Maybe it's just lag!

[Keneblerz]

http://www.twitch.tv/jonny_tapas/c/3128803

Let me (hopefully) be the first to say, your really awesome. I like the fact that you took to the time to break past the limitations of your system by learning the boss in ways most players don't. I for one need to break my habit of watching the floor and look for boss choreographing. And this is coming from a person who likes PvE in dark souls lol

You could turn this into a POV guide for some players.

[Wolfhammer]

Yeah well all I know is last night I blew my choco whistle and it took 20+ secs for my mount to appear, and it was more than once.
That and FATES just stopping dead like someone hit pause for up to 30 secs, then x12 fast forward to catch up.

Oh and 90k is still here

That my friend is crap netcode. No other game I currently have on my HDD all the way back to Vanguard has this issue right now..

Its doing my head in !!

[Roris]

Having a good PC is instant proof someone is a promlg player, just look at all my full Darklight, AF+1 and Relic +1 and Titan and Coil wins. I'm glad my mom lets me and others be a hardcore PC player with all classes leveled so I can berate on others who don't on the internet, nevermind the glaring issues with the game's netcode.

[Xystic]

I would like people who are stating what they are using in their pc versus the term "High-end PC." That can give the community a better grasp at what might be causing issues. We also have to remember, just because some computer part is expensive doesn't necessarily mean it was built for gaming.

I can confirm as well that a minimum spec PC causes aoe and etc to appear slower making the game a hard-mode all day.

Unfortunately even if you don't want to buy a newer computer to just play this game, in the near future we will all need to anyways. You can already expect the next generation of MMOs to be even more demanding. We tend to forget that FF14 ARR was actually dimmed down for better performance. Imagine if it wasn't.

At first I didn't want too but now I will buy a new gaming pc as well. I already logically know, if I want to continue playing MMOs I need a better PC period.

[Jonny_Tapas]

At first I didn't want too but now I will buy a new gaming pc as well. I already logically know, if I want to continue playing MMOs I need a better PC period.

So true... "Keeping up with the Jones' " can be an expense; fortunately as games progress, hi-end components become standard components and the price point remains roughly the same. For as long as I can remember $600 gets you a PC that can try anything but won't always preform well. $1000 let's you play any game on normal settings.

My first PC was an AST advantage 286 MHz Processor with a 250 MB hard drive... It was $600 and fairly top of the line. That was 20 years ago... In 20 more years, who uses the term "Bytes" or even "Kilobytes" anymore? Our grand children playing FFXXX won't know what a "Megabyte or Gigabyte" is and anything with a wire on it will be strange to them.

[Dale]

The problem isn't people's computers from the sound of this. The problem is the mechanic itself.

Having retarded circles of dooms show up on the ground that kill people if they don't react fast enough or don't have stellar computers and internet to avoid latency has no place in an MMORPG. It was mechanics like this that drove me away from WoW. And if this is a frequent issue on this game at the end it will drive me away from this game too.

The challenge of a boss fight in a MMO Role Playing game should be how well you have invested into your character and perform your role in combat. Defining a fight's challenge by how good you are at watching the floor or how fast your computer is - that's just poor game design and I don't blame people for quitting over it. Companies need to stop trying to make their RPG's half-assed action games. They don't have the servers or the audience for it. There are far far better action games out there, and no one who is interested in that kind of gameplay is going to pick up Final Fantasy 14 so they can get the thrill of running out of stupid circles on the ground. So please stop these lazy and poorly implemented gimmicks to try and add challenge to your fights. Get back to what MMORPGs are actually suppose to be about, and that is strategic multi-player combat.

[Jonny_Tapas]

The challenge of a boss fight in a MMO Role Playing game should be how well you have invested into your character and perform your role in combat. Defining a fight's challenge by how good you are at watching the floor or how fast your computer is - that's just poor game design and I don't blame people for quitting over it. Companies need to stop trying to make their RPG's half-assed action games. ... Get back to what MMORPGs are actually suppose to be about, and that is strategic multi-player combat.

A huge statement that I can't agree with more. RPGs were turned based decision making games. Adding real time to them was cool and added a certain level of intensity that I enjoy. But you are correct. RPGs shouldn't be heavily affected by reaction time which in-turn directly relates to PC performance as displayed. Us "ole-fogies" wana play too, and we can't keep up with the youngins anymore. Relaxed intelligence should still win!

[Horg]

Good job OP, this is the first video that has actually done a good job outlining Hardware lag, which I suspect is the majority of the issue for the 120+ page long monster thread on these forums right now (Something like "SE Endgame content won't work.." blah blah)

[RVT]

Thanks for the post and video, OP. The more level-headed, reasonable players like you we have in this community, the better,

[echogame]

OP I feel for you! I'm running on the low end as well (Core 2 represent!), and in the last couple of hotfixes, I've started to get severe FPS drop when large groups of things pop up (aka Weight of the Land and Coil 4 bugs). I try to compensate for this as much as I can, but sometimes I'll still get hit. Still manage to get multiple relics and beat Coil 4 though. :]

Paying the bills comes before buying a shiny new computer. People like us have to work harder, and our FCs have to wait a little for us to load into zones, but we can still be good players!