Worst Lag You've Ever Had?

[esahcb]

Minecraft, I was hosting a server for my friends and some had delays that were over a minute before the blocks would break or they would start taking damage a minute later, my internet wasn't fast enough for all of them...

 

[UltraXan]

Oh this is an easy one.

It was in a game of left 4 dead 2, I believe. Playing No Mercy, and it was the sewer level. At the time (and I still am), I was playing on my exceptionally powerful gaming desktop. Now, I moved last summer, and the Ethernet cables have yet to be set up, so I was (and currently am) using a wireless card for all my internet needs. What's the problem with wireless? Microwaves. Keep in mind that I'm one of those players of l4d2 that's pretty good, and is quick to react and save others. Anyway, it was near the start of the level and we ran to the garage to get the guns. When we got those, we went through the alley to get to the restaurant kitchen, and then all of a sudden, I'm losing connection, but not entirely. I kinda regain connection, but it's really bad. Anyway, my ping went through the fucking roof. When it started, we had just gotten into the kitchen. Turns out, someone downstairs was using the microwave, BIG WHOOP. I quickly ran downstairs, turned the damn thing off, quickly explained the situation, and ran back upstairs. By the time the connection stabilized itself, 1 person died, another was incapped, a 3rd was caught by a smoker on the roof of the safehouse building, and then there was me, who had just a single common hitting me, still with green health, safely in the kitchen. Had the microwave never fucking my connection over, we would have been just fine >_>

TLR

I fucking hate microwaves when I use wireless to play online

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

I once waited about ten minutes for the opening to an online match in Blazblue to end so the "action" could begin.

Needless to say, once the fight started, we couldn't move. Thought about quitting, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be the one to back out!

He quit after about a minute of not being able to move. It was pretty awful.

 

[Lagslayer]

You ever take 15 minutes to cast blink?

 

[Liudeius]

Oh yeah, Mabinogi has terrible lag. They really need to increase the number of servers that they use.

The worst lag I've had (and played through) was Far Cry 2. I played through over half the game on my computer even though on the lowest settings it would skip every three or four frames.

 

[Ladette]

While raiding Illidan I lagged out during the final phase of the fight. I was the tank healer. There was much angry swearing in vent that night.

 

[Zarthek]

Back when I played WoW I'd suffer some really terrible lag-spikes whenever the server was about to go down... I think my record was 16k ms or something like that.

More recently TF2 whenever the server I'm playing on is crashing or being overworked... got less of it after i left 32 player servers but it still happens.

 

[crimsonshrouds]

bioshock 2 is now lagshock 2...

 

[Liudeius]

Hey guys, lag is crappy latency, not your shoddy framerates.
Unless the definition has changed.

I'm quite certain that lag specifically refers unresponsiveness. To call latency lag is actually incorrect, that is why it has its own name. (I'll go check though and edit this if I'm wrong.)
Latency can cause lag, but so can low frame rate or anything else that reduces the responsiveness of a program.
(To clarify, latency is not lag, it is a cause of lag. Just like viruses wasting CPU aren't lag, they are causers of lag.)

 

[TheAceTheOne]

Okay, I'm frustrated. I was playing an MMO called Mabinogi, and there was an event on it. This event had two "Channels" (of five, only two were full) last time I checked. I don't quite know how to explain channels, but I'll try. They're alternate versions of the game world on a server, and usually only one or two are laggy.

This event, the Masquerade, in honor of a new Shakespeare-inspired quest line, is on right now. And the lag made my game crash. Or rather, the influx of players caused the game to lag and crash me out. I've tried logging back in and it's showing my friends list empty and my guild non-existent because of the overload of players and the lag.

So, after this short rant, I want to ask you guys and gals on the Escapist: What's the worst lag you've ever suffered from? How'd you deal with it? Do you know the cause? If so, what was it?

Ha, Dunbarton makes me lag more.

OT: Back in the day when my computer reached the point of "obsolete".

You should add me on Mabi: Endon40

The lag should be down today, since the Masq has ended.

 

[Zydrate]

There is no 'worse'. Either my game becomes a slideshow or I get disconnected entirely. There's no "This one time, lag's hand reached from the screen and scratched my face".

 

[TheAceTheOne]

Okay, I'm frustrated. I was playing an MMO called Mabinogi, and there was an event on it. This event had two "Channels" (of five, only two were full) last time I checked. I don't quite know how to explain channels, but I'll try. They're alternate versions of the game world on a server, and usually only one or two are laggy.

This event, the Masquerade, in honor of a new Shakespeare-inspired quest line, is on right now. And the lag made my game crash. Or rather, the influx of players caused the game to lag and crash me out. I've tried logging back in and it's showing my friends list empty and my guild non-existent because of the overload of players and the lag.

So, after this short rant, I want to ask you guys and gals on the Escapist: What's the worst lag you've ever suffered from? How'd you deal with it? Do you know the cause? If so, what was it?

Ha, Dunbarton makes me lag more.

OT: Back in the day when my computer reached the point of "obsolete".

You should add me on Mabi: Endon40

The lag should be down today, since the Masq has ended.

I am sorry, but I quit Mabi some time ago.

Ah. No worries. Just glad someone knows about Mabi XD

 

[SageRuffin]

As someone who plays a lot of fighting games, I think the worse lag you can have is input lag. You know, where you press a button but it takes up to a full 2 seconds before the character on screen does the corresponding action.

That combined with the occasional fact the your opponent doesn't seem to miss a beat with his/her combos and you've got yourself one unhappy Sage. Like I said, it doesn't happen often, but when it does...

 

[aarontg]

Every gears of war game. It's that type of lag that makes you think it's working fine only to make you teleport half a mile from where you were and sometimes explode from an invisible shotgun shell.

 

[ScoopMeister]

Always Call of Duty, whenever someone quits the game. 'Tis annoying.
How did I deal with it? I just turned my XBox off.

You don't see the irony in doing that? Wouldn't that just do the same thing to everybody else who is playing the game with you at the time? I just fail to see a true solution to the problem if you're only course of action is to commit the same act that brought you chagrin in the first place.

Huh.

I wouldn't worry about it. I work in mysterious ways.

 

[pdgeorge]

The worst lag was when I was having something like 6-12ms pings.


However for some reason, every 30-45 seconds, my connection would just freeze up in the game, and I couldn't do anything. This was in an FPS so being unable to do anything for 2-5 seconds meant I was essentially dead the second it happened.

I still have NO clue how that happened...

 

[DefinitelyPsychotic]

Playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

There are no words to describe it...

 

[AnAngryMoose]

Hami Raid in City of Heroes. The lag during those was so bad that the organisers would ask everyone to switch to the most basic looking costume possible to reduce lag.