input delay kills the game

[Dzian]

Who cares when someone else sees your character at a given place? What is important is when the server sees you at this place.

That can get annoying. Can't tell you how many times I've tried to spread with various circle aoe only for everyone to follow me. But on there screens I'm following them.

Steph ex green puddles for example. So many times does it look like everyone one is following me but as I said on there screens I'm following them.

However this is a latency thing. And much like the ops complaints they are not related to input delay or input lag. They are just general latency issues.

[Sylvain]

I don't see then fixing this issue anytime soon. It would require quite some work. Which sucks because it is one of the few things this game actually suffer. Its basically a modern mmo with a poor and badly designed coding which makes many things look clunky.

The position is a great example. It is not normal that a recent game suffer from such an insane lag input. Even wow vanilla didn't have this kind of struggles. I have rarely seen people moonwalk in wow, even with my old connexion. In FF its this opposite. Ibrarely see someone not moonwalking.

[Eclipsed]

Was just thinking about this, this weekend. It is so frustrating and is what makes it impossible to take this MMO seriously. I have been playing MMO's since 1999 and have raided at a high level in every major AAA release since then. Now I am not saying I am some leet world class player or anything, but I have always been considered above average by my peers at any role I have ever played in them. And avoiding mechanics has never been a problem for me. I have never been the guy who stood in fire, or failed to move, etc... But the number of times I get hit by mechanics here, when on my side I avoided them by a mile, is just ridiculous.

[Pence]

Was just thinking about this, this weekend. It is so frustrating and is what makes it impossible to take this MMO seriously. I have been playing MMO's since 1999 and have raided at a high level in every major AAA release since then. Now I am not saying I am some leet world class player or anything, but I have always been considered above average by my peers at any role I have ever played in them. And avoiding mechanics has never been a problem for me. I have never been the guy who stood in fire, or failed to move, etc... But the number of times I get hit by mechanics here, when on my side I avoided them by a mile, is just ridiculous.

Maybe you just need more practice? I'm doing it as 230ms perfectly fine

[Eclipsed]

Not saying that practice doesn't help, but you are fighting the system not the boss here. I can go to any other MMO in existence and play a fight I have never seen before and avoid AOEs all day long and never get hit. Because other games prioritize functionality over looks. In other games when you are out of the circle, you are out of the circle. We all know it exists, don't pretend that it doesn't. Just because you are ok with mastering a broken system, doesn't mean that the system isn't broken. Sure I've trained myself to be even more careful and move pre-emptively too when possible, but that is still in itself just proof of how flawed this game is compared to others.

[Besame]

I am glad I read this link because on a few encounters, Titan was always one, I have seen myself way clear of the knockback and still got punted. My pc is optimized and connection excellent. never had this issue playing Wow, SWtOR, Wildstar or any other game but this one. Now I do not feel like a spaz...bless you hehe.

[Sylvain]

Im gonna support éclipses hère.
Just yesterday I was doing susano.
when dodge the water puddle after the rocks. I went to the other side of the arena and ended up dying in the middle of it because the game considered I was still in it. We are talking a good 3 ley line diameter away from the puddle boundary which the game didn't record. I'm not even talking about weaving skills too fast and ending up loosing cards and getting no buffs.
People can call lag or wathever, but I don't suffer something remotely close in any other game no matter which server I pick.

Ff14 with 50ms is actually more clunky, lag wise, than wow with 400-500ms, and I've raided every WoW end game from BC to Cata so I know what dodging a telegraph is.

[Sylvain]

In ff14 its simple, you virtually have no time, as soon as it pops you need to move. Even if you'd technically have a good 1-1.5sec before the aoe animation actually triggers, the game always consider you late.
Weaving is also a good example, if you press awiftcast and a spell right after you start casting the spell. You actually need to wait 0.5sec for the end of the animation. Which somewhat defeats the purpose of emergency cast.

[Clicked]

This single issue is why I've quit the game twice. The rest of the game is so great that I'm back again, but I'm not going to be doing any content that requires fast reflexes. The client-server situation is abysmal in this game. Even worse than budget F2P MMOs.

[bebop_bo]

2nd this, alot of times (im a WHM) i cast instas.. yet target dies & my insta is on CD. Reason why a healer has insta heals is its the "oh shit" button. So it should be just that... insta! but it aint & its frustrating as fook when it then goes on CD. Very bad system.