Why is this game still so unresponsive?

Ace_SiN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlQGlHKiDWY

That's me on my VR2 NB messing around in PvP, before I switch back to one of my VR14s. You can't tell from the video, but I'm spamming CC break HARD the ENTIRE time. The game just ignores my commands and I get slaughtered without a chance. It's been over a year now and yet every key press feels like a gamble. You never know when the game is going to ignore certain commands or flat out ignore all of them.. Lag is one thing, but there is NO excuse for having such an unresponsive game for this long..

note: This seems to happen if I get hit with CC during a dodge roll(especially at the start of it). Hopefully that will help you fix the issue, but at this point I'm not too hopeful it will be fixed anytime "soon"..

Deheart

PvP is all about what seems to be players or guilds who have learned to exploit lag causing situations in order to gain some sort of advantage. It won't be fixed until after console comes out, like a bunch of other glitches, exploits, and cheats that they are aware of.

I pvp'd a couple of times later at night with low or no lag, so it depends on the time of day I guess.

Emma_Overload

Ace_SiN wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlQGlHKiDWY

That's me on my VR2 NB messing around in PvP, before I switch back to one of my VR14s. You can't tell from the video, but I'm spamming CC break HARD the ENTIRE time. The game just ignores my commands and I get slaughtered without a chance. It's been over a year now and yet every key press feels like a gamble. You never know when the game is going to ignore certain commands or flat out ignore all of them.. Lag is one thing, but there is NO excuse for having such an unresponsive game for this long..

note: This seems to happen if I get hit with CC during a dodge roll(especially at the start of it). Hopefully that will help you fix the issue, but at this point I'm not too hopeful it will be fixed anytime "soon"..

I have a theory. Because this is an MMO with PvP, ZoS made prevention of cheating the #1 design priority, overriding all other considerations. The result of this is an architecture that relies way too much on the server because they're scared to put any more code than necessary on the client. I remember playing on "rail-gun only" Quake servers 15 years ago that had dozens of players on a map at once with all kinds of crazy, fast action going on... but never any relentless lag like what we see in Cyrodiil. Of course, you had to worry about cheaters running aim-bots back then, too.

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Yolokin_Swagonborn

NBs can accomplish this same thing with fear. You go from full stamina to dead without the ability to break free. It is the MOST frustrating thing about playing this game. Stunlock is real and it occurs often.

Issues like this give the player ZERO confidence that the input given will result in the desired output. Without this confidence, you simply cannot have competitive endgame content. It's that simple.

If I cannot trust my key-presses to deliver a consistent result, I grow frustrated and quit the game for the day. If this happens frequently, it slowly removes my desire to play at all.

I love this game and love PvP but ABSOLUTELY hate the glitchy slow as molasses combat feeling where you are struggling to get your character to do what you want it to do.

How does this exist more than ONE YEAR after launch? This is disgraceful and embarrassing for the studio.