Sunday, February 27, 2011

Latency Issues

I played in the open beta for RIFT without much trouble, and found it quite enjoyable. Now, however, as the head start servers fill up, I've found that in-game lag and disconnection can be a problem, especially for characters that play mainly long-range stationary characters such as mages and rangers.

Officially, the RIFT servers have had similar issues for players overseas in Britain and China, but this is atypical for me, being in the US. The problem is as follows: after about 1.5 seconds unattended, my character is booted unceremoniously. Being a elementalist/pyromancer/stormcaller, this causes problems as my elemental gets beaten to a pulp as I sit helplessly.

Follow-up posts as this is addressed.

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