Why is the desync so much worse when fighting NPC's? (PvP)

TineaCruris

I think I know the answer, but am curious to hear if there is a more technical reason.

To be specific, I'm speaking about shockingly bad lag in cyrodiil having differing effects when fighting NPC's vs. when fighting other human players. Why is the desync so much worse when fighting an NPC?

Mugombie

The desyc seems bad in delves also

TineaCruris

My theory as to why the lag appears to be so much worse when fighting npc's is that all players suffer roughly the same issues with lag/desync's. The difference is NPC's do not suffer from lag and desync's, so the player can better see just how desync'ed they are when fighting npc's.

The other neat way I figured out how to determine what the actual lag really is is simple. Set up a ballista and fire it. The lag is the time it takes from the time you push the mouse button to fire the siege til the time the siege actually fires. This is often up to 3 real time seconds when playing cyrodiil, but the lag the game tells you is happening is well within normally tolerable limits.

Vevvev

TineaCruris wrote: »

My theory as to why the lag appears to be so much worse when fighting npc's is that all players suffer roughly the same issues with lag/desync's. The difference is NPC's do not suffer from lag and desync's, so the player can better see just how desync'ed they are when fighting npc's.

The other neat way I figured out how to determine what the actual lag really is is simple. Set up a ballista and fire it. The lag is the time it takes from the time you push the mouse button to fire the siege til the time the siege actually fires. This is often up to 3 real time seconds when playing cyrodiil, but the lag the game tells you is happening is well within normally tolerable limits.

Once it took me 8 seconds for a ballista to fire because the order got cancelled twice.

Berek_Bloodfang

trying to play with a templar having our primary abilities being channeled is very difficult with this lag/latency issue, i can't tell if my ability is casting or what