My experience with recent lag (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Saturday, January 09, 2016, 08:46 (3336 days ago) @ unoudid

There's definitely lag, but it's... different from before.

Part of this may be that I just moved and now have a wired connection, but my professional experience tells me something else is up. This isn't a simple change from "high latency" (actually 23 ms) to "low" (15 ms) but is an altogether different thing going on. There are still your typical lag-switcher people who start running in a straight line and take no damage, but now I'm fighting a lot of warlocks and titans who should be dead but aren't, even though they take the damage, it's like they take only a small fraction of it.

Examples from Trials tonight: Stormcaller warlock. I hit him 4 times with the last word and then my teammate nailed him with a vortex nova bomb. And he lived. We both saw the hits and saw the numbers. Heck, we actually saw his health bar go to zero, but he was still flying around zapping people. It didn't look like he lagged at all, but the damage he took was far less than it should have been. Then there's the titan I shotgunned in the fact with invective 3 times, landed all 3 hits, and he still had half a bar of health left. Next life I shot him once at longer range and he died. Or the gunslinger I stuck with a tripmine who ate it without dying. Or the three other guys I did that to who, again, totally lived.

I've also had lag that wasn't in gameplay, but was in display elements, so like a smoke grenade goes off, and I saw it thrown and I'm taking damage, but there's no smoke. And then a few seconds later smoke shows up but it doesn't hurt you because there's not actually a smoke bomb active in the area where the animation is playing. The worst is the glint from sniper rifles. I've seen a guy, died, and then his glint and bullet show up. It's like he shot me from the future.