Input Delay v.24
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Input-Lag-Unresponsiveness/td-p/11949320 In what is becoming an annual tradition since January '22, NHL24 plays with the same exact input delay, player fre...
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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 +
Very good summary of how this problem feels.
Its not completely random, though its hard to narrow it down.
The ”mud skating” is better late in the evening and at night time. At least for me. Also its happens more often vs cross console.
When it kicks in, i usually loose 8-9 out of 10 games. The next day, if its responsive, I can win 10 games in a row vs players which I feel are much better than the opponents from yesterday.
I got 17-21ms to server with fiber connection… flat line, though this graph does not say that much. Some times I have responsive game play, the next time I start console its not.
PS5 console is wired with tv in game mode.
The ”randomness” is actually the main point - I know how responsive the game CAN be, and if you play a lot, you will definatly notice when the mud skating kicks in.
As it can be either bad or good - its not HW related, its server, connection or maybe isp related. But when its bad you cannot determine the problem using the network graph
I quite often play opponents with low level players and their ”agility” and ”speed” are twice as good as mine.
i get the feeling it might be related to my connection being too good (750mbit fiber) and the game needs to balance the game speed vs opponents with very slow performance.
This is frustrating if you are competetive, and I am sure this is not only happening for a few players. The pool of players are generally small. The competetive pool is smaller, the pool experiencing this problem is also small, but from what i read on the web and from friends this is a big problem and its not going away by itself. I had this problem since nhl 22
- @mturesson Exact same symptoms and I too have a solid internet connection, 1gbps using a cat 8 Ethernet patch. It’s been unplayable for a week now.
Solid 1.5-2 second delay. AI behaves like it too. Switching skaters is so delayed and illogical that before I can even select a dman my entire team is skated by in neutral zone and breakaway after breakaway. Getting outskated by ~76ovr when on a breakaway with an 87 with 20 higher skating.
The net code throttles speed and adds artificial delay to balance the experience.
