Can't stay quiet on this one

Metafae · August 2016

Last week, there was a maintenance that created lag on the server where there was no lag before. It also buffed the loading screen boss to the point where certain zones were inaccessible, but that was mostly fixed within a day or two.

This lag has been bad for me, and I was ok with it knowing that it would be dealt to most likely in the next week's maintenance. However there was no maintenance this week, and the lag persists. I'm not unfamiliar with lag, I deal with a 230-250 ping all the time, it's normal for me as a player in New Zealand. This lag is something more though, it feels as though my inputs are being ignored. I can't weapon swap effectively, I can't cast a series of abilities without one or two being skipped completely. If I need to block for a mechanic, it doesn't register I'm blocking fast enough.

I spent all of last week achievement hunting to alleviate the lag problem by not getting too involved in the pve content I normally do. Today I wanted to get Maelstrom done on a couple characters, but I found myself dying repeatedly on Arena 2 not being able to cast my abilities or weapon swap fluidly.

Sorry for this long rant, but I really would appreciate it if I knew that this is something Zenimax is aware of, and are planning on fixing soon.

Jakhajay · August 2016

Fellow kiwi checking in.

Lag's a b***h. It's been like this since day one, but has become much more noticeable since Shadows of the Hist dropped. My efficiency DPSing, tanking and healing have all taken a dive because as you said, inputs are being ignored. Enemy abilites can fire off so quickly, often don't get telegraphed so that by the time I even see the attack coming, it's already hit me server side. Dranos in vet Cradle of Shadows is the most noticeable place for this to happen.

I have no idea if they are aware of it, let alone trying to fix it, but I have seen guild mates (even US based ones) complain about general combat unresponsiveness.

SirAndy · August 2016

Metafae wrote: »

... are planning on fixing soon.

Not gonna happen, better get used to it ...

Metafae · August 2016

Jakhajay wrote: »

Fellow kiwi checking in.

Lag's a b***h. It's been like this since day one, but has become much more noticeable since Shadows of the Hist dropped.

This is true, I also noticed it got bad after Shadows of the Hist, but I attributed it to just being part of the new update lag, as there seems to usually be some sort of slugishness after each major update. But it really was this last maintenance that really pushed this game into nearly unplayable lag levels.

I wasn't much of a fan of the combat animations changes added with DB update, they never did fix your animations getting stuck, causing you to queue up a series of other abilities that all fire at once when you become unstuck. I hear people really love having that being used against them in pvp.

I almost feel like part of this new lag problem could be mitigated by reverting to the old animation system.

AzraelKrieg · August 2016

Aussie here. Can agree with the whole dealing with 220-280 ping thing. Other than the first couple of days after maintenance I have had no lag issues and no issues with casting of skills so I'm not too sure why you guys would be having issues when we suffer the same base ping.

Function · August 2016

It's not just people overseas that are getting lag, for the past 2 weeks I and many other people I know have been getting ping spikes.. it is incredibly annoying for it to happen and none of my skills respond or my bars not swap.

Totalitarian · August 2016

For some reason, I've been getting a bit of lag only in the Overworld, while dungeons for me have been fine.

I've been leveling a Templar, so when the latency hits for a second, it's really noticable.

But for me most part, everything's been fine for me.

code65536 · August 2016

I'm in the US, with Fiber, so my connection is great. Yet, last week, while tanking the Manti in vSO, I would see my character bounce into the air for no apparent reason--and only after a couple of bounces (by which point I'm already screwed) did I finally see the animations and telegraphs for the "popcorn".

I'm not used to seeing problems like this, so it really stood out when stuff like that happens to me.