Sorry SE, but endgame won't work if you don't fix something.

I had this issue exact issue the entire time I played from beta phase 2 right up until last week when I found a very easy fix. I quit.

Now I'm happy playing other games where the combat isn't broken. Even if they fixed it I wouldn't come back now anyways. I really REALLY wanted to love this game but the end game it's horrendous really.

What people don't seem to understand is that the animation on the ground lasts slightly longer than what the cast time is. You have to be out of the big bad red aoe before the cast time finishes. Also the server side latency delay used to be 300 ms last patch, meaning if you got out of the aoe .301 seconds before the cast timer finished, you actually got hit by the aoe. Now it has been reduced to .100 seconds, which you means you need to dodge .100 seconds before cast timer finishes.

The average human reaction is something like .12 seconds, so 99% of people will never be able to ever see the lag.. that is unless their connection is actually lagging. Only very twitchy people will be able to feel the difference, and even then there is good reason for having the delay at .100. I have gone from getting hit by titan VERY rarely when I was out of aoe (like 2-3% of the time) to never getting hit by any aoe ever because its all a joke to dodge and my connection is good.

The data center change seems to have fixed connections for people in Europe as well, at least from what my friends tell me.

People who still complain about it generally have high latency connections get new isp and if you can't because of location.. stop crying because this is an issue in ANYTHING gaming that requires skill.. please play sc2 with 1 second lag and play at your same level without lag, won't happen, or even be close.

I think the biggest issue facing this game is the camera angle for PS3 users in certain fights right now, walls should become transparent instead of zooming u super close into your character and forcing people to play birds eye.

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Originally Posted by Katai

So sad really, since I liked many aspects of the game itself. It's like owning a Ferrari with a flat tire you can never change.

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This game is better off being referred to as a Volkswagen, not a Ferrari.

No matter how hard I try - aoe avoidance is always unpredictable due to lag. Doesn't matter whether it is in Wanderer's Palace or Titan. If SE wants to make aoe avoidance a game mechanic, they seriously need to fix this.

I wonder how many people on this thread are still subbed/playing? (aside from the ones saying there is no problem/it's all intended good design)

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Originally Posted by Billie21

I wonder how many people on this thread are still subbed/playing? (aside from the ones saying there is no problem/it's all intended good design)

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I'm not, are you?

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Originally Posted by complexxL9

I'm not, are you?

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You still are or you wouldn't have access to the forums.

if u guys have an isp with high latency to the datacenters u guys are screwed regardless of any software fix on SE's end, unless they decide to put some datacenters closer to where u guys live. In the meantime, try tunnelling services like wtfast to see if it fixes ur latency. Like i said before, if it fixes ur delay. then its ur connection that is the problem.

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Originally Posted by complexxL9

I'm not, are you?

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Playing-ish till end of sub in a few days.

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Originally Posted by Axidrain

if u guys have an isp with high latency to the datacenters u guys are screwed regardless of any software fix on SE's end, unless they decide to put some datacenters closer to where u guys live. In the meantime, try tunnelling services like wtfast to see if it fixes ur latency. Like i said before, if it fixes ur delay. then its ur connection that is the problem.

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And if we don't? Maybe they should ask other MMOs' programmers how they manage to do it, then...