Game Performance Improvements and Feedback

[Sam1313]

My lag report for Saturday 4/2/16

1. Server - Cannith
2. Approximate Time - 9:00pm EST to 10:00 pm EST.
3. Approximate location of your computer - Lafayette, Indiana (Midwest)
4. Quests/raids run - Coal Chamber/ The Vale of Twilight.
5. Difficulties run - All Hard run for extra xp since we have already ran Elite the other day.
6. Your character class - Ranger
7. Number of players in the group - 3
8. Anything else you think we should know - Normally on a Saturday Night I would game until the wee early morning hours of Sunday (somewhere around to 4am EST). But for me Cannith is unplayable. Logging out and calling it a night at 10:00 pm EST.

[Sirea]

1. Server: Ghallanda
2. Approximate Time: 10:30 - 11:00 ET
3. Approximate location of your computer: Northeastern CT (about 2 hours away from Turbine itself)
4. Quests/raids run: Legendary Tempest Spine & Legendary Shroud
5. Difficulties run: Elite and Hard respectively
6. Your character class: Paladin
7. Number of players in the group: 10 in Tempest Spine, 12 in Shroud
8. Anything else you think we should know: The Tempest Spine was relatively lag free. Shroud however was unplayable; lagged out in Part 1 so badly we lost to portal keepers that we couldn't even see or get to.

Edited to add that we attempted a 6-man Epic Normal Defiler to get a guildie a completion shortly after the Shroud fail, and had a lag fail in there as well. I think I'm done with DDO for the night, possibly the weekend. Congrats on another successful data center move, Turbine.

[count_spicoli]

Khyber logged in after not being on a week. Lagged immediately in a tor solo ee. Logged out after 2 minutes of being on. Game is a disaster.

[tsteigner]

1. Server - Wayfinder
2. Approximate Time - 11am MEZ (~ 5am EST), but occurs since friday patch each and every time
3. Approximate location of your computer - europe
4. Quests/raids run - Thunderholme wilderness, curse the sky (doesn't matter which you run, its in every quest)
5. Difficulties run - normal, hard, elite no matter which
6. Your character class - Paladin / FvS / Mnk
7. Number of players in the group - 1
8. Anything else you think we should know - game was working pretty decent, not as it was, but decent after tuesday patch, whatever you did on friday made the game nigh unplayable .... e.g. in just one floor in TF wildeness i had 10-15 lags that's in about 2-3 min ....... lags as in game was completly unresponsive for 10-30 sec

[spinks]

2nd April, 8pm - 9.30pm GMT+1

Sarlona
EN Deathwyrm
12 People
From Europe and US
ME on cleric, lots of rangers, some melee and a warlock

We completed, plenty of lag, couldn't tell if you were hitting anything or not. We nearly had a wipe in red light green light. We were all stationary not moving as light had changed to yellow or whatever before red, and suddenly 10 of us died, luckily 2 didn't. Also my cleric death pact res did not come up at all.

Also a friend send that prior to our Deathwyrm raid he had just been in a lag wiped Legendary Hound of Xoriat run.

[Vallin]

General summary of the day's raids: April 2
Khyber
Throughout the day and eve
EST
Variety of characters - full group pugs
EH DoJ - Not playable, as previously reported. Total lag wipe 2x
EE FoT - Completed with significant lag that caused multiple deaths
EH HoX - Completed with significant lag spikes noted whenever chests were opened and when Xyzzy killed at end
EH Tempest - Completed with significant lag spikes noted whenever mobs were killed or chests were opened
EN Shroud - Completed with significant lag spikes noted whenever mobs were killed or chests were opened

Variety of characters - short man groups 2-5
EN HoX - completed multiple runs - completed with NO APPRECIABLE LAG, except at Xyzzy death
EN Tempest - completed with NO APPRECIABLE LAG
EH Temple Part 1 - completed with intermittent lag, not severe

+++

Overall, I really understand people's frustration if they are relying on full PUG groups to raid - because raid experience in that context right now is horrible. Even though some of those raids were 'completed' they were not fun, the lag was frustrating, and it caused excess use of resources in order to complete.

Short manning raids and quests continues to be the only reason I am even playing this game right now. I understand that not everyone enjoys doing things that way or even can do things that way. A lot of people are justifiably angry given the state of raiding in full groups.

Vallin

[firstprotector]

We are doing work on Friday morning that we hope and expect will improve conditions in the game worlds. Under no circumstances are we claiming to have "fixed lag". We are, however, hoping to make an improvement on Friday.

nothing was improved, just made it worse, just finished a legendary shroud at 6am mst, lag was awful thru whole quest. What is making me mad is i had finally gotten all my mats for my tier3 weapon upgrade and when i was crafting the thing lagged out when i clicked on the augment i wanted and options moved and i got what i had no use for. not easy farming mats in a lag mess. wasted large mats because of lag. so mad right now i am ready to dis-ban my lv96 guild and delete my account. why play a game that cannot be played. "improve conditions of the game worlds" what a Aprils fools joke, you got pretty much everyone that likes this game to believe you.

[Vallin]

4/3/16
Ork
FvS Evoker Shiradi etc etc
11:15am EST Khyber
10 man EN DoJ

UNPLAYABLE

failed - archons died - total lag lock/freeze frame

Raid is broken in current state. Will no longer attempt until fix is confirmed.

[calibaan]

Server: Cannith
weekend 1.4.2016 - 3.4.2016

EN DOJ: LAG with 8 People ... LAG WIPE
EH L Shroud: Very Laggy .... Realy no Fun to play
EE Caught in the Web: Lag as its best ... we made it through a long time with lagging and stuttering ... Realy no Fun to play
EH Tempest and EN HOX: Lag lag

All in all very frustrating. I ask me why Turbine wanna the reports from player.
Its so easy: make a character by yourself and join the raiding scene on cannith or other server.
Have part of the great fun with lagging raids.

[dopey69]

[QUOTE= you got pretty much everyone that likes this game to believe you.[/QUOTE]

i was so happy when there was talk of a server "upgrade" at last sweet jebus at last, the game i love was getting some love. Never entered my mind that it was actually going to be a downgrade.

turbine then posting that other peoples bad comps were lagging everyone out? wha? the only thing that changed was the server move but all of a sudden it was our faulty gear or IP servers again

[cdbd3rd]

Wayfinder.
2-3 AM US Central time.
Made a couple solo runs through the Anniversary quest that were constantly hitching 2-3 seconds every 15-20 seconds. Level 13 and level 5.
Even just running in public instance was sticking every minute or so.

[Silverleafeon]

Word on the streets of Khyber:

Quests ~ playable


Raids ~ depends on raid:

Chrono, and Von ~ ok
Thunderhelm ~ might have to reset a few times but doable
Shroud ~ bad laggy ~ might not finish
DoJ & MoD ~ not playable at all


Slayers ~ depends:

Orchard ~ see groups up
Thunderhelm ~ totally freeze if get out of point blank range of party
Stormhorn ~ ok
Gianthold ~ fairly good most of the time

[Andu_Indorin]

1. Server - Wayfinder
2. Approximate Time - Saturday, Mid-afternoon; Sunday, very early morning, MST
3. Approximate location of your computer - Colorado
4. Quests/raids run - Korthos, Harbor quests; Guild ships and "low-level" public areas.
5. Difficulties run - Elite
6. Your character class - Druid
7. Number of players in the group - 1 plus mutt
8. Anything else you think we should know - With the lag situation as bad as it is on Wayfinder, a good time to catch up on favor. As reported elsewhere, game lags every two to three minutes, though the lag times aren't as bad as those reported in higher level content. What ever change made on Friday to Wayfinder should provide some clue as one or more causes of the problem, as lag on Wayfinder has been pretty much been a non-issue.

1. Server - Sarlona
2. Approximate Time - Saturday, late afternoon, early evening; Sunday, very early morning, MST
3. Approximate location of your computer - Colorado
4. Quests/raids run - Demon Web quests; later Underdark wilderness
5. Difficulties run - Epic Elite
6. Your character class - Druid
7. Number of players in the group - 3 to 5; later solo with mutt.
8. Anything else you think we should know - NO real lag experienced on my part. This suggests that Sarlona -- for comparison purposes -- is running closer to normal than Wayfinder. This does not, however, disregard above reports regarding lag instances in raids. It would be nice if all servers were lag free.

[dunklezhan]

Over the last week:

1. Server - Argo
2. Approximate Time - Much of saturday morning UK time, last 2 hours just now, various other times generally evenings Uk Time (830-1100).
3. Approximate location of your computer - Northern England
4. Quests/raids run - no raids, FR heroic saga, last few days particular played high road and a bit of stormhorns. This evening high heroic Reavers explorers and L9 anniversary event, Tuesday with Guildies running L8 quests on elite
5. Difficulties run - Hard/elite
6. Your character class - cleric/fighter/Bard 1/1/16-18, Warlock 10, Rogue/wiz 2/16, Ranger 9, Barb 8
7. Number of players in the group - Usually solo or solo with hire, this evening with 2 others, tuesday with 3 others
8. Anything else you think we should know - In the scenarios I play lag is DEFINITELY better than it was prior to the last 2 downtimes. No question. Hands down better. Still choppy from time to time but these are micro-lags, teensy bit of rubber banding. I *did* die tonight in the anniversary event and when I looked I my soul stone was so far away from the mob that allegedly killed me I can *only* put that death down to lag - other than that last few seconds I didn't really notice any lag in that fight. I definitely thought I had got plenty far enough away, I saw the ogre telegraph his swing, I started running and my soul stone showed a pillar in between me and the mob when I died. Should've got a screenie but its not like it was a huge deal, I just rentered and carried on.

Absolutely no idea whatsoever about epics, raids or challenges.

[Silverleafeon]

1. Server - Khyber
2. Approximate Time - Much of Sunday
3. Approximate location of your computer - SE USA
4. Quests/raids run - Raids listed below
5. Difficulties run - listed below
6. Your character class - fighter/pally 16/4, US
7. Number of players in the group - listed below
8. Anything else you think we should know -

Shroud LN X2 full party~ occasional lag in part one, was able to play thru it, lag at every chest, and often at the kill of every boss but only 3 seconds or so
Overall, good runs

MoD teaching run EN 11 players ~ lag upon entering each portal, not bad, occasional lag short but playable, long lag after boss died,
Overall good run

Tempest Spine LH x2 full party ~ lag spikes in first run, stayed back for awhile and recovered, second run completely unplayable simply followed and looted while party was not engaged in foes, all monster action made strong stutter lag and total overload (computer could not regain data).

[DagazUlf]

1. Server
2. Approximate Time
3. Approximate location of your computer (East Cost, London, Tokyo, on a boat in the Pacific, alternate reality x87, etc.)
4. Quests/raids run
5. Difficulties run
6. Your character class
7. Number of players in the group
8. Anything else you think we should know

1. Thelanis
2. 9pm East
3. West Coast, Southern California
4. Spies in the House
5. Epic Hard
6. Warlock
7. Solo
8. Peristent Acid Fog that would not go away, multiple freezes, borked optional that could not be completed, all with what seems like great Network connectivity (according to the network icon).

The icing on the lag-cake, is the persistent AoE spells that do not go away until leaving the instance.

Now checking out Marvel Super Heroes 2016. Will keep you posted on the fun-factor and/or Lag issues with that game. Guildies seem to be slowly be migrating that way since they say it's awfully fun.

[Sam1313]

My Lag Report for Sunday 4/3/16


1. Server - Cannith
2. Approximate Time - 2:00pm EST to 9:00 pm EST.
3. Approximate location of your computer - Lafayette, Indiana (Midwest)
4. Quests/raids run - The Wheloon Chain on a Heroic Character/ Farmed Grim & A Legend Revisited on Epic level Character.
5. Difficulties run - Heroic Wheloon Elite / Farmed Epic ^^^on Hard.
6. Your character class - Ranger / Epic Ranger
7. Number of players in the group - 1
8. Anything else you think we should know - Today was a good day compared to Saturday. I had little to no lag today.


Update: Logged back in @ 10:00 pm EST on Samyel and joined a Heroic Elite Shroud Group. Was really really bad lag through-out the entire Raid. People was locking up in place for anywhere between 1-10 seconds. Managed to complete the Raid but a lot of people had to use up resources. It was fun but could have been a lot more fun if the lag wasn't so bad.

[IconicHero]

Played most of the day did a tr to start the day so got a late start questing!

From around 3pm - 5pm did vale quests with a group only experienced lag in one out the five quests dust lost a couple spiders to it not game breaking! After that leveled to 20 and since i am working on destinys did various explorers

Vale - np with lag at all
Wheloon- np with lag at all
Kings Forest- noticed this now since wed and fri downtime it seem like the instance doesn't fully load and you walk in place not being able to pass an invisible wall for those that have been around awhile this used to happen in gh when it was a new quest chain!
Stormhorne- same as kings forest not fully loading!
Location- Ohio
Server - ghallanda in case you missed the tittle
time frame on slayers 6-11 pm

Sadly no raids tried a couple times groups just aren't filling!

[Vulkoorex]

1. Wayfinder
2. About 2am EST 03 April 2016
3. West Coast (NA)
4. Mask of Deception
5. Heroic Hard.
6. Barbarian
7. 3 in party group: Barbarian, Warlock, Druid.
8. Approximately 1-5 seconds of lag throughout the quest. Party wipe when faced against 2 monster Champions during a 5-10 second lag. Fortunately, my Barbarian was able to run to the rez shrine and then work back to pick up the rest of the party stones.

I have never seen this amount of lag on Wayfinder. It makes the game not enjoyable. I am starting to lose my patience with this lag problem. If it doesn't get fixed, I fear this will be the nail in DDO's coffin.

[Micki]

Server: Orien
Time: ~2am gmt +2 Sunday morning April 3
Computer location: Sweden, Europe
Quest/ raid: Defiler of the Just
Difficulty: epic normal
My character: monk/ ranger/ cleric
Number of players in the group: 12
Anything else: 2 attempts with a full group in different instances, The raid was pretty much incompletable. The first attempt we lagged so much that we failed on the archons. Second attempt we got as far as the end fight, killed the snake, then lagged so we couldn't kill the boss and got bombarded to death, so wipe. The lag was on off freeze ups and complete choppiness throughout. Every action was delayed and spells weren't hitting.

My conclusion is that if one wants to complete this raid, one shouldn't have more than 7-8 ppl in the group.