Guild Wars 2

Yeah, if I were anet I’d be trumpeting this to the heavens. The zerg-crippling lag is just… gone.

Things do seem better and that’s a positive thing indeed.

It was my first night not lagging when over 20 people were in the same place.

mmm i guess the old hamster got replaced

where’s my skill lag?! now I need to play properly to survive huge 3-way battles

(good job, ANet!)

We had an Anet programmer in teamspeak with us a few nights ago(he was playing a thief on our map). He mentioned that in the last patch they cleaned up the way health was being calculated in WvW. Apparently it was more complicated and hogging more server resources than it needed to.

Good job whoever was behind it.

Yea its really shocking to go from 10 secs + skill lag sometimes to poof nothing smooth gameplay!

Stinson.5972:

Yeah, if I were anet I’d be trumpeting this to the heavens. The zerg-crippling lag is just… gone.

Not true. Last night everytime we came against Fort Aspenblob our skills would lock up. It only got worse as the night went on. The problem was gone for a little while, I will agree there, but not entirely.

Druss.6917:

Stinson.5972:

Yeah, if I were anet I’d be trumpeting this to the heavens. The zerg-crippling lag is just… gone.

Not true. Last night everytime we came against Fort Aspenblob our skills would lock up. It only got worse as the night went on. The problem was gone for a little while, I will agree there, but not entirely.

What map were you on? I was on both EB BL during the big zerg fights and EBG during the big battle in smc and never got any skill lag.

Whatever they have done, the skill lag is much much better now. Almost unnoticeable. We can actually have 3-way fights for smc and use our skills!!!

Quick Mouse.7635:

Druss.6917:

Stinson.5972:

Yeah, if I were anet I’d be trumpeting this to the heavens. The zerg-crippling lag is just… gone.

Not true. Last night everytime we came against Fort Aspenblob our skills would lock up. It only got worse as the night went on. The problem was gone for a little while, I will agree there, but not entirely.

What map were you on? I was on both EB BL during the big zerg fights and EBG during the big battle in smc and never got any skill lag.

Whatever they have done, the skill lag is much much better now. Almost unnoticeable. We can actually have 3-way fights for smc and use our skills!!!

QFT ^ — Been in a few battles HUGE ones and no delay here.

I was lagging harder last night than I was before on HoD’s BL, specifically me against groups of five. Wouldn’t even give me a chance to pop invis and dodge before I was instantly down for no reason at all.

Madora.9340:

I was lagging harder last night than I was before on HoD’s BL, specifically me against groups of five. Wouldn’t even give me a chance to pop invis and dodge before I was instantly down for no reason at all.

lag is not the same thing as skill lag.

Haven’t been in a three way fight yet, but the 2 way fights I’ve had so far were absolutely a lot smoother. To above ’’playabale’’. So I’m very content.

It is amazingly better than it was before. I hope it continues to improve, I also hope they will start optimizing data on client side so that nice rigs don’t have to run on low settings in large engagements.

Agree things have been much better for a few weeks and I thought the optimisations were doing great.. until tonight that is when both PvE and WvW began suffering massive lagging and the reappearance of Skill Lag.. across all areas. Something behind the scenes has likely been played around with and like every patch or the days leading up to one, things get messed up again and again.

I have not yet experienced anything since the news, might be possible that it could be the ISP this time?

Well I guess the 3 pugs I joined to do a few toxic runs must of all been with the same ISP cos we all had the same issues, as did friends on other servers not even in the same group… I think not that’s why ther have been so many threads opened about it.. and other issues that have followed such as guild tabs not showing, guild banks not useable, friends list bugged, groupings bugged etc etc…. now if my ISP can cause all that mayhem to so many people then heck world domination is looming!

Silk.8302:

Yea its really shocking to go from 10 secs + skill lag sometimes to poof nothing smooth gameplay!

No need to exaggerate yet. I still have skill lagg occasionally, but I seem to have it less in big fights. Maps start lagging sometimes though, especially when a zerg gets near, our guild is using the shout “Zerg lagg” and we always spot a zerg in a minimap radius of us after the lagg starts. So don’t cheer yet. It’s better, but it’s not solved.

Sirendor.1394:

Silk.8302:

Yea its really shocking to go from 10 secs + skill lag sometimes to poof nothing smooth gameplay!

No need to exaggerate yet. I still have skill lagg occasionally, but I seem to have it less in big fights. Maps start lagging sometimes though, especially when a zerg gets near, our guild is using the shout “Zerg lagg” and we always spot a zerg in a minimap radius of us after the lagg starts. So don’t cheer yet. It’s better, but it’s not solved.

I can understand if you are having some issues however I am one of the people that get 60-90 ping to texas so there shouldnt’t have been lag for my anyways, when the issue was resolved I did go from 10 secs + to no skill lag.

Please understand the other person’s situation before making an assumption. =)

Happy gaming

I thought it was just me since I hadn’t seen anything published. It’s been so much smoother. Great improvement so far.