Their cheap server junk couldn’t handle previous numbers of players, now for total crap add some achivement hunters and spice it up with pve players that got lost and stew is done…
Just had a fight over Hills. It is the absolutely worst lag I have ever experienced. Players were teleporting all over the place and 1 skill was not even working at all. I don’t think this is a population increase as there is always full queues in NA T1 for reset, so to have the worst lag i have experienced would suggest something they have done has changed.
Yeah agreed @sostronk to the fullest extent. Prob thier server problem. The fights at the moment in my server aren’t huge in numbers from neither sides and my party and I are lagging DCing on the constant
I’ve just transferred from sos to bg last week. after a week of some good wvw, tonight I had my first experience with the game being truly unplayable. I mean everyone has experienced the skill lag of a 3 way server battle in sm, even on anvil rock. but reset had another level of lag I had never seen before. I would be able to walk more or less okay..but try to static a zerg? or wall them? FORGET ABOUT IT. I couldnt even use utilities to save myself. I could really only cast autos. and even then, sometimes my auto would bug out and my animation would sputter like a machine gun, doing no damage. when fighting a long battle in keep, my aoe circles (and dmg) sometimes simply disappeared. only autos could be cast and landed with damage with any precision.
my guild just logged off after that long fight. it was just unplayable…please do something anet.
Strange thing, although our maps were queued most of the night at reset, I did not suffer any lag to speak of which was a shock as I do not have the best internet connection.
Here is my ? after a YEAR of playing this game to all of you who always complain about this.
WHY CONTINUE TO PLAY AFTER EXPERIENCING ANYTHING OVER 30 SECONDS OF THAT AWFUL LAG?
As human beings, how could you possibly sit at your desk, on your comp, and experience any feeling of fun watching your screen basically just lag out because of the terrible server stability? Wouldn’t there be a little spark in your mind saying, “you know, this isn’t that fun at all….you’re right conscience, this is actually pretty brutal. In fact laughable…..what am I actually doing this for?”
Here is an idea…stop running around with 100 other people.
Here is my ? after a YEAR of playing this game to all of you who always complain about this.
WHY CONTINUE TO PLAY AFTER EXPERIENCING ANYTHING OVER 30 SECONDS OF THAT AWFUL LAG?
As human beings, how could you possibly sit at your desk, on your comp, and experience any feeling of fun watching your screen basically just lag out because of the terrible server stability? Wouldn’t there be a little spark in your mind saying, “you know, this isn’t that fun at all….you’re right conscience, this is actually pretty brutal. In fact laughable…..what am I actually doing this for?”
Here is an idea…stop running around with 100 other people.
Can’t speak for everyone, but my party, friends, guildies and I were millions of miles away from any populated areas and we’d start skill lagging. I can always handle being in a huge zerg, but ever since the wvw season 1, I can’t even handle being by few others or even by myself in wvw LUL. And to answer your question, I have faith in anet, a loyal player :P It only happened recently, and fortunately it has improved today; hope it stays that way or get better for a long time coming -crosses finger-
I’ve just transferred from sos to bg last week. after a week of some good wvw, tonight I had my first experience with the game being truly unplayable. I mean everyone has experienced the skill lag of a 3 way server battle in sm, even on anvil rock. but reset had another level of lag I had never seen before. I would be able to walk more or less okay..but try to static a zerg? or wall them? FORGET ABOUT IT. I couldnt even use utilities to save myself. I could really only cast autos. and even then, sometimes my auto would bug out and my animation would sputter like a machine gun, doing no damage. when fighting a long battle in keep, my aoe circles (and dmg) sometimes simply disappeared. only autos could be cast and landed with damage with any precision.
my guild just logged off after that long fight. it was just unplayable…please do something anet.
Reset is always like that on BG. However, now the middle of saturday afternoon is also like that. I logged after I rubber banded into seeing I was already dead and staked, and whoever killed me had even had time to get completely out of vision range.
It`s so bad I feel wvw is pointless .
The lag is terrible.
Most times I cant use a skill atoll & other times I cant even use no1 skill.
I feel like I`m bait on a hook waiting to die.
It`s just a complete mess in wvw atm .
Here is my ? after a YEAR of playing this game to all of you who always complain about this.
WHY CONTINUE TO PLAY AFTER EXPERIENCING ANYTHING OVER 30 SECONDS OF THAT AWFUL LAG?
As human beings, how could you possibly sit at your desk, on your comp, and experience any feeling of fun watching your screen basically just lag out because of the terrible server stability? Wouldn’t there be a little spark in your mind saying, “you know, this isn’t that fun at all….you’re right conscience, this is actually pretty brutal. In fact laughable…..what am I actually doing this for?”
Here is an idea…stop running around with 100 other people.
If you’re seeing lag on your screen it’s your system not their servers. I’m not saying there aren’t server issues because there are. Poor frame rate isn’t an indication of this though.
Here is my ? after a YEAR of playing this game to all of you who always complain about this.
WHY CONTINUE TO PLAY AFTER EXPERIENCING ANYTHING OVER 30 SECONDS OF THAT AWFUL LAG?
As human beings, how could you possibly sit at your desk, on your comp, and experience any feeling of fun watching your screen basically just lag out because of the terrible server stability? Wouldn’t there be a little spark in your mind saying, “you know, this isn’t that fun at all….you’re right conscience, this is actually pretty brutal. In fact laughable…..what am I actually doing this for?”
Here is an idea…stop running around with 100 other people.
If you’re seeing lag on your screen it’s your system not their servers. I’m not saying there aren’t server issues because there are. Poor frame rate isn’t an indication of this though.
It’s not FPS problem we are experiencing :P Moreso net lags.
Anet has been aware of this issue since release, but will not spend the money needed to upgrade servers/get more programmers. The monetization manager forced down anet’s throat with the loan floated to them is running the show now, and actually fixing huge issues like these that cost money is not a priority.
Here is my ? after a YEAR of playing this game to all of you who always complain about this.
WHY CONTINUE TO PLAY AFTER EXPERIENCING ANYTHING OVER 30 SECONDS OF THAT AWFUL LAG?
As human beings, how could you possibly sit at your desk, on your comp, and experience any feeling of fun watching your screen basically just lag out because of the terrible server stability? Wouldn’t there be a little spark in your mind saying, “you know, this isn’t that fun at all….you’re right conscience, this is actually pretty brutal. In fact laughable…..what am I actually doing this for?”
Here is an idea…stop running around with 100 other people.
If you’re seeing lag on your screen it’s your system not their servers. I’m not saying there aren’t server issues because there are. Poor frame rate isn’t an indication of this though.
Yaks actually being 30 yards ahead of where they’re displaying on the screen and the map (walking normal speed btw), rubber banding, and skills taking 15-30 seconds to activate have nothing to do with frame rate. It’s their servers, not our systems.
As for not running around with 100 other people… I was alone, so that doesn’t help either. A big fight happening all the way on the other side of the map makes me lag like hell, because -drumroll- it’s their servers that are the problem, and I’m not on a separate server from the 100v100v100 fight going on in hills.
Day #2 still horrible. As a mainly berserker thief, split-second timing is very important for game-play — spamming an instant 4-5x in a row to no avail DOES NOT WORK.
Good news, though. GW2 is on sale, so even more new players can experience this, and old players can experience it in even greater magnitude.
I’ve gone through every ability for the last 10mins and can’t do anything in JQBL. Sucks having to relog at this point knowing the queue is bugged all to hell.
Yeah, worst skill lag I’ve ever seen in the past few days than ever before. Honestly, it sickens me. I can’t stand playing when nobody can cast anything. It isn’t fun just watching everyone run circles around each other pressing “1” and rolling because everything else doesn’t work or is on a 4-20s delay depending on the situation.
While I’m pretty sure everyone knows this by now, I just want to point out that it isn’t our internet connections. I have an extremely stable ping at 1gbps down and up and still get insane skill lag.
Day #4: Dcing/skill lagging every 4 minutes.
May we get an official response from a dev regarding the issue? Any diagnosis or fix or if it is even being worked on at the moment?
Neither money nor work can fix this issue. The problems with skill lag are deeply ingrained in the very core of the game. To fix skill lag theyd have to essentially re-write the engine. Thats simply not an option at this point.
The optimizations are small victories, so small they go unnoticed to pretty much everyone. Except for the super diehards that noticed their skilllag went down from 10seconds to 9.98seconds. And that would be a big improvement.
So dont bring up optimization as “ow well, they are going to do optimization end of the month”. They’ve been doing optimizations on WvW since release.
I think i remember a nice post about eliminating skill lag in wvw not too long ago.
Well thats not what i was expecting. But it’s nice to know that they manage to patch the game to death an do not even care to comment.
Anet, from a dedicated WVW player, Please fix the skill lag, its getting so bad that it covers entire battlegrounds, and is now bleeding into the pve world………
It makes almost all skills non-usable, it is also starting to make commanding much harder if you are skipping around and your players are having a hard time following you.
This is so sad. Skill lag is going to kill another open world PvP game. Anyone remember Mechwarrior IV, Aeon, Warhammer…the list goes on and on and they all died the same death. Skill lag killed the game becuase the developers thought that more PvE content and getting the game to the far East was the answer. Your gonna loose your core playerbase ANet. And im going to be sad again. Real sad.
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