Controller movement is ruined after 2.38

Thanks for the quick fix.

However, ever since this fix a new issue with combat has popped up.

My attacks aren't registering on visual queue and require repeating*, that and it appears that my auto-attacks are somehow overriding my actual attack animations and cancelling moves. The best way to replicate it would be playing with lag, however, everything else is running fine (loading players, enemy, zone/texture generation, data on MB, regular movement and interactions) and is only an issue in combat. It's been like this ever since the controller issue fix.

*Attacks will hit but no damage will be dealt, or in the case of combo string actions the next one will not highlight and will be delayed.

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Originally Posted by AstralKaos

Thanks for the quick fix.

However, ever since this fix a new issue with combat has popped up.

My attacks aren't registering on visual queue and require repeating*, that and it appears that my auto-attacks are somehow overriding my actual attack animations and cancelling moves. The best way to replicate it would be playing with lag, however, everything else is running fine (loading players, enemy, zone/texture generation, data on MB, regular movement and interactions) and is only an issue in combat. It's been like this ever since the controller issue fix.

*Attacks will hit but no damage will be dealt, or in the case of combo string actions the next one will not highlight and will be delayed.

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Glad I am not just imagining this. The same thing is happening to me in all areas of the game, from crafting to gathering, to housing, gardening, accessing and removing items from the FC chest, fates, hunting, dungeons....the game is quickly becoming unplayable and this need addressed. I am constantly having to re-press buttons for everything I do, even though I see the animation on screen that shows that the game is registering that I pressed the button. Like AstralChaos said, it feels like a constant lag or delay, but is only affecting button-press recognition. It's especially infuriating in dungeons and is severely hurting my ability to keep my rotations flowing.

This has only been happening since the last emergency maintenance.

EDIT: PS3 player, btw.

Indeed, I can also report a lot of strange happenings as the hot fix. The controller issue appears to be fixed however it seems that my entire FC has been in agreement that known AOE flags durring a lot of instances are showing up after the attack has already hit or in some some situations where you are supposed to be inside a protected area (examples: Garuda EX fight to avoid arena wide aoe, Dzmael Darkhold: standing in the crystal light to avoid eyes on me, Syrcus Tower: standing on the raised platforms to avoid one of the boss' aoe attacks) your character will clearly be in the protected zone yet still take damage. This is clearly not a connection issue as too many people with varying connections speeds in different areas are reporting it all at once.

I myself play on PS3 but many of my FC mates are across all platforms and experience the same oddities.

The above 3 posts are symptomatic demonstration of excessive Host-Client latency, caused by bad network routing.

contact and report it to your isp.

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Originally Posted by Squa11_Leonhart

The above 3 posts are symptomatic demonstration of excessive Host-Client latency, caused by bad network routing.

contact and report it to your isp.

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This is the first I've heard of such a thing.

Is it common for this issue to only affect one game (my other games work fine online), more specifically only one aspect of that game, in my case just combat related actions (as briefly explained in my above post)?

Also, this issue only popped up after an emergency maintenance fixing controller issues, everything was fine before that, it can't be pure coincidence, especially not seeing as multiple people are having the same, or very similar issues.

This does have a lot of lag-like things going on (delay, repeat actions, etc), but I don't think lag causes auto-attacks to override moves and cancel them, and in a very specific case with my MNK, if I use Perfect Balance and it happens as I activate it, I don't get the Perfect Balance effect at all and it still goes on GCD; with magic classes when casting if I try to start casting another spell too fast it'll sometimes just get "interrupted" repeatedly until I leave it for a second, sometimes it will just do that even if I don't try to cast again too fast.

Again, it has a lot of lag-like things that I've experienced before, but there's also very buggy things thrown in.

[also on PS3]

Yes, and it can even improve or get worse based on what zone you are in at the time.

Raist has been trying to get more people to contact their isp's about this issue for months, so that punitive and corrective measures can be implemented against the intermediary networks that are the source of the problem, however people keep brushing him off and blaming SE for a situation that is outside of their control.

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This does have a lot of lag-like things going on (delay, repeat actions, etc), but I don't think lag causes auto-attacks to override moves and cancel them, and in a very specific case with my MNK, if I use Perfect Balance and it happens as I activate it, I don't get the Perfect Balance effect at all and it still goes on GCD; with magic classes when casting if I try to start casting another spell too fast it'll sometimes just get "interrupted" repeatedly until I leave it for a second, sometimes it will just do that even if I don't try to cast again too fast.

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The lag itself occurs because the route is pressently congested and data is slowly moving through

That the action appears to be ignored or overridden by auto-attack is because the route is actually dropping data sent/recieved to/from the SE servers, so it is never acknowledged on the servers end that an ability was used.

My controller has actually gotten worse (Xbox for PC) since the fix, and my character switches from walking to running spasmically. I have to try to catch it in run phase and then use autorun, that seems to work but it still VERY irritating. I also noticed CRAZY lag yesterday in dungeons, worse than ive seen in a long time.

Does anyone else character slightly move to the left while playing melee DPS?

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Originally Posted by Yukonjack

My controller has actually gotten worse (Xbox for PC) since the fix, and my character switches from walking to running spasmically. I have to try to catch it in run phase and then use autorun, that seems to work but it still VERY irritating. I also noticed CRAZY lag yesterday in dungeons, worse than ive seen in a long time.

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The same thing is happening to me.

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Originally Posted by Yukonjack

My controller has actually gotten worse (Xbox for PC) since the fix, and my character switches from walking to running spasmically. I have to try to catch it in run phase and then use autorun, that seems to work but it still VERY irritating. I also noticed CRAZY lag yesterday in dungeons, worse than ive seen in a long time.

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This has been happening to me alot.
Randomly, I'll start spazzing out and running/walking in one direction, and it's really screwed me up more than once.

Happening to me as well, it's really annoying. I just came back to the game after about 6 months of a break and my character is now spastic, figures. lol

I had an issue on my PS3 control wherey character would keep running right, started during the middle of a Shiva EX fight, people thought I was acting crazy... So know how you guys feel, hope it gets sorted!!

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Originally Posted by TheodoreMcIntyre

This has been happening to me alot.
Randomly, I'll start spazzing out and running/walking in one direction, and it's really screwed me up more than once.

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Oh so it's not just me. Thought for a moment something was wrong with my controller.

Basically this happens on two of my characters (each focusing on Melee and Range respectively) Occasionally the character would either walk or run into a specific direction either momentarily or until I touch the stick (Yesterday it was to the right, now back/towards the camera).

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I'm gonna bump this because now I'm having even more controller issues.
This wasn't a problem until 2.45, and is something exclusive to XIV, so it's not my controller.
Right now whenever I try to run forwards, I'll spaz out and start walking instead, and the problem will persist for a couple of seconds before going back to normal.
This is pretty much entirely random, and there doesn't seem to be any specific thing causing it.

since a patch i think last week or the week before its worse then ever... Every few patches I have this problem and then another patch fixes it. its not my controller or my connection. I have np on other games but right now I can be in the middle of coils or anything and my camera randomly spins me in a circle.. or i start autorunning to walls in t9 and cant stop it.. this is horribly unplayable like this and ive seen the computer beside me do the -same- thing on xiv at the same time, or when i went to visit family and we were skype talking it happened at the same time from two different locations. this literally makes you look like a fool in end game and is making my progress and farming nearly impossible atm.. Please fix :(

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Originally Posted by Dilu_Bakari

Does anyone else character slightly move to the left while playing melee DPS?

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Me. The camera also keeps spinning making any sort of precision control untenable.

I thought it was a defective controller since it was new, but the two replacements did the same.. with this game only.

Edit: This has gotten really bad in my game, I had to quit. Controller keeps pulling left and won't stop spinning the camera. So it's both player and camera controls that are walked. Completely unable to coordinate MP.

Since this morning ( 2.51 ) : my gamepad ( xbox360) can't stop passing from port 1 to number 2 ( on the litle green X on the pad) , and my char sometimes move on it's own... taking long second before i can control it again.

I checked my gamepad on other game , and it is fini on those one , only FFXIV control seems bugged atm.

In the last 2 days, playing on PS4 when holding the R2 button during combat my character moves slightly to left without any input from the left stick. If I hold down the R2 again, the character will walk to the left. It's annoying and hope this problem is solved soon.

My friend and I play on PS4. Both use the PS4 controller. Ever since we came back and started playing awhile after 2.5 was released (we left shortly after 2.4 was released) we have noticed a serious glitch in our characters' movements. Namely, whenever we try and run forward. Or using the "up" motion on our joystick. Every other direction works fine. Moving up is the only issue. When we try to move in that direction, our characters will either walk, not move at all, or alternate between the two. In the rare instances that moving up allows us to run, we hit the auto run button asap, but this is still incredibly annoying. Please fix this.

I have noticed this momentary glitch also on my PS4. It is annoying.