone chat this appears to be a widespread issue and not localized to a handful of players. Things that have been observed are ping spikes to 999+ for an extended period of time (3-5 seconds) followed by massive ruberbanding or simply the game freezing then unfreezing after a few seconds.
Overall the average ping has risen from around the 75ish (for me) to 350ish.
With the Cyro issues a few weeks back that were never explained, then the recent PTS issue, I'm making an assumption that there is a large effort behind the scenes to either refactor some code/networking or some other massive network/DB overhaul that's yet to be announced (which I don't blame ZOS for not announcing these efforts due to the last few attempts not working and the player base going full agro mode).
Anyways, haven't seen a lot of dialogue about these recent issues so wanted to get the conversation going and hoping that someone at ZOS could chime in and acknowledge they are aware and maybe give a hint at some reason behind these aggravating issues as of late.
@ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_RichLambert @ZOS_GinaBruno Can you provide your community an official update on its official forums? An acknowledgment of issues was posted by Rich on Reddit but I don’t see one here. Maybe I just can’t see it? https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/1d3fs29/comment/l67ekx7/?context=3&share_id=fw5nkA67Mn0RU45jY5aDD&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1Following up on this. As Rich mentioned during the AMA on Reddit, there are some DDoS issues we have been working through. Specifically Rich said:
"We are most definitely aware. It's been a rough few weeks - DDOS attacks have been a big part of perf issues, but aren't the only issue we're looking into.However, as he also mentioned, there are some other issue at play that we are actively investigating regarding the performance issues. We are trying to provide our engineers with as much information as possible to narrow down what is occurring, hence the previous ask for ticket numbers. We are working to figure this out, so additional tickets, examples, videos, etc. will help us to narrow down what is happening here. (Thanks @Photosniper89 for all of the tickets sent so far) Thanks in advance for all the continued help.