As you're the first to bring this up, you might want to explain a little more of what you were experiencing so it doesn't look like something on your end only.
Not sure about the people popping up. But the disappearing thing could be due to the crashing issues people have reported as occurring more frequently. I know I've certainly crashed out at inopportune times, in the middle of combat.
I've had some issues up until yesterday. I experienced players disappearing and reappearing(teleporting) and also game freezes and problems with my hit detection, sometimes I would be able to do and receive damage and sometimes I couldn't all in the same fight. I reinstalled my client and my server, Connery, crashed and when I was able to log back into Connery everything was working perfectly again...I do not know if it was a problem with my server, or with my client but you can try a reinstall, just prepare for a 18gb DL as I don't believe they've updated their installation build yet, at least not as of yesterday. Edit: BTW, everything worked just fine until my client downloaded the hotfix on Wednesday.
Ya that's right cause those types of crashes were always happening before the patch too, and people just now decided to complain about it...............right?
Thanks to my ISP and living in the sticks and the HUGE storm Europe had a few weeks ago that every one's forgot about I've found that the min connection speed for PS2 48+V48+ is around 500kbps. I'm sat at 300kbps and the most I can do is 12v12 which runs perfectly well till the zerg arrives then I get..... Flying vehicles, flying players, no hit detection, no terminals, minimap going totally mental..
Lemme guess, you're playing on an EU server? Prosieben heard "optimisation" from SOE and thought that meant spending less time at work. EU servers are currently effed, as far as I can tell.
Oh god. Don't get me started. Every night, on cue at exactly 7:00, my internet connection goes NUTS. I have all the problems you have, I've just never been able to articulate them properly. I have to sit in the spawn room and watch as my mini-map constantly and violently rearranges it's self. As for OP: Yes actually. I logged into my TR alt for the first time in quite some time, and followed a BWC armor push to crossroads watch tower. As I ran towards the base, I noticed people were rendering and unrendering much more frequently and at much more noticeable ranges.
LOL ... Everybody brings this up, every night. Usually it's server lag, but sometimes it's just rendering. Just the other night night people and things were immortal and driving up to the enemys warpgate. What was that saying about polishing a turd?
I've seen a bit of this myself. I looked over some hill in Amerish overlooking a base. I didn't see anyone so I decided to head down the hill to only have some random VS LA pop up directly in front of me, literally running in a straight line. The funny thing about was that we actually ran past each other because I guess he didn't see me and I didn't see him until we are pretty much clipping through each other. Normally, I would have seen him well ahead of time, and likely the same for that poor VS LA that I skilled with my pump action.
