Jumping bug

crunchycat
crunchycat Posts: 0 Arc User
edited August 2009 in Support Desk
When my untamed tiger jumps, quite often the jump is visually erratic (switching between ground and air) and the end result is the jump barely moves forward or upward. Can this be corrected? I started noticing for the last 2-3 patches and it hasn't gone away.
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  • Ryo_Hazuki - Lost City
    Ryo_Hazuki - Lost City Posts: 197 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    It's called rubberbanding. It's my speculation that it has something to do with the game's engine.
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  • crunchycat
    crunchycat Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Oh man it's been around long enough to attain a verb for a name. Is the game based on a 3rd party engine or is it home grown? If it's the latter then the problem can be corrected much easier.
  • Antlers - Heavens Tear
    Antlers - Heavens Tear Posts: 38 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Rubberbanding. Lmao. That explains a lot, and is quite descriptive of the problem. I've never seen this in any other MMO.
  • Azgornar - Harshlands
    Azgornar - Harshlands Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Just died today at 99% because of this bug. Aggroed more than I could chew by accident, tried to escape and was stuck rubberbanding until death. Fun.
  • dtz
    dtz Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    crunchycat wrote: »
    Oh man it's been around long enough to attain a verb for a name.
    Antlers - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Rubberbanding. Lmao. That explains a lot, and is quite descriptive of the problem. I've never seen this in any other MMO.
    It's been an issue with pretty much every other online game ever, though typically not to this degree. It's generally caused by lag, network or otherwise.
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  • Tenebrae - Lost City
    Tenebrae - Lost City Posts: 12 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Well, occasionally is one thing, but this happens ALOT to me on this character, it’s so serious I’m considering ditching him.
    Squishiness and not being able to evade a mob don’t go well together.
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  • darthpanda16
    darthpanda16 Posts: 9,471 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    The rubberbanding term has been around longer then MMOs.

    Network latency, or hardware lag can often be the cause.

    It could also be a multicore CPU issue too.

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  • Bowlinbob - Lost City
    Bowlinbob - Lost City Posts: 3,446 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    It's started after patch 166, No one had issues this extreme until that patch.
  • Darkjagans - Heavens Tear
    Darkjagans - Heavens Tear Posts: 478 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Bowlinbob - Lost City wrote: »
    It's started after patch 166, No one had issues this extreme until that patch.

    This.

    Same thing occuring on my side after that patch.

    At first i thought:
    "Hey, looks like we're mounting on our aerogear much faster than it used to, nice improvement :)"

    Until i soon noticed the annoying rubber-banding, and just as mentioned above, it's especially annoying when fighting monsters/bosses and you need to evade them by flying but only to get drawn back and forth until you die :(
  • Azgornar - Harshlands
    Azgornar - Harshlands Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Darkjagans - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    This.

    Same thing occuring on my side after that patch.

    At first i thought:
    "Hey, looks like we're mounting on our aerogear much faster than it used to, nice improvement :)"

    Until i soon noticed the annoying rubber-banding, and just as mentioned above, it's especially annoying when fighting monsters/bosses and you need to evade them by flying but only to get drawn back and forth until you die :(
    Yes, I can confirm this too, never had problems with it before (it happened, but very rarely), after this patch, it's way too common.
  • Zetarana - Heavens Tear
    Zetarana - Heavens Tear Posts: 268 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Along the same vein...

    When I drop out of the sky onto an NPC and I go to "lift-off" again I start RubberBanding It did not do this prior to the 166 update.

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  • IceJazmin - Heavens Tear
    IceJazmin - Heavens Tear Posts: 4,206 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Also, new one since last update. When I grind around Emmolation, on the hills, more often than not, if I double jump to get around, it "rubberbands" me back to the first jump. It is getting really annoying to get around....
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  • Bowlinbob - Lost City
    Bowlinbob - Lost City Posts: 3,446 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    IceJazmin - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Also, new one since last update. When I grind around Emmolation, on the hills, more often than not, if I double jump to get around, it "rubberbands" me back to the first jump. It is getting really annoying to get around....

    yea thats annoying too, when i go down a steep hill i often get rubberbanded back to the top and it just keeps repeating the process over and over again, was stuck doing that for 20 seconds or so one time.
  • RedsRose - Lost City
    RedsRose - Lost City Posts: 12,354 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Bowlinbob - Lost City wrote: »
    yea thats annoying too, when i go down a steep hill i often get rubberbanded back to the top and it just keeps repeating the process over and over again, was stuck doing that for 20 seconds or so one time.

    Lol....this happens all the time on mounts. If you jump going down a hill (even in Arch) you pretty much stay in one place b:surrender
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  • IceJazmin - Heavens Tear
    IceJazmin - Heavens Tear Posts: 4,206 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    RedsRose - Lost City wrote: »
    Lol....this happens all the time on mounts. If you jump going down a hill (even in Arch) you pretty much stay in one place b:surrender

    I guess PW is trying to prevent people from jumping over the edge....
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  • camrin
    camrin Posts: 33 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    I would also like to note that I have begun experiencing this *extremely* often since patch 166. I'll get dumped into the water during the Snake Isle dungeon race at least three times trying to get to the island on checkpoint 3(I think it's 3). Drops you off your mount, too, which really aggravates me. I see it happening to a lot of other people, too, and I'm pretty sure when something happens to practically everyone, it's not their computers. Something has changed in the code that's causing this. Just like the catshop bug (which is now thankfully fixed for me since version 166), I can reproduce it on 3 different computers on 2 different internet connections (one being a T1 line with extremely low latency).
  • Isala - Sanctuary
    Isala - Sanctuary Posts: 1,607 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    It's happening here, too, and I've never had the problem. Even a Verify leaves it intact.
  • Teh_fishey - Dreamweaver
    Teh_fishey - Dreamweaver Posts: 552 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    Yeah I've experienced a similar problem.

    It happens especially in territory wars (I noticed the most in TWs is on the far west-ish side of the map).

    I've never personally experienced it causing me any problems (like me dying cuz of it) but I can see why it could be bad.
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  • AngelOfLust - Heavens Tear
    AngelOfLust - Heavens Tear Posts: 56 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    I'm lying face down in a ditch cause of this and I noticed its mostly when flying and I'm sure its a patch problem cause this never happened this bad before
  • Isala - Sanctuary
    Isala - Sanctuary Posts: 1,607 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    AngelOfLust - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    I'm lying face down in a ditch cause of this and I noticed its mostly when flying and I'm sure its a patch problem cause this never happened this bad before

    My raptor did a faceplant into the ground. I wish I had taken a screenshot.
  • IceJazmin - Heavens Tear
    IceJazmin - Heavens Tear Posts: 4,206 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    AngelOfLust - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    I'm lying face down in a ditch cause of this and I noticed its mostly when flying and I'm sure its a patch problem cause this never happened this bad before

    Friends dont let friends drink and fly.... or lying face down in a ditch can happen....
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  • Cholla - Harshlands
    Cholla - Harshlands Posts: 132 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    When I set elementclient so its on only one processor the most recent jumping bug becomes tolerable.

    I still have problems but they are not quite so bad.
  • AlexanderEMT - Dreamweaver
    AlexanderEMT - Dreamweaver Posts: 28 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    i've noticed this as well... it used to only occur that when jumping off a cliff from an extreme height (say.. 50->24) i'd get stuck in a near-infinite lag-loop, which prevented me from performing any actions for at least 15-20 seconds (i've died numerous times thanks to that one)

    after the recent patches, i'm getting this "rubberbanding" even on flat terrain (never going uphill tho)... what is especially pissing me off is that normally, when i go to fly away from mobs that are about to kill me, i doublejump-fly.. now when i doublejump-fly i get pulled right back to the ground, more often then not straight back into the mob
    b:bye
  • darthpanda16
    darthpanda16 Posts: 9,471 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    If you move super fast when there is a bunch of geometry around, or there are a bunch of players or mobs, you can get caught in that loop. Be careful autopathing while flying over mobs too.

    Stop flying to get out of the loop.
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  • AlexanderEMT - Dreamweaver
    AlexanderEMT - Dreamweaver Posts: 28 Arc User
    edited August 2009
    darthpanda16 wrote: »
    If you move super fast when there is a bunch of geometry around, or there are a bunch of players or mobs, you can get caught in that loop. Be careful autopathing while flying over mobs too.

    Stop flying to get out of the loop.

    except... these new rubberbanding effects are new... never happened before, even while in west archo... which is lagged all to hell both graphically and server-lag-wise...
    b:bye
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