Culling, Lag and Quitters
1. There is no culling for me, I can see all the players at all distances just fine.
(Are you running your game on low? This might be causing it)
2. I haven’t experienced any lag in the Dragon Ball game.
(Again, your computer/internet might be what’s causing the problem for you)
3. I agree. I hate it when people quit, but they do it in every game. In Battlefield 3, you could expect everyone on the opposite team to instantly quit if they saw your team was made up of Colonel 100s.
I have experienced a lot of lag lately. It started a few weeks before Dragon Bash was released and is most common during peak times. Dragon Ball does turn into a huge lagfest at this point where it becomes unplayable.
A few guildies have been experiencing similar problems, but so far, we’ve identified that we’re all on the same ISP. Whilst this may be causing the issue, it does not shed light on to why there was no lag before. To be honest, I think it’s ISP overload from students/school kids finishing exams, causing an increase in traffic.
It is sad to see that this lag is causing such upset among players. :/
Are you sure you’re not seeing people because they’re using the stealth buff in the centre of the map? You can use skills while stealthed. Pretty OP.
Cheers for the replies…
Firstly my PC would be wasted if I ran the game in low res… i73700K, 16gb RipJaw DDR3 RAM, Nvidia GTX560ti (actually have SLi but always run GW2 in single GPU mode for better performance), 256GB Mushkin SSD.
All settings are set on max or at least high.. but I do not use Shadows or Antialiasing as I find it just doesn’t prove to be beneficial.
Even my WvW limits are maxed and never have issues in there with either culling (especially since the patching) or lag.
My ISP is pretty stable and my ping times are no more than 120ms max at most times, no line jitter and no packet loss that shows up on test, I have a 24MB connection and see 20MB on any given time of day. I checked this out with the ISP last night and no issues could be found and mty profile is set in a stable setting.. I could up it at the risk of possible SNR/ Attenuation blips… so no point.
I don’t normally get any lag in GW2 tbh but have found dragonball to be patchy depending on the instance I am flung into, maybe its others in the team having issues and affecting my own perhaps but skill delays, chat delays and culling were absolutely horrid yesterday after the small patch… and culling is a major issue in GW2 PvE everyone knows that, you only have to take a walk round LA to see objects, people, features zone in and out.. something even ANET have acknowledged.
Quitters/Leechers….. well they exist in any game.. but ANET have provided no provision in their content to allow us or them to do anything about it.. unlike GW1.
But hey 3 more wins and I wont bother coming back to it.. eventually those that find it a source of amusement to do it will only have themselves to play with.. I do enjoy Moa Racing though, even with the bugs it has/had.. the chat channel has been hilarious to say the least (do have to feel for the newer players a bit though in regards to the pricing, but hey the game has to make money somewhere and gem sales> gold will likely see a rise whilst its fun).
Edit – As for stealth players, yes I know there is that single dragonball in the centre to stealth you for a few seconds.. no issues with that, I try to get it whenever I can, but it only allows a single player to be stealthed not 4 or 5 and being blipped back and forth in a kind of freaked out teleport when using the air valves and then finding 3 or 4 others (friend or foe) to suddenly materialise kinda tells me that for me at least the instance is borked.. so I play it out, die lots then when its over, leave instance and hope I get into a better one, which usually it does but yesterday was just terrible most of the time.. so I went and did other things in game, which funnily enough never had any of those issues
(edited by Bloodstealer.5978)
You may find this thread helpful. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Lag-issues-4/first