I just wanted to drop a few lines here and let some of the devs know what was happening last night at reset as we loaded into EB on YBBL server.
As usual, my guild was standing at the portal waiting for reset in LA and when the numbers zeroed we all spammed F and entered EB borderlands.
Upon entering wvw, everyone was getting horrible frame lag and most people couldn’t even move for about two full minutes.
This wasn’t the usual lag… this was FPS load lag. We have never seen this happen.
At first, i thought it was just me, then 15-20 people all at once were saying " OMG what the heck is happening." 10-12 got disconnected right at the start on load in.
As we finally loaded in, we found that we could run maybe five or six feet and then the game would just lock up. It would stay frame locked for about 10 seconds. Some people were trying to check ping and some were normal (maybe 10 out of the 40 we had zone in with us) and most people were getting 300-1000 ping instantly.
EVERYone in the squad was getting it, so it is NOT a single PC system problem… This is obviously a problem with the game software itself.
This wasn’t regular EB lag, load lag or anything like that. This was complete stop and go FPS lag like the game engine itself was locking up.
After about 5 mins… we also noticed that some people in the squad had the outnumbered buff, while the rest of the squad didn’t. How can only have of the people in the same BL have the buff when it is a zone wide buff?
The outnumbered buff lasted all night for a few people and others never even got it.
I have played WvW since it was first opened and i have never seen anything like this. I am accustomed to the lag in EB and that is nothing new in large fights, but to have lag like this on zone in and for it to last so long just makes the game unplayable.
I am on YBBL and for the first hour and a half, people in YBBL EB were lagging so bad that anytime we came within drawing distance of the MAG or JQ zerg the game would freeze up, they would lag completely out of game or the screen would freeze and then they would just be dead while the MAG and JQ zergs were able to get skills off and move around and wipe us.
Most of us could see them running, dropping skills, red marks on ground etc… but we could not react in any shape or form. Skill bars would light up (for those of us who didnt freeze instantly) but nothing would fire while it seemed that the other servers had no problems at all.
As i said before… i have played WvW for a long time. I know of the usual lag in EB and this was nothing like that.
Usual fights in eb, you get skill lag in large mega fights in SMC and sometimes slight skill lag near spawn.. but this was totally different.
After all the lag outs, we had less than 25 people in our squad and when we would encounter any enemy squad, more than 15-20 people or so, we would lock up instantly.
Can we please have someone look into the YBBL server and make sure there isn’t something internally wrong with it because this is just not normal.
I know that there was a post also when i logged on today about the forums being slow… could this be linked to the problems we were having last night?
As i said before..
1. This is NOT a single setup or PC build issue. It has nothing to do with anyones video card, make model or OS. It also has nothing to do with ping or trace route to the server.
2. This has never happened before. In all my time in wvw i have never seen lag this bad instantly on load in.. compounded by the fact that the other 2 servers we are fighting against were able to get skills off, move around and kill us with such ease because we could not even move or fight.
3 This is completely game breaking.