Ifrits greatest weapon: Animation Lag

[Xenor]

using animation lock as a mechanic to add difficulty is a fairly weak move by Square Enix.

It's not like they did it intentionally. Would you rather have no new content until v2 comes out and the server issues are fixed? It's just something we'll have to live with until then, or stop playing until it's fixed. The key is knowing when to use an action or a spell so that you can move the second you see a crack appear under you. Maybe they could adjust the time given to get off the crack to compensate for the server issues but many linkshells are farming this raid now so it's not broke.

[Jinko]

It's not like they did it intentionally. Would you rather have no new content until v2 comes out and the server issues are fixed? It's just something we'll have to live with until then, or stop playing until it's fixed. The key is knowing when to use an action or a spell so that you can move the second you see a crack appear under you. Maybe they could adjust the time given to get off the crack to compensate for the server issues but many linkshells are farming this raid now so it's not broke.

No I would rather they provide content suitable for the limitations of the server.

Recently, my LS has defeated Ifrit. I must say, as cool as the fight is, it is heavily flawed and 100% needs to be fixed. This is not a fight against Ifrit, this is a fight against the game itself. When you create a system that requires you moving around a lot and timing yourself, then you need to make it where animation lag does not become an issue. You can sugar coat it all you want, but this is a system we should not have to work with. This really needs some tweaking around.

Agree, when they reduce the animation lag and remove animation lock (assuming they do) this game could have some really interesting and dynamic fights, but until those two go its just going to add a layer of fake difficulty.

[Seif]

Hold on a little longer and the lag will be fixed in about 12 months when 2.0 is done =_=

[Velhart]

Recently, my LS has defeated Ifrit. I must say, as cool as the fight is, it is heavily flawed and 100% needs to be fixed. This is not a fight against Ifrit, this is a fight against the game itself. When you create a system that requires you moving around a lot and timing yourself, then you need to make it where animation lag does not become an issue. You can sugar coat it all you want, but this is a system we should not have to work with. This really needs some tweaking around.

[Onidemon]

That infamous "animation lag" Yoshi-P likes to reference, here it is working against the player in the most important moments I'm sure everyone that has attempted the fight knows exactly what this feels like.

We'll get you soon enough Ifrit, lawls!

Ifrits Ultimate: Animation Lag

That's why they are changing the servers. It will all go away once they updated the new servers.

[Baxta]

That's why they are changing the servers. It will all go away once they updated the new servers.

Meanwhile folks, just try to put up with stuff like this!

I don't mind too much, we get by and my LS have beaten ifrit once (cudgel went to someone who could even use it! Fancy that!) but to be honest, it's hard to be motivated when the fight can, at times, be a game of russian roulette...

If I monkey it up and get caught due to animation lock then I accept it's my fault for not paying attention. It's times like this where you just look at the screen though and think "wha...?"

[Razzle]

Meanwhile folks, just try to put up with stuff like this!

this is what I'm experiencing every single battle.
I know the right pace, and the right time, but i just can not dodge due to lag. Please fix this, this game is not JP only. If you cant make the content fair international to all nations in an international server, then change or dont make this content at all.

[Bayohne]

Greetings,

We have created a sticky thread in the Technical Support forum to gather data from users who are experiencing possible issues with lag/network latency, etc. Please visit the thread and follow the steps listed so we can gather the appropriate feedback and compile it for the dev. team to investigate.

Technical Support: Feedback Request on Network Delay

[Anonymoose]

Thanks, guys! I know when the Darkhold first came out, if more than one party was already in the dungeon in another instance, the vids would be choppy and we'd randomly lose people to D/C (sometimes 2/3 at the same moment) and after that it was just chaos with the lag. A mob would start casting, we'd make it clean out of range, and still get massacred.

Glad to see we have a place to report such things now.

[ApplePie]

My latency goes from 4 R to 100+ R as soon as I step into Ifrit. Reboot servers please.