State of Lag - official statement possible?

[TitusOvid]

Dear SSG,

would it be possible to give a state of the situation concerning lag? The BIG changes are several weeks in and I am curious, if something changed for the better? There is mixed feedback going around from the playerbase. An official statement or some results would be appreciated.


On a personal note: I didn't experience any significant changes for the better.
I play solely on Orien, one of the servers with the lowest population and we still get considerable lag spikes so that the game is hardly fun or playable at all sometimes for several hours.


Cheers,
Titus.

[Yamani]

Official Statement: "We're always working on the lag, but we prioritize nerfing stuff that benefits players first."

[Baahb3]

I will vent here rather than start a new thread.

You have a serious problem with spell casting and spells registering. Point blank casting is even worse. No message that you are not facing target, no damage registered, spells go on cool down and you see the visual, yet no effect on enemy.

Ranged combat. Bows, hold down attack and tab to a new target. You will get 2 or 3 shots to go off with no register of any damage on any target. The old one if still alive, or the new one.

Fix your **** game.

[Hawkwier]

I will vent here rather than start a new thread.

You have a serious problem with spell casting and spells registering. Point blank casting is even worse. No message that you are not facing target, no damage registered, spells go on cool down and you see the visual, yet no effect on enemy.

Ranged combat. Bows, hold down attack and tab to a new target. You will get 2 or 3 shots to go off with no register of any damage on any target. The old one if still alive, or the new one.

Fix your **** game.

This.

Goes beyond casters and ranged - for me, it's misfiring hot bar buttons, sometimes.with critical impact. Can only describe the current state as dreadful. Worse than the so-called fix IMO. What are you going to do about this SSG?

[LavidDynch]

If SSG would need any video evidence of this they can watch some strimtom (spelling?)

[mikarddo]

I am seeing significantly less lag in raids. Prior to the changes we often had very serious lag in raids sometimes giving up entirely. Since the changes we have only had light lag in raids and nothing that made us consider giving up for the night.

In quests I see some lag still including not being able to move into a specific area of the map. I have not, however, seen full out 30 sec of cannot move or do anything since the change which is good - but lesser lag stuff certainly still happens and is also annoying.

All of this obviously might just be coincidental but sofar it seems some of the worse stuff may have been fixed but plenty bad stuff still remains.

[TitusOvid]

Is it possible to pinpoint a time?
Lagspikes start around 3pm Boston time for me.

Cheers,
Titus

[Justicesfury]

Official Statement: "We're always working on the lag, but we prioritize nerfing stuff that benefits players first."

I think it has to be notarized to be official

[Valerianus]

yes it would be really nice to have info please about the next step in the much needed "lag fix"

[grudgebear]

Ranged combat. Bows, hold down attack and tab to a new target. You will get 2 or 3 shots to go off with no register of any damage on any target. The old one if still alive, or the new one.

This right here it's what made my leveling with bows a miserable experience. Never ever I rushed to TR as fast as I can non the less I switched to inquisitor later on.

[Justicesfury]

yes it would be really nice to have info please about the next step in the much needed "lag fix"

The business model at this point is to push out as much constant as possible whether the game is working or not

[HackSlashKill]

i already posted a thread recently about this. fully agree that the game at times is unplayable as attacks, spells, etc are not landing, same goes for hotbars.

Sad thing is, my lawyer tried playing the game less then a week ago and was turned off because of the lag.

[gaffneyks]

Its worse since the update. Nerfs work, lag fix did not.


Tonight was horrible.

[Knobull]

I'd say at this point that for some reason they are unable to move back to bare metal servers. It is so plainly obvious to anyone who has worked in the field. So unless they start talking about no more virtualized servers, the lag will remain.

Many of us here could consult and assist SSG in breaking free from vmware lockin. Just say when.

[Burradin]

I'd say at this point that for some reason they are unable to move back to bare metal servers. It is so plainly obvious to anyone who has worked in the field. So unless they start talking about no more virtualized servers, the lag will remain.

Many of us here could consult and assist SSG in breaking free from vmware lockin. Just say when.

You know, many virtualized organizations run fine. So to try to pin it on just that is like saying we should teach quantum physics in first grade. Over 30 years in the IT industry, next.

[Bacon_Burger]

Overall, it has improved.

Raids are where I see any at all really. Some places in RL both Q's and Raids.

BUT.... my gaming rig is a beast. Ryzen 9 series w/ a sweet big Navi card, ssd and 1gb internet, so my lag is minimal to say the least.

[SoVeryBelgian]

Ranged combat. Bows, hold down attack and tab to a new target. You will get 2 or 3 shots to go off with no register of any damage on any target. The old one if still alive, or the new one.

My favorite Class is the Artificer. Close second is Divine Inquis. I use Xbows A LOT.

And IPS is roooooough, barely registering HALF the time.

I get a lot of cases of 'weapon is clicking and firing while not actually shooting' as well as 'weapon fires through enemy mobs but only the front one gets hit, even with IPS'

and 'enemies are being damaged but I can't see any indication, and then they fall down and then the numbers finally show up'

Don't even get me started on Thrower builds...

[TitusOvid]

For ranged I had hoped for a re-work of the hitbox because I am not totally sure it is really lag that is causing the non-registered misses.

But apart from that, I would appreciate an update on the way to lesser lag.

Cheers,
Titus.

[Valerianus]

any news?

[cmecu]

Lag is back to where it was pre- that fix they tested and implemented about a month or so ago. You cant get on ship, you cant get into quests, stuck on load screens, running in place, going from full health to dead because server is lagged out. It is really unbearable at this point. I thought maybe my internet service is acting weird but its not. I get 200 M download speeds.. I even got something yesterday i havent seen in a while, the latency icon turned yellow on me for like a moment... been years since i seen that. Not sure what is going on , but please fix it.