PS4 and Xbone (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Friday, January 22, 2016, 17:40 (3322 days ago) @ Claude Errera

The worst lag that I've ever encountered was on PS4, though, when the entire enemy team was operating on another level of lag:

But that was such a freak occurence that I felt it was worth recording. 99.9% of the time, that doesn't happen. Not even half as bad as that.

I saw this post yesterday, but didn't have time to watch the vid then... I'm glad I came back to it. I found this fascinating, on a few levels.

Yes, there was definitely egregious lag in a few instances. (The Hammer bro who took zero damage around 8:25 is a prime example.) But most of what I saw (at least from Korny's perspective, in this game) was pretty minor - folks he got the drop on died, folks who were teamshooting him (or who caught him from an unseen angle) killed him. If anything, this recording is a fantastic example of how lag can affect some players more than others (obviously at least two of the other players on the team were feeling put-upon by the level of lag).

To add to that, note how in the very beginning, the Titan clearly sticks me with a Fusion grenade, but the explosion is so delayed that I'm actually able to walk away from it without taking damage. I imagine that he was probably accusing me of cheating/modding/bribing Bungie. Swings both ways sometimes.

And even though four of them were red-bar, only the two green-bars were getting any kills, so there's that... I didn't have as much trouble damaging them as the other folks in the party apparently did, so yeah, different folks can have a different experience with lag within the same match. Maybe that's why I don't really see an issue despite my teammate's constantly blaming lag for all of the world's problems...

Dunno. I think that this might be a good way of calibrating what people CONSIDER lag - because what I saw in this game wasn't 'another level of lag', at least in my opinion. Like I said, there were a few moments that were terrible - but I'd be hard-pressed to find more than half-a-dozen examples (and in a 13 minute game, that's really not outrageous - I've had games that were like that 8:25 example for the entire game). If you watch this video and think "omg that's really horrible lag", then you and I are talking about different things when we talk about lag.

Yeah. I posted this because lag this bad is rare, and it wasn't really THAT bad in the grand scheme of things (and it's not like it cost us the match). Compared to examples from other games, Destiny is one of the best-running multiplayer games that I play. So much so that actual cases of lag stick out like a sore thumb.

Folks doth protest too much, methinks...