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Might sound crazy...but possiable PVP lag hack?
zandwarf
Member Posts: 114
in Everquest II
Just wanted to get some imput from the guys here before I go flaming someone by mistake....but this seems really odd to me.
Over the last week, My group of guildys and I have came across the same guild group of Q's "no guild or player names gona be mentioned yet" that have caused everyone of us to lag out terriably when engaging them. Its not just a minimul lag either, its really nasty, you cant even get 2 spells durring the whole encounter.
Before anyone tells me that its my and my group members systems that are not up to par, thats not the case. We raid 4x zones weekly, and i never lag. I can run into 3 groups in SOS all fighting, and still no lag...and the same goes for the group of guys I play with.
Its not the zone either, we have ran into these guys in TT, Bonemire, LP, and last night it was POF. I know for a fact that POF was not over populated last night, because I /who when i seen that particular guild group heading twords us, and their were only 4 other players in the zone.
This lag spike or what ever it is that happens has NEVER happend to me before, Not while raiding, not while PVP raiding, and not in any zone...its ONLY when this one particulare guild group engages us.
Now these guys are obviously good at what ever they do, they are all generals and masters allready. So im sure they have been doing this to alot of people.
Has anyone ever experianced something like this with one particular group on the Nagafen server, or any PVP server for that matter? Is it possiable for someone to create such bad lag to every player in a group and cause a wipe?
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Hadn't heard about this. Sounds shady. Best of luck, bud.
I highlighted a few things that might shine light on the " present " situation. THis lag is all recently, one week so far correct? An expansion came out making some big promises so new and old players alike are going to return to check it to see if it delivers.
(1) Bunch of people rushed in game to check it out, also a holiday week for kiddos and adults alike = many players on at once.
(2) What was this guild like before this week? You even know who they were? You could of ran into them several times before and never thought anything about it till this lag came up.
(3) You are fed info from SOE's server not other players, if they do something it goes to soe then to your comp.
(4) Only thing i could see is a trick to get a bunch of caster to shoot thier eye candy off like crazy, this will lag people in the viewing distance by hardware lag of your comp, but everyone suffers from this.
Try turning particles down in the display options. Just becuase last week was all good doesnt mean thanksgiving week around an expansion launch will carry the same player numbers ........... also everytime someone hops in an instance thats more memory of the server used tocreate thier instance ........... now add all those people grinding instances at once at prime time during the holidays.
just wait till people go back to work or school and see it is aleaved.
(4) Only thing i could see is a trick to get a bunch of caster to shoot thier eye candy off like crazy, this will lag people in the viewing distance by hardware lag of your comp, but everyone suffers from this.
1) We have seen this guild alot on our server, they are a well known Qeynos guild. But now that i think about it, prior to the patch i can recall having lag issues when fighting them.
4) They only had 1 caster, 1 fury, 1 warden, 1 tank "not sure class" and a scout...
Let me shed a lil more light on what happened in POF the night i got to thinking about this being a "lag hack"
My guild runs Courts raids weekly, and we do it in 2x with all lvl 70 players except for 3 of us "were 67-69" and we were formed up in 2x at the entrance to the courts, making sure we were buffed, hade rez feathers etc...I seen this guild up on the cliff above the courts entrance and i instantly /w all to see how many people were in the zone because i knew we had problems with these guys before. Their were only 4 other people in the whole zone...it was around 9pm PST.
This group of 6 players ATTACKED 2x raid of all lvl 70 players "except 3"???? Why would anyone do that? if i seen a raid of players the same lvl as me, and they had 12 and i had 6 would that not just be a death wish? Maybe not if I knew I could lag them out and wipe the entire raid.
I have posted about this on the official EQ2 forums, and their are some people claiming their is a lag hack...said it has something to do with using 2 modems or something...but chances are, your are prolly right with the holliday and the new expansion out =/