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

Originally Posted by Tupsi

Actually, it's been proven the client handles way more work than it actually should - It doesn't work this way because they designed the way spells cast/interrupts quite differently from how every other MMO generally uses the same systems.

The client absolutely does less than any other client ought to in a MMORPG. When you think you got out of a Weight of the Land, only to see the damage pop up half a second after the casting is done, it's an example of the client not actually doing any work. If it was up to the client to determine whether you get hit, it'd be able to tell you whether you dodged the AE or not as soon as WotL is finished casting. This is never the case. You'll only find out if you got hit or not shortly after WotL is over, but never the moment it's done. All the client is doing is waiting for the server to tell it whether you got hit or not.

Originally Posted by Astarica

The client absolutely does less than any other client ought to in a MMORPG.

Let me put it this way - In other MMOs I wasn't able to tell the server to make me have x client side like you could in ARR, it's a very widely known exploit and why there's been a lot of hacks lately, so yeah ARR's client actually is a lot more "work heavy" than most other MMOs, which seems to be double-edged.

I get what you were saying but there's a lot of purposeful designs they did with it for reasons unknown.