Laaaaaggggg!!!!!!

I was wondering if anyone else is getting a lot of weird lag lately in the game.

I'm seeing lots of NPC stuttering movement and rubberbanding. Its been happening pretty consistently since Issue 16.

It will die down for a while...but inevitably starts up again. Some of my SG mates have been saying the same thing. And a particularly bad patch caused us a team wipe on a couple occasions.

Anything going on with the servers that I may have missed? Or is my ISP just seeking to drive me nuts?

I was in Grandville last night and did notice significant lag while trying to ToT. I did see a lot of others doing the same so the zone may have just been close to full. I moved to RWZ and the lag was all but gone. I have a pretty fast computer with 8 gig of ram, so when I see lag it is normally server side.

I think most of what you are seeing is just from everybody doing ToT and not missions. Try moving to another zone or entering a mission and see if the lag goes away. That is what I found to be the case last night. If I tried to ToT in Grandville the lag was terrible, but everywhere else there just wasn't a problem. I have only played on Virtue and Freedom lately so I can't say if the lower pop servers are the same.

It was very strange last night, I was fighting the Zombies and GMs and TOTing with a team, and there was a little jumpy lag which was fine, but my Emp's RAs would not work properly, even while we were TOTing in our own little space. I would click RA and it would just get the red circle and just keep it, like if something was out of range. It even made the "BONK" noise. Then after like 20 secs maybe, they would charge down, and then like after a little longer, they'd charge back up and THEN go off by themselves. It didn't "feel" like lag, if you know what I mean, it "felt" like an out of range power's behavior. It was strange and those were the only powers of mine effected. Just felt like mentioning it cause it was weird. ^^

I've been getting weird "machine gun" rubber-banding when using Super Jump. As in, I'll jump, move forward a bit, back a touch-forward-back-forward.. forward some more... back-forward-back-forward-back, forward and complete the jump. Only SJ seems to be affected and my chat windows, etc continue to respond as normal (unlike typical rubberbanding where I type something and it doesn't pop up until I've "reset").

Also, when I join a team, I can see the "slots" of other members in my team window but they're blacked out unless we're in the same zone. They eventually show up if I wait long enough but the default is blackness where the names should be.

Both of these started perhaps a week or so ago.

Zombies killed my game a froze my PC last night. But I play on EU servers, so, par for the course really.

I've been getting really bad rubberbanding as well for the past couple of weeks.

So, I don't think it's any particular ISP issue, but it could be some kind of 'net-wide issue (seen those before), or it could be specific to CoX servers, but it's definately real.

Got lag since the Halloween stuff went live. Every time I exit a building to a zone or even an elevator it takes 5 sec's before I can move. Rubberbanding too. Inside missions, none. So I guess the EU servers just cant take it.

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Beeeeeeeeeeans!!!

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