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  • ussvaliant#6064 ussvaliant Member Posts: 1,006 Arc User
    edited November 2018
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    Hello rubber banding my old friend, time to bounce around the battlezone again, where are all my bug reports going?, out of love with this game I am falling, As Cryptic fail to acknowledge a problem exists, Shakes an angry fist, And from Support all I'm hearing are the sounds of silence.
  • shadowwraith#9264 shadowwraith Member Posts: 379 Arc User
    getting quite a bit of lag and rubberbanding on ps4, isp virginmedia(UK)
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  • postagepaidpostagepaid Member Posts: 2,899 Arc User
    On BT (UK)

    Might be unrelated but the console patch today has so far stopped 3 times so far.

    Other downloads on steam, gog and even the xbone have been fine, although tbh the xbone was more a case of no worse than it normally is.
  • lexusk19lexusk19 Member Posts: 1,403 Arc User
    I had a Comcast tech come out and he changed all my fittings, ran some tests and I swapped out my modem. So I know its not on my end lol
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    Cox Communications Arizona.

    You know, I was wrong...it is worse sitting on the computer. LOL!
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  • paddy#3322 paddy Member Posts: 203 Arc User
    I can deal with the lag but the missions that just kick me out (I'm looking at you Cold Storage) that cannot be completed are now beyond annoying.
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  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    Folks who are dealing with this - what ISPs are ya'll on? Trying to narrow this down.

    I'm on Spectrum. (What Time Warner is calling themselves now.)
  • jatszompc#5609 jatszompc Member Posts: 42 Arc User
    Sometimes i do.
  • jamieblanchardjamieblanchard Member Posts: 556 Arc User
    Spectrum; Indiana USA for my end.
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  • casualstocasualsto Member Posts: 672 Arc User
    So it was a global issue.
  • slifox#0768 slifox Member Posts: 379 Arc User
    I have a pretty fast connection and even late at night, I’m getting horrible lag. Lost STO connection twice last night.
  • sthe91sthe91 Member Posts: 5,403 Arc User
    edited November 2018
    There is another thread on this and a poster mentioned it might have do with Cogentco having an outage. Maybe those threads should be merged. My ISP is CenturyLink (USA) Thanks. :)
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  • kaggert27kaggert27 Member Posts: 138 Arc User
    I've been noticing lag, thought it was just my connection. I've been noticing now for past week+ on all social ground Maps. Rubberbanding, slight delays in moving stuff in/out of inventory, and dare I try to slot a Fleet project or donate to some having to wait for it to "register" in system.

    Even before this, I dread going into Random TFO and then it end up being Azure Nebula which for some reason has always been a laggy mess. Even with the best connection and no lag anywhere else in game, always seemed to be the one that would result in everyone experiencing some lag. There are a couple of others that also seem to be prone to it. But I can't remember which one off top of my head.
  • storulesstorules Member Posts: 3,253 Arc User
    edited November 2018
    ISP ATT

    I have tested it with other MMOs and run perfectly. Basic speeds around 1Gig and only STO works horribly. Not in Europe but my PC is located in the close to the main server in California.​​
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  • doctorstegidoctorstegi Member Posts: 1,181 Arc User
    The lag has been increasingly getting worse since the last 5 hour server maintenance. Its bad and i have a 1gbit fiber connection. But i m glad they are upgrading or was it downgrading the servers....
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  • centaurianalphacentaurianalpha Member Posts: 1,150 Arc User
    My ISP is Century Link also, with 40Mbps downlink and 7Mbps uplink. But this has been the same for a couple years, with the rubberbanding increasing the last few weeks; at least there have been fewer server kicks.
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  • kibi#8855 kibi Member Posts: 101 Arc User
    It's borderline unplayable tonight
  • forcemajeureforcemajeure Member Posts: 212 Arc User
    edited November 2018
    Cryptic has the laggiest servers and most SNR/disconnects of any game I play (I play about 7 MMO/shooters at any time). Sometimes when it has been really bad I run pings and traceroutes (https://support.arcgames.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4657/~/performing-a-traceroute-%28tracert%29) and have found that is indeed sometimes problems with Cogentco servers in Boston/Atlanta. There used to be a fairly sizeable thread on Diagnosing your Internet Connection with Cryptic but I think it disappeared when the forums moved to ARC.

    That said, when the lag gets worse after patching (which it did), when none of your other games are affected by lag (which they aren't, ie., not my ISP), and when I can pop over to Neverwinter server (afaik, in the same location and using the same server paths through the internet) and experience virtually no lag or rubberbanding, then again, it's not my ISP, and not even Cryptics connection... it's the game.
  • blackshap9#1072 blackshap9 Member Posts: 174 Arc User
    Bell Canada is my isp, i never have had lag in this game, then Sompek failed to work my game has basically been broken. Rubberbanding everywhere. ESD is the worst. Can't even fly around. Some queues are worse than others.

    I run 2 fleets and almost everybody is complaining of either terrible Lag/Rubberbanding or game Crashes. My Fleet co-leader and some other members have crashed today 6 times in 1 hour :(

    It seems to be a problem with the game as it all started on the same day for almost everybody and each update patch has done nothing to fix it. I think it is a problem on the game's end with sending packets. It just seems unlikely that it is a problem on my end when everybody is complaining about the same thing.

    BTW I did a speed and packet test and it seemed very consistent.
  • paddy#3322 paddy Member Posts: 203 Arc User
    Only mild rubber banding which takes places mostly in social ground maps (space stations). I can kill of the dinosaurs with lasers on their heads without issue but can't access the exchange without bouncing back ten feet.

    Also, missions are bugged since AOD dropped, just saying.
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  • doctorstegidoctorstegi Member Posts: 1,181 Arc User
    Cryptic has the laggiest servers and most SNR/disconnects of any game I play (I play about 7 MMO/shooters at any time). Sometimes when it has been really bad I run pings and traceroutes (https://support.arcgames.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4657/~/performing-a-traceroute-%28tracert%29) and have found that is indeed sometimes problems with Cogentco servers in Boston/Atlanta. There used to be a fairly sizeable thread on Diagnosing your Internet Connection with Cryptic but I think it disappeared when the forums moved to ARC.

    That said, when the lag gets worse after patching (which it did), when none of your other games are affected by lag (which they aren't, ie., not my ISP), and when I can pop over to Neverwinter server (afaik, in the same location and using the same server paths through the internet) and experience virtually no lag or rubberbanding, then again, it's not my ISP, and not even Cryptics connection... it's the game.

    That actually made sense. Cause there is certain instances where its really bad, like Azura Nebula. I think there was a time not to long ago where it was virtually impossible to play because of the massive lag, for some reason though that lag is spreading all over the game now. They will not be able to fix it, if they do its temporary and it will be back by the next bigger update. Compared to other games, I can only say if it wasn't Star Trek they wouldn't be in business anymore. But yeah what can I say, i m only a consumer who doesn't get the simple customer support because that is bugged for my account as well, or done intentionally, who knows.

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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    edited November 2018
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    Freezing and Stuttering on the other hand is a performance issue, either on your end or the servers end. When it's server side it tends to be the result of the server's processors simply not being able to work fast enough to handle the load, even though the connection between client and server is perfectly fine.
    A perfect example of this is how CC used to grind to a halt before they reworked many of the multi-target AoE abilities like Kemocite-Laced Weapons.

    I remember this Kemocite thing and the Entity.... And it just kept getting worse and worse and worse as more and more and more players started using the trait.

    I been sent info that there are currently 2 things acting up and killing things too quickly...
    Space Trait called Hive Defenses and another is Phased Waveform Beacon.

    Edit...lest I forget: warp core breach sized torpedo deaths....

    So, alexraptor may be on the right track.

    And if I am hearing about it...It has spread far and wide by now.
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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,918 Arc User
    It seemed to have been a lot better the last couple days, but I logged in today and tried Azure Nebula..

    The Lag was worse then I have ever seen it, I was bouncing around the map like a ping pong ball. Game is just not really playable right now and I am sure it's not my ISP. Just because it was requested though, here is the info.

    ISP: Cox Communications

    There is my last speed test, I have plenty of bandwidth:

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    All other games play fine, the only issue I am having is with STO.
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    You know, Sea....I never have problems Cox in AZ with STO...not even when everyone else was complaining about that Cogent stuff.
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  • conradhauserconradhauser Member Posts: 142 Arc User
    lexusk19 wrote: »
    I had a Comcast tech come out and he changed all my fittings, ran some tests and I swapped out my modem. So I know its not on my end lol
    I didn't need to do all that at all. I already knew it is on their end.
    It is quite apparent it is on their end if everyone around the globe is having the same issue.


  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,918 Arc User
    where2r1 wrote: »
    You know, Sea....I never have problems Cox in AZ with STO...not even when everyone else was complaining about that Cogent stuff.

    I never have either. I have been playing this game for 5 years and never had lag, I can even play smoothly on my laptop tethered to my iPhone (AT&T) without lag. Whatever this is, it's new, and I have never seen it before.

    Cox Internet is fantastic, it's definitely not on my end.
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  • ussvaliant#6064 ussvaliant Member Posts: 1,006 Arc User
    3 weeks on still rubberbanding and power tray misfires. Patch didn't do anything to address this issue. Only getting this in this game. In fact I can have the game loaded up in the background and minimise to desktop and log onto youtube or virgintvgo and watch a youtube video with no issues or watch t.v via virgintvgo with no buffering issues. Close I.E so STO is the only thing connected to the internet and get rubberbanding. Go figure
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    Hello rubber banding my old friend, time to bounce around the battlezone again, where are all my bug reports going?, out of love with this game I am falling, As Cryptic fail to acknowledge a problem exists, Shakes an angry fist, And from Support all I'm hearing are the sounds of silence.
  • ethoirethoir Member Posts: 122 Arc User
    edited November 2018
    Still seeing the rubber banding. But I did have a day or two where it wasn't flinging me around a map or getting me exploded.

    Then a winter storm drifted in with sleet and below-freezing conditions. I had stayed off the game for a couple of days between the last "calm period" and now, and I immediately hit ping spikes when I do.

    But I'm thinking weather in my local area is aggravating things. Even my ISP (Verizon) is agreeing with the potential idea that part of my issues might be weather-related.
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