Are they ever gonna work on fixing Desync and game lag

Chris and co. aren't busy just looking at internet pron or playing Diablo 3, ya know:

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/318115

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welcome to online gaming, check your sanity at the door.

It is a real bummer and can slow you down to a crawl. I play melee and often have to run in, hit something, and then leave, even with full health. By the time I am on the other side of the room I have lost 50% of my health because the server thinks I've been hit. Sometimes I'll type /oos and warp into another room. And what's up with those god damn boulder guys? It seems as soon as they start their rolling attack animation, the server decides you have been hit, no matter how far away you get as they roll past you. Actually, all of the charging mobs are just ridiculous. The amount of times I've died... I've given up on trying to level my character. I'm just farming orbs and keeping my xp at 0%.

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Emil_kof wrote:

I don't get desync. I suggest looking into your connection quality.

The lag is server side. I have wiresharked outbound and inbound packets during desyncs to look for lost packets / retransmits via TCP. There is no interruption of network flow either way during the severe 5-15 second desyncs players are describing.

It is either a memory leak in the server side software, a decrease in the polling rate between the client and server, or just loading up too many instances per server.

If you "don't get desync", it is because you play at nonpeak times or your playstyle doesn't show the desyncs as often as they actually happen.

I have tried looking at this issue from a network standpoint and have failed to find any reason that US customers should be experiencing high latency.

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blindtaubstoned wrote:

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khmaikidx wrote:

blub desync blah

you are a beta tester for this game. this is a known problem, devs are working on it. whining about it on the forums over and over again is not helpfull but annoying.

Honestly, as someone who plays the game daily for hours at a time, and enjoys it thoroughly, I must say that these threads really are necessary.

The devs need to know about the severity and frequency of issues to know how to prioritize fixes. Everyone in the industry knows that software development is an endless game of triage and bug squashing as you continuously add new content and squash old bugs.

As it stands, there are only two problems in path of exile that i consider "Severe / Game Breaking".

1. Desync.

2. Lack of a full featured trade system.

Everything else is secondary to these two issues.

GGG has been really good about listening to its testers (i call them customers since many of us are paying for "beta") but the noise on the forums about specific issues is warranted and needed.

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ProbablyNotJackieChan wrote:

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Emil_kof wrote:

I don't get desync. I suggest looking into your connection quality.

The lag is server side. I have wiresharked outbound and inbound packets during desyncs to look for lost packets / retransmits via TCP. There is no interruption of network flow either way during the severe 5-15 second desyncs players are describing.

It is either a memory leak in the server side software, a decrease in the polling rate between the client and server, or just loading up too many instances per server.

If you "don't get desync", it is because you play at nonpeak times or your playstyle doesn't show the desyncs as often as they actually happen.

I have tried looking at this issue from a network standpoint and have failed to find any reason that US customers should be experiencing high latency.

This.



I live in Germany right now and play on the American server so I can play with my friends back home. Since I am playing at non-peak times I rarely experience desync at all. And I live in the Alps with shitty DSL internet plus I am connecting across the globe to the US server. I have no problems. This is a server-side issue.

I can play this game absolutely fine except when I 'spam' movement skills: such as shield charge, leap slam, etc. This skills will exacerbate desync if you spam them heavily.

SO if you want to use these skills in your build, use them sparingly or prepare for desync.

it will never be fully "fixed" because of allways present client-server latency

they continuously work on reducing desync

there may be problem with latency and stability of your connection as well

/thread

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Ludvator wrote:

it will never be fully "fixed" because of allways present client-server latency

they continuously work on reducing desync

there may be problem with latency and stability of your connection as well

/thread

RTFT

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h3rp3s wrote:

Why do people think they lost their char? You didnt lose it. Its on default league. With exactly the same gear and gameplay. If your so upset. Keep playing your char? No one is making you create a new one.

once you die in hc you chars value is cut in half i think even worse now

btw i have never desycs dont know if it is my playstyle my skills.....

map brutus warps from time to time but i think thats "normal"

It will never go away completely.