@Eguzky-0 The problem is not really on the client end.

The problem is very very much on server-side. Lots of UI stuff triggers netcode events.

The problem I'm seeing a lot is suggestive of server memory being insufficient, like they're running them on under-provisioned virtual machines. I've seen these exact same kinds of lag issues in another game that predates PSO2. Basically, when you move around the map, you cross through different sectors which are virtual channels, so that only 8-32 people can be in them. This part works well enough, however whatever the underlying netcode is doing, is resulting 5sec to 2-minute long lag spikes (suggestive of swap thrashing), so this results in things like hitting a boss for a minute, while everything else is not moving, and then suddenly you see the flying text a few dozen times and it falls over dead.

The same thing is also affecting the display of resource nodes, where, even if you have a quest to find that item, the quest marker is not showing up. The game that predates PSO2 also had this kind of problem. Every time something moves, the client has to interpolate the positions of everything.

So when either the server has issues, or the data center has issues (eg Ship 2 is super laggy, but Ship 3 wasn't nearly as bad) suddenly everything connected to that server becomes congested.

Now I assume this will eventually get fixed, but for the most part, no MMORPG has ever had a flawless launch.

Here's a potential "bug", and I don't know if others have observed this, but on Ship 3, which was an imported character, it took me around 12 hours to get from level 1 to level 10. But on Ship 2, which was a 2 character, PSO2NG only, I got there in only 6 hours. Despite ship 2 being horrifically laggier.

This makes me wonder if the server is mis-calculating positions and rewarding experience just for being anywhere near mobs even if not fighting them. So a more congested server might be over-distributing experience, money and such.

Same story as last year, completely underestimating the number of players.

You know what happens with that? People lose interest. Kind of a bad business model to operate a free2play game and then yeet interest off a cliff by not having the capacity.

Oh, here we go again, launcher is downloading it all over again.

I would suggest if SEGA would like to end this problem, make two translation changes to the official launcher.

• Change the progress to indicate if it's CHECKING or DOWNLOADING.

Because people honestly believe it's downloading every time, because it starts from 0.

@Pulptenks said in Kinda feeling bored:

I wish FFXIV people would just stick to their game and stop trying to play other games since they only good at being toxic people. No one like you FFXIV players.

Replace "FFXIV" with any other MMO title and you have the same elitist attitude. That is no different here than any other game.

People like certain kinds of game play. If this game had an open-world system, rather than 400 lobbies with nobody ever talking, it would have a different kind of play as well.

Thematically, I like this game. But visually FFXIV has better faces, PSO2 has better customization. FFXIV has a more engaging storyline that people whine-complain about the length of. PSO2 originally had something elaborate before it got ultra-nerfed into just one linear story for those three episodes. And if you think the story is confusing, you can go watch the PSO2: Episode Oracle to fill in some of the missing bits.

One game will never please everyone, and the whim of the developer listening to the wrong players can easily send people to another game (eg WoW sends people to FFXIV, Then when FFXIV isn't WoW'ish enough they complain and then when it does, the people who like the previous game play style go somewhere else.)

@Pulptenks said in Kinda feeling bored:

@coldreactive said in Kinda feeling bored:

perfect World International

Who seriously play that game anyways? lmao

Because Sony dropped the ball and canceled all their MMO's. Wizardy? Canceled, Everquest? sold off. Everquest 2? Canceled.

Square Enix was rebuilding FFXIV.

PSO2 Sega wouldn't localize to NA.

Pretty much nothing out there was interesting for more than a few days. Tera, Blade and Soul, Aion, Lineage II, Archeage, etc, all succumbed to P2W mechanics. Korean games localized to English seem to be a shallow imitation of their native versions, aiming to just rob you of every penny you have. Fortnite is no better in that regard, and P2W mechanics have creeped into every game, not just MMO's.

@Xurai said in I think this game is going to fail by the end of the year.:

This type of thing is even prevalent in other MMOs. Take Elder Scrolls Online for example: -You have 3 stats, strength, int, vitality As you level up you get points and can be like oh ok I like swords, here's 10 points into strength. Oh, I want a little extra life to help survive the tougher fights, here's more points into vitality.

The thing is, it's pretty much an unwritten rule to only ever put your points into 1 pool. The game never states it, you either learn by people telling you or by watching videos/reading guides.

Same thing here.

The term you're looking for is "min-max" or "meta"

I reallllllllly hate it when people push min-max or meta builds in games, because the end result is everyone picks the same meta, and you get that awful scenario where your party is all squishy DPS min-maxer's and incompetent healers. Everyone wants to spank the monsters, but nobody wants to put a bandaid on the injuries.

Thus far, the game does feel like it just offers too many options, which is fine, but because there's a real-world money cost for undoing mistakes, you kinda have to live with it, and hence people go look at the meta builds and don't even consider why that meta makes sense for that game that's been played for 8 years and is on episode 6.

Every MMO type of game has build elitists who complain that PUG's aren't pulling their weight, when the reality is that they're in the minority (finishing off bosses in small amounts of time), playing the game like it's a career instead of 80% of the player base who just plays the game to relax and play with their friends/rando's for fun. Being a master at PSO2 is not going to win you fame any more than it does in FFXIV or WoW or FO76, or anything else, because MMO games are super-boring to watch the fights in when the fights only last 30 seconds.

If the boss fight doesn't take at least 24 minutes, the fight isn't hard enough. (That's the length of a half hour TV episode of anything.)

@Morgothryuzaki said in Super Hard content,get in it when you have the damn gear.:

@Macmaxi Its about basic respect actually. Especially when its an instance that only happens once in a while and that you cannot even queue again for. You enjoy failing? good for you. I enjoy not wasting almost an entire hour of my time when i could have been doing something that actually led to something.

I already know what you're going to say. BUT WHAT ABOUT THEIR FUN. You mean the same exact fun they can have by going to a difficulty tailored to what they can handle?

I hope you realize that if the game developers set the entry requirements as level 50, then it was designed to be completed at level 50. Now why they didn't put some gear requirement in (like other MMO's have done) so that people can't just join for a carry.

This is the forever PUG (Pick up Group) problem. How do you get people who are skillful, not just "I wanna be carried". The game provides exactly two controls for this. A minimum level requirement in creating the instance, and a password for creating a party. There's a reason why these UQ's have a 10 minute lead time.

That said, don't expect people to be good at the game for something that's only been out for two weeks, and nearly every PC player has had to reinstall the game two or three times.

@TooFab4U3347 said in UI causes FPS drops, NA client runs worse than JP:

NVIDIA MX350

If you're on a laptop, you need to tell windows to use the dGPU for the game. That GPU is relatively weak (eg it's about the same spec as a GTX 1060)

@Scilin said in FIX HERE: GAME WON'T RESTART:

So windows somehow deleted the executable file from the folder, I have the complete download but no exe file, I can repair program been waiting 45 min and its still not finished, anyone got a link to just a replacement exe?

Finsihed repair to no avail attempting reset now.

It fixed for me after doing Repair, and letting it redownload the entire game. Not happy about that.

@Miasu I reasonably suspect it's Windows that has fouled this one up, as the game was working before I rebooted, and there was a Windows Update pending.

With that said, clearly how the game has been installed is just... not working.