Cloud Data Center Stress Test Feedback Thread (November 2023)

[Zenthon]

West coast player here. Ping is increased from my normal 20-30 to 85, obviously, although connection quality seems much higher with virtually no ping fluctuation.

Ran into a bug during UCoB where on one pull Nael's timeline was slightly accelerated and her dives mechanic started about 5 seconds earlier than normal. This was very reminiscent of the E4S sped-up timeline bug present in 5.0, which was caused by server malfunction as well. This only occurred once at random but was noticed by all players present, and none of us had ever seen it occur on live servers.

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

Home World: Coeurl [Crystal]
Location: West Coast [CA]
Cloudtest02

Everything is great - no issues! I have noticed a difference: I have more room for error when dodging AOEs in trials and alliance raids. I was even surprised a few times that I actually got out of something when I thought I was going to get hit. Thumps up from me!

[RaidyShady]

I'm in Florida and playing in CloudTest01 and I'm having a great experience.

[Ezlin]

This occurs on Primal or Aether as well, not a cloud issue

Good to know, thanks. None of us seemed aware that this happened on the normal servers, so it's good to learn about it.

[nazgulbane]

Overall experience has been great. I am playing from Atlanta, GA, USA and experiencing much smoother gameplay than I usually experience on Crystal DC. I attribute part of this to better ping, but it also just feels smoother - examples are that the game feels less sluggish or 'stuck' when I engage in certain actions such as unlocking minions, mounts, using fireworks, and so on. Very nice so far!

I did encounter one error:

Received lobby server error 5006 while trying to connect to Cloud Test lobby server.

Running Windows 10 PC. Ran FFXIV, clicked 'start', clicked NA cloud data center (beta) when prompted for DC, clicked 'Proceed' and confirmed, and error was received.

After error 5006, game closed out entirely when I clicked 'ok' on error. Relaunched game, completed same steps, no error received and was able to log in as expected.

Last time I played (yesterday) was also on Cloud test, with no issues, so probably just some intermittent blip.

[Kanehon]

Everything running great so far, loading times seemed faster than usual too

[CelahTenbe]

Home DC: Crystal - Malboro
Playing on: CloudTest01

I've been testing with one of my friends who lives overseas, and just the amount of joy in his voice when he's able to do things with the same ping as me is enough to really make me enjoy playing this game again. I play with a lot of friends who are from all over, from UK to Brazil and they all have found a new love for the game, which alone makes me think this is a huge success. I made my forum account specifically to post on this test.
My ping usually sits around 90ms, and with the cloud server its down to 30ms. I've seen the change most in playing SCH. My fairy skills don't lag quite as much as they do on Crystal or Aether, shields display pretty instantly and I haven't had an issue with much else. Things like PVP, dodging AOEs in Blunderville, things happen pretty immediately, instead of waiting like a second. I know when I've gotten hit its my fault. I've done Raids, Trials, dungeons and general Gold Saucer things. I want to try out an ultimate as well before this test ends. I really hope this system is rolled out to all data centers in the future.

[Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeej]

A few of us just completed DRS, no major issues to report. We had 1 disconnect but they were able to get back in quickly.

picture: https://imgur.com/a/Bjw2GL4

[Rhelir_Kh]

Homeworld: Ravana (Materia DC)
Location: Brisbane, Australia (east coast Australia)
Datacenter for Cloud Test: Cloudtest02
Connection: Fiber optic

Averaging latency of 205-220 while playing Crystalline Conflict.

Obviously noticeable delays on casting, interacting and attacking at this level of latency.

[Ansemaru]

I'm located on the east coast of the US- definitely gotten much more noticeable spikes of lag than I do on the standard NA servers from time to time. The worst it got was in a run of Rabanastre.