Cloud Data Center Stress Test Feedback Thread (November 2023)

[Lydeck]

So, while the test is just seeing how many ppl it can handle. there was a missed opportunity with how the skips work. Instead of having them as they are now, could have made it so they were useable from character select screen so you dont get logged out everytime you use one and have to wait to login.

The counter to this is having people pop in and out of the game and hit the queue more often literally stresses that system to test it.

As far as the actual experience in game for me goes, I'm on the East Coast and this morning the game is very laggy on the Cloud servers. Every 3-4 seconds I get a hiccup/momentary freeze. I assumed this was just part of the experience testing this but I don't see anyone else with that problem?

I popped back into the regular servers on my origin of Crystal and did not experience the same issue, so this is isolated to the Cloud servers for me.


EDIT: Steam was downloading, actually. Connection upon later attempt is actually quite nice, with no lag issues.

[Ravenblade1979]

The counter to this is having people pop in and out of the game and hit the queue more often literally stresses that system to test it.

As far as the actual experience in game for me goes, I'm on the East Coast and this morning the game is very laggy on the Cloud servers. Every 3-4 seconds I get a hiccup/momentary freeze. I assumed this was just part of the experience testing this but I don't see anyone else with that problem?

I popped back into the regular servers on my origin of Crystal and did not experience the same issue, so this is isolated to the Cloud servers for me.

popping in and out really only test the login. thats not what this about. we get queues on the regular servers. this about testing in game and this slows down said test as ppl gotta bounce in and out to apply these. again, a missed opportunity to change how they work.

[catboykit]

I am located in the US Midwest and have a gigabit connection. I generally have a good experience playing the game, and only ever have mild problems with lag when the servers are very busy. The only potential source of issues is that I play behind very heavy NAT (to sum up what this means: I share an IPv4 address with a lot of people and IPv6 is not available through my ISP).

Unfortunately, I ran into some issues with the cloud test server. I tried to run a dungeon (Amaurot) as AST with Duty Support and consistently experienced an issue in which I could not cast spells on an enemy that was right next to me, with the message "Target out of range". While I would sometimes be able to cast, once the issue struck it would take quite a bit of moving around for me to be able to cast again. I tried going into the duty three different times and it happened every single time.

There weren't any other apparent signs of lag (for example, I wasn't taking damage from AOEs I had just left) outside of being unable to cast spells, but that could've just been good luck. (ETA: realized this might help narrow it down; Draw/Play were also working OK even while I was having this issue)

[catboykit]

I am located in the US Midwest and have a gigabit connection. I generally have a good experience playing the game, and only ever have mild problems with lag when the servers are very busy. The only potential source of issues is that I play behind very heavy NAT (to sum up what this means: I share an IPv4 address with a lot of people and IPv6 is not available through my ISP).

Unfortunately, I ran into some issues with the cloud test server. I tried to run a dungeon (Amaurot) as AST with Duty Support and consistently experienced an issue in which I could not cast spells on an enemy that was right next to me, with the message "Target out of range". While I would sometimes be able to cast, once the issue struck it would take quite a bit of moving around for me to be able to cast again. I tried going into the duty three different times and it happened every single time.

There weren't any other apparent signs of lag (for example, I wasn't taking damage from AOEs I had just left) outside of being unable to cast spells, but that could've just been good luck. (ETA: realized this might help narrow it down; Draw/Play were also working OK even while I was having this issue)

I went ahead and got a clip on Discord of what is happening; hopefully it is helpful.

[Vajo]

I was in the Golden Saucer playing Lord Verminion on Cloud2 when my game crashed and froze my Steam completely.

I solved the issue by force closing steam and restarting the game.

Not sure if it's a "just me" issue but I went ahead and took a screenshot of my error codes just in case. This hasn't ever happened on normal servers for me.

I am playing on Windows 11 Alienware R13, running steam, chrome, excel, and discord voice chat in the background.



Cheers!

[LenaTayuun]

East coast Primal player here. So far cloud 01 seemed buttery smooth, better than normal. A really crowded Limsa main square loaded almost instantly whereas on Primal it takes a few seconds. In the duty I did, ping seemed really nice, though I don't know of a way to measure it except feeling, and in that realm everything was really responsive. Overall I think I'd rate the experience as better than being on Primal. I'll need to work up the courage to do the Fall Guys event on that character to test it some more!

[UltraViol2t]

Hey fellow WoLs!

As the title implies, i'm currently living in Florida AND i play on PS5. i never had noticeable ping issues when i originally started playing FF14 on PS4 while living in San Diego while connected to the Primal DC back in 2018. shortly after moving to FLorida and getting into raiding i moved my main character to Aether DC.

The announcement that the Cloud DC servers were going to be located on the East Coast is very exciting news to me but unfortunately upon creating a test character on Cloud Test 02 server and reading the books for GNB, MCH, and MNK (all my favorite high APM jobs) and testing their kits on striking dummies, i genuinely don't feel any difference in terms of latency and i'm still hard clipping on double weaves between GCDs.

I sent a few shout chats in Limsa Lominsa and people from Canada and EU claimed they have noticeably better latency/ping and i just can't seem to relate. For context, i live in an area where the only ISPs are AT&T and Comcast and they have literally zero fiber internet infrastructure here.

Does anyone know how i would go about testing my latency/ping to Cloud DC on PS5? Any reasonable advice that doesn't require me investing in a PC setup? or am i just doomed to play low APM jobs that dont have alot of oGCDs to avoid clipping?

[greed_]

It feels so much more responsive than the normal NA DCs! Quite literally night and day. I'm not super tech savvy, but I hope they get rolled out soon, whether it be as a DC, or simply used in the current DCs.

[Desera]

I'm noticing that I can't seem to click the quest dialog and have it move to the next block of dialog in the same timeframe that I see in Exodus Primal. The delay isn't long but it's still noticeable. I do read all the dialog before trying to move on so I'm not skipping any of it.

I tried to search to see if this was reported but the search took me out of this thread. I just want to make sure it's reported.