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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Important update: nothing new. I guess this about marks the 2 year anniversary to this game -- and only this game -- becoming unplayable for me. Should I buy a cake?
It’s caused by your body I swear to god
The last couple days have been so excruciating -- beyond unplayable, even by my standards -- that I was enraged enough to get clips. It'll lead nowhere, but it's therapeutic.
I re-downloaded the game and changed zero settings going right into WoC free skate. First 2 videos you can see how snappy the cuts are, how quickly I enter sprint (literally 1 step with 95 speed/acceleration), and just a general fluidity. This is how people normally play the game. It's how I used to play.
It should be pretty easy to see the sluggish difference in the videos below. My player stops when I turn (2nd video more so, which is from a few weeks ago); the cuts don't look like elite edges; and there's a general laggy look. I counted 6 strides from holding sprint to actually sprinting.
Sometimes stoppages OFFLINE help until it crops up again within a minute or two. Honestly, in the top clean clips, it felt as good as ever tonight. Normally, it's worse, even when I'm not de-syncing. Online? Forget about it. I've played 90 ping on a very rare lag free night, and I can only describe this as far far worse in latency, along with the input anomalies. On my 20 ping, I see people I know on 90 ping animate/input so much faster than me they might as well be on LAN.
As always, it's not even just what my player feels but the entire physics of the games being......wrong. Like it's not synchronized with my opponent and their actual animations are a second ahead, even in non-input situations. Clean pokes miss, easy pickups don't happen, my skating being as I've described, severely unbalanced incidental contact each way, etc. I have a lot of friends who experience this, just not to my degree. But I can see when they are also delayed.
- @DeliveryForKiki I agree, when this ”reduced speed mode” kicks in, the game feels unsynchrononized.
The past two days, it has been really bad.
Two things really stand out:
- Moving left and right feels so sluggish… its like opponent have full pressure on all the time.
- Acceleration of my players (how players respond) are half the speed compared to”normal gameplay”.
As the result of the above somethings get really hard. Defending as opponent players make quick turns, I miss-tine them.
Playing in the offensive zone becomaes really hard as it feels ”so slow”. When I have an open backdoor situation, the slow speed cause my clear chances to be missed.
Usually when this happens, i do the following: i power cycle my ps5, i turn off all internet equipment, reboot everything, but this solves very little.
I got top internet fiber connection, top tv using game mode (less filters) activated, top gaming router (which i tried a lot of settings) but also tried without router as well as putting console in DMZ.
I talked to isp. They even made changes to the local hub to try and improve latency/jitter.
I live in the middle of Sweden. Based on the opponents i face, I sometines connect to the server in Stockholm and sometimes to the server in Germany. When I am connected tomthe German server the network grapg still shows 20ms, which cannot be right (my ping to germany would be like 40ms.)
The ”reduced speed mode” happens randomly.
If it would happen every time, i would quit this game in a heart beat,
This is really the most annoying thing with this game series, that you cannot play competitivly.@mturesson I agree. I have the same problem.
Ever since Thursday the online gameplay has been horrible. I gave up when my 94 ovr McDavid got outskated by the “Style Icons” 86 ovr Rob Blake card.
I don't know what happened to this game, but something happened last week.
I live in Norway, I'm usually connected to the Stockholm server or the server in Finland or Germany.Also worth notice, I have never had any problems for online gaming with any other computer games except EA's NHL. It’s like one day the game acts fine, and a couple of days later It’s like I'm playing a whole different game (I have ready explained my problems on the first page of this thread)
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Can you put those videos up on YouTube and link them in a response instead? When attached to a response, the clips are just too small.
@EA_Aljo wrote:Can you put those videos up on YouTube and link them in a response instead? When attached to a response, the clips are just too small.
Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIXV_geovZvlO8wCUO7lf4g
The first 2 videos are normal agility and sprinting this week. This is WoC Free Skate.
Below (filmed at the same time) is a short snippet where suddenly it feels sluggish. My edges don't look sharp; the stop at center ice was not intended on a turn. Sprinting took 5 steps instead of 1 with max skating stats. My actual stick movements are the same as above.
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Here's a normal skating session from maybe 1-2 months ago:
Same session below. One of the best examples of the delay and how it looks online (albeit it's much worse online when lag and servers come into play). Sometimes it cuts, sometimes it stops at random. Not a single stop is intentional. It feels sluggish and unresponsive -- noticeably, it doesn't look like elite edges (which are on). Sprinting takes several extra strides to activate.
Here's me replicating the same looking delay in regular Free Skate (it manifests in every mode), with Jack Hughes:
