Yesterday I played my last 11 Rival games in the afternoon and evening time. Already in the first game the delay was brutal. I lost 10 out of those games.
What happens when the delay / fatman lag kicks in:
- All of my opponents' players are faster (even with 74 -79 cards) I have extremely hard time catching up.
- Passes always seem to end up somewhere else rather than on my teammate's stick, and this despite that I’m aiming the pass towards my teammate.
- Switching players is a nightmare.
- My teammates controlled by the AI are acting weird and do not react normally.
- Own goals seem to happen more often.
- On a breakaway there is no way to zig zag with the stick from left to right or even try to move my player left to right to deake out my opponents goaltender, it’s exactly like the gif shown by the poster on this forum.
- Its’ like skating in mud, my player does not react instantly when I touch the analog stick. Sometimes the player even stands still despite touching the analog stick.
- The opponent's AI is all over you.
- If you ever get lucky to get in possession of the puck, then just a half of a second later your opponent gets the puck back. It’s like your opponent has a magnet on his stick, it’s insane.
- Hits and poke checks rarely seem to have any effect. I'm defenseless against my opponent.
The game has been out for about 3 weeks now. It’s been fairly good even in champs this weekend, but only until yesterday.
I have tried every trick in the book for dealing with this, I have been dealing with this problem for years. By the way I'm located in Europe. My ping usually (according to the network performance information in the game menu) is like 17-22 ms. Average ping is usually like 21 ms, surly yesterdays games did not feel like 21 ms ping, more like 60-70 ms +