Titan is hard because your camera isn't zoomed out, not because of server-side delays

[Sebazy]

Ask your healers to stick with medica 1/succor for the first wave or two of jumps and stomps. The tank needs to be loading up on heavy Allag/AF2 to be able to handle to enmity from medica 2 right from the first stomp. Not to mention that it's both overkill and a waste of mp!

I need to record some long pug runs, I can tell when I'm going to eat a plume and it's generally because I didn't plan ahead and just ran through someone elses plume as well as my own

[joshdavis271]

I get hit when I'm way out of the plumes sometimes, you have to move a bit before it happens, try studing the rotations and be prepared to move.

[IvoryFox]

Server lag (I know it exists) and camera aside, as a kind of sidenote to anyone having difficulty:

One of my FC buddies, while healing this fight weeks and weeks back, was dying to the plumes and landslides repeatedly. He just could not move out and couldn't understand why. I prodded him a bit and found out his connection was wireless and asked if there was any way he could get the connection wired. He did so and had quite literally ZERO problem with the fight from there on out. This happened similarly with a SMN in our FC who went through the Titan fight much later. As soon as he switched to wired, the fight became a hell of a lot easier. The server delay is just too unforgiving to stack with wireless/interference delay.

TL;DR, try switching to wired if you are having difficulty with plumes.

[Sebazy]

TL;DR, try switching to wired if you are having difficulty with plumes.

And check your TV/monitor settings and be sure you are in game mode or the like. That shaves ~50ms of latency off my TV and 30ms or so off my Dell vs sRGB emulation, I'll happily suffer the sun burn when it has such a big impact on how quickly I see stuff!

To add to the camera thing, I play pretty much out of the box settings with the standard camera and turn to face on. I've learnt to simply hop as I'm running and casting to avoid getting spun away from where I actually want to go (and potentially right back into a plume or void pitch etc!) It also has the bonus of making me think I look awesome as I jump and twirl through the air as I cast regen/aero, but then I remember I'm a lalafell and probably just look like a bouncing weeble

[LiadansWhisper]

I've never been killed by lag on Titan. Every death that I've had was 100% my own fault. I either didn't move fast enough, or made the wrong choice when I was moving out of an ability or casting a spell.

I know that people constantly say that lag is killing them, but a friend of mine put it best - "That's 'Post-Bad Decision Lag. It's an epidemic in this game!'"

Tonight I died on Titan because bombs came out and so did landslide and I had the choice of running into the bombs about to explode or running through the Landslide to the safe side. But that death was my fault. I made the wrong decision. It wasn't lag or anything else.

[viion]

I don't know how anyone, including the devs, can see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5g4T...ature=youtu.be
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg33BjzwLWw

And say "Nope, no lag, must be camera or bad player".
Both videos also demonstrate it is not even an animation sync issue.

I can dodge plumes fine but there is a major issue with how this game handles dodge stuff, its so shoddy compared to say GW2 where dodging is a big key and its pinpoint accurate.

[IvoryFox]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5g4T...ature=youtu.be
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg33BjzwLWw

And say "Nope, no lag, must be camera or bad player".
Both videos also demonstrate it is not even an animation sync issue.

I can dodge plumes fine but there is a major issue with how this game handles dodge stuff, its so shoddy compared to say GW2 where dodging is a big key and its pinpoint accurate.

Good post. I don't have delay often, but sometimes it happens and it looks exactly like that. I assume people are telling the truth when they claim lag the vast majority of the time and try to help them rectify it rather than assume everyone sucks... because let's face it - the server-client communication in this game sucks hard and is well-documented. I should be amazed at how many people stick their head in the sand because "it's not my problem", but I guess that's typical human behavior.

[Risae]

HAVE NO FEAR!

Square said that with 2.0 the lag will be GONE! They even created a specific engine just for this game! Man, i can't wait to try that one out!

[IvoryFox]

HAVE NO FEAR!

Square said that with 2.0 the lag will be GONE! They even created a specific engine just for this game! Man, i can't wait to try that one out!

Yay!

Also acceptable was "C'mon guys, it's only beta"

[joshdavis271]

nope, no lag, nothing to see here, move along...