How latency-friendly is FF14?

[Folanlron]

you wont be able to dodge attacks or weave cooldowns
but you only need like 2 aoe buttons in this game anyway

What makes you say this ? I'm very very curious..

on my Black Mage I can double weave very easily on Starlink, and even triple weave if weather is clear enough(rarely happens cause of were I live though)

Have done a lot of Savage content and have very easily evaded mechanics, the latency is low enough I can keep up with people very easily, the issue right now though is literal coverage which they have been working on, but having too deal with other Satellite Net providers has proven too be a bigger headache vs actually creating the constellation..

[Risvertasashi]

What makes you say this ? I'm very very curious..

on my Black Mage I can double weave very easily on Starlink, and even triple weave if weather is clear enough(rarely happens cause of were I live though)

Have done a lot of Savage content and have very easily evaded mechanics, the latency is low enough I can keep up with people very easily, the issue right now though is literal coverage which they have been working on, but having too deal with other Satellite Net providers has proven too be a bigger headache vs actually creating the constellation..

Starlink has comparable latency to cable. It's not really the same as old-school satellite that can easily be over 1000 ms - which I believe is what the threadmaker was going to be stuck with. If they were able to get a more modern solution, then hopefully latency's a nonissue.

[Kyrj]

Well it appears your only option it to get a long ethernet cable, dig a trench all the way to the city, and plug into the router at a Denny's or a Waffle House.

[Pells]

I feel so bad for you, ugh.

Seriously Japanese devs need to get their heads out of their asses when it comes to netcode, they're extremely far behind. Anyone who is even a tiny bit a fighting game enthusiast will tell you how awful their netcode is.

Do any online games play well with 1 second latency?

[Halivel]

I feel so bad for you, ugh.

Seriously Japanese devs need to get their heads out of their asses when it comes to netcode, they're extremely far behind. Anyone who is even a tiny bit a fighting game enthusiast will tell you how awful their netcode is.

While Japanese devs do often have issues with netcode (Not exactly surprising: Japan itself if small enough to allow them to simply not care about that most of the time. What for if players in within the country will have 5-10ms latency anyway?), I don't know a single online game, be it western or asian, that is okay with 1000ms ping. If anything, FF14 is among the frendliest ones because even with ping close to 300ms you're still able to perform adequately in high end content with the condition of being attentive and careful, and 300ms is in no way a good latency.

[Aluja89]

Do any online games play well with 1 second latency?

Good netcode doesn't have latency as you know it. It predicts a frame ahead of time what you are going to do since you were pressing a button before it even registered anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NLe4IpdS1w

While Japanese devs do often have issues with netcode (Not exactly surprising: Japan itself if small enough to allow them to simply not care about that most of the time. What for if players in within the country will have 5-10ms latency anyway?), I don't know a single online game, be it western or asian, that is okay with 1000ms ping. If anything, FF14 is among the frendliest ones because even with ping close to 300ms you're still able to perform adequately in high end content with the condition of being attentive and careful, and 300ms is in no way a good latency.

Good netcode will still alleviate a lot of the latency issues, since it's against a system(a heavily scripted one a that) and not a user it's even easier. But other users might see them jump around a bit since it has to keep recorrecting.

[Nethereal]

Not friendly one bit once you start getting packet loss and lagging hard enough your swifts turn into hard casts you'll want to uninstall real quick.