Very Laggy ATM

nate1980

I have a brand new computer with high end specs and 50Mbps. Last night everything was fine, but I'm guessing because it's Saturday night and they probably invited many people for this weekends stress test for NA servers, the game is so laggy it's unplayable atm. I'd activate an ability and it wouldn't go off for several seconds after that. I'd type something in chat, and it wouldn't show up until 15 seconds later.

Apparently Zenimax has surpassed the amount of people their megaserver can handle. Hopefully they'll have everything ready by launch, but I have my doubts. I've encountered bugged quests, random freezes, and now laggy gameplay. I know it's beta, but we're 4 weeks from launch. Everything should be ready for release by now. I already pre-ordered and otherwise find the game otherwise fine and addicting, so I really hope things will turn out alright.

redbug

Yeah can't log on.

jdnyc

Originally posted by nate1980

I have a brand new computer with high end specs and 50Mbps. Last night everything was fine, but I'm guessing because it's Saturday night and they probably invited many people for this weekends stress test for NA servers, the game is so laggy it's unplayable atm. I'd activate an ability and it wouldn't go off for several seconds after that. I'd type something in chat, and it wouldn't show up until 15 seconds later.

Apparently Zenimax has surpassed the amount of people their megaserver can handle. Hopefully they'll have everything ready by launch, but I have my doubts. I've encountered bugged quests, random freezes, and now laggy gameplay. I know it's beta, but we're 4 weeks from launch. Everything should be ready for release by now. I already pre-ordered and otherwise find the game otherwise fine and addicting, so I really hope things will turn out alright.

Of course things will get worked out.  They are aware of the issues and said they're hunting down the issue.  Probably best not to conjecture without knowing any of the evidence.  

Fearum

That is what this weekend beta stress test it for, to hammer out some bugs in the network code. It ran fine up until about 45 min ago then it got a crazy. It seems like they are kicking large number of people at the same time to maybe test out how the servers hold up when they are hammered with log in requests. That was the main point they were testing is the queue system, no better time to test it then a Saturday night. That would be my guess :P

nate1980

Originally posted by bestever

Originally posted by nate1980

I have a brand new computer with high end specs and 50Mbps. Last night everything was fine, but I'm guessing because it's Saturday night and they probably invited many people for this weekends stress test for NA servers, the game is so laggy it's unplayable atm. I'd activate an ability and it wouldn't go off for several seconds after that. I'd type something in chat, and it wouldn't show up until 15 seconds later.

Apparently Zenimax has surpassed the amount of people their megaserver can handle. Hopefully they'll have everything ready by launch, but I have my doubts. I've encountered bugged quests, random freezes, and now laggy gameplay. I know it's beta, but we're 4 weeks from launch. Everything should be ready for release by now. I already pre-ordered and otherwise find the game otherwise fine and addicting, so I really hope things will turn out alright.

It's fine. It'll do this from time to time. Who knows what they are doing on their end to make it harder on the servers. This is a stress test and the servers need to hit max. This is far better then last weekend when I had a hour wait just to get in game. So take a break and let them work things out. The game will have issues at launch as all mmo's do. 

I hope your right. I'd rather a que though, than that kind of gameplay. Also, I just logged in after not playing since last night, so I'm not read to take a break =-(

redbug

Yeah , I understand the stress test aspect of it but why are the intro quest still broken? I have had to relog several times after talking to a quest npc because everything freezes. The trail is missing in the first city. The guy you gotta kill in the mine isn't there and the list goes on.  I guess I expected the basics to work a bit better. I guess they still have a month to work on it.

Fearum

Originally posted by redbug
Yeah , I understand the stress test aspect of it but why are the intro quest still broken? I have had to relog several times after talking to a quest npc because everything freezes. The trail is missing in the first city. The guy you gotta kill in the mine isn't there and the list goes on.  I guess I expected the basics to work a bit better. I guess they still have a month to work on it.

Because the only thing they changed in this beta build was networking code.

nate1980

Originally posted by bestever

Originally posted by nate1980

Originally posted by bestever

Originally posted by nate1980

I have a brand new computer with high end specs and 50Mbps. Last night everything was fine, but I'm guessing because it's Saturday night and they probably invited many people for this weekends stress test for NA servers, the game is so laggy it's unplayable atm. I'd activate an ability and it wouldn't go off for several seconds after that. I'd type something in chat, and it wouldn't show up until 15 seconds later.

Apparently Zenimax has surpassed the amount of people their megaserver can handle. Hopefully they'll have everything ready by launch, but I have my doubts. I've encountered bugged quests, random freezes, and now laggy gameplay. I know it's beta, but we're 4 weeks from launch. Everything should be ready for release by now. I already pre-ordered and otherwise find the game otherwise fine and addicting, so I really hope things will turn out alright.

It's fine. It'll do this from time to time. Who knows what they are doing on their end to make it harder on the servers. This is a stress test and the servers need to hit max. This is far better then last weekend when I had a hour wait just to get in game. So take a break and let them work things out. The game will have issues at launch as all mmo's do. 

I hope your right. I'd rather a que though, than that kind of gameplay. Also, I just logged in after not playing since last night, so I'm not read to take a break =-(

LOL I understand that but don't burn yourself out in beta. I've still never made level 10, I'm just about to pop 10 and do some pvp then call it a day as I don't want burn myself out as I'll have to do it again.

Level 10 is a distant dream for me. I'm only lvl 5 and that's after playing several hours yesterday. Not all at once mind you.

redbug

Game isn't playable ATM. I finally got in a few minutes ago only to be kicked by lag after a few fights.

george99

Yeah, its unplayable right now. Give it an hour and hopefully they have things working again.

JHenry

I was able to log in, only to get logged out. I was able to play, only to wait for 5-10 seconds to move. I'm in the most populated PvP area though.

forcelima

I get kicked every couple of minutes with an error unknown, then error:200 , and then error: 301. When I come back in about 30 minutes I am able to log only to be kicked after a few minutes of gameplay. Rinse and repeat error codes. Today is the only day I have had this happen.