Announcements - Update on Deterministic Lockstep - Forum

" diernes wrote: " CliveHowlitzer wrote: " diernes wrote: Some of you people need to realize the "Desync" method is actually in many ways superior. Input delay is the worst thing in online games bar none. I'm just glad they are giving us a choice and not forcing lockstep on us. More than likely I will be keeping the current system. thanks GGG Especially in fighting games. Fuck input delay. I'm a big time fighting game player so I completely agree with you on that front. It's not such an issue in a game like this but still... Even Chris has acknowledged that from a game-play standpoint, Client predictive is a better option so I am actually more excited to hear they have fixed a lot of problems with this mode and cant wait to see how much its been improved. I was really worried about this change. but since we get a choice I'm really really happy. I don't know anything about lockstep or desynch modes. As a hardcore player, I only want to know one thing: Which mode is more likely to get you killed? @GGG: You've shown again why you guys are the best gamecompany there is :) Such is the vastness of his genius, that he can outwit even himself. Last edited by Thracite#1662 on May 8, 2015, 3:38:59 AM	Posted by Thracite#1662 on May 8, 2015, 3:38:20 AM Quote this Post
no more desync death?! hell yeah	Posted by XRacKS#7371 on May 8, 2015, 3:49:49 AM Quote this Post
This is probably the most important PoE improvement/update so far. I've been playing melee builds mostly (two of which are flicker) and having suffered from desync quite a lot, I'm really looking forward to this change!	Posted by ata#7174 on May 8, 2015, 3:57:21 AM Quote this Post
" Thracite wrote: I don't know anything about lockstep or desynch modes. As a hardcore player, I only want to know one thing: Which mode is more likely to get you killed? @GGG: You've shown again why you guys are the best gamecompany there is :) If you have latency < 100ms (150ms?) you use lockstep mode if you don't want to get killed, if you have more latency you use the mode we have now (according to news post this mode also got some improvements). The lower the latency you have the better lockstep mode is going to be for you. IGN: FoughtBledAndWeptForGod, WoE_HitoZ stream: http://www.twitch.tv/hitokirizoro	Posted by Pivovar#5220 on May 8, 2015, 4:10:36 AM Quote this Post
Well this seems like a huge improvement to the whole desync issue of the game and i hope it will work out. Especially for melee characters that suffer so much from it. Kudos guys! Don't fool yourself exile... your end is just around the corner!	Posted by Mihalis#6880 on May 8, 2015, 4:12:31 AM Quote this Post
" Frank666Forensics wrote: Im from South Africa got latancy of about 220...im still screwed. How can I lower that latancy? You can't, once GGG add some more servers you might get a better latency...as it is atm South Africa is routed to london then to the servers in amsterdam...they are supposed to be opening a server in london so once they do you may see the latency you have drop down a bit but i don't think it will be that much Ancestral Bond. It's a thing that does stuff. -Vipermagi He who controls the pants controls the galaxy. - Rick & Morty S3E1	Posted by lagwin1980#2224 on May 8, 2015, 4:15:56 AM Quote this Post
" Many bugs with this mode have been uncovered during the implementation of Deterministic Lockstep and have been fixed. "Speed of light. Fuck netcode optimisation. Speedoflightspeedoflightspeedoflight! l2internet nab!" I guess that's my passive-aggressive way of saying "I told you so," to the nay-sayers.	Posted by f4sak3n#2799 on May 8, 2015, 4:19:13 AM Quote this Post
I am extremely excited to try out the new system. Why? I live in hotels for work and best connection I get is WIFI 5mb download-2mb upload speeds (on a good day). Looking forward to a lot less deaths due to desync. Thank You.	Posted by Moozz2#6918 on May 8, 2015, 4:23:49 AM Quote this Post
" Chris wrote: " Maxwells wrote: Well shit, so basically only New Zoolanders or peeps with golden pockets to afford 3 fiddy internet will have the desync fix? Well shit. I'm as for from New Zealand as you can get. There are no servers in New Zealand. Regular predictive sync is a lot better now as well due to hundreds of fixes to sync issues. We-he-he-hell then, looking forward to this update :D	Posted by Maxwells#5776 on May 8, 2015, 4:29:21 AM Quote this Post
" Thracite wrote: I don't know anything about lockstep or desynch modes. As a hardcore player, I only want to know one thing: Which mode is more likely to get you killed? Really depends on your playstyle and the situation. You'll die to other things with the new mode, but i'd say that lockstep should make it more comprehensive WHY you died, as in: make it more clear/avoidable in the first place. Bad connections have cost millions of virtual lives, but that's easier to accept than the feeling that the GAME screwed you over rather than your connection.	Posted by ahcos#4542 on May 8, 2015, 4:31:29 AM Quote this Post