Died to Strongbox lag and suggestions so this never happens again

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NeroNoah wrote:

The only way Atziri is going to be more accesible is if her uniques stop dropping everytime.

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Chronodroid wrote:

Pre-loading makes no sense as long as you can alter the boxes spawns (read: modify like maps..).

Sorry to hear, but reading box properties is advised, even in SC altho 10% XP loss hurt less than a HC-death for sure.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

That unique map where the final boss raises everything in the final room demonstrated that raising/spawning lots of enemies simultaneously was a bad idea, it caused a huge lag spike for most players. That encounter has since been changed to progressively resurrecting monsters which resolved the issue quite nicely.

That spell has always, from the very first implementation, raised them over time, starting with the ones closest to the necromancer and working outwards -that wasn't changed, it's always done that. The change that was made was so that it wouldn't raise monsters that didn't have room to stand up, causing them to overlap, which had a bunch of negative consequences all over the place, including AI and pathing, and also served to reduce the total number of living monsters which was making the fight difficult.

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

Strong Boxes spawn large groups of monsters instantly and similarly produce lag spikes for the same reasons.

There is absolutely no spawning happening when that mass revive spell is used - a dead monster and a living one are the same gameobject and have all the same data - nothing new is loaded when a monster is raised from death - any lag caused in this case is not due to loading monsters, because they're all already loaded. This is not equivalent to a strongbox.

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

The reason you don't notice performance issues as enemies load in to existence while you walk around is because they are presumably progressively loaded. Entire groups of enemies aren't loaded when you get near them, instead the individual members of the group spawn in as you near them one-by-one so the potential performance impact is quite small.

This is partially true - the area around your character where things are active isn't continuous, but discrete, in terms of "tiles" that are each a square a bit wider than cleave's base radius. When you move, you'll unload monsters on one set of tiles you're moving away from and load them in on those you're moving towards, all at once. In general, this would involve loading fewer things than a strongbox, but this depends to some extent on how the monsters happen to be laid out.

We are continually making improvements to how things are preloaded and preventing on-the-fly loading where we can.

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KillerB wrote:

What about making the strongbox opening 2-staged, you roll it whatever you want, you click once it preloads the thingies (MTXs etc, maybe spawn in the mobs invisible, invulnerable state) it needs and locks the box so it can't change anymore and then next click opens/activates it.

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Mark_GGG wrote:

We are continually making improvements to how things are preloaded and preventing on-the-fly loading where we can.

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Arrowneous wrote:

 There are 2 ways to best handle this problem:

1. Drop a smoke mine just outside the mobs range and jump to it upon opening the strongbox
2. Use Lightning Warp to move out of harms way fast
    (I'm currently using LW on my level 80 Shadow, have used SM and haven't tried leap slam)