Really sick of the EU latency problems

[Blaize]

Both SE Need a REAL EU Data Center (Only reason they don't is due to Ignorance and arrogance assuming no EU population numbers - And yes this was Stated by Yoshi P in an Interview around June time as to why no EU DC), AND also still need to stop running the Instance Servers on a Glorified Commodore 64!

[Lafa]

i started using wtFast and it decreased my ping in atleast 40 latency...
you should try it out, they give 1month free trail

[skillface]

At least you guys actually have a snowball's chance of getting local servers..

[makii]

It's your ISP's fault.

[Soukyuu]

As a tank I very regularly see myself meters outside of a template I dodged. But on my friends recording of the same fight played side by side you see where the server thought I was. Right in the template. That's the latency we need EU data centers to fix.

EU datacenters won't fix anything, since per Yoshida's post on the beta forums the server does a position check every 0.3 seconds. This means that the minimal latency you will EVER get with the current code is 300ms. At least when it comes to positioning, which is the main problem. The additional latency of a server being on the other side of the globe does add to it, of course. But unless they make position checking faster, local data centers won't fix much.

As for my latency, I have about the same 200-300ms to both NA and JP servers. So for me, the NA data center is just as useless.

[Fornix]

We all have them. Those who say they don't are either liars or have always played on crappy pcs with shitty connections and can't tell the difference.

This game has a very inefficient engine an utterly horrible netcode and on top of that, the servers it's running on are trash. I ping 80ms to our server and my instant spells have never been instant --> shit engine/netcode/server. Not a latency problem due to high pings.

But the solution is close: 10 more days guys.

Clearly those who do not have issues must be liars or playing on crappy PC's.

I have no latency issues, I live in Europe and I most certainly do not have a crappy PC either. The thing is, a lot of these issues have absolutely nothing to do with latency. As a tank, a very clear example on what's off with this game is Grand Strike on the third boss in CM.

What happens? Grand Strike is an attack directed towards the tank, it essentially turns back towards the tank, throws down a narrow red rectangle and upon hit, it knocks you backwards. How to avoid it? Obviously, you want to get out of the red.

So, what happens in practise? You side step out of the red. .... Wait what, knockback?!

If it would be latency at play, you could argue that I wasn't out of the red. I was merely still standing in the red and due to that the server was unaware by then of my new location. This however, is not the case. If I strafe out of it and look at my position from my gf's PC who's sitting right next to me... I'm well out of the area hitbox. I also do not get knocked backwards within the rectangle, but actually get knocked back from my new position.

That is no longer a case of latency at play. The server position update already happened, it's even been sent out already to other players. Similar behavior can also be observed on some players during Geruda, players who stand behind the rock early yet still die, behind the rock. Players who during Titan stand well away from the landslide, yet still get knocked off. Or players hit by plumes even though for myself they've already been out of the plume.

Latency isn't going to resolve any in that, a EU datacenter will not be the solution. SE will need to optimize their code to fix those problems.

[Vurtney]

i started using wtFast and it decreased my ping in atleast 40 latency...
you should try it out, they give 1month free trail

I too am using it. From 250 to 100 ms of less. Using such services should not be the norm though but i'll take what i can get (for the time being)

[BobbinT]

I wonder if any EU players happens to roll on JP server and can give their feedback?

[Soukyuu]

I wonder if any EU players happens to roll on JP server and can give their feedback?

As I posted above, I have about the same latency to both data centers, so I'm having the same issue on both. Or rather, had, back in beta3. Don't have any characters on the JP side at the moment, but I guess I could try making one and test if i can avoid AoE better there. Anoles should be a good benchmark.

[BobbinT]

Grateful if you can test that. Let me know how it goes.