There seems to be a few ways that this game can become hard or impossible to play.
1) Overall high ping between players: Easy to figure out, relatively easy to avoid in custom games at least.
2) Ping Spiking: Usually caused by poor upload speed from a player that can't handle the size of a game that he joined, but once in a while, it might actually be that the player is actually trying to download porn. Who am I to judge?
3) Simspeed: Someones trying to play Demigod on a machine that can't handle and their simspeed goes to the negatives. The game becomes a chessmatch.
4) Mystery Lag: Semi-random choppiness and slowdowns which seem like they happen during big fights. No spiking, good simspeeds, good ping across the board... no one timing out... nothing. Is there anyway to know who's screwing the game up? If there isn't, could you all start spreading the word that its not necessarily my fault just because I have a ping thats 10 ms higher than everyone else?
#4 is one I have come to notice a lot more lately. In my experiences, it is during fights. Although Sim Speed does not seem to reflect this and show the lagger, my guess would be that someones PC just gets bogged down and wah-lah (correct that spelling please)! Hello Mystery Lag!
Good term for it btw, Mystery Lag... I like it! I'm actually taking a break right now for the next week and hoping a patch comes along during that time that will improve connectivity a bit... and my biggest hope is that they patch the game one of these days with a new system other than P2P and other than Server/Client. Maybe a hybrid between the two would be cool...
Anyways, good luck with finding those "lag free" games... they seem to be few and far from these recent past weeks. I still accuse the DG servers for causing it somehow... cause it seems like it has gotten worse than how it use to be.
I've noticed it as well and I don't have a good answer as to what causes it.
But it is something I'm looking into and will be reporting to GPG about.
The same thing seems to happen in almost every 5v5 match I play. Everyone has a sub 300 ping and a sim speed of at least 3, but it is like playing Demigod in slideshow mode right from the start.
UR RIGTH MAN, THE GAME WILL PLAY FINE THEN USUALLY AROUND CATS OR ANGELS BAMMMM THE GAME STARTS ITS MYSTERY LAGGIN EVEN IF EVERY1 HAS AROUND 100MS AND 7-8 SIM SPEED, WASNT LIKE THAT B4 AND IS ALOT MORE NOW AND IVE ALSO NOTICED THAT EVEN THE MIGHTY RYANHEART HAS BEEN DROPING OUT, THIS NEVER EVER HAPPENED UNTIL MAYBE 2 WEEKS AGO, WTF MAN, WTF??!?!?!?!?
I'm thinking this might be the case as well, but it seems to be happening quite a bit more frequently... primarily during dg v dg fights and I didn't really notice this happening much before.
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