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[Aronys]

I average 200 and I now get hit by things I used to be able to dodge easy because on my screen I'm out and miles away from it, but the latency is so bad that I get hit up to 2 seconds after the attack goes out.

[DamianFatale]

I don't think servers are the issue. I think people just want to have something to complain about.

[Mature]

As a PS4 Im greatly affected by the server move. My character has the "under water" affect. It runs and move a couple of seconds after executing the command. Certain actions as a Bard are confusing when it comes to BL etc. Another way to find out if you have a laggy character is at cacpot, if I scratch the circles to reveal the numbers it takes a couple of second to reveal the figure. Another way to notice this lag is by going to the MB browse for something and once u done , the arrow mark will stay on the MB for a couple of seconds once u have moved​ away. It's not ideal and the game doesn't feel the same.

A pc player got all sorts of ways to try to fix their ping. My question is are there a ways for PS4 players to reduce lag or ping at all?

[AureliusDraconium]

Not an isp issue if a large amount of the population sees the problem on different isps on different distances, etc. All I see here is the few people commenting simply does not see the delays. It is very annoying. The support desk and FC chest is still ungodly slow too. A

It is a ISP issue tbh. My boyfriend and I live in the same city with different ISPs. Before move, FFXIV was nearly unplayable for me with 75 ms because Spectrum loves to route through the Level 3 bottleneck and cause major packet loss. Meanwhile on his end with a different isp, he has similar ping but zero packet loss. After move, he sees a uptick in ping to 100ms but he sees no change and still has zero input lag. He has always even now can load into zones in 2 seconds and experiences zero screw-ups with combos related to input lag. Meanwhile, I now experience zero packet loss but very little difference in ping (decrease to 65-68) but am finally able to not screw up my cooldowns and combos. For the longest time he thought I was making up how as Black mage main my ice abilities would never restore my mana without a good 6 second delay but he believes me now after seeing how much smoother I can play. Loading in after logging in is now instant. Something which he continues to experience despite the move and ping increase.

[Raikki]

Insulting people doesn't help your accuracy.

It's not an insult to warn people away from misinformation about "maybe they aren't really in California." As for being able to fix routing issues regardless of NTT, that's not entirely true either because of the following: NTT is not advertising that prefix externally. That means only NTT's internal routing knows how to reach it. Instead, NTT only advertises the much broader address space of 204.0.0.0/14. Assignments within that space are being used in geographically disparate locations. In order for this to work, routing to an address in that space simply tries to find the best way to get you onto NTT's network as close to you as possible. For me, this is in NYC. From there, NTT's network is responsible for getting me all the way to California.

The only thing outside of NTT's power is improving routing up to the point where you get on NTT's network. If this is where someone's issue is, then sure that can be fixed without NTT. But if your issue is in how NTT is routing you internally, then no that won't get fixed without them, and the only other recourse is to use VPN services to forcibly change where you get on their network.

None of that is to suggest a doom and gloom scenario, though. It's quite possible that things will improve for some people. There isn't really much that can be done for Europeans or South Americans, though, considering even ideal routing is going to get them fairly high latency to this location.

[SpookyGhost]

I don't think servers are the issue. I think people just want to have something to complain about.

I average 200 and I now get hit by things I used to be able to dodge easy because on my screen I'm out and miles away from it, but the latency is so bad that I get hit up to 2 seconds after the attack goes out.

You're clearly just imagining things, Aronys.

[SpookyGhost]

Sorry, slightly confused and just want to clarify: You're saying, for example, you press the analog stick to the left and it has a delay between when you pushed it and when the character moves to the left? If so that's a client-side problem, ping doesn't affect that. I'm not actually sure how you improve your ping on PS4, I remember reading somewhere that you could set up a VPN on your router but that's the only vague information I know. Hope you can sort out your problem!

[Aniond]

Wireless connection? No ps4 only supports the slower speeds. You would have to upgrade to ps4 pro or go wired.

[Mature]

Thanks to the server move to improve stability and traffic to the game, has created mixed opinions.

People has seen their latency reduce , some have seen their latency increase. (As you probably expected and tested to begin with)I think the most affected ones were EU players. When chaos data was transferred​ to EU side you were given NA players the option to transfer out for free to a NA server for free due to the fact they were gonna be the ones who were gonna suffer the most in latency being moved further away to benefit others (EU players) now the issue arrising is the other way round.

Could we , EU players get given the chance to a transfer to a EU server for free with no gil or any kind of restrictions at all?

Some of us would like to get ready for stormblood before rather than after the expansion is launched

Thanks

[Raikki]

If you're referring to how PC players use VPNs to improve their connection, you could accomplish something like that but you'd need a router with VPN (client) support.