Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

bleh just watched the vid with the scholar solo healing Titan HM.... I wish I could stay that long in a red marked area to finish casting a heal spell.

So frustrated with the game at the moment it is not even funny.
 
Rhymelark said:
bleh just watched the vid with the scholar solo healing Titan HM.... I wish I could stay that long in a red marked area to finish casting a heal spell.

So frustrated with the game at the moment it is not even funny.
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yip 1 second too late and we screwed
 
Actually SE is at fault here. it's their fault that they implemented a networking architecture over TCP (instead of UDP) for an end game setup that is very twitchy. It's their fault they built in +300ms delay for movement, which just compounds on top of people with high pings.

If they had built a better network protocol, those throttling peering routers that are causing all the trouble, wouldn't be causing so much trouble.

The fact that every packet sent/received needs an ACK response before it can move onto the next packet in sequence is the major issue here. Any small amount of jitter or packet loss and your client is going to pause and then fast forward once it gets all the old data that was lost. The internet is full of packet loss and jitter, it's how it works. If they would have designed their system to have better tolerance for that, you wouldn't have hundreds of pages of people complaining about this.
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This post highlights the real issue. Even if Square Enix were to change the location of their EU/US data center, you will still experience a poor quality game until they change the network protocol the game uses. The current network protocol is garbage for gaming and is why combat is clunky for players with lower latency than to other games (such as World of Warcraft which uses UDP, as opposed to FFXIV which uses TCP).

This was a known issue in 1.0 and was supposed to be addressed in 2.0.

And to elaborate on the other issue, the server updates your position every 300ms which is then used to determine if you were hit by a mechanic. If you move out of a red circle but it was before the next position check then you are SOL and will be hit, regardless of where you were standing on your screen. I believe other games either update your position every 100ms or use a better method.
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The above is something that explains our issue abit better.. and hope SE fixes it, it was suppose to be addressed in version 2.0 but yeaaa..
 
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They are gonna lose a lot of players because of this...reading the forums it seems some people are WAY worse off than us it seems...for a change. I personally only have occasional lag issues due to server load or maybe ISP tech issues, but they are currently few and far between. Hopefully they will fix this, as it will kill the PvP before it even gets started...
 
Banelight said:
They are gonna lose a lot of players because of this...reading the forums it seems some people are WAY worse off than us it seems...for a change. I personally only have occasional lag issues due to server load or maybe ISP tech issues, but they are currently few and far between. Hopefully they will fix this, as it will kill the PvP before it even gets started...
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Really don't know how players even gonna last in PvP with this issue it's gonna be a joke.
 
So Frudi and I finally downed Titan HM last. YAY! :D

Seeing as how we have so many with relics in the FC now, we should probably start looking at forming a group to try out coils this week.
 
Well done guys!!! Had serious pc issues last night, ended up reloading windows. Think my old spare drive I'm using as a system drive is slowly giving up on me :(
 
Nimatek said:
Well done guys!!! Had serious pc issues last night, ended up reloading windows. Think my old spare drive I'm using as a system drive is slowly giving up on me :(
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Man that's a bummer, been seeing a lot of hard drives failing these last few months... You good to go tonight though?
 
Isengard said:
So Frudi and I finally downed Titan HM last. YAY! :D

Seeing as how we have so many with relics in the FC now, we should probably start looking at forming a group to try out coils this week.
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Gratz Isen and Frudi.

I got lvl 50 last night so need to form some WP groups soon so i can gather some tomes :P
 
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