Spiral Knights - Strange latency issues during Blast Network

Strange latency issues during Blast Network

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Fri, 08/05/2011 - 02:35

Deformiter

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Hi there guys

I seem to be having very strange latency issues when it comes to playing Blast Network.

During normal gameplay, I have no problems at all attacking, moving around or anything related to latency.
But as soon as I play a Blast Network match, my character moves around stutery, when I die, my character jumps back about 4 or 5 rows, meaning that I wasnt where I actually was (displayed on my side)

Its quite frustrating as I make sure that im NEVER in line with a bomb and then suddenly I die...

If there could be some kind of patch to fix this, that would be spectacular, I love the idea of the PVP and im very much for it, I just wish I could play it more (which I havnt because of the delay issues)

Thanks !

Fri, 08/05/2011 - 05:10

Starlinvf

The only real way to get

The only real way to get around that is to have very very low latency. I have more detailed explanations in other threads, but the basic problem is the same feature that compensates for lag in the clockworks heavily works against you in the blast network due to map design. I'm sure you've been rubber banded before when turning a sharp corner. Basically the entire map is sharp corners and your now moving 50% faster.

Another painful fact is that, by design, knights stop moving when placing bombs. Because of the increased speed of the drop, you can start moving again faster in the Blast Network, but server sees you standing in that spot until the next update packet telling it your trying to move. If you have high speed boosts, the desync can get extremely bad and forces the server to push corrections to the client.... which whips you back to where the bomb is.

Wed, 08/10/2011 - 11:56

Deformiter

Legacy Username

Response ?

Still no official response to this ?

No minor update or a latency fix ?

Its really quite annoying, Im so tired of trying to play Blast Network to see if it was maybe something my side and wasting crowns (which its definitly not)

I've had almost up to 5 seconds worth delay during Blast Network, whether its from placing bombs, to moving to where I need to be or just waiting for the bombs to explode.

Please can there be some sort of fix for this ?

Thanks

Wed, 08/10/2011 - 15:11

caseyweederm

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The next time it happens,

The next time it happens, open the gear menu and click 'support'. Submit a request for help. A GM will be by to take a look at your connection.
That is a much more direct line and you are guaranteed to get a response.

Even if nothing gets fixed, the problem will receive more attention.

Thu, 08/11/2011 - 01:28

Starlinvf

@Deformiter - OOO doesn't

@Deformiter - OOO doesn't have infinite resources to throw at this. Some issues are very straight forward, but there are others that can take awhile to track down and find a solution for.

But one thing that always bothers me is that despite knowing they run into constant problems, players insist on going in anyway and crying when it crashes.

Fri, 08/12/2011 - 06:45

Deformiter

Legacy Username

@starlinvf - I fully

@starlinvf - I fully understand that they dont have insane amount of resourses to do everything that every player asks for, and im not" crying" about it crashing, I asked a question about latency issues and if it will be fixed in the near future when BN was released. I then did what you could call "research" into why it may be doing it which is why I played a few times more, to make sure it wasnt something running on my side causing the problem etc.

I was merely looking for a more official response or perhaps even an ETA "IF" a fix for it was being made, I never threatened to kill them or anything because I cant play it, its meerly a minor inconvenience that I was hoping would be fixed or atleast I would have heard a response on the issue.

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