Lag. All of my friends have it too, and we live on the east coat of USA.
Lag.
Let me sum up my lag. 1 MB/s download and upload speed, 110 ms average ping to east coast US, and this is the result in SK.
This is on my brand new PC too, I paid over $3,000 for this beast and it runs SK flawlessly in terms of FPS, but the connection lags like crazy except for between 5-8 am for me. So now I have a 3-hour window to play somewhat normally, while the other 21 hours lag non-stop. Also not to mention that my internet performance doesn't change often, usually just during busy hours of the day, but through the night and early morning it's always full speed.
I'm tired of this BS. It's clear now that more and more people are lagging despite a good connection and/or good PC. OOO might as well release their server code for people to host private servers when the game eventually dies from the lack of real content being added/lag problems. If I can't play this game over the internet because their network coding causes the game to devour bandwidth or require a massive upload speed, then it's better off being a game you can set up your own servers with over a LAN. And don't even get me started on the poor handling of the Black Kat update...
/endrant #idkilostcount
Sorry, video was lagging :P JK
That packet losses... mother of god...
In all honesty I have not been experiencing lag, even when playing near 8pm EST(considered a very crowded period). I live across the pacific and I have a 300ms ping, connected to the US server. The game doesn't necessarily need more than 1mb/s of connection, that unless huge packets come in and screws up your whole game. I haven't exactly checked how much bandwidth it consumes but I will probably check on it when I have the time.
The server overloading issue, probably not a myth, but servers are not handled by OOO, Sega does it. Though content is starting to lack, onto my argument on finite human imagination, it does not give rise to caution that the game is about to die yet.
If this game will die, it just disappears from existence, no extra LAN parties OOO will try to release.
and i thought is was only me...
honestly the game starts to be annoying with this lag. i can handle the lag when i have 2 bars but what i cant stand its the "rubbish effect" the "slippery floor" and the "random teleports" and my favorite one "delayed damage". after the black kat update i started to have this lag, and even in the hours i used to play to avoid server peak hours i still have lag.
i doubt the game will die, but lack of content and those kind of awful lags make me stop play the game or even feel like "uhhgg i dont feel like playing with this" :/
i'm experiencing it as well, but i noticed several areas aside from peaks in the population of current players
OOO and SEGA, if your reading this, here is my list of noticed times when lag occors that you can use to make optmizations to lessen the lag (only noted events in the clockworks)
* right before additional enemys spawn
* when a large amount of enemys exist at one time (should be noted that the tollerance for enemys is lower the more players there are)
* when a particular player is spaming bombs (happens sometimes even when no enemys exist and bombs are being depolyed fast enough, especialy if they give off a special effect, such as a crystal bomb, other players on team complained as well when it happened, only saw event once)
* when too many ranged attacks are in action at the same time (this has been known, at least to me, to strike when only 6 turrets exist and not when smilure size hordes of enemys that are incapable of ranged attacks exist instead)
* occasionaly after a energy-related action is proformed (as far as i know, it only happens to me, never asked other players, but it occors on few occasions right after i open a energy door or after i energy-revive, and with the latter, sometimes, i end up lagging enough to lose 3/4 of my health, or in extream cases, die before i can even act, resulting in a complete waste of energy)
thats all i noted, i may put up some more when i find (or decide to experiment with) more.... it may be time to take a test server and do a stress test to see if its time for a upgrade or optmizations, after all, sometimes, improving game proformance is better then new content
@Yuki
Those situations you stated are more of a bandwidth problem.
In many areas, especially LD, there are a certain limit to bandwidth the server room can provide. Due to this, the game can occasionally send less packets to the end-user, therefore packet losses.
The only cure to this is expanding their servers, which can cost a sum, especially for Sega who might not think it is worth it due to the criticism on this game.
I live on the west coast and the connection is flawless.
I think they either need a better server or more servers. Maybe one for East and West coasts and one in the middle of Europe. :P
and yes, there's something wrong with the servers. I have lags despite having 4 bars.
I have enough of dying because of immense lag. I have never seen any game lag like this. I live relatively close to the server, and I still get paralyzed because of lag. And when I regain connection, I'm dead.
I'm not wasting anymore CE on this game and have deleted it out of frustration.
Good luck to anyone else if it ever gets fixed.
I don't understand my Lag problem. I went to bed one night, not a single problem, Woke up the Next morning to do some rank mission, and the lag is out of control. It occurs randomly, either as soon as I hit the clockworks, or a few minutes into it, But my network meter at the top right goes from 4 white bars to a single Red bar, i was watching my cpu usage on my dual monitor while it happened and nothing changed, I had cmd opened with Ping www.google.com -t, and it starts timing out. Everything on my network just lags out. I had netflix going on my tv in the other room and it dropped out. If I alt tab from Spiral knights, Everything returns to normal. Cmd shows between 30-50ms to google, and netflix rebuffers. As soon as i restore the game, Google pings start timing out and netflix in the other room drops. Its like i lost a packet somewhere in spiral knights and my internet connection is being bombarded with packet attempts, completely DDOSing my entire network frantically trying to recover that single packet. And it never goes away, I can let the game sit there for 1 minute, 10 minutes, an hour, and my network meter on the top right stays red, Google.com Ping times out or says 3500+ ms, and my wifi tv in the other room just sits there, or disconnects completely from Netflix. I tested by connecting my cellphone to my wifi and i opened a skype call to a friend, when spiral knights starts lagging, my entire network is affected, the call drops on skype. It isn't a problem with my computer because it affects my entire network. I've tried a different router. I even used my cellphone tether and in all instances the outcome is the same, At some point spiral knights affects my network and completely DDOSes me. But as soon as i alt+tab, everything returns to normal, as soon as i restore, my internet connection for the whole house is brought to a standstill. What the hell is going on?
Edit: I can also note that I'm looking at the bandwidth usage while tethered to my phone on the pc, and speedtest.net gives me 20+mbps down and 10+mbps up. and my phone reflects those numbers accordingly. When i open spiral knights, my thinking is its hogging all the bandwidth, but my phone says ~45kbps down and ~15kbps up. yet my entire network is acting like im being sucked dry on bandwidth but it's not even using 1% of my max yet everything is frozen and spiral knights is 1 red bar. and it never seems to recover.
I took a short break from SK for the months of December, Jan and part of Feb (missed the most recently item deal things), and I've noticed a serious issue with internet lag now. I used to get 3-4 bars constantly while playing (I have fast enough internet). When I play now (as of returning a few days ago) I now get 1-2 bars at all times, even though my internet in other forms (browser, netflix, etc) is fast and clean.
I'm in the west coast and have even tried changing the steam access to nearest server between a few in my area, and still no improvement. It probably isn't connected to SK servers, but it was worth a try.
I just hope that Sega, OOO, or whoever is in charge of the servers decides to upgrade or add more, because this lag is only going to get worse as more people play and game, and more updates (presumably) are released.
I have lag evry 20mins or so i use eu server i live north east of britain and befor black kat cowl event ended i hardky had lag maybe. once or twice evry 4lds and my lag aint that bad but in
the middle of vana it is a big problem. if people diddt switch servers am sure wed have small lags.
HELP GUYS IM TYPING IN CAPITAL LETTERS SO YOU CAN NOTICE MY IRRITATION BECAUSE OF THE LAG, 1ST THE LAG IN THE CHARACTER SELECT SCREEN, IM STUCK THERE FOR LIKE 5 MINS, 2ND NO MATTER WHERE I PLAY USING MY CHARACTER IT DOESNT LOG IN!!!, 3RD I ALWAYS GET DISCONNECTED FROM LOCKDOWN!! MY FELLOW PLAYERS CAN NOTICE THAT, 4TH I CREATED A NEW KNIGHT FROM A NEW STEAM ACC, BUT IT DOESNT LAG!!! WTF WTF WTF WTF IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY CHARACTER? ITS RANK IS ALREADY A KNIGHT ELITE, I FIRST PLAYED SK LAST MARCH 2012, THE LAST TIME I PLAYED WAS JANUARY 31 2013, PLEASE OH PLEASE HELP ME, I REALLY WANT TO PLAY SK AGAIN, BUT THE LAG WONT LET ME!!!
-Heavyandsandvich
Well it is nice to know it ISN'T me. I feel everyone's pain on here especially since I actually went out of my way to buy new software for this sorta thing. Waited a week, uploaded it into my comp, so excited that I won't freeze in weird places...only to lag so bad I can't even sit in Haven and hold a conversation.
The irony is I can play games like WoW and Starcraft 2 on the highest quality settings and it is like having melted butter slide across the Antarctic but when I have SK on the lowest humanly possible setting imaginable (even going so far as in the advanced options) it is horrible. I don't have an amazing amount of knowledge on exactly what causes lag or if this is even fixable. I even went so far as to check my Java and other things and they are up to date (my Mac is over 3,000$ as well..which is a massive heap of dough to slap onto anything not a car). Regardless I'll only be logging onto SK to check to see if the lag is gone. Personally I hope they fix it before any new updates are made (pets, new promotion ect.) since I think we can all agree we'd rather be able to play the game then have flashy new items for which we can't even use.
When i was in haven i was chatting then the chat didn't came and some minutes later it came i played lockdown and i had full bar of striker i didn't even know what happened the game end's but we won.And it is lagging extremely!
This is a serious case of necromancy...
Don't necro threads that have been at least a month old.
This game becomes more of a piece of [error] everyday, my non-stop lag has been getting work and I can't do any of the [annoying] mission. Keep teleporting everywhere, enemies keep teleporting, enemies hit in random places, get stuck, die a lot. What's even the point on supporting this piece of [error] game any more?
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P.S I'm in Britain in the UK.
the lag is starting to cost me real money. constant teleporting into enemies and losing crystal energy. please fix.
I'm not judging my computer is wrong, but my wi-fi is slow as hell.
The time has come.
Brace yourselves for server overloading.