Increase in zoning lockups

Has anybody else noticed an increase in zoning lockups since i16 went live? I find now that my computer will lock up frequently when I try to change zones or enter a mission. It cuts to the loading screen and just stays there. Its to the point that I'm afraid to do missions and am street sweeping.

Could be my computer. Could be the game. So I'm asking, am I the only one having this issue?

I havent had much of a problem until just a few hours ago.. It seems to be pretty rampant at the moment. Hopefully the devs are looking into it. I virtually cannot play ;(.

A few of us have noticed that when globals go down you can't enter missions. happened a few times.

Several of my characters were unable to log in for all of yesterday (MapServer Disconnect) and Customer Support replied by asking me to run a GameAdvisor test (which tests DirectX and my connection). That was pretty annoying, and by the time they replied (this morning) the characters were already working again.

One specific situation I noticed was trying to log into a mission crashed me with the Mapserver Disconnected message twice. The third time, before getting into the door, I noticed my Phantasm was still out (pets zone with you and persist through short logouts) so I dismissed it, and it let me into the mission that time.

Okay, so this has not just been me.

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This happened to me yesterday while I was leading a Dr. Quaterfield TF, causing me to have to reboot. While it was a bit annoying to lose team leadership through no fault of my own, it wasn't worth throwing a fit over, and I got back into the game fairly quickly.

The TF was a success despite both my running into that, and several members of the TF losing electricity due to a downed tree taking out their power lines. But we were still at it when their power was restored, and we finished with the full team present and accounted for, so everyone got their Portal Smasher badges and 122 merits.

Last night I got stuck loading for a long time, had to kill the game via task manager and log back in. The weird thing was that when I logged in, rather than being at the mission door in Fort Darwin I was instead in the center of Mercy Island, nearly a mile away.

It wasn't a rollback, I hadn't even left Fort Darwin yet on that character and was doing Burke's first mission.

I've been having them. About every other issue makes my video card drivers lock up during zoning. i15 was a no-lockup issue, so i16... Fortunately, they're not nearly as bad as they were a few issues ago.

Once or twice. Considering it hardly ever happened before, that's technically an "increase," I suppose. But not statistically distinct enough from randomness for me to lodge a complaint.

This happened to me after I16 hit Live but the patch right afterwards seemed to fix teh issue. Last night I played for a few hours and didn't experience any issues (from 7 pm-10pm EST on Freedom, CoV).

We (my wife and I) had it happen a lot today, mostly trying to enter a mission, at one point I dced 3 times before finally getting in. Niether alt has pets, so cant be that.