POE2 Lag & DC protection from Ziz/Jon interview

Jonathan mentioned during the interview that if you have lose connection for more than 100ms the instance you are in will pause until your internet is good to go. My ISP often disconnects randomly which usually results in death for my HC POE1 characters (I'm crazy).

I wonder how good this will work? I often DC for around 1 minute, about 5-8 second mark I'm booted from the game to the login page and if it was during a sketchy moment I'm usually dead. If this is implemented and it actually works I'm honestly going to be amazed. I won't get my hopes up yet until it actually happens but that's amazing to hear. All I would have to do is survive for 100ms vs 700ms like in POE1.

My goodness. They improved DC protection and I am incredibly thankful and more hyped lol. I hope I didn't misunderstand something.

Edited to not scare people who think that if they ping higher than 100ms they will be frozen lol.

100ms seems pretty extreme .. its barely the early stages of stuttering, let alone disconnecting. If they had said 250 or 300 then I could see the point since by then you'll be delayed enough for their insane insta kill rando moments to get you without a chance.

At 100 that could be any sort of slight hiccup, which would just make the situation worse as the game just keeps freezing up every second like a slide show. Worst case is the game just pauses indefinitely until their servers stabilize .. when you could be playing just fine.

So I hope it's not actually 100ms

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JoeShmo#1872 wrote:

100ms seems pretty extreme .. its barely the early stages of stuttering, let alone disconnecting. If they had said 250 or 300 then I could see the point since by then you'll be delayed enough for their insane insta kill rando moments to get you without a chance.

At 100 that could be any sort of slight hiccup, which would just make the situation worse as the game just keeps freezing up every second like a slide show. Worst case is the game just pauses indefinitely until their servers stabilize .. when you could be playing just fine.

So I hope it's not actually 100ms

To quote what he said, "It's like 100ms or something like that" so I'm sure it's around there. Will see how it plays! If you want to check out what he said it's around 12 minute mark in the Ziz/Jon interview.

Wait, so you need a ping of under 100ms or the game will just stay frozen?

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MrSmiley21#1051 wrote:

Wait, so you need a ping of under 100ms or the game will just stay frozen?

I doubt that's the case, I'm not educated enough on the topic to explain how it works. I would guess that if the server does not hear from you for more than 100ms then the game would pause. If you're connected but pinging high it should be fine. I wish they would explain it further though!

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TheFARMBOT2000#7917 wrote:

To quote what he said, "It's like 100ms or something like that" so I'm sure it's around there. Will see how it plays! If you want to check out what he said it's around 12 minute mark in the Ziz/Jon interview.

Well, that continues to concern me when lead designers / owners make comments like "or something like that" with such common sense metrics like low latency numbers. It's like a chef saying "The meat is cooked at 100 degrees or something like that". That's not something you just candidly not be sure about.

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JoeShmo#1872 wrote:

To quote what he said, "It's like 100ms or something like that" so I'm sure it's around there. Will see how it plays! If you want to check out what he said it's around 12 minute mark in the Ziz/Jon interview.

Well I'm not concerned and my internet is terrible. This is good news exile, I just wanted to share it for anyone who might be in a situation like myself. 4 days exiles!

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MrSmiley21#1051 wrote:

Wait, so you need a ping of under 100ms or the game will just stay frozen?

No, 100ms ping is different than linkdeath. Unless its not in which case launch day is gonna be interesting.

this seems weird becuz in this game your ms is tied to your fps if you get lower fps you get higher latency

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MrSmiley21#1051 wrote:

Wait, so you need a ping of under 100ms or the game will just stay frozen?

it's 100ms of nonresponsiveness

so it's accounting for your ping... because that's just the send/receive time

even though it'd take Xms of time for every packet to go to them and return, you're still constantly sending and receiving.