Problems with party members disappearing for Ps3 users

Hello, this is a post to bring more attention to a bug for ps3 users wherein party members will randomly become stuck in place on their interface, or disappear entirely making them impossible to heal or interact with. My girlfriend experiences this issue often, and as a healer it is disruptive and often disastrous for our group during dungeons. She has submitted a ticket for the issue, but I understand it has been present since beta and is quite widespread among ps3 users. So I would like to continue bringing this into the light so it will be taken seriously, as it will affect us all if a party member experiences this problem during a dungeon.

Please post you're experiences with this issue in thread and submit a detailed ticket to the bug report forum so we can have this resolved.

Thank you.

Same thing happened to someone in DF. I think in order to reappear again that person has to die. That's what our Tank did when he no one can see him. He just ran straight to a mob, killed himself, and then showed up again.

Returning and dying sometimes works, but not always. At one point she had to completely reset her ps3, that is the only sure band-aid fix I have seen.

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Yup its common among Ps3 (a ps3 user myself) but I have run into a couple of pc users who experienced the same thing. Basically the game just freezes and your character is stuck but you can still access menus, move cameras and what not and in some cases can even log out. Its mostly a network issue on SE's side and a combination of lag spiking and the game not recovering from it; hence you're frozen. A work-around is just to force quit by pressing the PS button and quitting the game. Also for me, this never happened until the 2.05 hotfix.

It has happened to me several times when my internet connection is not working very well due to an overuse of my flatmates! When I am the only one connected to internet the game works perfectly for me.

Has happened to me on PC several times as well but it's only ever during Duty Finder instances and in fact it's always happened during Castrum Meridianum or The Praetorium. Had it happen a few times in 1.0 during Ifrit as well though.

Yup happens to me a lot as well(PS3 user) and it's really bad/annoying when you're a healer :(! I always pray that they don't get hit or at least my fairy can heal them until they show up again on my screen lol. But the only way I seem to fix it is re-logging or getting the person who is stuck to re-log, though when you're using DF that said person will probably not do it for you xD.

On a related note, do any of you have any latency issues? I notice my GF has a lot of trouble dodging AOEs, and she swears up and down she got out of the target zones on time. So I just wonder if these two issues could have the same source.

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On a related note, do any of you have any latency issues? I notice my GF has a lot of trouble dodging AOEs, and she swears up and down she got out of the target zones on time. So I just wonder if these two issues could have the same source.

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Not really, I rarely get any of the common variety lag (slowdowns, latency, etc). For me its either I freeze dc or 90k and yes its very annoying as I am a tank. Although one time I did dc and was still able to talk to the people in my party. They said that there is a dc icon by my name which is weird cause I was still able to attack the boss in ak but no dmg would register other than my auto attacks which were out of sync, so basically I was in limbo. Funny enough they killed it from 50% without stealing hate. Afterwards we joked about afk corner tanking ftw lol. But seriously this needs to be fixed.

There seem to be many issues with the ps3 version of the game. Like party members disappearing while standing right next to you. And fates being almost not worth doing during prime play times since if more than 15 people are doing them, enemies will be dead before they even spawn in. Another thing i noticed, i'll be standing in the city and everyone will be loaded, but once a new person runs in my view, it drops everything. Everyone that was loaded just disappears then slowly loads in again. Not sure if it's just a horrible engine, or just the way they coded the game for ps3, but it sucks. Not very likely to even get any devs to comment on anything for the ps3, we're like third class citizens around here. :(

Happened to me the other day first I seen him just standing where we had finished some mobs in AK then close the the first boss I could not target him to heal him. I restarted to fix it.

This happens EVERY run for me.

Either a enemy gets stuck or a party member gets stuck.

What do I usually do? If I'm a tank, I do nothing. If I'm a healer and its a party member that is stuck, I use return.

With this particular issue, it's never a matter of *if* it happens to me when I play, but when.

Honestly, it's part of the reason I haven't logged on in awhile(except for one time to do the Halloweenie event). :<

This happens to my quite frequently too. I'm a healer and tanks will often just totally disappear or just freeze in place. I relog but that only works for a few mins before it happens again.

Just thought I'd add my 2 gil: It's not exclusively a PS3 issue. I've experienced it in CM, Praetorium and HM Garuda (from what I can remember off the top of my head), and I play on PC.

I had this happen to me a few times, and at one point it was Eos that froze on place!
We had moved half way across a zone, and despite my partner's PC reading her as diligently following me, she showed on my end as being in the same spot as I had placed her durinh a FATE. No amount of "Heeling" brought her back to me, either.

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Hello, this is a post to bring more attention to a bug for ps3 users wherein party members will randomly become stuck in place on their interface, or disappear entirely making them impossible to heal or interact with.

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I dont think the issue is solely for PS3 users. There are instances where Bosses disappear (Garuda) for PC users. Namely me. Every now and then she disappears from the screen completely. Especially during the clone phase

and FYI i was the Main Tank....

My wife (this is her taru btw) had this during Garuda HM the other day. I froze in place on her screen and she couldn't heal me or anything. Thankfully I'm a DRG though and I was actually able to force fix myself somehow for her using Spineshatter Dive. It also happened to the WHM in my TUrn 2 group last night which was annoying because it was the tank whose position wasn't updating for the WHM. WHM was forced to reset after we wiped to ADS.

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Have never seen it myself on PS3, but i've had people in my party say "is <soandso> afk? hes not moving on my screen" when the person is right next to me doing stuff.

It's happened to me in AK, Titan, and Coil Turn 2.

Happens to me on PS3 as well. VERY ANNOYING and most of the time its the tank thats invisible. Healing an invisible tank is impossible. (Medica and AoE heals will still get him but meh.)

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It's happened to me in AK, Titan, and Coil Turn 2.

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Exactly the same as me. Not a problem anywhere else besides these 3 places.

Same, PS3 player here and it happens to me sometimes in Garuda HM and Titan HM ( Titan more than Garuda ).

Every time it happened, it was after a wipe.
I also ( but rarely ) get "desync'd" with one or more party members in these 2 fights.
The most recent time was a Tank in Titan after a wipe who was standing still on my screen even though he was actually tanking Titan on the other side.
It was funny because in P5 he was floating in the air. because of the arena being reduced. :D

add me too this list.. happens all the time.

This happens to me all the time. I often cannot see where one of the other members are, but I can see their attacks or their pets. Sometimes I can see them on the map moving, but not on the screen. I just tell them I can't see them and watch the aggro bars.

It also happens with mobs, I know they are there because they are attacking me and I can see their AoE on the ground, but they will either be invisible or in another location on my screen. That's really annoying because the only way for me to attack them is to flash, hope I pull aggro, and maybe heal someone until the mob is killed by DPS.

Dodging can be a challenge. I have been completely clear of landslide by what I think is a large margin, down I go.

Anyway. Welcome to the game!

It is as Araye described. It has happened on every dungeon to me, on almost every single run.

I never saw this during beta. The first time I noticed this was after they fixed the login errors in September.

This has happened to me as well. At first I thought a member left us, but later he re-appeared and our other two members disappeared. It's hard to know where everyone is in the dungeon when they just vanish - even from the map.

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PS3 user here, I've never seen this happen to me outside of FATES.

I don't have any latency issues (I know I'm blessed or just lucky or something.) I was kind of scared of hearing about the latency issues some PS3 users were starting to have at endgame and was afraid I'd have them, thankfully only issue period I have on PS3 is trying to do FATES in prime time. But I have seen this happen to friends and other people I've partied with both on PC and PS3. It's like all of their actions get delayed, or they freeze and seem afk, or their characters act all glitchy.

This happened to me as a PS3 user in Beta, in Copperbell and Tam-Tara.
It also happens to me in CM.

As I also get very bad latency during peak times, and my only option is PS3 at this time, I am too scared to try Titan HM. Sometimes, even Wanderer's Palace has the tank stuck at the start for me, and I can never dodge the Goobbue's ranged attacks there, even though I clearly ran out of the way on my screen.

I play as WHM, so I have decided to continue working on crafts and solo play in the meantime, which is a little sad :(

yeah, I had the issue when I played on PS3 and as a healer, it IS a big issue
usually need to "return" once and that fixes it

My brother used to get this all the time on the PS3. Changed over to wired connection rather than wireless and it cleared it up for him. Worth trying a wired connection.

Had this happen earlier tonight while helping a FC member with dungeon. I couldn't see or select our Tank, thankfully I wasn't rolling a healer.
I assume it's a lag issue?

I tend to believe it is an error with the positional checks. It seems to happen when the party is standing still for too long or after cutscenes. It worries me because SE seems to be very hush hush about this issue. I have not seen them refer to or address this directly (correct me if I'm wrong.) It leads me to believe that this might be a permanent issue that cannot be resolved (thus they will not openly remark upon it.) It gets more and more disruptive as we progress into more difficult dungeons. I am dreading Titan HM or coil at this point...

PS3 user here, and I've found that this issue only happens after lag spikes. As others have described, enemy and player positions will be locked on my screen when they are, in actuality, still moving. You can actually check your party members positions on your map when they're stuck--most of the time their blue dots are still moving. As a ranged DPS, this isn't a problem for me, but when I'm tanking or healing...oh boy does it become a pain. Nothing's worse than having a patrol freeze and you aggro something you can't see and it begins wrecking your healer.

Used to run into this very frequently. As a healer, it is game breaking!
Fortunately, I haven't had it happen in around 2 weeks or so.

Me too, is plagued with this as a PS3 user. I submitted a bug post in early september http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ngeon-instance and I was hoping it would be fixed sooner. I guess it doesnt get enough attention, so lets fire this thread !

Is clearly an instance server load issue, Im mostly encounter this on sundays, where lag spikes are more frequent. It has to be fixed.

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