Standing out of the red, and still getting hit

[Crica]

Not having any issues getting out of any red areas in time.

I live in Texas, USA and play on Excalibur (Legacy) for reference.

Get a better ISP (if that is an option) or check your computer to see if it needs configuring or a replacement part of some sort or perhaps just learn to time your movements better?

[KimimiAvesta]

Not having any issues getting out of any red areas in time.

I live in Texas, USA and play on Excalibur (Legacy) for reference.

Get a better ISP (if that is an option) or check your computer to see if it needs configuring or a replacement part of some sort or perhaps just learn to time your movements better?

This *isn't* an ISP/internet problem - I've just checked my laptop on speedtest.net and my connection is apparently better than 94% of the planet (fibre optic broadband 71.29Mb/s download 15.83Mb/s upload). It also doesn't explain why myself and others are suffering this "lag" exclusively within FFXIV and not other MMOs or XBLA/PSN games we're playing.

Titan is a really good example of this, in particular Landslide, his straight line knockback attack. Most of the time for me by the time noticed it was being used on me, it was already too late to dodge it. If I happened to be on the edge of it targeting someone else, I could avoid it. This was with watching for cast bars and the on ground indicator which is not an easier one to see.

My "solution" was to run straight at him whenever I was targeted (normal Titan, no idea if this'd OHKO a WHM in hard) - this meant I would definitely get hit, but I'd also never get knocked off the edge. Running to the side seems like the obvious thing to do but there were too many times when I'd run waaaaayyyyy wide of the marker and *still* end up knocked off the edge :/

[Crica]

This *isn't* an ISP/internet problem - I've just checked my laptop on speedtest.net and my connection is apparently better than 94% of the planet (fibre optic broadband 71.29Mb/s download 15.83Mb/s upload). It also doesn't explain why myself and others are suffering this "lag" exclusively within FFXIV and not other MMOs or XBLA/PSN games we're playing.



My "solution" was to run straight at him whenever I was targeted (normal Titan, no idea if this'd OHKO a WHM in hard) - this meant I would definitely get hit, but I'd also never get knocked off the edge. Running to the side seems like the obvious thing to do but there were too many times when I'd run waaaaayyyyy wide of the marker and *still* end up knocked off the edge :/

It also isn't a game issue either, since many players do not have any issues getting out of the red areas in time.

[Tranx]

It also isn't a game issue either, since many players do not have any issues getting out of the red areas in time.

I don't think its that it doesn't happen, I think its more they just learned to compensate as 1.0 players did at that time just not as bad xd.

[tuseroni]

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it doesn't matter how fast your internet connection is, you are limited by the speed of light, so what then is the minimum lag from the US to japan, we will say around 6,000 miles as a good middle of the road distance.
speed of light is 186,000 miles/second so a minimum lag is 0.03seconds.of course this assumes a straight line between you and the server in actuality the message has to pass through a lot of different servers and won't likely take a direct route. and your lag is also the cumulative lag of all machines between you and the destination. a lag of 0.5-1.0seconds is pretty normal going from us to japan.
as for other games doing it better,that comes down to how much is done on the server and how much is done on the client.the more that's client side the less it needs to dial home and the less you notice lag...but also the less you need the server and the easier it is to make a free server.