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

I just did the "esuna test", and yeah. It seems like I'm one of the people who can cast esuna while running forward. While pretty neat, I don't think it is intended.... I really hope they'll answer to this issue rather quickly, since there are already two long topics and one very long topic about this very issue and all the problems it causes. For example avoiding aoe-attacks. (1 sec is pretty unforgiving,,)
(posted this on all three topics for bump)

Just a quick Repsonce. But if you go into Accepted Bugs. Then the .3 Second Delay is actually an official accepted problem.
It was a problem in original FFXIV and is still a problem in FFXIV ARR. Kinda shows you the Devs either dont know how to fix it or they just dont read the forums

As it healer, it makes end game completely unplayable for me because getting hit by AoE at HM primal level means death for the whole party. Then I get raged on because people actually think I'm letting myself get hit by AoE. Noone notices when DPS gets hit because I just rez/heal them and continue playing. But when it happens to me it's because I don't know how to play. Today I decided will not resub until this issue is resolved. Like others, I just made a short vid demonstrating the problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOyUvYJZQ3I

I've tried casting out of AoE, switching direction... you name it. If the server has determined that you are "supposed" to get hit, there's nothing you can do about it.

Originally Posted by ilitirit

As it healer, it makes end game completely unplayable for me because getting hit by AoE at HM primal level means death for the whole party. Then I get raged on because people actually think I'm letting myself get hit by AoE. Noone notices when DPS gets hit because I just rez/heal them and continue playing. But when it happens to me it's because I don't know how to play. Today I decided will not resub until this issue is resolved.

I completely agree with you. As a tank im really supposed to hold the boss in the one spot , kite him around at points and so forth.But when i move if i get targeted by some kind of AOE hit and the healer and I are having the same .3 second delay problem , well you can imagine how well the boss fight goes cant you.

Originally Posted by ilitirit

As it healer, it makes end game completely unplayable for me because getting hit by AoE at HM primal level means death for the whole party. Then I get raged on because people actually think I'm letting myself get hit by AoE. Noone notices when DPS gets hit because I just rez/heal them and continue playing. But when it happens to me it's because I don't know how to play. Today I decided will not resub until this issue is resolved.

This game is brutal on healers.

These input-delay issues just make it even more brutal for healers. We're expected to magically fix other players' mistakes while they have the attitude that it's not their fault (even though sometimes it probably is) just because this issue exists.

Originally Posted by ilitirit

As it healer, it makes end game completely unplayable for me because getting hit by AoE at HM primal level means death for the whole party. Then I get raged on because people actually think I'm letting myself get hit by AoE. Noone notices when DPS gets hit because I just rez/heal them and continue playing. But when it happens to me it's because I don't know how to play. Today I decided will not resub until this issue is resolved. Like others, I just made a short vid demonstrating the problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOyUvYJZQ3I

I've tried casting out of AoE, switching direction... you name it. If the server has determined that you are "supposed" to get hit, there's nothing you can do about it.

Great video demonstrating the issue at hand, of course the detractors will blame every hop between you and the server as the problem.

Originally Posted by Goreth

Great video demonstrating the issue at hand, of course the detractors will blame every hop between you and the server as the problem.

The amount of evidence I've seen putting the blame firmly in the hands of SE is staggering, and yet there are still people that just say "ur bad" , "ur computer sucks", "ur connection sucks". Astonishing.

Originally Posted by Undrentide

As Scholar ive got it down so i can start running towards the end of casts of spells like Succor and Adloqium and still get them to fire off. Obviously this goes the other way and i eat endless landslides and plumes in fights like Titan. Im losing faith that SE will even acknowledge this issue never mind address it.

Honestly the only way I see this will be changed is if people start spreading lies about how the ability to cast spells while running at the end of spells makes endgame totally trivial, and then SE will fix it because the lag offers players too much advantage! Of course we know being able to cheese an extra bit of distance at the end of your spells does not come close to make up getting smacked by AEs you thought you dodged, but one can try!

Originally Posted by waycool

I just did the "esuna test", and yeah. It seems like I'm one of the people who can cast esuna while running forward. While pretty neat, I don't think it is intended.... I really hope they'll answer to this issue rather quickly, since there are already two long topics and one very long topic about this very issue and all the problems it causes. For example avoiding aoe-attacks. (1 sec is pretty unforgiving,,)
(posted this on all three topics for bump)

I can finish casting mount chocobo while running (though it won't actually succeed). I really don't see how anyone can think the lag is not on server's end after seeing someone who can cast Esuna while on autorun.