Terrible lag in PvP zones and arena matches.

As of today the game is pretty much unplayable in large arena matches and PvP zones (Recluses Victory) on Freedom. I have talked to a lot of people today who are having TERRIBLE lag in them. I don't know if it's happening in other places, but it is definitely an issue in PvP.

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I have been getting this kind of very bad lag all day. I have had 3 game crashes, booted from a team inside an arena match, buff bars lagged out (to the point of actually being taken out of phase shift and t hen going back in when the lag caught up to me), and powers taking up to 10 seconds to go off after I click them.

I have given up playing this game for the day at least. The state of the server performance makes the game unplayable.

For the record, I got this kind of lag on both Virtue and Freedom.

Well, they had to put the lag from the BAF and ITF Lag Valley *somewhere.*

Smartalec remark aside - have you looked somewhere besides Freedom and Virtue? As in - looking at "large matches" and/or groups in RV, or just "Enter RZ, lag out?"

(Nitpick - should be in tech issues.)

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We were trying to kickball tonight, had 7v7 in both matches and gave up after 2 matches because people were constantly lagging out/disconnecting/crashing/randomly getting booted off teams.

The lag was so bad that people couldn't pop greens sometimes.

I wonder if this is related to the recent lag fixes for the rest of the game?

I had to re log into the forum (to complain about this very issue) even though i had signed in earlier, never mind f2p , going to have to pay us to play at this rate!!

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It's not just PvP. It's doing it all over the place. Missions, iTrials and a Hami raid all experienced all this wackiness.

For a second, I thought the PWNZ forums had returned.

Sorry to hear about the lag but the good news is it will be fixed ASAP since it affects the PvE areas too. So, you got that going for you...

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This is just a screenshot I quickly took to show how the buff trays are not working properly. As you can see, I am not near a cold dom but I have a stack of Arctic Fog in my buff tray. Also my teammates have stacked up buffs that they do not have: on of the blasters has 5 stacks of tactics when not near anyone.

I encourage people experiencing issues involving lag, disconnecting, crashing, or bugged icons to send a petition, as what I gather as it stands is they believe it's an issue with my computer as opposed to an issue with their servers, from what they are saying in replies to my petitions.

This seems to be causing serious data loss to the client. In iTrials, it causes the league window to freak out. People disconnect, and when they return, their apparent team assignment does not update for everyone.

Sometimes, multiple people experience loss of the league window, and appear as if not on any team. This can happen on a normal team as well. The person sees all allies as unteamed/unleagued, and has no team quit button - the only way to fix this is to kick them from the team or move them to another team if on a league.

My power status tray is clearly wrong often. It will be missing whole rows of powers I know are active because they are passives, accolades, etc. I was on a league where the only powers showing were Fulcrum Shift and Mystic Fortune... when I was running five toggles and have every passive accolade.

This all seems to make people prone to crash. I never crash in CoH. In the last two days I have a couple of times, always when my UI seems to be freaking out in the same way it does when it loses synch with what team I am in. Other people in leagues in particular are describing what seems to be the same thing happening.

My power icons do not update properly in heavy combat. This is not "button lag". I have never experienced this before, not quite like this. I am also prone to not animate my attacks. They just appear from my body. Sometimes my powers seem to activate out of order after a delay.

I am inferring, perhaps incorrectly, that whatever is wrong is sending bad update data that results in our game client being out of synch, and sometimes it's so garbled that it crashes us.

Notably, I'm on Justice. So it's a pretty broad problem.

It seems worse with lots of players and fighting, as opposed to solo.