Is it me or the lag spikes have begun to appear more and more often with every passing day, after the launch of FotD?
At the start it was more or less bearable, but the past few days have really been awful for us. We throw the same buckets of water multiple times back into the ship due to lags. And I won't even begin to talk about boarding and fighting players on an enemy ship.
Have Rare stated anything on this matter yet?
Yeah even though lag has always been an issue, it is indeed getting worse, I been spamming arena lately and even though I host the game I am always put into american servers 8 times out of 10. Its manageable but playing at 160 ping instead of 70 is very noticeable, though being honest even when I am on European servers the ping tends to spike a bit when other ships get close which is exactly when you DONT want it to happen lol. I have at this point just accepted it, Even when I lose a fight to hit reg it isnt bothering me as much anymore lol, Such a bad sign. I do love the game though lag and all. real shame though. could be so much more :)
Don't know if you played Adventure mode for the past 10 days but... even on EU servers where we usually play with 60-80 ping, we get spikes to 300+ once every 30-60 sec. We get ported around, falling off the ship, not being able to repair/bucket and whatnot.
And as for the hit-reg stuff, well, I even have a clip from my stream to show you that I too share your pain: https://www.twitch.tv/grimminal/clip/ExcitedVivaciousPelicanKappaWealth?filter=clips&range=7d&sort=time
This is a zero proof statement but it’s probably due to players server hopping to find an active FotD. Same thing happened with original forts before they were always active.
Personally server hopping needs to be addressed. Something similar should be done liken to an MMO. You choose the region then Your server is set. If you want to play with friends you get a world pass. First is free then if you wish you buy one with in game gold. Or after so much real world time has passed you can switch.
@k1lroyw4sh3r3 That actually makes alot of sense, and explains why we are seeing that now, but also why it's so inconsistent
Kind of makes sense I guess...
And as for the regions, I think they are with priority i.e. if you're playing from EU, the game firstly tries to place you on an EU server. I'm mostly sure in this because when playing on EU servers I have 60-80 constant ping, but on US I got 140-160. And I mostly play with 60-80. and get 140-160 when I que in arenas and it places me on US (probably because there is not enough people queueing from EU).
