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

[Fiel_Tana]

I do notice it in PvP and Chocobo racing but my ping is high. I don't really notice it when doing pve which is the majority of content in the game. Even avoiding aoes at high pings is not an issue for me. I don't have these snapshot issues other people do, so I always think that they don't understand that most things register when the cast bar completes, not when the animation completes.

I do understand how it works in FFXIV and like I've said, I've checked guides to see what I'm missing and recorded my screen to see where I went wrong and still the issue remains that the tells shown on the screen is not often what is happening. I've recorded being hit when I'd moved out of the area well before the cast bar completes for example and any spread mechanic is frustrating at best.

The animation lag does complicate things but perhaps that is a separate but equally important issue since the visual dissonance of having to watch UI not the world around the character also isn't a great experience. But like I said, even the UI at times has seemed to lag behind the actual damage and some mechanics require knowing the precise location of other players.