one of ps4 na shards is broken and acting up . a dev needs to log in to see this first hand.
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one of ps4 na shards is broken and acting up . a dev needs to log in to see this first hand.
cant spawn a car , cant switch weapons. map wont load.
no vendors at the crater cant collect my keys.
and just got booted from the server. back to ps3 i go .
I haven’t been on today but yes, there is one shard/zone that is notorious for having issues. The best thing to do when this happens is to change instance or log out and come back later. I noticed it happens just before a change or fix is made in game. So makes me wonder if one of the world servers is the main where all the code is and the other zones are copies. Would explain why only the one is effected and not the others. I do remember them saying they could make adjustments on the fly without taking the game offline. Maybe this is one of those instances.
that server critted outand booted everyone. not many players on . it seemed every1 was phase locked.
This happens like 2-3 times a day on PSN EU in all instances/shards for small periods of 5 min or so... but sometimes it lasts a LONG time...
It's frustrating when it lasts hours and you simply have to stop playing - I have also seen it where eventually everybody is ejected to main menu.
no vendors at the crater cant collect my keys.
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i have had that happen to me as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by blanca12
Yeah, on PS4 NA there is one specific world shard that when it hard lags. You can’t do anything. You can’t spawn anvehicl, activate a node, change weapons or get ammo, you can’t pick up loot and you don’t see any vendors. It does last from 5- 20+ minutes. Only thing that works is chat. But sometimes it’s delayed. It’s only this one world server though.
This is not one specific shard/server. It is however the server/shard that is up the longest after reset.
Ok so here is what is happening and possible fixes for it. Early morning ct there is a 10min reset that shuts down shards/servers and clears scores all rendered skins/mobs, turkeys, skitters ect. For the time being lets call them assets.
It is now 8hrs later the first server has been up loading these assets from thousands of people. By now a second server is engaged to compensate for increased play traffic. The 1st server remains up, but is now lagging due to a day of asset loading. This server however will not be reset till hours from now. Most jump off the original server giving it time to clear some of the assets, but untill reset it holds alot of them.
So how is it fixed or avoided? Well larger clans can just go to someone not lagging and on a newer server. Others can go to friends on newer servers. You can log out and log back in hope to get lucky. A trick that works really well if you can't get on is join a session or have someone invite you to join from in game on a good server.
Defiance has the largest open world and population at the same time than any games out there. It is why people don't want to give up on it. It's the same reason nobody attemps what they do because they know it will slowly become unstable and frustrating to player base. In d13 this caused huge memory problems crashing you every couple major arkfalls. Some fixes they used were generic skin textures (Dwayne) he was called. In 2050 they took another approach of not showing other players to reduce asset loading. Why do I see 100 turkeys and no players?
The fix is more powerful servers and more up at once, but thats not going to happen anytime soon. So a temp fix could be a designated mid day restart. Maybe the same time we get the new contract update take it down 10 minutes. Then do the same 12 hours later.
I hope they do look into a solution as this scares new players away. We have to explain in chat all the time what is happening. So think about how many give up because of this frustration.
after getting booted . it put in the broken phase.