Please Fix Palace of the Dead Disconnects

[SoCalKingg]

Words cannot express my level of frustration with this. Why am I constantly disconnecting on floors above level 100 in Palace of the Dead? I never, ever, ever, ever DC in any other content. I play on PS5, I have a 1gb connection, I only run palace of the dead during late night to avoid prime time. When I'm progressing through the dungeon there is no latency, no lag spikes, but all of a sudden I will dc and lose all my progress. The last run I had I disconnect on the floor 110 boss. Yes I know that is only halfway there, but I even had a pomander of raising on. Why could it have not held the instance for a few minutes, killed me/used my raising pom, and put me back at the start point for the boss with full HP? How am I supposed to solo this when anytime I make any meaningful progress I get disconnected? My last two disconnects were at 122 and 131.

[Nero-Voidstails]

my last run I got disconnected at floor 197 since then I have not even touched POTD because I'm just tired of it

[Jeeqbit]

This also ruined my HoH solo which was on the brink of success and it's not that I can't do it again, it's just tedious to go through it again. I'm slowly growing 2 save files 10 floors at a time, progressing them like a snail, so if it happens I'll have a second save file at the same floor.

I think the server should track average ping and latency. If you die, it should check to see your recent ping/latency reports and if they are above average, it should revive you. If it's abused, they could put a limit on the amount of times it can happen.

[Reinha]

I loved soloing PotD/HoH but I stopped doing it for the same reason. It was a waste of time to have all progress wiped out with nothing to show for it. Doesn't matter how much better I got when the game would not let me finish a run.

[hynaku]

Once on Heaven on High was about to go to floor 100 when got disconnected and ran out of time before was able to log back in. Hours of wasted time from it.

[Mesarthim]

It came out in Patch 3.35. They aren't going to fix this and prevent any potential loopholes to run ending conditions, be it internet or otherwise after 8 years.

As a long term necromancer I do share the sentiments here. I've seen my own fair share of disconnects. I've also had a laptop that had some kind of hardware related stutter once. I did not lag but FFXIV still hated it and IMMEDIATELY booted me from the game at 190+. In HoH I've randomly disconnected somewhere in the 71+ range. I've experienced numerous deaths to the 180 boss in PoTD. Recently lost a run to a scorpion enemy on 187+ because I made an error in judgement.

Floor sets like 51 to 80 should only be like 15-20 minutes if you know what you're doing. First timers naturally might be going slower to be safer as they don't want to lose progress. Spoiler: Most people aren't going to finish a first time solo clear. It's basically a mind game. You know what happened when I reached 181 for the first time? First room mimic with an approaching chimera. Instantly panicked and got killed. It was soul crushing. But eventually you'll get over it and try once again if you really want the titles. I have the title from all 3 but I spend most time in palace (barring the clears I still need out of orthos because I did that one least). Heck I even messed up floor 99 Orthos and you know what I did? It was sunday, I had the day off. Hello 1-100 in one day (to be fair that one is the easiest if you respect the one shot mechanics).

You'll get over it. Even I still take some brief time off if I lose progress.

[Hyperia]

It really is a bad idea to try and finish any deep dungeon until all of the Internet attacks are resolved.

It would be nice to add checkpoints to fall back on but they won’t do that because it would upset all of the previous title holders.

[Jeeqbit]

It would be nice to add checkpoints to fall back on but they won’t do that because it would upset all of the previous title holders.

I don't agree with checkpoints at all. That would defeat the point. But I think that actually checking if, around the time of the death, the individual had an abnormal ping spike, would be reasonable and it would be easy to prevent it being triggered on purpose repeatedly by setting a limit on it.

[Mesarthim]

It wouldn't be an absolute solution. Some runs might only have one major choke. Someone, if quick enough, might be able to recognize it and simply unplug their net briefly. You'd be expecting a lot from a company that does not deviate from their content schedule or can give hats to two races.

[brinn12]

The day Square addresses the 24 hour trick, I'll believe they care about these DCs. For people who are not aware, if you get the 90002 or 90006 error and wait 24 hours, there's a 50% chance to avoid getting party KO'd. This has been documented and reported to the developers, there's a VOD on youtube. Losing a run after a disconnect is tied to RNG.