Vanishing players and mobs

[Andyleaves]

Just wondering if anyone else is getting the same problem.
It was bad enough with vehicles de-spawning from under you, but this is now a joke.

Right here goes;
When in arkfalls, or other large scale events, firstly my weapons stop being reloaded, or stop damage, try to swap them out, but nope.
Then suddenly everything applies at once!
Then the other players disappear just leaving me with the Mobs, but I can tell the others are still there as the mobs die anyway, if I use the healers version I can still see the green shield points.

Sometimes the event ends and everything comes back or the entire game hangs and crashes my 360.

Which then means that I don't get rewards

If it was once or twice, I could live with that but this is at least once a day.

So in summary;
Disappearing players.
Weapons not functioning
Game hangs, or crashes out!

At first I thought the 360 was dead but it only happens with Defiance. Skyrim hangs, but that's because the disk is trashed.

Now I normally don't b*tch about Defiance, but this is what happens to other large f2p games, if this carries I might not...

[Atticus Batman]

Just wondering if anyone else is getting the same problem.
It was bad enough with vehicles de-spawning from under you, but this is now a joke.

Right here goes;
When in arkfalls, or other large scale events, firstly my weapons stop being reloaded, or stop damage, try to swap them out, but nope.
Then suddenly everything applies at once!
Then the other players disappear just leaving me with the Mobs, but I can tell the others are still there as the mobs die anyway, if I use the healers version I can still see the green shield points.

Sometimes the event ends and everything comes back or the entire game hangs and crashes my 360.

Which then means that I don't get rewards

If it was once or twice, I could live with that but this is at least once a day.

So in summary;
Disappearing players.
Weapons not functioning
Game hangs, or crashes out!

At first I thought the 360 was dead but it only happens with Defiance. Skyrim hangs, but that's because the disk is trashed.

Now I normally don't b*tch about Defiance, but this is what happens to other large f2p games, if this carries I might not...

It means you are very lagged. ANd if you disconnect you DO get rewards. You are cashed out when disconnected from an event, and get the ammount of keys/arkforge you should get based on your score. Btw you can NOT blame F2P, when this issue has been here since the Beta.

[Andyleaves]

Dude thanks for your input, but still have the beta installed on PC, never had this before on either EU or NA systems!

And although the concept of f2p is great as it will breathe new life into a fantastic game, if people are experiencing serious lag now what's it going to be like next week?

Oh I have a 60mb fibre connection!

[Atticus Batman]

Dude thanks for your input, but still have the beta installed on PC, never had this before on either EU or NA systems!

And although the concept of f2p is great as it will breathe new life into a fantastic game, if people are experiencing serious lag now what's it going to be like next week?

Laggy as hell, like always. I am glad you havne't seen much lag to this point, so I am sorry you now are experiencing what most have had from the start.

[Bennyguy]

I'm in the same boat....and going to be moving on to another game if this xbox disconnect issue isn't resolved soon. I have a new 3 month old xbox....opened all the necessary ports on my router, and have a 32 ping, 50 mg DL / 10 mg up and still can't stay connected or even get into major arkfalls. Now I'm loosing my drops, as try to collect them I DC....and are not obtainable after this happens.

I know its not my setup....no other game fails the way this one does at staying connected. I have had no issues with the PC version just Xbox. I have now learned a lesson, use Google to see how stable a games network is before purchasing access to it.

[Synther]

Dude thanks for your input, but still have the beta installed on PC, never had this before on either EU or NA systems!

And although the concept of f2p is great as it will breathe new life into a fantastic game, if people are experiencing serious lag now what's it going to be like next week?

Oh I have a 60mb fibre connection!

Regardless of your 60Mbps fiber connection, you're incorrectly making the assumption that the lag is being caused on Trion's end. The lag could be caused at any number of points between you and the Defiance servers. It only takes one connection point in-between to hiccup and you would experience lag. You're also making the assumption that because you experience this lag that literally everyone is experiencing lag. That is not the case.

You'll need to plug in a computer and start by doing a traceroute to find out whether there is a server between you and the destination that is causing an issue. If that is the case, you'll need to contact your ISP and request a reroute which can be a total pain but is the only option aside from simply waiting it out until whoever owns that server gets off their butt and fixes it.

[Roez]

The players poofing, leaving you with the mobs is seems like it's a game client issue. It's been mentioned a ton, PC and console, and I see someone complain about it in game (PC) every day. It reminds me of culling gone bad, or some type of inadvertent phase change. Who knows.

The all of a sudden catching up stuff is something else entirely.

[Andyleaves]

This is why I don't post in these sites...

1.) The first thing I asked was, was anyone else getting the same problem!
The answer to this would give an idea as to where to start looking, to source and fix and resolution!

2.) I love the way others tell me what is and is not happening on my systems.

3.)As for the traceroute... Shall I just run a standard tracert

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Andy>tracert 38.126.149.121

Tracing route to mail.trion.com [38.126.149.121]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 16 ms 18 ms 20 ms 10.58.120.1
2 17 ms 19 ms 19 ms popl-core-2b-xe-1122-0.network.virginmedia.net [82.2.51.85]
3 56 ms 45 ms 27 ms brnt-bb-2a-ae4-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.254.42.9]
4 14 ms 23 ms 28 ms brhm-bb-2a-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.254.42.58]
5 27 ms 23 ms 23 ms brhm-bb-1b-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.254.42.106]
6 31 ms 36 ms 37ms teln-ic-1-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [212.43.163.250]
7 65ms 45 ms 32 ms m282-mp2.cvx3-a.ltn.dial.ntli.net [213.104.85.26]
8 56 ms 26 ms 25 ms be2315.ccr22.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.73.109]
9 96 ms 95 ms 96 ms be2348.ccr22.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.30.169]
10 114 ms 134 ms 99 ms te3-2.ccr01.phl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.31.54]
11 102 ms 98 ms 100 ms te2-1.mag02.phl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.85.150]
12 101 ms 99 ms 101 ms vl3834.na31.b001318-0.phl01.atlas.cogentco.com [38.20.32.6]
13 * * * Request timed out.
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Trace complete.

Or should I use either my SCO Unix box, or even reboot to my REDHAT partition?

Asking for help and others experiences sometimes is like chasing a parked bus.
And I did qualify with an MCSE

[crazyged]

I'm on PC EU and have the same problems, along with everyone else in incursions, etc. It's really annoying when you're rushing to The Mother of All Hellbugs and your vehicle disappears! It's happened to a whole convoy of us at times. That extra delay means the difference between wracking up points on the big bug at the end, or getting there in time to see it explode...

I'm often "alone" while taking out inflicted at incursions...

Good times...

[Lucent]

The best incursions are the ones where "I'm alone" because everything dies faster! (Which for a while made killing Hulkers very difficult, but after today will be wonderful again... bring out the Invaders!)