Can't see that this is an improvement

[Sevrin]

Played for few hours today after patch. Could hardly find anything to do. One synthesizer, one arkfall. No incursions. And the one arkfall I found...lag city.

[Altras]

Played for few hours today after patch. Could hardly find anything to do. One synthesizer, one arkfall. No incursions. And the one arkfall I found...lag city.

I bet it was a hellbug one too.

[AllGamer]

in PC-NA all the stuff in San Fran are working better, more smoothly than before

Saw several Scrappers arks, lots of Hell bug arks

many random smaller grid arks

incursions seems to be working properly now, no more random overlapping with other events

[Chump Norris]

Played for few hours today after patch. Could hardly find anything to do. One synthesizer, one arkfall. No incursions. And the one arkfall I found...lag city.

This and the Major Arkbreaks only being in San Fran meaning a DM Major spawn is wasted really make this patch a fail imo.

It was already hard enough to find a DM Major but these two things really mess it up.

[Lorchra]

Just tried a Progenitor Major. Halfway through the final stage, guess what, I lagged out. In fact, I lagged out so badly that I was able to run to the southern shores of San Francisco, and swim to Silicon Valley. Spent about 5 minutes there (interestingly, I received notifications about events in SF that spawned along the path I followed, I even received loot and poop shoes from a Hellbug event that I crossed about ten minutes before.

So much for the new patch.

[DEATHBRINGER210]

i found lag city too

[Lorchra]

Tried another Major Arkfall in SF. Lagged out at the third minor site. I'm very close to pressing the Uninstall.



I have a fairly strong computer, a good connection (I can play other MMOs without problems, including SW: TOR, Star Trek Online, LOTRO, etc.) - I'm saying this before somebody tries to blame it on connectivity issues - Defiance is the only game that fails within a few minutes after logging in due to heavy lag.

Trion, fix this s...t before you attempt to release stuff that will put even more strain on the servers.

[Atticus Batman]

Tried another Major Arkfall in SF. Lagged out at the third minor site. I'm very close to pressing the Uninstall.



I have a fairly strong computer, a good connection (I can play other MMOs without problems, including SW: TOR, Star Trek Online, LOTRO, etc.) - I'm saying this before somebody tries to blame it on connectivity issues - Defiance is the only game that fails within a few minutes after logging in due to heavy lag.

Trion, fix this s...t before you attempt to release stuff that will put even more strain on the servers.

I blame all of you PEOPLE for frying my brain with THOSE accursed graphs, and meaningless computer gibberish! I may be a hero, but I am a CONSOLE hero, so what do I know of your Compu-gibberish?!

Alright I know your graphs and Pc talk are important, but heck if I want to try to translate it, into consolese!!

[crazyged]

I blame all of you PEOPLE for frying my brain with THOSE accursed graphs, and meaningless computer gibberish! I may be a hero, but I am a CONSOLE hero, so what do I know of your Compu-gibberish?!

Alright I know your graphs and Pc talk are important, but heck if I want to try to translate it, into consolese!!

I know how you feel - all I see when I look at them is the Nevada desert skyline...

[Lorchra]

I blame all of you PEOPLE for frying my brain with THOSE accursed graphs, and meaningless computer gibberish! I may be a hero, but I am a CONSOLE hero, so what do I know of your Compu-gibberish?!

Alright I know your graphs and Pc talk are important, but heck if I want to try to translate it, into consolese!!

All right, here is a short explanation:

Black line = Latency (the time it takes for a data packet to travel between Trion's server and the client. The longer it takes, the laggier the game tends to be.) Those "skyscrapers" are usually not a good sign.

Red vertical bars = 100% packet loss (data travels in packets between the server and the computer. These packets carry information about your position in the game world, your target, the damage you inflicted on it, etc. When it's 100% packet loss, it means that those data packets are lost, i.e. the flow of information is interrupted between your rig and the server. If the server is unable to catch up and update its data records according to your current state, you will be de-synced from the server = mobs running in place, critical timeout, etc).

I'm not a network engineer, so my explanation is probably very crude: if there are any network gurus out there they are most welcome to correct it.