Annoying Unit Response Time Online

[Spectre01]

I hope I'm not the only one, but I cannot play multiplayer because my units don't instantly respond to my commands. Telling a unit to build something, move away or attack, may result in the unit actually performing that action 2-4 seconds after I click. It makes it impossible to micro, and dance, especially early game. I have lost a couple of games because I could properly control my squads early game, where micro is very important. I have turned off fullres_teamcolour but the last game I played, it was even worse than having the game completely maxed out with Anti-Aliasing. I have very fast internet and never get lag like this in any games, so what the heck is wrong? :mad:

[IceCream]

oh,that I dont know If its the same problem I had.One game I couldent even control my units everything was going cocoo.My allies told me to do Ctrl+Alt+enter during a game and everything get's back to normal.Its something where the games goes off set.Try it see if it works,worked for me.

[OjKa]

I think it might be the growing trend of building retarded units. By this i mean sometimes when you move them, they either get stuck in another squad or don't do anything.
You can really see it happen when in battle, a few games today i ordered my men to retreat, in one squad, only 1 marine decided to run, the rest of the squad just stood there. Wtf is that about? It was a normal squad, not reinforced and was not being reinforced and only one runs?
Also too many times after running away my men think it'll be a great idea to turn around and fight and die, and sometimes that doesn't even happen when they break during running (which is now like 100% that they stop and shoot) i seen my men just randomly turn and fight and it is not good karma.
:elephant: :notlisten :mecha:

[Spectre01]

It's not like that because I never gets problems in skirmishes, it just takes a unit a while to respond once you give him an order. e.g. You tell your defiler to attack the enemy. In a skirmish game, he will instantly move towards the target and attack, online it takes a unit 2-4 seconds to relize I gave it an order.

Thanks IceCream, I'll try to see if it works.

[Sekator]

Yea, Ojka, I noticed that strange behavior also. I dont mind units losing their orders when broken, tho it seems badly illogical that they stand and fight if given an order to retreat, but, order losing of non-broken units must be considered a bug.

Hey Spectre, get used to the godly GamseSpy services. ;) I remember TBS posting that latency around 200 is innoticeable, well, in fact it has a great impact, and most of the time its waaaay higher. And, limiting online servers to USA-only seems like nacism to me. I'm not American, yet I dont see any reason why I should get my online play that more limited while paying the same amount of cash.

[IcarusJG]

I've noticed that sometimes, if one man in a whole squad that is running dies, the WHOLE squad immediately stops moving. Makes it hard to evade orks.

[56KbModem]

in both online play and skirmish i noticed that if you control more then 2 fully equipted squads they will just stop listening to your orders as they are supposed too.
example:
i play as space marines, imagine an atack of 3 SM squads against eldar(duh) with bolters and flamers, some are in cover some are not, i want them ALL to atack the enemy so i pressed ATACK+MOVE behind the eldar base so my troops will mow everything down until all of the eldar scum is dead, the marines however act odd.
1 squad moved, one didnt, and the other one moved 5 troops right under the eldar noses without even atacking.
WTF?
sure you might tell "just right click noob", yeah i can do it but i dont want to focus fire on ONE thing i want them to atack everything, and it would cause some of the marines that are actually atacking to re-deploy their guns, which would make the battle far difficult.
something is just wrong with this.

[IceCream]

Remember relic said each time they changed something,something new pops up like bugs.Its a new bug only relic can fix.But I never had this
problem in 1.2 now 1.3 its the new era of "Marines go Super to stupid" guys accept it our men are now officaly retarded.

[56KbModem]

the same thing happens to all other races so i guess now all races are officialy retarded.

[TBS]

Moving to tech assistance.

[Spectre01]

I just played again and same thing, order to unit doing something lag. Oh well, skirmish4ever then.

I have searched and found another thread like this. I'm getting the exact same thing as this guy. I'm gonna read the thread.
http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=38977&highlight=mouse+click+lag

And after reading every single post in those 6 pages, I'm still back where I started.

[Nannoth]

Attack-move never worked well for ranged units in this game anyway. And from the little I have played in 1.3 I have never had this retarded unit problem. The solution I have found to squads that get some members lost and arent attacking is to tell them to stop, normally works.

[myo]

well got exactly the same problem as u spectre... read nearly all threads only scratching this issues core.. but i dindt find a thing.. and i really know how f***in annoying it is... well anywayz whati dont understand is that my ping to gamespy peerchat server is 240 ms but this lag seems like a ping of 1.5k

[Spectre01]

I think it has something to do with the computer of the person who hosts. I played WC3 with my friend who has 32mb video card, pentium II CPU, and 300 old ram, and I had the same problem. It really kills micromanagement.

[BooBoo]

Welcome to the wonderful world of network induced delay, aka "lag" for the uninitiated. You're at the mercy of the slowest computer in a multiplayer game, and the slowest connection. Until technology advances to the point where every computer has a miniature wormhole for transmitting and receiving data the network issues will happen.

Learn to work with it like the rest of us do.

[Spectre01]

Then how do the pro's compete since it's impossible to micro effectivally with this wonderfull lag?