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The Server Lag Is Much Worse Than You Think
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I know it's a pretty common community complaint that the servers are bad, but tonight I hit miraculous repairs three times and I wasn't healed, even though it went on cooldown, and even though I survived for 30 some seconds afterwards. I don't know if something's happened recently, but the server lag lately is worse than it's ever been before, and it's making the game much harder to play - and much harder to have fun playing. In fights, it's normal for me to have to click an ability 2-3 times at least once before the game registers the input, and sometimes things will go on cooldown but not apply its effect to me. Tonight's worst offender was CSV. There's not a reason on my end for this kind of terrible performance. My computer's specs are extremely good, my internet connection is excellent, I don't share my internet with other people, and I live in the same country as the servers. My ping right now, according to netgraph, is a reasonable 99. I'd hate to imagine what it's like for anyone over in Europe.
Do the devs know the server is failing this badly? Who are they paying to host the game right now? I don't know that this is the right place to post this, but I want this to be on their radar as a major issue seriously impacting the whole playerbase.
Do the devs know the server is failing this badly? Who are they paying to host the game right now? I don't know that this is the right place to post this, but I want this to be on their radar as a major issue seriously impacting the whole playerbase.
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Although the server has been good to me so far with the current event, I did have the same issue as you did with CSV during the previous two events.
It repeatedly failed to apply itself even though it's part of my "basic offensive rotation" keybind along with Photonic Officer 2, EPtW 3, and APB 1.
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I disagree, though I see I've already been moved. As I clearly stated, and g0del so eloquently articulated, poor server performance is causing bugs. Everyone has stories of abilities misfiring, specifically that they go on cooldown without applying their intended effect. That is not WAI.
I expect that there are many more bugs caused by poor server performance, which explains why the internal testing team can't reproduce them. I suspect the recent uptick in bug reports regarding patrol and mission objectives getting "hung up," as if the server never receives the information that they've been completed, or a delay in data delivery causing objectives to get flagged as completed but in the wrong order locking all progression owe themselves to the failing server infrastructure.
And I don't think this is just a PC problem. Console players, please chime in even though this thread has been moved here.
Obviously it's going to be worse on a holiday weekend, but the general server performance is so bad we're seeing this kind of thing in regular play fairly frequently! There is a problem with the server infrastructure and it's been getting worse with time.
Not seen this happening on my end in the UK, however, the issue is most likely with Akamai, not the server (or Cryptic). With the extra traffic, Akamai will be being their usual hyper-sensitive selves and throttling the bandwidth think it's a DDOS. You can thank Gearbox for that.
I'm in complete agreement with your theory.