Lag making Incarnate Trials too easy?

Was doing BAF earlier and we all had some pretty bad lag going on. It allowed us to target and damage the escapees before they were out. And in some cases the npcs would rubber band back to their spawn points making the escape part way too easy. Not that we would have failed with all the damage we had but I can easily see this being cake walk on the part after that when some of the npcs did not even fight back.

Yeah, with the amount of server lag that goes on, the enemies rubberband like crazy, sometimes stopping in the same place for several seconds - powers recharge slower as normal (seems to be about the same as the prisoners extra lag) but the clock ticks down the same, so you end up finishing with less prisoners spawning total.

For some strange reason (maybe the same reason?) the Incarnate Pets stick around longer when this happens.

Had one last an extra 2 mins the other day - a good indication as to how much lag we had going on during the escapee phase.

Well, I do believe that the timers on the trials somehow escape the server slow downs. This effect may be very helpful on something like the escapee phase of the BAF. However, it is very detrimental during an attempt to get the Lambda badges for not using acids or grenades.

You can notice your powers taking longer to activate/recharge (and of course the enemies have the same issue), but the timers still actually countdown real time. One would think server slow down would also slow down the clock.

It's nothing new. Escapees (or halloween traicks) have always been targettable before they were out, even with zero lag.

What we experience now is we still can target them before they're out (just when they spawn inside the buildings) and we keep hitting them untill they are fully out for the games but we just don't see them.

On the flip side of this I get massive lag on the crate hunt in the Lambda, basically mini rubber banding. Just keeping up with the team is tough, because I will walk into walls, etc. It is the worst on the crates, the tubes are not as bad, although it happens a little.

Server-side lag always benefits the player. It's like you've sped up. It also allows you to move faster since the server will often accommodate your moves and update itself to what you're doing. Things that would require split second decisions can be done at a more leisurely pace.

It benefits you until your powers have refreshed in your tray, but not by the server's time, so, you click on buttons that do nothing at the moment, or, you move so far that the servers say, "I really don't think so, so, I'm moving you back *here*" and you rubberband.

I think the lag actually killed Marauder in our MoLambda run last night. We had something like 8 seconds left on the clock and he was still at about 5% health. It had been laggy from the moment we started fighting him, but it got really quiet for a moment and none of our attacks could fire off... then all of the sudden he just crumpled to the ground.

Uhhh... yay? Go us?

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