Thread: .3 Second Positional Update Delay (Requesting Dev Response)

one thing missing in the explanation is players screens show the cast bar and tells late. making it look at the players perspective that they have indeed beaten the clock so to speak.

being halfway across a fight area from the red marker and then getting hit is not only frustrating its obviously a problem that has nothing to do with a players skill or ability to react in time to the tell and cast bar.

In that other thread I and others have been wanting a response if only to let us know if this will EVER be fixed or looked into or if it will be left "as is". I don't think a new thread will make any difference and I wouldn't be surprised and closed this one and told you to go to the other one. I seem to recall them doing that at one point. You never know thought, any response and I don't care which thread about this would be great.

I really want to know if the game will forever follow this mechanic here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA2fWflHEmo or if we will get better more "normal" mmorpg dodging.

I concur with the OP and for the record we need to keep beating SE over the head on this until it's fixed. I'm sorry but there isn't any excuse for it in this day and age ESPECIALLY if we are PAYING for the servers on a monthly basis. I have seen F2P games have better and more accurate netcode than this game, so seriously please SE figure something out.

The fundamental problem is that SE chose to put in battle-mechanics which are fine for off-line FPS 'twitch' games into an MMO with all the issues the OP goes into.

GW2's 'dodge' mechanic works because it requires a single button-press to indicate you moved, so only a single client/server interaction is needed to register whether you were quick enough or not.

It's not ideal and frankly I think SE has gone way overboard of the 'get out of the red' to the point where many I know hate playing melee classes, but if SE insist on doing it they need to adopt a GW2-like mechanic that is largely (if not entirely) protected from latency/server-lag problems.

I really don't mind a challenge or a game that requires super fast reaction time at all, but when the entire game's fight mechanics are based on that and the server/client can't update your position in time because of lag / latency / whatever then sorry .. your game is BROKEN.

This needs to stay near the top.

I've put in other threads before, but this is game-breaking and no other MMO I've played has this problem.

I probably won't get driven away, but others certainly will. SE, this is dire. Please fix.

Or at least acknowledge it!

The delay will lead to loss of subs. I personally dont have an issue with this but ive seen videos that titan will slam the ground and the person would shoot off the edge 10 seconds later from the ability. THat would make me rage quit almost instantly.

Just imagine the uproar if a shooter had this much lag.

But w/e, I believe they already said this is working as intended and they have no plans to even look into it.

Best solution is to move right next door to where the servers are being hosted. LOL!