[LAG] Many of us are experiencing regular lag and rubberbanding

[TheUrkkiMan]

I love the game but at least 30% of the matches I play (mostly 3vs3/4vs4) have serious lag and rubberbanding issues. For example games running something like 0.80x speed or constantly stopping/slowing and catching up again. This happens consistently even when all players have "green" pings. Also the people I play with are having the same problems.

 

[Bishmoo]

I have the same issue

 

[naizarak]

afaik the connection indicator is only for your network state. a player with a potato computer may start to lag, especially in the late game, and everyone will play in slow-motion to compensate. the solution is for eugene to start using hosted servers instead of p2p, or to host your lobbies as a dedicated server once the binaries are released

 

[Fonz]

Have the same issue every game, but only for the first minute after deployment phase when the units are moving up. The game will rubberband like 5-10 times then smooths out as the game goes on.

 

[RSW2002]

Have had it happen sporadically in 3v3/4v4. Sometimes just for the first few minutes of the match, sometimes from the middle of the match all the way towards the end. We spent a lot of time triple-checking everything on our end, but couldn't find anything.

It even happened in 3v3/4v4 against the AI. And we're all on gaming rigs that have 0 problems running this game at extreme settings, so hardware performance isn't the problem either.

 

[TheUrkkiMan]

afaik the connection indicator is only for your network state. a player with a potato computer may start to lag, especially in the late game, and everyone will play in slow-motion to compensate. the solution is for eugene to start using hosted servers instead of p2p, or to host your lobbies as a dedicated server once the binaries are released

Silly system if everyone has to suffer when someone is playing with a potato.

 

[Por_una_Cabeza]

I SUFFER from it as well .You need to know that there are players from all over the world, but i guess normally the server is in Europe. So high ping, lag, and packet loss are inevitable for those far from Europe.

 

[TheUrkkiMan]

Still having pretty bad problems, but now the rubberbanding seems to be mostly gone but the good old slow motion games are back stronger than ever. Maybe ~15% of the games.

 

[Vyllis]

10 v10 are dedicated servers. 1v1 to 4v4 are not. If you have slow motion in 1v1 to 4v4, that's because someone have a potato computer or bad net/ping.

 

[TheUrkkiMan]

10 v10 are dedicated servers. 1v1 to 4v4 are not. If you have slow motion in 1v1 to 4v4, that's because someone have a potato computer or bad net/ping.

The bad connection can be spotted from the ping indicator but the game punishing all players because one of them has too high graphic settings or a shitty computer really sucks.

 

[Sarin]

I play a lot of games. From 2v2 right through to large scale.

Don't see this that often. When I do, it is usually someones internet connection or just terrible PC.

If you are seeing this a lot, do you regularly play with some friends.

One of them might have a horrible PC or be dropping a lot of packets with their internet connection.

Unfortunately not that much that can be done about it other then preventing people with terrible internet or bad PCs from actually playing.

 

[Sanny]

10 v10 are dedicated servers. 1v1 to 4v4 are not. If you have slow motion in 1v1 to 4v4, that's because someone have a potato computer or bad net/ping.

Exactly anything other than the official servers is Peer-2-Peer connectivity.

What you want is for the host to have a stable (no packet loss) strong upload speed. Any other issues is because the players connected to the host (and each other) have a bad connection so everyone else gets affected.

 

[TheUrkkiMan]

Huge lag always and everywhere after the release

 

[le saucisson masqué]

10 v10 are dedicated servers. 1v1 to 4v4 are not. If you have slow motion in 1v1 to 4v4, that's because someone have a potato computer or bad net/ping.

so if i had this issue in 10v10, it means that i am lagging ?

i'm lagging like everyone else on 2/3 of the game i do, so it's very annoying.
Did eugen said anything about dedicated server ?

 

[TheUrkkiMan]

so if i had this issue in 10v10, it means that i am lagging ?

Yes, If you can't keep up with the server you will lag, desync and drop

 

[Raventhefuhrer]

I wish the game gave you more feedback on why there's poor performance. Other games will pop out a message like 'Wehraboo66's settings are too high for the game', or have a more reliable indicator of who's got a poor network connection.

Also a vote kick option would be great. Needs to be a simple majority (so in a 4v4, it's 5 votes needed to kick).

 

[TGApples]

Same issue. It's rare, but very frustrating. There are two players in particular who play 2v2 games in which I get massive rubberbanding and stutters whenever I play against them.

 

[Crotou]

That's the problem we have been putting up with for 5 years (since European Escalation) : peer-to-peer games are regularly laggy.

 

[TheUrkkiMan]

almost 75% of 3vs3 and 4vs4 have lag issues

 

[JC_von_Preussen]

It's a very general issue since the release. It was not the case before, at least for good pings.

My little finger tells me the new maps or/and units are the cause.

All in all, the release on the 23rd of May definitely feels wrong. Releasing 2 division once every two week was cool, and the devs could have kept this rythm untill 6th of June.

Now, this "rushed" release even gives a feeling of "something is broken". I had great hopes, and I suddenly fear the devs are not actually commited to making the game reach wide success (player base being split too much, AI takeover, no reagequit/report policy, etc). Or else, there are financial issues. But, ok, I'm off topic already.

Plz devs, do fix these laggs.