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    How is SE addressing latency issues? (or are they?)

    I'm sure many people have complained about this, but I've searched and haven't found a response from SE about it. It seems even US players - which is the largest player base, I suppose -, have issues with latency due to the way the servers process the inputs. Now if we look at someone playing even farther from the server, like South America or Oceania, we have this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5g4TM1fkCg

    We take that to end-game content and it becomes unplayable (or hella frustrating, to the least).

    Could someone please link me to a post where a SE staff member addresses this issue, if there's one?
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    Oh look, I pay for a sub since I stopped playing during the head start, thinking the game would run better now. It's not. Great. $15 down the drain. Thanks SE.
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    the game run excellent on my end, 100% satisfy with SE sever management, not trolling either. seems SE gets blame alot so good feedback from me
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    Quote Originally Posted by ValkyrieL View Post
    the game run excellent on my end, 100% satisfy with SE sever management, not trolling either. seems SE gets blame alot so good feedback from me
    From all reports it seems that a majority of the lag issues come from bad routing through the Level3 backbone.
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    YoshiP did say they are changing the way the game calculates your character's position from a circle to a singular point from the middle of your character. That should alleviate some issues regarding narrow misses against telegraphed abilities come 2.2.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Malzian View Post
    From all reports it seems that a majority of the lag issues come from bad routing through the Level3 backbone.
    ^this. 100x this.

    I have done a lot of digging around as I suddenly started having large lag spikes and missed packets (also causing me to DC) at very regular intervals post December update. There are forum posts all over the internet on various sites about this, I haven't seen an SE representative responding to any though. The majority of people experiencing these issues seem to experience a large improvement using a routing service (which can bypass said Level3 backbone).
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    Quote Originally Posted by xrid View Post
    How is SE addressing latency issues? (or are they?)
    What latency issues do you think SE have to address? I'm playing from Britain and have no 'latency' problems and my 'ping' time is larger than yours.
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    Quote Originally Posted by xrid View Post
    I'm sure many people have complained about this, but I've searched and haven't found a response from SE about it. It seems even US players - which is the largest player base, I suppose -, have issues with latency due to the way the servers process the inputs. Now if we look at someone playing even farther from the server, like South America or Oceania, we have this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5g4TM1fkCg

    We take that to end-game content and it becomes unplayable (or hella frustrating, to the least).

    Could someone please link me to a post where a SE staff member addresses this issue, if there's one?
    One of my FC members is playing from Uruguay.
    I don't know if he's tried the Primal Extremes or Turn 5, but everything else he's been able to clear.
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    Quote Originally Posted by serow081 View Post
    YoshiP did say they are changing the way the game calculates your character's position from a circle to a singular point from the middle of your character. That should alleviate some issues regarding narrow misses against telegraphed abilities come 2.2.
    Wow, that's good news! Would you mind posting the link, please?

    Quote Originally Posted by Aziraphael View Post
    I have done a lot of digging around as I suddenly started having large lag spikes and missed packets (also causing me to DC) at very regular intervals post December update. There are forum posts all over the internet on various sites about this, I haven't seen an SE representative responding to any though. The majority of people experiencing these issues seem to experience a large improvement using a routing service (which can bypass said Level3 backbone).
    Hmm, I think the problems are different. In high latency this delay is constant, they're not spikes. I'm aware there will always be latency, because the data gotta travel, after all, but these kind of things can't happen. Not this often (a.k.a. always), at least.

    Quote Originally Posted by KraggyKor View Post
    What latency issues do you think SE have to address? I'm playing from Britain and have no 'latency' problems and my 'ping' time is larger than yours.
    They one shown in the video. In my opinion, if they want to process movement server-side, they got to be able so the game is still playable.
    And probably not, I'm almost twice as far from NA servers than you.

    Quote Originally Posted by Nekodar View Post
    One of my FC members is playing from Uruguay.
    I don't know if he's tried the Primal Extremes or Turn 5, but everything else he's been able to clear.
    It's exactly the Primal Extremes that I'm worried. I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just way harder than it's supposed to be.
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    For reference, I've noticed experiencing a LOT of improvement regarding this issue. I don't know if it was some server side maintenance (found nothing on change logs) or routing improvements, butthe game somehow got way more playable.
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