Sorry SE, but endgame won't work if you don't fix something.

[Babydoll]

These do sound like gamebreaking bugs; however, I don't think these have to do with the similar netcoding problems that are riddled throughout the game.

It does, its happening to almost all my FC members now, and my BF and I on different occasions. We have the same ISP and it was doing it to me earlier but not the BF. It is not my PC for that I am certain. These instances are having some strange lag issues and it needs to be fixed.

[Englesyn]

Yeah this is ridiculous. In Garuda IDK how many times the instance lags and not only that she disappears...and we cant target or see her until she jumps again. In Pratorium all the bosses are glitched. People disappear and the boss too.

Some kind of acknowledgement or a fix would be nice seeing as how we are paying for something so buggy....

I don't know what to say anymore SE. This is just sad.

Just ran a few Garudas today and a friend of mine consistently cant see Garuda during the tornado phase, because she disappears. It also happens to me sometimes, even while tanking...

[Meier]

Running into lagging problems now, my internet is fine, for some reason when I do titan, the screen pauses for a few seconds then everything speeds up, and by the time im up to date with the progression I am dead. I've been seeing a lot of people complaining about this and thought it was just some internet problem, but a user who uses fios, I am having this problem now, I've seen the same thing coming from Comcast, timer warner, uverse, and now fios users are getting this bs lag issue that shouldn't even exist. Also to add to this, I find it extremely disappointing that you have to spam click skills to have them activate when they were already up for use. I really don't think you should have to spend 3 seconds just to use an instance cast ability...

[Babydoll]

JUST HAPPENED YET AGAIN!!!! My boyfriend was tanking Titan...DC'ed "Connection with server was lost"

Now..we are on the same ISP so its not us and its not the computer. Also in the Titan instance two of my FC members dc'ed at the same time...and then got the server error message.

This is really unplayable in this state.

I really wish I could cancel my sub.

[gigi_frana]

Well that`s BS, IMO.
Yes you can Learn all the mechanics by heart, Yes you can move out out of the red zone 0.2ms after it shows on your screen(in some cases), yada yada.

Does not mean that everyone should do the above as a workaround for the stupid game setup (servers that are on another continent, that would be ~7800 km in a straight line from me to the servers).

It`s quite simple actually. If SE will not fix this shit, many players including me will quit, because raiding is a pain.

[Gamina]

I am so upset with this all at the moment. Me and my BF play a wealth of MMOs have never had an issue before.

I have immensely enjoyed the fights up until Titan. However I have hit Titan and mechanics of the fight being so strict coupled with the latency just have me with my head in my hands. I could happily record the same clips as in the OP of me being half the arena away from weight of the land and landslide and yet I get hit. It doesn't matter if I preempt and I KNOW the rotation of moves but this is killing me, I find myself literally praying I haven't been hit.

Then when I do get hit I just cringe waiting for waves of abuse from the group I am with. I am not the best player but I am not THAT bad!! It comes to something when you look at the people selling wins and think thats going to be my only option.

Anyway I post this here waiting to be told I have no skill or its me not my tools but its nice to see I am not the only one.

[Nexxa]

No word on a fix? Well... I'm done. We'll see how things work out for you, SE. It's a shame too... this game had so much potential shot to bits by your apathy and silence.

[Altena]

As an Aussie, this is a huge issue for me.

Despite downing Titan many times, completing 4 relic quests since 2.0, and completing EG content that rely on strict dodge mechanics, this is definitely a huge problem.

The issue itself I believe stems from the infrequency of position checks. This is pretty evident when simply getting a friend to run in a straight line, and /following them. Both screenshots were taken at 8:10 Eorzea time, so what you are seeing is the location of our characters and what we are seeing on our clients at the same point (or very close to).

Before anyone blames my "internet connection", I am running on a 125Mbps down / 2.5Mbps upstream service. (Yes latency is not the same as download speed, it is about the delay / response time). The only potential blame here is my geographical location - which should really be handled by SE in the form of an on-par netcode.





Please note the 2 bushes that the Lalafell is running past on my screen, then take note of our positions on his screen.

This clearly shows that there is a large delay between what our client shows, and the position that the server believes we are.

Now if we break it down to worst case (since this game is supported all over the world), my latency to the server sits at around 280-300ms.
While I am definitely no networking / internet expert - from my understanding the following is an extremely rough, basic breakdown of what is happening:

If it takes 300ms for an AoE indicator to appear on my client, average human reaction time is about 200ms, then preceding this, the server believes I move 300ms later then I actually do - we are talking a near 800ms latency that has been compounded. That is nearly a full second of latency, simply because many actions are not calculated client-side. This of course may not be very accurate as I don't really know how it currently works, but the difference between being able to avoid an AoE or get hit by it, is pretty damn close to this to begin with.

The next example is moving out of an AoE circle, clearly *before* the cast bar finishes, yet still getting hit. Both images are 2 separate instances, on the same monster.




Yes I got hit by both of these. If you wish to see the videos I used to break these screenshot down to the frame, I will post it later.

While these screenshots may appear that I dodged the circle by the skin of my nose, in end game content you have to keep in mind that these telegraphs and cast times are MUCH faster.
Currently if I am not already moving before plumes pop on Titan, then I will get hit.
If I am directly targetted by ADS with Piercing Laser, then I will get hit *most* of the time.

The biggest issue here is truly the inconsistency. Sometimes I will hesitate, and end up dodging the attack. Other times I run as soon as my brain registers that a telegraph has popped, yet I still get hit. It is honestly down to a game of luck when dodging attacks for me, and that is infinitely frustrating.

While yes the latency has been slightly improved since beta, it is definitely still a very real problem. Why is it that games such as Guild Wars 2 and Tera allow an aussie like myself to display realistic dodge mechanics, yet this game cannot seem to do it.

[Altena]

Here is the video of the first bomb screenshot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKx94...ature=youtu.be

[gigi_frana]

daily bump