Input Lag/Unresponsiveness
New game, same issue. Since last January. Not my first rodeo posting here! To get the jump on the response: Xbox Series X, 1ms monitor, all hardware has been swapped multiple times (including my sys...
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@niccolo91ea wrote:
@someyounguy420The fact that OP says it feels good at 3am makes me think it is some server issue along the network and in the middle of the night it is not as busy and less traffic management.
The last week I have played around that or later 3 times. It's uncanny how around the same exact time, my connection resolves. Uncanny. But it's not just online; the flip will switch, and I'll go into offline free skate too, and it's much smoother than at any other time. Truthfully, when I played NHL22, I would notice this too now and again.
3 weeks without an EA response here, 1 year with a generic "we'll look into it" with no direct developer input, and I've yet to comprehend how offline gets input delay. To my post right above this, I'm convinced that "offline" isn't really "offline" and that the issue is upon the game loading. It's not just EASHL I get my delay or offline; it will happen in non-server online shootouts, for example.
@DeliveryForKiki There is a FIFA YouTuber named InceptionFC that noticed all these things in FIFA, dating back to FIFA 15 I think. He still talks about it from time to time. These issues have been happening for years now. I can see why this delay would affect Squad Battles, since it's still an online mode that you needed to be connected to EA servers to play. But as you said, what makes no sense is how this affects local game modes like free skate in NHL, or the arena in FIFA.
@MrTryfe wrote:
@DeliveryForKikiThere is a FIFA YouTuber named InceptionFC that noticed all these things in FIFA, dating back to FIFA 15 I think. He still talks about it from time to time. These issues have been happening for years now. I can see why this delay would affect Squad Battles, since it's still an online mode that you needed to be connected to EA servers to play. But as you said, what makes no sense is how this affects local game modes like free skate in NHL, or the arena in FIFA.I don't know about FIFA15, but FIFA has been on Frostbite a lot longer than NHL (FIFA17 compared to NHL22). You're right, an online issue could be passed off (I'm not saying it would be the entire truth) as some complex server route/ISP issue. But a single game cannot have delay offline without hardware issues affecting other games -- it doesn't make sense.
Occam's razor says it's an issue with the coding of the game or the Cloud, and that offline modes aren't as offline as they appear. Hence why unplugging your ethernet and not signing into any account plays cleaner offline than signed in and Internet connected offline modes. And that EA knows exactly what the issue is and plays dumb. Maddening stuff.
- @DeliveryForKiki
First off I just want to say thank you for your detailed replies. Finding this thread has saved my sanity. I'm an ultra competitive guy and going thru this lag with NHL has literally affected my life. It's absolutely infuriating to love a game so much and be really good at it and have to go thru what we all do. I have the exact same issues as you guys have. It's beyond frustrating and I honestly don't think I can play this game anymore. Which is very sad. As I'm a huge Canadian hockey fan. Also I live in Vancouver BC, and there's no way the servers being 800km from the nearest AWS server in Oregon, play well in Vancouver. Hut Champs is an absolute nightmare to play in. It's like I'm not actually playing but just watching. I can't believe EA allows this to go on. I have a theory it's on propose. The more frustrated people get the more packs they'll buy. The small percentage of us who have figured this out don't matter to EA, because of the thousands out there who have no clue but just buy packs because they think it will make there team better. I just played a game where my 90 McDavid with 96 speed got chased down by a 82 Schenn with 84 speed. It's beyond a joke what this game is to most of us. The answers this EA Alijo give are comical. This guy knows exactly what's going on but has direct orders from the top to never say a word about it. EA knows exactly what the problem is but I'm sure they have realized the more frustrated people are the more packs they'll buy. It's a mathematical equation they have figures out. It's an absolute disgrace and it's close to criminal fraud. They literally could be sued over this because of the amount of money they make on packs I still think that it's the inadequate AWS-servers that is the bottleneck combined with constant need of being online. You see this in offline modes when you simply need to navigate the menu, game tries to exchange data between menu changes.
- EA_Aljo
Community Manager
The Oregon server was shut down while a western Canada server was launched. You're now closer than previously.
- @EA_Aljo Well that makes sense why when I'm playing guys from Calgary and Edmonton I can barely move. Let me guess the new server is in Alberta?
Why doesn't Amazon show this new server? I just looked on their website and it says there is only one in Central Canada?
