Mudra's seem sluggish?

[Nyteryze]

Just so we don't all just assume its ping related...

I live only about a 3.5 hour drive from the servers in Montreal, I have a much better internet connection than this game supposedly requires, and i still suffer from MUDRA LAG!

So in a sense people with higher ping rates should be happy, its not just you!

Just like the rest of us, i have practiced learning the timing of the ninjitsu combos, only to have that timing changed suddenly and unpredictably depending on where i am/ how many people are around me.

It's basically impossible to compensate for the unpredictable nature of the timing of this system! halp us!

[Casper]

At this point i think any 3-mudra jutsu makes me wait at least 1 sec on my GCD in an isntance, and raiton at least 0.5 seconds, and that's a minimum. I could input faster but then i risk being hit by one of those random "mudra + 0.5sec latency special delivery" and getting a bunny.

Overall, at about 3 seconds lost per minutes, its 5% of our dps that is lost to this particular problem when in dungeon compared to on the dummy. That's... pretty huge.

I really hope they notice and fix this, so here's my help keeping the thread alive

[electricblues42]

Having the same problem. The problem is that it can be a .5 skill like it's supposed to be, or a .75 or even more depending on how badly the servers hate you at the moment. So so so so annoying. I've started saving Kassatsu just for when the servers screw me over. Better having my Huton than getting an extra 1k Raiton :/

[Bishop81]

Leveling NIN in my spare time, noticed this too.

The amount of time it takes for the mudras to register varies a bit.

Maybe they should do it client side, i.e. only send the mudras after Ninjitsu is hit, then send them all at once.

PS: They should do this for Swiftcast too - another ability that doesn't do anything by itself but modify the ability following it.

[Zamii]

Leveling NIN in my spare time, noticed this too.

The amount of time it takes for the mudras to register varies a bit.

Maybe they should do it client side, i.e. only send the mudras after Ninjitsu is hit, then send them all at once.

PS: They should do this for Swiftcast too - another ability that doesn't do anything by itself but modify the ability following it.

i thought the exact same thing, its not like it would be difficult to do either, but yet SE in their brilliant wisdom cant come up with this?

[Ephier]

Added the live letter question to the first post. Please support the author by liking his post in the hope that they address this issue in the live letter!

[Kerrigen]

I'm having huge lag spikes and disconnections left and right tonight, which enabled me to experiment with Mudras in a way I've never been able to before, as when you're disconnecting from the server there is no server check and your skills fire off immediately.
Holy crap, what a night and day difference this makes. My mudras seem to come off at twice the usual speed and it's silky smooth instead of being really inconsistent.

This is with a moderate ping (<80ms) and Battleping, from Europe (yeah I know, we're getting a dedicated data center, but you have people leaving near Montreal complaining in this very thread).

The "Mudra lag issue" isn't a specific one, I'm pretty sure it's just a very noticeable instance of bad netcode. There's no doubt this game is a success and we're paying a monthly fee for it (on top of microtransactions and a paid expansion to be), it's a bit of a shame we still have so many netcode/server issues almost one year and a half after launch.

[Aiurily]

I'm having huge lag spikes and disconnections left and right tonight, which enabled me to experiment with Mudras in a way I've never been able to before, as when you're disconnecting from the server there is no server check and your skills fire off immediately.
Holy crap, what a night and day difference this makes. My mudras seem to come off at twice the usual speed and it's silky smooth instead of being really inconsistent.

This is with a moderate ping (<80ms) and Battleping, from Europe (yeah I know, we're getting a dedicated data center, but you have people leaving near Montreal complaining in this very thread).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mikm55pAet0&t=12s

yep

[Kerrigen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mikm55pAet0&t=12s

yep

Seriously, my mudras did literally the same when that happened to me, I was shocked that I wasn't usually experiencing animation lock but just... lag.

As for YoshiP's dismissive response during the latest Live Letter, I'm sorry if I'm being blunt but I found it a little bit insulting. They can do better than that. It's their job, not ours to deal with it.

[yillin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mikm55pAet0&t=12s

yep

Gosh, the ones you do in the beginning aren't even that fast for me. Mine are even more sluggish.