Ifrits greatest weapon: Animation Lag

[Alegis]

Technical knowledge is one of the things i got enough of thank you. Why would i lie? Just so idiots would say stuff like this? the animation lag comes because it takes more of your computer than it got. The latency will almost never come in instances. Or do you lag in toto-rak to maybe?

U tell me u have enough technical knowledge (whatever u mean with "enough") and at the same time u arent even able to see the difference between lag, caused by a weak PC and the lag seen in the video?

He could play with a Supercomputer, it wont change anything if the lag is caused by server/latency.

[CSLionheart]

"CSLionheart casts Likega IV on OP."

For the love of god, please fix this. It by no means makes the fight impossible, but it certainly adds an unpleasant layer of frustration to an otherwise awesome fight.

[Vahzl]

Holy mother of creation that fight looks epic! NEED CNJ50 NOW!

Must resist watching entire video of the fight in the recommended youtube videos...

I have to say too, the weapons you get from the fight look amazing, that Bow... that.... bow.....

[Isaaru]

Animation lag makes me sad :'(

[GreatLeviathan]

well i watched the vid and don't see what lag has anything to do with getting a 102 damage hit?

[ViciousValentine]

Square Enix needs to think of the average and general player when designing their boss fights. Hardware is important but if people can run the game at a good speed they should be able to do raids. They need to ether:

A: Upgrade their server>client systems
B: Give us more time to avoid AoEs

[Nayt]

I guess it's sad that I'm getting used to this sort of lag in FFXIV.

I'm not even interested in doing a fight such as ifrit at this stage, because when what you see on your screen doesn't even remotely match what the server is reading there's not really much fun to be had

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

If you answered with, "I know a lot about technology" then followed that with, "He needs a better computer." You are an idiot.

Also, animation lag or lock has nothing to do with the computer's performance. This lock part is referring to when you use a skill or an ability and you're character becomes immobile for several seconds. During a fight where it's tactic is to move, move, and MOVE! This is a flaw in the battle system that stifles the player's progression at times to best the chaotic terrain. Of course, the way to combat this is wait for Ifrit's Eruption, move out of the way, come back THEN do your weapon skills and abilities, but that is a tactic around poor mechanics... which is not what players find super rewarding.

If the client was having some lag issues due to the lack of computer performance this would not halt the character or sap it's movements putting them into the plume. In fact, if you're running and you get hit with a large FPS drop the client eventually catches up to speed and puts you in the place that you would be as you were running during the lock up of the client. What this video shows is the character stepping out of the danger zone and the server registering him in the danger zone.

My Ifrit group have phenomenal systems, but that isn't the issue. We all get hit with environmental explosions and Ifrit dashes while our client (meaning what we see on the screen) has been moved out of harms way. It's actually a pretty huge issue. One that has been brought up several times before this patch and nothing has been done.

[TessaJalloh]

i had this same issue when doing the Level 46 story quest.

SPOILERALERT!




The damn Garlean Mech got me three times with it's cannon even though i'd moved well out of firing range when it fired on me, ended up having to just not try and fight at all, and just keep running until it had taken out all the soldiers behind me.

[Jinko]

Give us regional servers please, this issue will never be solved if someone is playing on a JP server.

Im sure people will whine up that they like to player on a international server but the problems are fairly clear, yes I know Japanese players suffer similar problems but they are just making a situation 10 times worse for overseas players.