r/ffxivdiscussion: What can Square Enix do to help fix the terrible netcode of FFXIV?

[Denji]

Just be glad you didn't have to do titan hard back in the day when it was new.

It was so bad back then that even as someone who lived like 20 minutes away from the og data centre I had to memorize the mechanics to the point of predicting them before they occurred simply because of just how much latency there was due to the tick rate. You'd be a solid 3-4 seconds (give or take a couple hundred ms) out of an aoe and it'd still consider you in it and you'd be thrown off the edge without his line aoe landing even remotely near you.

They then "improved" it at some point... I don't remember when but I think it was either before or during hw and it was just barely good enough... that said, I doubt it'll ever be fixed without a complete rework of casting tho. Slidecasting is almost a requirement nowadays.