Hello all war eager fanatics! It has come to the attention of the holy Betsie that servers are nearly unplayable at certain times. Some of the things that are a byproduct of the server side lag are quite funny but get stale after a few times. Over the last week or so and especially the last few days it has been bad. Here is a list of things that I have experienced on the holy realm of Ceres where the almighty Betsie rules: Delayed kills by up to five seconds. Keep taking damage after I have gotten into cover for up to two seconds. Mutual kills, more than usual. Terminals are delayed; activation is slow and unresponsive, swamp loadout and you can shoot your old weapon and then get a swamp to the new weapon and keep on shooting with that without releasing the trigger. People who are warping as the game try to predict where others are heading; LA falling halfway through the ground before they stand on solid ground. It varies a lot between the time of the day but it is always there in some form. Now to my question: What server are you playing on? What are you experiencing? And on which server are you playing on? I have heard and seen a few threads about the lag on the EU servers for the last two weeks but it seems to have been quiet from the US side or down south. We had a problem with login earlier that was caused by a faulty primary network card, is this lag caused by hardware or is it some software or the game it self? GroinlessZombie, Outfit418, NC, Ceres. Blood for Betsie! Edit: Found this link just after I wrote this post: EU Servers Lagging.
I experienced a bit of ingame stuttering last night on Mattherson... however... It was a BioLab alert with all three factions fighting over Allatum in the final 15-20mins. So there was a HUGE number of players in the three allatum zones. (48+/48+ listed in the two zones... with way more than 48 actually there) Other than that... I've been running pretty smooth. Played for 4 hours each primetime without many issues during the 2XP. Oh, and it looks like we had around 2k players on the server at the time. http://www.therebelscum.net/world-population/?world_id=17&totalpop=true&zoom=1
On Miller i ran around a bit today, jumping of techplantroofskilling enemies with my Polaris, C4 hovering libs at Flight Ceiling etc
Played on miller - was a full half secong lag between firing and registering a hit . Dead before I've even heard the enemy fire. So....unable to play on that for now.
Miller totally unplayable, takes 5 seconds to open a terminal, damage registers after 3 seconds etc...
miller lags like hell. i am playing mostly as medic. it takes 1-2 seconds to start to revive a mate, terminals lags, etc etc. yesterday was fine. today is just terrible (friday + 2x exp ?) i am platinum member. i demand soe to solve the problem or move the servers to a better hoster.
Sounds just like Cobalt. It takes 3 seconds to enter or exit a vehicle. Hits doesn't seem to register right. I saw an enemy harasser make a crazy maneuver in an open flat ground as if he was hit by a side collision with a tank. It gave us the chance to focus fire on him and kill him. Without the strange lag he probably would have survived.
Have to say it doesn't help with tons of plonkers constantly spamming proximity chat with some random dance tunes they happen to like...has to eat bandwidth and its a pain in the neck because you cant hear anyone with any decent info...
Hmm ... only moderate lag and Cobalt is well playable. However only played an hour and half. Nothing which truly destroys enjoing. 95 % of time everything is snappy and fast.
Ceres. I need to avoid peak times, impossible to play at those time. 7-10 day before I remove my 6 months membership. You have that time left SOE...... And said by one like me that plays since last december 2012 and spent over 200 euro in this game.... Good luck!
Ceres. I was playing earlier after the maintainence and it was running just fine. Fast forward a few hours and it's pants. SOE, I love you and I love your game, but you have GOT to get this sorted out... It's ridiculous!
Cobalt is not great at the moment. A bit better than it was last night but nowhere near what it should be.
Ceres & Miller both ssss.....LAGS. Kinda cool playing game where you have to anticipate what to do. Damgaged maxes is not propely shown. Full health max is perhaps badly dmged.