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lag monster is the hardest boss
Reehay
Member Posts: 172
in Guild Wars 2
love this game.. but the lag is unbearable. its not me. its not FPS lag. its network lag and its affecting my entire guild. since the official forums are nonexistent, does anyone know how we can help this? anyone know a port we can open on our routers?
anyone else with this issue? we are on Blackgate btw. its affecting all 8 of us. arg
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hope youre not being glib cuz im not trolling just to spread negativity. i hear people all over /map chat complaining about this and then people tell us to stfu cuz they get no lag.. just frustrating. we all have high end computers and zero problems wiht other games.. and we experience this horrendous lag even in instances. i could understand if it was during one of those clusterfuk DE's with 100 players but tonight we tried to show AC dungeon to some new members and it was unplayable.
really souring our experience. i trust Anet is aware of this. would be nice if official forums with official support was available to us..
I have experienced virtually no lag and I been playing since headstart. Now I have had a small handfulls of freezing for 30 secs or so and the game quickly returned to normal.
I really wouldnt consider that lag tho.
I cant say that I really see anybody complaining about it in game either except for the occational convo in regards to WvW
Im on jade quarry.....lag is insane, and the sad part is I just bought this computer! arrived on monday last week....ran great till once of these patches messed something up but theres lots of us saying the same thing....Its not on our end its on theres which sucks because we have to wait for them for fix it lol
I don't think he is, 4 people in my house are playing. We play on Jade Quarry and haven't encountered any lag yet. This is in PvE and WvWvW. Rigs of varying degrees between the 4 of us and none of us are experiencing any lag.
The lag is basically game breaking at this point. We stormed SM tonight only to have almost everyone lag out and die to a small group of enemies defending arrow carts. You run around getting warped back and forth, wait a minute or more for an ability to go off, and then suddenly get hit 50 times for 20k damage and fall over dead. This happened a couple of times before everyone just threw up their hands and went back to escorting yaks (because every yak needs 30 people walking with it 5 minutes from the nearest enemy or we will literally lose the internet; twice).
A lot of what this game offers is fantastic, but a lot of it is flat out amature hour (e.g. netcoding).
No Lag on my EU server at all.
Game runs smooth.
Same here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QKUz1YJhAM&feature=player_profilepage
Got lag for the first time tonight. Had to log off, the game was nigh unplayable.
That's one of the disadvantages of tissue-paper characters and a kiting / dodge based combat system. If your latency isn't decent, you're screwed.
Not knocking it. I enjoy the change. But the above is one of the glaring faults of the game.
bizarre... such a division... 1 side encounters game breaking lag and the other gets NONE at all? never ? even on the same server? i, too, have been playing since first beta and even the stress tests were MUCH smoother than these past few days. i wonder when these "zero lag" players are playing. during primetime US? unfortunately due to work and family i can only play prime time 7- 11 pm EST and its been horrendous, with brief oasis' of lagfree play. its really spikey lag too.. like maybe just sllightly unresponsive to skill activations and then boom, like 2 sec warping.
doesnt even seem to be location either. 2 of our members are northeast US, 1 midwest, 3 southwest, 3 west coast. and we all report experiencing the same lag to varying degrees.
kinda worried because i hear people saying Anet is just riding out the storm during this initial "new game" rush on the servers and expect it to all die down and get smooth. but really? so they dont plan on GW2 growing in popularity past even this initial launch week? cuz i expect a game this good to only get more and more popular.
I have played off and on throughout the whole day today (err.. sept 2nd yesterday) and I have not lagged at all. Now, just for the record I'm talking PVE, I have not tried joining any kind of PVP. Waiting to get to 80 before I do. Also I'm waiting for this initial rush to settle down.
Dont worry, in the coming weeks things will get less busy in game and if your experiencing lag it should get better.
I have no lag issues whatsoever either.
Well, me and a buddie had some this friday but we were sharing his slow mobile line so I am surprised we didnt had it worse.
I actually expected the game to have a lot more lag, sometimes the battle becomes massive.
I live in Europe, zero lag.
And you are right it is funny. It is possible that the issue is on a few US servers or something.
I had various levels of lag at start (including pre-start) with my character noticibly slowing down (like stutering) while running and fighting, and also some major lag where everything would freeze for a few seconds before coming back or getting a disconnect. This was before.
As of the last 3-4 days it's actually improved a lot (for me at least). At first I thought that playing wirelessly could be an issue and plugged in, but today even on wireless I very rarely experience the issues I mentioned above. My guess is it could be a server optimization issue which will be resolved at some point for you, or was it on my side at some point and it went away? Hard to tell.
If you send a ticket to ANET they will give you access to a tool to download which tests your latency against the server you play on, then sends off a report to them. I did not go this far as things dramatically improved.
Good luck
Its them and for me i noticed always at the same times when these spikes occure, not random. So for me at least , 4pm cst, 7pm cst and basicly every 3 hours it goes bonkers. I think it's a major backup during those times.. not sure, don't work for the guys, but its like clockwork, so log for 20 or 30 come back, everything works great.
One would say it's my system with that going on , but it was fine in beta, this is definitly something after the rescent patch and or up'n the population, definitly something thou as far as lag goes. I had to log just now because my instances story quest was so laggy the boss at end was in "god mod" when he would trigger his ult to heal (you can interupt) that would be great if you could actually time it without lag ;P so have to go threw that whole story again tomorow. stuff like that can definitly ruine if not make one right out give up on a game for awhile. No one want's to repeat the same crap over and over on the same toon due to mechanics and not ablities.
Don't take me wrong, game is awsome ,but the lag is well... starting to get a bit annoying, I thought about even saying screw it, start a whole new server from scratch that is light pop, but alas knowing my luck the issue will just follow.
"The monster created isn't by the company that makes the game, it's by the fans that make it something it never was"
I have experienced those 30 sec freezes lately too and they are annoying as hell!
In several of them I was participating in a DE and not gotten credit for it! Meaning the server didn't even register my participation.
It's all nice and dandy for them to increase the server pops, but if the servers can't handle it... they need to increase the hardware capacity to back it up!
If in 1982 we played with the current mentality, we would have burned down all the pac man games since the red ghost was clearly OP. Instead we just got better at the game.
Yeah, but it is odd that it just happen to some people or servers, and more or less just US players...
It might be that there are some problems with a few servers.
Prime time US Jade Quarry is when I play. On the weekends I'm on sad to say pretty much all day lol. They don't expect popularity to die out lol, they are expecting players to spread out.
And as for the division I have no idea, still not getting lag as of 9/3/2012. WvWvW or PvE, still no sign of this game breaking lag monster. Maybe post who your ISP is and what your speed is? Charter 100mb here.
I've played during the times Guild Wars 2 has maintenance. The lag is unbearable. 10-20 seconds of standing still at a time and your skills doing nothing. This is usually in WvW, but also happens out in the fields. Every one on the server was lagging bad too.
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