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irishdrunx
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Nothing but rubber banding all over Tiamat. Start moving forward and right off a cliff you go...for the entire run. Clears up outside, back in the Well.
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I've done full resets of the Xbox, modem, and router. I can't tell if it's other players lagging or just me, but I lean more towards just me. Some runs are good, others not so much.
I've played with others who have just power cycled their terminal adapters, routers, switches, and console, and while they get horrible freezes in place and bouncing and stuttering noneverything (but where they aren't deservered or dashboarded) and can do nothing in game for quite a long time. Sort of like it is/was sometimes at the campfire near the Rothe dragon. While I have experienced little to no lag/freezing/rubberbanding/lowframerate at that same exact time, and in the same instance. It's mostly smooth to me, and they are having a horrible non-playable experience. What spell causes that? Sometimes, I have just a bit of slowdown or what have you, and they are almost locked and when they do see something happen, it's 2 or 3 minutes after I saw it. That's no moon, it's a ship.
Seems the problem then would be in the "network connection paths" between the systems and/or servers as far as the game is concerned. Because at this same time, the console voice party chat is fine and other network things (they might try while the game is unresponsive but not crashed) work fine too. And they have the problem and I don't -- which means that if it was due to a spell or spell combo, we'd both have the issue. So probably not astralwhatever (say) - especially if there aren't event any clerics around!!
It's a lot easier to probably to blame hallowedgroundknightsvalorastralshieldsealuubbabububaa than it is to just consider there's just too much distance between you and the server you're on or the network connections you're going through. Although if we could have a lowering of the graphical effects on the console for ultra-busy map times that might be preferable to a much worse experience than just fewer particle effects.
Although given how difficult Tiamat seems at times, perhaps lowering the difficulty or fixing any dropped damage calculations (or both) is a better idea. If that's what's happening.
Its no different to Cod matchmaking in that sense, if you are grouped with players on the west coast of the US and you are in Europe it will be a lagfest (and the same in reverse).
As far as lag issues are concerned its the same old issues mainly and the same bitching about the lag and hunting for scapegoats
Last night, home from work, around 6 central, the game was unplayable:
"Server not responding"
Neverwinter game clock (displayed top right of the screen when you hit start) was off by 7-12 minutes (IE it was 6:30, game clock said 6:23)
"Disconnected from game server"
"Timed out connecting to game server"
When in game, during the rare times I could move, would rubberband, freeze, go back to starting point.
Could not release from death (from rubberbanding into lava in Tiamat)
During the character selection screen, character graphics took a very long time to load, character would load w/out gear on, gear would eventually load.
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All of this promptly stopped around 7:30-7:45 (I was able to run the 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 Tiamat encounters without a hitch)
The server not responding (and the game performing like this) started (for me at least) on 7/7/15 - none of this had been an issue prior to then.
One thing you shouldn't base anything from is the chat. As far as I can tell, it's a solid VOIP channel created via other methods that relies little or none on xbox or game once it's established. (establishing it is another matter).
But yes, a large part of it is when you're playing on another server. WEll, you're always playing locally to some extent, so maybe it's better to say when a large number of other players are getting their game info from different server(s) than the ones you're on. I have to guess at that based upon the behaviors I've seen though, I don't have any idea what the "Neverwinter server network" looks like.
live Matchmaking tries to do this however the Devs need to action it for each game, bear in mind though if they do this the wait time to get into a Dungeon or a tiamat session may get painful
I would guess that they could not pull it off for Tiamat type excercises as getting 25 players in the same region depending on time of day could be tricky.
Its the only way to reduce the lag unfortunately (that and to reduce the size of the ads mobs to ease the load).
Also this is what is looks like when I try to play :/ - goo.gl/G06yJu
Either way, at some point if there are more players than there is bandwidth and/or more players than this is server capacity, play will suffer. That's another matter than being in a party of two where one person is connected farther than the other, or where it's a busier time for one than it is for the other. Although if you've ever played Battlefield, you know what it's like joining a server on another continent. Or your peak time versus their peak time even when it's say west us versus east us servers.
You can base some things on the chat. It will tell you how well the connection to your ISP is doing. It will also mess up if your modem/router or XBox starts to lag. Voice chat wouldn't rely on the game but it will use the xbox, afterall, your mic and headset is connected to the xbox so it has to go through it to reach the modem.
NW has a bad problem with memory leaks. They fixed some a few patches ago but looks like they need to fix more.