Guild Wars 2

your lag is horrible, how did you get so laggy?

A baby cat may have gotten in and startled the hamsters.

;)

zengara.8301:

your lag is horrible, how did you get so laggy?

Can you change the title to reflect your post so players know what they are clicking?

Lag is well documented and apparently fixes are in the works.

Swagger.1459:

zengara.8301:

your lag is horrible, how did you get so laggy?

Can you change the title to reflect your post so players know what they are clicking?

Lag is well documented and apparently fixes are in the works.

Haha, good one.

March 30th, 2015 – WvW Lag March 2015
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-Lag-March-2015/first

March 2nd, 2014 – WvW is so lagy.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-is-so-lagy/first

October 5th, 2013 – ANet’s post regarding skill lag and planned work to solve the problem
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Official-state-of-skill-lag-and-server-optimizations/first

BillFreist.1527:

To give you more of an insight of where we stand, we’re starting with taking the bull by the horns.

So, three years have passed and the problem still persists and even though mr. Freist promised that:

Preventing further issues has been the main focus up to this point to ensure we aren’t introducing new issues and constantly cleaning up behind them.

they still introduced HoT with all the changes/issues it brought making the skill lag as painful as never before.

Indeed, HoT introduced lots of new stuff an lots of new / additional stacks of everything for the servers to track, which clearly, in a full scale 3 way battle, this games infrastructure is not able to handle.

In my guild we even made some semi-serious jokes about making full Guard / DH comps for EBG because nothing else except staff 1 works in these situations, its that or simply leave the maps which we have done cause none of the classses / builds requiring higher skill and timing work.

what is weird is that these 2 weeks have been especially filled with lag, normaly only last for a day or maybe 2 at most, never 1-2 weeks in a row

The worst thing is we do not know if they are aware of the problem or decided to ignore it? There is no community post regarding current skill lag present in wvw, there is no information regarding fixing it, there is no eta, there is nothing.

I thing best thing would be a black marketing campaign on some mayor gaming web portals highlighting the issue. The problem frequently appears on reddit, but that is not enough. Maybe when the game will be receiving negative feedback from many sources some executive from ncsoft’s board will decide it is time to fix wvw, I don’t know. On the other hand I think it was already mentioned on many portals like mmo champion.

What do we have to do in order for the company who sold that faulty product to finally admit the problem exists and fix it?

At the current state of the issue I am affraid they will faster remove wvw from the game or reduce number of players able to participate in it instead of fixing the problem.

vove.2768:

The worst thing is we do not know if they are aware of the problem or decided to ignore it? There is no community post regarding current skill lag present in wvw, there is no information regarding fixing it, there is no eta, there is nothing.

I thing best thing would be a black marketing campaign on some mayor gaming web portals highlighting the issue. The problem frequently appears on reddit, but that is not enough. Maybe when the game will be receiving negative feedback from many sources some executive from ncsoft’s board will decide it is time to fix wvw, I don’t know. On the other hand I think it was already mentioned on many portals like mmo champion.

What do we have to do in order for the company who sold that faulty product to finally admit the problem exists and fix it?

At the current state of the issue I am affraid they will faster remove wvw from the game or reduce number of players able to participate in it instead of fixing the problem.

They tried several times and even lowered the server cap a long time ago,which completely fixed the lag issues while do having larger queues offcourse.But in the end we had 3 way sm fights with no lag at all,it baffles me why they even reverted it back to normal after that.

Another more discrete cause is the fact that because the roaming and havoc scenes are pretty much formally dead with HoT, the players that are in the maps are more likely to omniblob and therefore jack up the events fired in the fights.

Whereas before maybe you had a blob of at most 40 running on a map, the norm is groups of at least 40 to 60 because the 20-odd roaming/havoc players elsewhere in the map are no longer there and are firing more passives and proc effects in the ensuing ZvZ’s.

TL;DR HoT’s design decisions for WvW/professions brought in a double-whammy for invoking skill lag and made the mode worse.