The lag in frontlines is terrible since the new update

[Mawlzy]

Good to see I'm not alone! But AFAIK all the NA servers are on the west coast.. even though the character login screen tells me it's excellent, it's definitely a slidefest with invisible enemies in the beginning of a match. Eventually it might even out but it seems like having more than maybe six or eight characters on screen at a time really mucks things up. I also have effects turned off but that's more for my sight than anything else!

I had this problem about 6 months ago. The first FL match of the day sometimes even I would disappear, and while I'm told I'm not very good at FL, this made me worse.

Then that PC died and I got a new one with a larger drive and decent GeForce graphics card and the problem went away. The only time I have any issues is when my upload speed goes to hell, which is fixed by a modem reboot.

Bottom line, I suspect 72 players in an instance is one of the most demanding bits of content on PC specs.

[IDontPetLalas]

I had this problem about 6 months ago. The first FL match of the day sometimes even I would disappear, and while I'm told I'm not very good at FL, this made me worse.

Then that PC died and I got a new one with a larger drive and decent GeForce graphics card and the problem went away. The only time I have any issues is when my upload speed goes to hell, which is fixed by a modem reboot.

Bottom line, I suspect 72 players in an instance is one of the most demanding bits of content on PC specs.

Somehow other games like Aion are able to handles sieges with hundreds of players on-screen at once. It did happen years ago that I had issues when I think we exceeded something like 600 or so players in one location, with all of their battle effects, but in years of playing, in any game, I have never experienced dying due to invisible enemies at the beginning of a match when there are only around 30 or so players as I do once in a while here. Not in GW2, not even SWTOR , even then we would get a slideshow years ago, but at least I could see my enemies. This is the worst I've seen when it does occur.

[LibitIncarne]

Bottom line, I suspect 72 players in an instance is one of the most demanding bits of content on PC specs.

And now with the graphics update, it's even more demanding. If there were only 24 players (Like in an Alliance Raid, or how it used to be in Frontline) it'd be fine.