Horrible, Sudden and Weird PS3 Lag

Hey guys, I've begun to experience some very bad/weird lag. I'll start by saying I've never lagged this badly before. Up until I logged on tonight, everything had been fine.

When I logged on, I noticed that it took quite a while longer to "load menus" up such as the FC board or my skills when I switched cross hotbars.

After that, I saw that animations for skills I use would take a good 1 or 2 seconds to actually play which was very annoying. For example, I stood on top of a branch in Larkscall (East Shroud) and used Spineshatter Dive on a Molted Ziz. I should be on the ground, right? But nope, the Ziz lost the correct amount of HP as normal, but the animation did not occur until WELL after, so far after, that the Ziz had recovered from the stun and walked up the branch - only then did the animation play.

Well, I do admit that was a severe case of this "animation lag" but the general concept persists albeit less serverely. I've never had this type of lag before so it did come as quite a shocker. However, issues with getting out of AoEs and all of the "usual problems" associated with lag are non existent.

I don't think it's a connection problem since my brother plays FFXIV in the same house and his game is absolutely fine. My internet connection on my other devices such as laptops is also working as usual.

Though I have been having some problems with my PS3 (Slim). I had to hold the reset button because it wouldn't switch off quite a few times - wondering if this has anything to do with the problem? I've also had the game crash on me a few times - a lot more since 2.1 hit.

Any idea on what I can do? Reinstall the client? Wait until the hotfix?

Thanks in advance for the help, everyone :)

P.S. Odin Server here

Bump... looks like the hotfix didn't do anything to it :/ It's really gamebreaking when I don't see animations happen until a good few seconds later. Does anyone have a fix for this?

I'm having the exact same issues as you since the 2.1 update. Horrible lag, bad frame rates that drop to below 10 fps. This game has become unplayable because of this.

Not sure if this is the right place to say this. Please direct me to the correct thread(s) if there is any. (I'm new to the forums here)

I'm actually having the same issues right now as I'm playing on my PC. Skills take much longer to go through with their animations. That also goes for the skills actually following through. Menus taking far longer to appear on my screen. I didn't have problems last night, so I'm unsure if it's my ISP or the servers. Was it because of the maintenance from the early morning hours? I'm getting slightly frustrated with this latency. Though, I am used to crappy servers and bad latency honestly. .-.

So it looks like other people are having the same issue too. I was actually worried since no one else seemed to be complaining about similar problems but if this is a (somewhat) common occurrence then I guess we can hope for a fix in tomorrow's network maintenance or sometime in the near future.

Having the same issue, has SE addressed this yet?

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