Guild Wars 2

The first few days were great, the karka queen update was ok but the laaaaag is driving people away and making it unplayable.

Luckily I got my badges in the first day when lots of people had yet to experience the full impact of the lag, but after a few days it’s impossible to get even 4 or 5 people to show interest in the KQ. Most days the 4 villages remain in hostile hands as no one can be bothered with the lag induced deaths.

First major issue I have experienced in the game though so hopefully it isn’t a precursor to the festival.

On Aurora Glade there’s usually a steady population. But the whole Southsun map has some severe frame rate issues. I’m not even sure if it’s lag. The whole zone seems to be a massive performance hit, reducing massive battles to a slideshow.

The moments when the game comes to a crawl are a bit unpredictable. I’ve been in battles with two Champion Karkas, and the game would stutter like crazy. But then in a battle against the Karka Queen, with tons of players, it would run a lot better.

I don’t know if this is happening due to lack of optimization,or because there’s an insane amount of players all in the same small zone,but the moment I land on SC,I get a 50% drop in frame rate.
I don’t generally have problems with lag in GW2.Even in WvW the game plays fine,
but SC is really bad,to the point of being unpleasant,and a place to avoid.

Just as soon as I get to the blue zone(steampipe steading) my framerate hits 10fps and it is not because of players, the rest of the island is fine for me.

Since day 1 of the Secret of Southsun I’ve had my FPS drop whenever I got too close to Steampipe Steading, the rest of the island was just fine. Ever since the Island Control meta event was released, the entire island has had low FPS just as bad as Steampipe Steading for me.