Lag on Union

Kitty_Hellfire · 08-10-2008 12:21 PM

Hi, thought i'd start a new post although this has been brought up in the power recharge thread.

The lag on union since Friday (was the first I noticed it) is just insane. We're talking powerlag, damagelag, rubberbanding...the whole nine irritating yards.

Everyone i've spoken to ingame is suffering from it too, just thought i'd post to see if this is equally widespread for my esteemed forumites.

I and all my ingame friends have petitioned this but it's made for a truly hideous weekend of gaming.

The generic response we recieved mentioned the ticket had been passed to support, but that it's not open at the weekend. This strikes me as really odd considering this is an mmorpg and by it's nature it gets the highest use at the weekends when most people can spend more time online (not a moan just an observation - do correct me if i'm mistaken).

[edit] just to add that the lag is ubiquitous no matter what isp or gfx settings we are on - the ping just seems to leap up randomly. reducing settings has had no effect and according to my ISP (who offer support at the weekend, how quaint) there no problem their end [edit]

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ColdSpark · 08-10-2008 12:27 PM

Agree with you Kitty, been suffering the same all weekend, understand that NOC are looking into it but it seems odd that tech should be reduced at weekend, as you say this is when the usage is no doubt highest.

bok · 08-10-2008 12:45 PM

I'll post here as well, got the exact same thing as do everyone i've talked to in game. I've also petitioned it but havn't heard anything back from support yet.

Dirt_ · 08-10-2008 12:49 PM

Yup totally agree with Kitty here, the lag has made the game unbearable at times, and no support at weekends.. well, lol.

Power lag, rubberbanding, not to mention the DCs a few ppl have been suffering from.

spinester · 08-10-2008 01:04 PM

Ye i agree the lag lately sucks makeing the game a pain to play

Kitty_Hellfire · 08-10-2008 01:12 PM

Would you beleive i've actually had fewer discons than usual this weekend Doesn't help of course as the lag is far more painful.

And yeah....no support on weekends? Very strange considering my ISP, mobile phone network, bank and even insurance company all have full weekend support...hey ho.

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The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain

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Ravenswing · 08-10-2008 01:47 PM

Yep, been laggy as hell since they put the new patch back, I think. I've mostly noticed it as glitches in animation periodically and delays in power activation requests actually marking the power as queued. Weirdly, Teleport doesn't seem to suffer too much because the game actually freezes for a fraction, so you are left hanging, expecting to fall, but the hover is delayed as well as the activation, so you don't.

Haven't had much rubber-banding and all my disconnects are down to my lousy ISP anyway.

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Lady Arete · 08-10-2008 04:01 PM

An added thing.. As i speak, a team is waiting to enter an instanse. We have waited for the gameserver to load us an instanse several minutes now.
For me this happened only today. I had some sync problems.. but now it has become.. load instanse problems.
The progress will be a little forward, then it will make the instanse and start over.
It has happened whenever i Zone into a Mission or Base. Not a Zone.

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bok · 08-10-2008 05:01 PM

Ill chime in on the loading issue. It can take up to 2-3 minutes each time our team tries to zone into a mish at the moment.

Lady Arete · 08-10-2008 05:41 PM

And adding to this got hit by a hard wave of powerexecution lag, chat lag.. basicly lag.

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Kitty_Hellfire · 08-10-2008 06:00 PM

Latest update is...it's gotten worse. In fact i'd say it's now worse than i've ever experienced it. Had to log off a while ago as it's completely unplayable. Every power having an up to 3 second delay, and getting rooted for even longer. Zoning varies between normal and exceedingly long for me.

Fingers crossed this is solved soon.

I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain

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munecaroon · 08-10-2008 07:04 PM

I've been on a 8-man TF tonight, we got the same issues.
On 2 occasions the loading for mission maps was more than 3 minutes for everyone.
I also noticed a strong latency between powers showing up as recharged and being able to get activated.
Basically powers that normally would perfectly chain up do not.

Some heavy rubberbanding as well.

Small delay in chat only.

Dr_Crippen · 08-10-2008 07:09 PM

Same here - I haven't experienced it as bad as this ever. Whole teams disconnectiong and general laggy behaviour. It was fine yesterday (Saturday)

Ravenswing · 08-10-2008 07:33 PM

I have to say... you guys didn't see this when the Arena issue went live (I4?). Now, that was laggy. This is... well bad, but it sounds like different experiences for different people and I4 was just universaly lousy.

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Kitty_Hellfire · 08-10-2008 07:35 PM

hmm yes i do remember that being bad, and also CoV beta was pretty awful...but I still think this is worse

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Ravenswing · 08-10-2008 08:54 PM

If you're getting worse than CoV beta, that's really, really bad. I gave up on CoV beta because I got about 0.5fps when I moved.

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cryonic_EU · 08-10-2008 09:26 PM

Haven't been on much this weekend but tonight was pretty choppy, for the whole team. I've seen it much worse though. It was pretty consistent and some of the lagging made for interesting fights but, and I can't quite describe why, it was a manageable kind of lag. I've had nights of lag that your only option was to log out and do something else, this wasn't one of them.

TRTerror · 08-11-2008 05:32 AM

[ QUOTE ]
Latest update is...it's gotten worse. In fact i'd say it's now worse than i've ever experienced it. Had to log off a while ago as it's completely unplayable. Every power having an up to 3 second delay, and getting rooted for even longer. Zoning varies between normal and exceedingly long for me.

Fingers crossed this is solved soon.

[/ QUOTE ]

had the same issue yesterday.

Knight_Errant · 08-11-2008 05:46 AM

I and pretty much everyone in my SGs' private channel had this all weekend. For me it seemed to peak around 6pm Saturday and persisted for the rest of the weekend.
We had delays on chat, power activation, rubberbanding and zoning.

Carnifax · 08-11-2008 06:16 AM

Came across this myself over the weekend. Most annoying too as I'd just moved the toon to Union this weekend in a effort to play on this side of the pond with an established character.

Not good at all NCSoft, sort it out.

Kitty_Hellfire · 08-11-2008 06:27 AM

It seems people have had differing experiences of the lag, being tolerable for some and not others. Personally I consider myself relatively lag-resistant, but it really was just too much, particularly yesterday... being worse/more noticable on melee toons.

I petitioned it, including all my system/isp information in the first instance, and all i've received so far is a generic automated response asking for my system/isp information...sigh. I'd say it's fairly clear it's not on our end with so many suffering the same symptoms.

I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Carnifax · 08-11-2008 06:32 AM

Mine was pretty bad too. Although happily I was a solo MM so even when I was spazzing out and lagging the minions where doing their jobs.

It really annoyed me though as I made a concious decision to play the EU servers and spend a transfer fee to get a character on to Union, to give the EU servers another go. Ended up soloing a laggy game most of the time. Why bother?

Baby_Phoenix · 08-11-2008 07:16 AM

I suffered bad rubber-banding on Friday night and last night took a team of four 4+ mins to get into mish for PI Bank Robbery

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ColdSpark · 08-11-2008 07:37 AM

Out of interest, any of the Defiant guys notice any issues there?

If Defiant was OK but Union wasn't then this was clearly either:
a) a plot by the evil Defiantites
b) a Nemesis plot
c) the Union hamster having some kind of stroke.

Kitty_Hellfire · 08-11-2008 07:52 AM

Maybe the Defiantites are secretly working with nemesis to give the union hamster a stroke?

This is an outrage! Stop stroking my hamster!

I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain

~Edna St. Vincent Millay