I am getting pretty irritated actually. Especially since 204 I absolutely can’t play. Mainly constant unstable connection. I keep trying all the tricks and Phem is unplayable to work in my own shop.
Any idea what’s going on?
It doesn’t matter which planet I’m on anymore. It use to be a thing where I would wander why so many “other” people had so many issues. But anymore I am able to play less and less. I am getting so rubber banned into lava, off cliffs etc. I sit at a constant 171 ping, then not even moving it will jump to 300 and then off the charts, then down to 71. It’s constantly moving. I went gem mining and literally died 6 times because of lag throwing me in frikin lava! Lost pies and drinks every time. Lag cost me thousands. So I netflixed.
Sometimes its random, and I have zero issue. Other times I have to shut down and watch netflix. Lately there has been a lot of netflix. Netflix runs perfect. Other games run perfect. Going to say it is not my pc or net.
Yea I couldn’t walk into ultima on finata because of how bad the lag was. Beckon and anvil were fine tho. But I needed to go thru finata to get to where I needed to go but couldn’t stand how bad it was so just turned the game off
And our servers continue not to show any stress or undue load and other users in different locations dont have problems… (i tried connecting to all locations from japan with no issues on any server…)
(not making excuses, just to make clear it’s not a case of the servers lagging at all)
Well I have been able to go finata one time since this last update. And had unplayable connection on besevrona which I have never had before.
Not sure If it matters but when looking at the finata portal from grindstone on angel 1 I keep seeing and illegal protocol message or a game server offline message.
Edit: I am on ps4
Seems the general reasoning given is that theres something between the players and servers slowing things down. Every post ive ever seen on this, and my own experience, is that my internet works fine for pretty much every other service anywhere in the world.
If for whatever reason the boundless servers cant be reached by a lot of players, maybe its time to look at hosting somewhere more people can access.
Surely if its this common it cant be soley on the end user, especially when its the only service every end user is having problems with. I know boundless pushes a lot of data, but its 2018 and we’re not all running dialup
Coming from down under I would love to see a planet of high tier hosted for us, I know there’s supply and demand etc but when u need those high tier mats and just get unplayable connection all the time it’s frustrating as hell. Eventually I get back to boori and blam, not a single hiccup.
I have to tell my strange expirience: I had some connection issue from the launch, maybe for my bad home connection, I decided to change my ISP for some others problems and now I’m without Internet for about 10 days. Because I can’t remain without Boundless all this time I tried to use my smartphone connection via thethering and… I ‘ve seen unstable connection one time in 5 days only in Boori(I’ m from EU) and no more rubber banding or lag. My ping is now higher than before. I now that couldn’t help anyone but I wanted to share my discovery.
Maybe someone expert easily explain the reasons, but for me was a unexpected thing.
I took a moment this morning to look these up as well as do a trace route.
54.93.218.82 appears to be the server in the EU; doing a trace route to it showed:
A whole lot of unresolved hosts. Those that did resolve are my ISP (Comcast) and then Level 3. Seeing as I can’t resolve the hosts beyond the Level 3 hop in France (212.73.243.158), any report I would try to give for routing issues stops there. I can only ask my provider to look at its connection to Level 3; if the connection problem is further down, then there is nothing I can do.
I have the same issue as others have noted where US East night time access to EU servers grinds to a halt. It is for this reason that I try not to make use of the Ultima portal network anymore.
This is one of the big challenges for the game. It’s not like any other MMO out there, because every block on every planet can be changed by players - so having the world run from the client, like most other MMOs do, or from local servers only (like FPS games do) isn’t remotely feasible.
As far as I’m aware, there’s no other game out there that’s as ambitious in its attempts to have any player from any country on any platform play in the same universe at the same time.
The downside is that, because of the integrity of the data that needs to be sent between player and server, and back again, the kind of routing issues that would hardly bother other games of this type then become an issue - which is why routing issues like the above are a challenge, and why peak time ‘noise’ can also have an impact.
Again, not saying these issues aren’t real - I’ve experienced it too on occasion. But I know the devs are constantly working to further optimise the data sent between client and server to minimise the impact, and short of restricting players to only play on worlds in their own region, it’s a difficult problem to fix.
I’ll be honest, I haven’t portalled anywhere since the time change. I can try tonight, but as soon as I do, I won’t be playing Boundless for the rest of the night because I won’t be able to escape without having to pay coin for the mistake.
I had issues too last night.First time it was this bad.
Then cleaned my PC instead of playing and didn’t have any issues during Europe day time but we will see this evening when more people are online.
Ever since the last update, I too have been having bad lag making the game unplayable. My latency keeps spiking between 100 and 300ms changing constantly making the game unplayable. I’m in California, USA and my home base server Storis II is unplayable as well. I had no problems on any planet before the latest update. I would hunt on T6 planets daily, but tried last night and it was unplayable. If this isnt fixed I’ll be forced to quit the game
Edit: I also tried playing again this morning with same issues. I also quit and reloaded the game many times trying to resolve the problem with no help.
Im from the UK and have only experienced a problem once. Although the past week I’ve had messages come up in the corner of screen gameplay hasn’t been affected
If you encounter an issue on a specific world please try and let us know about that case with as much detail as possible. Given as many of the details listed below gives us a better chance to start trying to diagnose exactly where your specific issues are occurring and then try and work out how to proceed.
Which world are you having an issue on
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