Jayserix wrote: »

vesselwiththepestle wrote: »

Yesterday during the night pop was around 2/3/locked bars. I was at a keep with 2 other DC players, there were 4 AD smallscalers. Still there was heavy lag, desync, Dizzy taking several seconds...

At another place even I alone against some npc guards - heavy lag.

I am more and more thinking it is not the amount of calculations that need to be done, but something on the back-end how the game is handled by the server, prioritizing memory or cpu power or whatever. Of course we see regular lag with lots of players at the same place, that is to be expected. This might only add to the "base line" server lag we often experience even with only a few players around.

Someone had the theory that npc guards are involved. I mean... How often do I have seen those guards just dancing around, not using their skills etc., while my Uppercut needed seconds to cast, then suddenly several skills hitting at once and so on, when I was soloing a ressource! On CP campaigns you might not notice that as much, as npc guards die a lot faster. On no cp depending on your build it could take a while to kill those guards.

I know some players made fun about it, but I honestly would wish to see a test with the npc guards removed. Although a test like that wouldn't need to happen, maybe the Quality assessment team (or however it is called) should check that npc guard code and scripting again for errors, loops and so on.

I don't remember to ever have seen the same lag in pve environments even in heavy lag, it always was different in some way, so I honestly think there is something up with the guards' code and/or scripting.

The first days after the patch were awesome, and then everything crumbled. Last night on GH EU we had the good old laggy experience ... RIP