Input Lag - UFC 3 & 4

@EA_Aljo Hi mate - I’m on a wireless connection

@EA_Aljo Hello there. Hope you're doing well?

Before I start, I'd like to ask you to copy my feedback and send it to all developers and those who are responsible for server issues please. Thank you.

So...I been playing all EA UFC games from 1 to 4 on a daily basis, and I'm playing online, I only finish carrier mode once, so online is 99,9% of my playtime. My playtime in:

UFC 1 = Days (can't find the statistics)

UFC 2 = 37 D 19 H 43 min

UFC 3 = 46 Days 19 Hours 11 min

UFC 4 currently at = 4 Days 8 Hours 49 min

...and people are right, you can have the best gaming set up, it doesn't matter, the INPUT LAG is there and destroys the whole gaming experience!

I have:

1. Newest LG OLED which has not only the usual gaming mode, but it has also the new DECREASED INPUT LAG feature, which means the lag is only 1-5ms !!!

2. Router is ALWAYS wired with my Xbox One S/Xbox One, since UFC 1!

3. Controller is WIRED too!

4. I do AT LEAST once a day a HARD RESET on my Xbox One S/Xbox One and pulling out the power cable from the power socket! Doing so usually when stopping playing, then turning on the next day.

5. I pull out AT LEAST once a day the ac adapter from my router from the power socket, the same like with Xbox One cable.

6. My internet speed is 150 Mbit/s

7. Still using the Ports on my router, which EA officially posted!

THEREFORE, there is NOTHING on our/my part, that causes the input lag and you need to do the following to give players the gaming experience they deserve in a competitive fighting game, because with an input lag like it's occurring currently, it has NOTHING to do with competition at all:

1st AND FOREMOST DECREASE THE INPUT LAG!

That's the TOP PRIORITY for fixing the game. It's horrible nothing changed since UFC 2. It's unplayable at times.

- It happens that 2 days you can play somewhat and then 2-3 days the input lag is so awful, that your opponent is able to strike 2-3 times in the same timeframe as you can strike once only. Also the hit register is recognized earlier for the one who has LESS INPUT LAG, so that the one with higher input lag isn't even within the reach of his opponent, but he gets hit, that's UNACCEPTABLE! You can recognize that by the way he absorbs a strike, he then gets pushed back weirdly by 180° or when he gets a leg kick, he falls awkwardly. And in addition to that, if the ping increases due to the opponent player being more far away, then it's even worse, and it's already very very bad!

- The Ground Game and Submissions are effected as well of course. It's almost impossible to deny a transition of your opponent, let alone perform and accomplish a transition by yourself!

Through my experience with the EA UFC games all these years, I can say safely, due to the back and forth between the input lag being there for 2-3 days and then disappearing for 1-2 days, that this issue has something to do with the SERVERS and the bad implementation of decreasing the input lag in the UFC games! Something is very off, servers are being switched from N. America to Europe and vice versa and other locations or something like that, that's the only plausible reason for the 2-3 days period of NOT being able to play the game without input lag.

In addition to that, EVERY TIME EA does a server maintenance, the day after that, there is NO input lag at all, so IT HAS TO BE something with the SERVERS!

Hence, you need to fix this EA and:

1. 1st OF ALL, fix the bad programming regarding the input lag

2. Do a SERVER MAINTENANCE ONCE in a cycle of every 24h or 48h AT LEAST!

If we couldn't be able to play for an hour per day, due to server maintenance and we are able to play WITHOUT input lag because of that, then we would be ALL FOR THAT!

3. And finally, give us a PING LIMITER OPTION! Not only the option to back out from the matchmaking screen if the ping of your opponent is more than 120ms. Everything above 80ms is just awful. Give us the possibility to SET A PING LIMITER where we can type in the milliseconds (ms). I don't want to play with people with a ping above 70ms for example!

So again, please share this important feedback with everyone who's worked on EA Sports UFC 3-4. Thank you for reading.

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