Cloud Data Center Stress Test Feedback Thread (November 2023)

[ZiraZ]

It feels very good even though my ping is basically the same from Central, clear responsiveness improvement, able to weave jumps with other jumps with ease, activation results are instant without random delays.
MTR even shows absolute zero packet loss, current NTT servers always show a perpetual single digit packet loss.
Yet another case in the eternal never ending list of East coast doing things better than than West coast.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It feels very good even though my ping is basically the same from Central, clear responsiveness improvement, able to weave jumps with other jumps with ease, activation results are instant without random delays.
MTR even shows absolute zero packet loss, current NTT servers always show a perpetual single digit packet loss.
Yet another case in the eternal never ending list of East coast doing things better than than West coast.

You probably weren't around the last time the servers were in Montreal. The level3 node that connected the US to Canada there crapped the bed frequently around 6pm. There were tons of posts and memes about it back then.



Hopefully that node is gone now, but it's only been a day.




I was only on for a minute when the book kicked me out, but a ping of 75 isn't terrible from the west coast. I'm usually around 25 to the normal DCs. I remember Florida to Montreal being around 75 too, when I lived there.

[CrazyCanukk]

Im in Southern ,Ontario. Aside from the expected long que's once i am in its been so far flawless. Ping is about 34 - 50ms at most and butter smooth. Game is very responsive. Just another improvement on an already awesome game

[Liffina]

I'm from Eastern Canada, I live close to Montreal. So far this has been a very smooth experience. I went ahead and did some Gold Saucer stuff just to get a feel of it. Blunderville feels that much better on the cloud Data Center, there's much less of that "Hey I was out of that!" thing going on there.

A point of comparison I have is when running Leap of Faith, whenever I'm collecting a statue on Crystal, I need to stand still on it for close to a full second for it to be collected. On the Cloud Data Center, I can just run through it and I'll get it. If I had to jump to get to it, most of the time I'd collect it before even touching the ground.

I just ran a couple of dungeons to test the waters, so far I can leave an AoE pretty much at the moment the cast bar finishes filling up and I'll get away with it almost everytime. Double weaving feels great and is much more consistent here than what I'm used to, pressing buttons has an instant reaction too.

I'll keep playing here all week and see if I can find anything that feels wrong specifically on the Cloud versus regular Data Centers, but I wanted to share how I felt after a couple of hours in. So far, it feels even better than when Aether was hosted in NA East, unless I'm remembering it wrong, it has been so long since they moved it.

[Ezlin]

Server: Cloudtest01.
Time: 7:58 PM Central Time.
Location: Copied Factory, first boss.
Issue: A red sphere created during the first boss fight remained on the floor for a considerably extended period of time, until a player intentionally ran into the sphere to remove it from the arena. Confirmed via /alliance chat that all other players could see the red sphere.

[Reid_Dead]

Server: Cloudtest01.
Time: 7:58 PM Central Time.
Location: Copied Factory, first boss.
Issue: A red sphere created during the first boss fight remained on the floor for a considerably extended period of time, until a player intentionally ran into the sphere to remove it from the arena. Confirmed via /alliance chat that all other players could see the red sphere.

This occurs on Primal or Aether as well, not a cloud issue

[ShimAoki]

My experience with the cloud servers has been absolutely fantastic, I live in the UK and I get a connection of 85ms to the NA Cloud server vs the 150ms I have to the crystal data centre!

This made the game so much more playable for myself, everything has felt so smooth, I've tested all kinds of content from dungeons to raids.

Fall guys functioned amazingly also, when I was hit by something, it was genuinely my fault vs how I usually feel on crystal where its a dice roll depending on where the server thinks I am.

PVP was also very smooth on my end. GCDs and the shield ability worked immediately for me, whereas on crystal I have to use the shield a lot sooner for it to take effect.

I cannot wait for the day these are rolled out as this has been the best experience I've had with ffxiv in a long time.

Before people say "Why don't you just play on the EU data-centres?"
My answer is that I have way too many friends on NA that I want to keep playing the game with. This has been the closest experience I've ever had to being able to play ffxiv with them without feeling like I'm a huge compromise.

On crystal we literally had an issue where me and another player were far enough away from each other(P10S) (I was in the middle of the arena and they were near the bottom right of the arena) and we "overlapped" even when footage clearly showed we weren't near each other.

It's hard to test to see if this issue will replicate on the cloud servers as we're unable to test level 90 content right now(I don't fancy wasting half the playtest speed-running EW when I'm too busy being amazed at how much this breathes new life into old content for me). However from what I have tested it's felt so much better and I haven't had any awfully cursed moments that would cause me to raise an eyebrow.

[Ezlin]

This occurs on Primal or Aether as well, not a cloud issue

Good to know, thanks. None of us seemed aware that this happened on the normal servers, so it's good to learn about it.

[nazgulbane]

Overall experience has been great. I am playing from Atlanta, GA, USA and experiencing much smoother gameplay than I usually experience on Crystal DC. I attribute part of this to better ping, but it also just feels smoother - examples are that the game feels less sluggish or 'stuck' when I engage in certain actions such as unlocking minions, mounts, using fireworks, and so on. Very nice so far!

I did encounter one error:

Received lobby server error 5006 while trying to connect to Cloud Test lobby server.

Running Windows 10 PC. Ran FFXIV, clicked 'start', clicked NA cloud data center (beta) when prompted for DC, clicked 'Proceed' and confirmed, and error was received.

After error 5006, game closed out entirely when I clicked 'ok' on error. Relaunched game, completed same steps, no error received and was able to log in as expected.

Last time I played (yesterday) was also on Cloud test, with no issues, so probably just some intermittent blip.

[mana-burner]

Playing on the Cloud DC feels so much smoother than the west coast DCs that it feels bad going back to my main.