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Averheim Order marches on the MAW only to FAIL due to Server Crashes
susanto1228
Member Posts: 203
For all players that are anxiously waiting to take down one realm, keep dreaming...both realms have found the ultimate weapon.
LAG, at 9:30pm central time on Averheim Order locked down Pragg. At 10:30 we locked down Chaos Wastes and had 1 Hour to kill the Maw Keep Lord. Numbers on both sides probably numbered around 250 players...we had the first West Door down in about 15 minutes with 45 minutes to spare we proceeded to the Main Keep Door, and that's when it happened..the worst laggg I have ever encountered on WAR, huge delays on Abilities...the hardest part was for the healers, because rezzing took over 1 MINUTE...can you believe that! There was no Lag on Destruction side, don't know why, but it wasn't their fault...just an example of HOW broken this game's RVR is. If you haven't been there, you will see exactly what Order (us) experienced tonite. With 25 minutes too go, we had the Main keep door down to about 45% when.....SERVER CRASH=EPIC FAIL.
The server came back up in around 10 minutes. Lucky for us the Zones were not reset, and our counter started over again we had 58 minutes to continue our push. We proceeded to bang on the Keep door a second time It reset to 100%.....and again just like before Huge LAGGGG, this time even worse, I know Destro was just laughing at us from the MAW, for them it was AOE central. We proceeded to hit the door with everything we had. Finally with 10 minutes to spare, we go the main Keep door down. All tanks rushed in, the brutality....no not the fight, I'm talking about the SERVER CRASH again TWICE!!! omg.....Mythic..7 hours spent today by over 6 guilds in the alliance for nothing.
I hope Mark J. brings this up on his FIX ORVR speech NOTES, I bet he doesn't we have not been the only server to be plagued by this shotty performance when it comes to huge RVR battles.
This game was built on all OUT WAR, HUGE battles, but with this Server Lag, it now seems Impossible....3 weeks ago it was Destro Knocking on our door, and we were defending with about the same numbers as today, and again Crash....that time though all the Zones went Neutral...Mythic this is BS and you know it...so what are you gonna do about it?
/rant off...freaking disappointed.
note: taken from VN boards with permissionof OP
Comments
Which is why the only people who have done it, did it at 4am in the morning. This is like the 5th time that the same thing has happened (server crashed) when people are actually defending.
ouch this is really brutal. this is the biggest reason ppl will leave. most will stay so they can do this kind of rvr but when this happens it'll kill the game so quick if they can not get it fixed soon
hrmm what server do you play on?
I play on Phoneix and last night, we had the same numbers in rvr, hundreds on each side.
My wife and I played and didn't crash once.
It may be some thing to do with the Heavy Metal quests that are goin on right now.
This is not an isolated incident it has been happening on a lot of servers, if you want some examples...
go to Warhammeralliance.com/forums and click on US servers, then just check out the most populated servers
and almost everyone has threads of disappointment about server crashes during end game city sieges, hell even during witching night they had server crashes, also I heard the Destro side was bringing over lower level toons to the fight, summoning mounts, casting spells just for the hell of it, to compound matters.....
Averheim crashed when I was playing also a month ago while Destro was trying to sack altdorf. This is not an isolated incident, Mythic servers were never TESTED for this kind of Mass Numbers, which really surprises me, instead of admiring each others armor and looks on their destro toons, they should of been working on PERFORMANCE issues.
The best way to play defense
Zone locking - To defend it, just don't show up. It's very hard for a realm to lock a zone if the other side doesn't fight back. Don't queue for that zones scenario, and don't die in the oRvR area.
City defense - Show up and cast AOE spells and any other high resource activitys and get the server to crash. In most cases, when the server comes back up, the locked zones will even be reset (bonus!!!).
Actually this is not true they already stated thsoe zone locking tactics of not showing up to keep them from locking does not work, infact they have safeguards in the locking mechanisms to prevent such tactics and they stated it just a few weeks ago for everyone. You must not be reading the Website FAQS on this stuff Azrile because they made it pretty clear how to lock down a zone. You should reread some of the most recent faqs they put out. If you dont' show up to defend after a short period of time the other side GETS the points automatically especially if you skip on the scenarios. They automatically get the points as long as they stay queue'd for that areas scenarios and the scenarios don't pop adn they don't log into any scenarios that pop.
i can't comment on the city stuff...not sure whats going on there other than I know they didn't test it with 200 vs 200 infact i thought they were putting a population limit on the areas but I guess not.
Azazel has crashed both times we sieged The Maw. Either the hardware cant handle it or the server software cant handle it. Either way the games "endgame" doesnt work as intended and therefore the games biggest appeal is a major failure right now.
Um. Are you guys sure the server is crashing. and not just the zone. Also, are you sure its the server/zone, and not just you.
Because while I was playing, this never happened.
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The whole tier crashes. Each tier is ran by a different server so the other tiers are not affected. And yes its not just us as everyone gets booted off and cant get back in for like 10 minutes. The kicker is, afterwards, zone control in Tier 4 bugs out and ceases to work and a GM has to reset all zone control back to default, making all your effort over the last few days/week down the tubes.
This happened with our order alliance a couple weeks back on Iron Rock. 8 Warbands attacking fortress. We even split up in thirds to attack different doors to just get everyone spread out. Got through the outer doors ok, but as soon as we got to the keep forget it. No one could move. We're talking minutes between ram hits, no combat response it was horrible. Even the peeps with nice rigs setting everything to lowest didn't make any difference. We had 2 vent servers running and it was the same for everyone.
It was a 5 hour thrill ride up that point, but server lag killed it completely. FAIL