Strongbox opening = lag = death.

Opening strongbox often causes lag which kills you. Well, not lag per se, but inability to defend yourself against spawning monsters. It's safe to say that I die almost exclusively on a strongboxes and only because of this lag. So I wonder if mechanics of this whole feature can be changed somehow to prevent this.

I run PoE on highest settings and have no troubles whatsoever except of strongboxes.
Upgrading hardware because of a single feature in one of the games seems unreasonable.
And what exact hardware do you think is responsible for this lag?..

PS
I think all this monsters/exiles should just hang around the box. Spawning a bunch of mobs at once seems like a terrible idea to begin with. Especially in online game. And with possible hardcore mode it's just wrong.

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Flying_Mage wrote:

I think all this monsters/exiles should just hang around the box.

hmm, how does that correlate with applying orbs to boxes?

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geradon wrote:

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Flying_Mage wrote:

I think all this monsters/exiles should just hang around the box.

hmm, how does that correlate with applying orbs to boxes?

Ok. Here's another solution. Strongbox can project several portals from which monsters would stream out. Similar to loremaster's mission of relic defence. To keep the whole thing challenging there can be more monsters than we have now. But as long as they are not spawning all at once there should be no extreme lag.

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Flying_Mage wrote:

Ok. Here's another solution. Strongbox can project several portals from which monsters would stream out. Similar to loremaster's mission of relic defence. To keep the whole thing challenging there can be more monsters than we have now. But as long as they are not spawning all at once there should be no extreme lag.

i like this, and other possiblities:

-remove "normal" boxes and replace them with Torment sprits
-keep only currency, gem, flask and mapboxes and use Flying-Mage's idea on those(but made spawn enemies drop nothing/give no xp).

I've never had a problem opening regular strongboxes with enemies from the same area.

The only problem is when you try to open a "Guarded by a Rogue Exile" box and the game decides when you open it that its a great time to start loading in all those micro-transactions which basically cause my game to lock up for a few seconds and then dead.

Would be better to remove all the MTX they have, or load up Rogue Exiles ahead of time when the area loads (or when "Rogue Exile" is rolled on said box), before opening said boxes.

I think the lag is caused by the client loading resources when you activate
the box. I think if this is the case, the resources need to be preloaded
with each roll. lets say you tranny a white box, a mild lag happens as the
client loads resources (the box knows what its gonna do if you activate it)

every time you alt or chaos, or reroll it it would reload assets related.

if the strong box is "spawns an exile" doesnt it know which exile? with which
auras etc? cant it load them before you activate?

maybe the box knows to generate an exile, but only decides which exile
when you activate, once activated it must load assets like auras etc.

ggg needs to restructure strongboxes and how they work such that as many
assets as possible are preloaded before activation.

if this is already the case than my premise is wrong, and something
else is causing the lag. maybe the sudden appearance of 21 monsters each comiting
some action the moment they spawn! maybe ggg could stagger the "awakening"
of monsters so they dont all act at once in one instant? i dunno.

Are you IDing the rare strongboxes to see if you will be frozen? I died many times due to freeze until I got in the habit of IDing to see if I will get frozen. Also, either have Leapslam, Lightning Warp, or Smoke Mine to get away fast so you aren't mobbed to death.

Edit: Oh yes, Rangers now have Blink Arrow. Haven't used that yet.

Oh, finally someone said it!

I have the same issue, it's happening very often since last patch. Last time it happened when i encountered a rogue exile, and i died enough times on hardcore. I hope they get to fix this annoying lag/bug so i can play again.

Been playing since closed beta and had never experienced this before.


And yes, its lag, its not my graphics card.

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Arrowneous wrote:

Are you IDing the rare strongboxes to see if you will be frozen? I died many times due to freeze until I got in the habit of IDing to see if I will get frozen. Also, either have Leapslam, Lightning Warp, or Smoke Mine to get away fast so you aren't mobbed to death.

Edit: Oh yes, Rangers now have Blink Arrow. Haven't used that yet.

I do ID the the boxes. If it freezes or something I always have a flask to counter it. I also using Blink (at least I am trying) to get away of danger. But the problem is that sometimes I am dead before I can do anything. It's just like that: I am opening the box > everything goes static for a second > I am dead.