Red Ring of Death!

[Thriar]

Lag isn't exclusive to FFXIV, cool guy.

Oh I know. But it is seriously the worst here. This fight(I'll link something non-wow since you think everyone that has a critique of the game comes from there) would not be doable on 14's servers. You don't have to watch the whole thing but I please watch at least 2 minutes of it. I'm in this video, Tristann.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJDkeHbbL5Y

[Espon]

The problem is because the way targets are decided isn't synchronized with the enemy's attack animation. Often times people leave the danger zone right after the red area disappears, but because the attack lands 1-2 seconds later, you still end up taking damage even if you're now nowhere near where the attack lands. This makes it easy to blame it on lag from a visual stand point, when really it's just the way the game is poorly programmed.

Even in your little GIF, you can see about a one second span between when the red area disappears and when the coblyn finally uses the attack. Who gets really should be decided when the attack goes off, not when the red area disappears.

[Kikosho]

Ah yeaaaaaa.

[Sephirah]

Ah yeaaaaaa.

You can see in that gif they were standing in the landslide.. so yea. lol

[Xystic]

The truth is.... not everyone is suffering the 0.3 secs or so from the same source

I did indeed suffer the red ring of death on an older laptop running on minimum specs. Sitting side by side with 3 gaming PCs built earlier this year by my siblings, you could see the red ring of death on my laptop while they suffered nothing. After buying an up to date pc with some suggestions from the community members here I no longer suffer from the red ring of death. However, this may not be the same case for others but I would not be surprised if alot of the community members who are complaining about the red ring of death are running sub par specs.

Some have complained that, why should they have to buy a new computer for just one game. I'm not going to lie, future games will probably be even more demanding. If you don't upgrade now, you will eventually have to anyways cause games to come in the near future most likely will not be degrading but upgrading requirements.

Cheers.

[RynaultB]

Then explain why this only happens in this game and not other games?

This OP, I've played countless other games online, MMOs what have you. But this is the only game where not just latency but the communication between server and client are terrible. I can't tell you how many times I've been out or the "Red Ring of Death" and I still get hit some times LONG before the ability even went off.

Never had this kind of problem playing other MMOs, especially the F2P ones.

I play from China, lag is to be expected playing on NA servers. But when I play WoW the game runs smooth. And before anyone "White Knights" it up about "Connections" (they had these same problems back in 1.0, they should be fixed by now). "Its a new MMO, gotta give it time". Its 2013 not 2000. Technology is better, thus they should have better server hardware to be played on.

And their server coding is terrible with the built in server delay. I could care less if they put a Chocobo in the CSS on their lodestone website. I see they spent more time doing that then making the code with commuting between servers and client.

P.S. As well as the 1000 character max on a single post... terrible.

[Sunoske]

You'll need to call your ISP to troubleshoot that. Unless you feel like calling me, but I charge 9.99/min

That.... is not a bad price!

[Ri_ri]

You can see in that gif they were standing in the landslide.. so yea. lol

> flies in a 30° angle off the Landslide's direction
> obviously standing in the Landslide

Good job, you're really helping the game grow!

[Goreth]

So, I see a lot of people complaining about getting hit while outside of the red, and I just gotta say, there is something WRONG with your connection.

I know everyone complaining about it inexplicably has 5+ years in IT experience, but news flash, just because you can connect to the googles, and netflix, does not mean your internet is flawless.

There IS a delay, nobody is disputing that, but if you are out of the red when it finishes casting, you WON'T get hit. If you are, then you need to troubleshoot your connection, or get a better one.

I don't understand why people are so sanctimonious in denying an issue that even the developers acknowledged in the beta, albeit now silent about post release. Source: http://zantetsuken.net/news/yoshida-...latency-issues

If it is solely a problem with ISPs than why is instant casting to "force" an update when you are out of the indicator effective?

[Alyko]

OP, no one cares about the overworld. People are complaining about the extremely unforgiving nature of primal HMs, especially Titan, where ONE missed bomb or ONE eaten plume is almost guaranteed to wipe the PT through the domino effect. (DPS goes down, healer raises DPS, DPS can't stay alive due to -15% HP debuff, DPS dies again and is guaranteed to not survive if raised again due to 30% debuff)