Last week I was first to load in to vaults and raids. This week I’m way late in to vaults and one of the last into helliquary raids. The load screens take longer. Whatever fix you made last time this issue occurred seems to be broken again.
There’s also been more freezes and stutters while playing. Unsure if it’s related or separate performance issue.
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Back in July, after this had already been on-going for a couple of months, the Community Manager made this thread to ask for data from players…
The Community Manager said…
That was over a month ago, and he hasn’t posted on the subject since.
From my own experience, and lots of responses in that thread, it seems to be mostly affecting players who are Immortals. This was certainly the case for me, with exactly the same symptoms as you’re describing (i.e. slow zone-in to Vault, dungeons, raids, teleporting between zones, and so on) that simply went away when I went back to being a Shadow a couple of weeks ago.
The general lag issues were never really fixed, but they did fix the super slow pc client zone loading (at least on my system). For a week there I was loading in like 3-5 seconds behind mobile users in vaults, dungeons, and raids and then it corrected back to me beating them in. That speed event would have been absolutely unplayable on PC if it hadn’t been fixed.
Today though I was again a good 2s or so behind all the mobile users on zone in speed. Not quite as horrendous but still meant the raid animation was being triggered before I even got to start running…But hmm, this is also day 1 of me being an Immortal again, so maybe that was the cause. Last massively slow period I was also an Immortal, but pretty sure I was still an Immortal when it went back to normal…
I’ve been using the same system this whole time, so I know it’s the DI client as opposed to hardware change.
I think the loading issue is related to the Immortals faction. Are you shadow or immortal right now?
I was Immortal for the last four weeks and loading vaults or any zone with immortals in the party was very slow with big lag spikes anytime someone zoned in or out.
Now this week I’m Shadow and everything is fast, because most of the time all my party members are also Shadows.