Dedicated Servers Test: Feedback

It's downright awful, now keep in mind everything I'm about to say happened in 50-70 ping (green ping) games. Killers hitting through windows and pallets (and sometimes even through WALLS) worse than they used to before, laggy inputs that shouldn't be lagging at low ping (such as healing and gen repair), Dead Hard somehow being even more inconsistent than normal (pressing it a FULL SECOND before the killer swings and the perk doesn't come out, but I'm still EXHAUSTED), fully dropping a pallet to be hit through it, killer hitboxes not even being close to hitting where they should... The list just goes on and on...

That's just for survivor, killer has issues too. Several delayed sounds (such as chainsaw revving and pallet breaking), actions being delayed (such as vaulting and gen breaking), survivors jittering everywhere (I asked and they said their ping was fine), things hitting when they shouldn't (huntress hatchets) and things not hitting when they should (demo charge and billy chainsaw; and no, the survivors did NOT have Sprint Burst or BL). It just feels super janky and bad.

Look I know these are just tests, but they need MASSIVE improvements before these can be considered playable. I can easily say the game was far more frustrating playing on these servers.

Latency issues are noticeable at times, after getting used to when to hit the space bar on skill checks in P2P I know have to adapt to the new server latency, I am in AR and have a stable internet connection thru Xfinity, ping was green in lobby sometimes yellow.

The wait timers for playing survivor has gone up which is to be expected and the killer wait timer seems a little shorter but not by a super noticeable amount. The game feels so much better however getting hit in unfair ways like while vaulting windows or pallets seems to have gone up. The matchmaking seems a lot worse however. I'm a purple rank and I've been consistently playing with rank 20s. And I remember seeing an example of a killer and survivor waiting at the hatch for it to open and even though the killer closed it the survivor still escaped. Not sure if it was a one time thing but if its not that should definitely be looked at. But overall the servers seem like a big improvement over the ones in the PTB. I haven't had any crashes, lag spikes or connection issues.

Yeah Frankfurt probably,i wasn't connecting to any Singapore servers.

If i did i would have 100-110ms ping

For me overall i like the Server. I played only Killer the Hag and the Demogorgon. Im a Hag Main and my Teleports where all on Point. No Lag Issues after a Port nothing and felt like before. I realy enjoyed the fast Match Starts and quick Lobbys.

Im in Europe and my Average Ping the whole Time was 50ms. Everything felt pretty stable.

But there is a Bug on the Hag. Cracked Turtle Egg and the green Cicarda Together lets you not place any Traps. Without the Egg everything is fine. So the Bug comes from the Cracked Turtle Egg.

So keep up the good Work and bring the Server back pls as soon as possible :)

@Gonzalo Hmmmm. I don't know where the main cables from the servers are going but sometimes you get weird connections across the world which are quite fast because it's direct. And other times you connect to the geographical nearest server with a bad connection because your signal has to go through X points before.

Very good, very good. Except for some shoddy grabs that were randomly turned to nothing, overall great experience.

But I had a stable 80 ping, and other people that live farther away from the servers seem to have a lot more problems, so... Yeah, you should check that.

I've played a few games with different killers, and a few games as Survivors.

First i'll say a bit about Survivor, as it's the role i got the least issues with. I had problems when vaulting and dropping pallets. It would lag when i started the animation, and stutter halfway through. When vaulting this sometimes caused me to get hit when i really shouldn't have been hit. Another note; The Vaults sometimes did not happen. I would do the animation for vaulting, but not go through, and have to vault again in order to go through.

Now, onto Killers, where i experienced alot of issues especially with their powers.

Nurse stutters and rubberbands when blinking. Once a blink ends, my nurse would randomly stutter and seem to teleport slightly further back before im able to lunge or blink again, which made me miss quite often.

As Myers and Ghostface, the stalking was off. Sometimes a survivor would be standing clearly visible, and i would not be able to stalk them. And a few times i was able to stalk survivors through small objects without seeing them (Like rocks and trees)

Billy and Bubba's chainsaws were delayed on startup animation, and especially with Billy the chainsaw would miss despite doing the 'hit' animation. Along with minor stuttering in the first second of the chainsaw sprint. Bubba's chainsaw would stutter and lag whenever i rounded a corner. Sometime making me hit nothing and go into a frenzy which cost me the chase.

Demogorgon; The Shred attack hitbox was wildly inconsistent and stuttered mid-pounce.

Huntress; Hatchet went through survivors.

Plague; Vomit was very inconsistent. Going through survivors, walls, objects. Even hitting them when it clearly didnt hit.

Generally all killers had problems with kicking Gens and Pallets. The animation would stutter, lag and get delayed. To a point where i'd do the animation. Then stand still for a second before the action is actually done and the gen or pallet is damaged/broken.

The experience has been a massive downgrade from the normal p2p it previously was. And i do not want to see these dedicated servers go up to live permanently if these issues are not fixed.

I played for killers, and in 90% case i can't grab survivors, when they unhooking or do the generator.

Also nurse blinks have obvious server synchronization, after few games, you will get brain lag.

As Mayers you need always look at power, when stalking coz server synchronization is bad.

Broke pallets\gens also have bad synchronization with in-game progress.

For me ping was very nice... 50 ms, better than killer's lobby which i have always +120... i just saw a bug with myers when you tier up.. or when you tier to 3, its like doubled or something... i hope dedicated servers will be back official.

I'm pretty sure its your internet. On dedicated servers everyone relays on your own WIFI. Since this new change makes killers lag. You are lagging while blinking because of your WIFI. It seems like a bad thing but in my mind its a good thing... This means its fair. Not only do survivor's suffer from lag switching killer but killers suffer from their internet now.

No change in hitbox garbage, no change in pallet mechanics, no change in unknown errors, lobbies on killer side still took nearly 15 mins and then you have to cross your fingers that no one dc'd during load.

No ability to see the killers name... so I saw MANY dc's during load when the killer offering didn't flip since they couldn't tell who the killer was and didn't trust them to be a dick.

At first the servers were fine, minimal lag but a hiccup hear and there (i.e. getting hit through a window despite being far on the other side) but as time went on the issues became more and more prevalent, (i.e. lagging into walls or corners, healed survivors going back to inured with just needing a tap to heal, and straight up rubberbanding back to the killer or behind a window, and the worst; some actions taking a full second to start) while the servers have come a long way, they still have a ways to go. Here's to hoping for Fall dedicated servers.

Just as a side note to my previous post: queues were fast on both sides, ping was always green (between 40 and 60 ms) and quite stable, but desynch is a bigger issue than consistant 200 ms of P2P games. Imagine downing a survivor and then looking for him for 30 seconds because his body ended up few meters away from you...

The amount of disconnects during loading games, on the start of game and random people being disconnected in situations where they definitely didn't disconnect purposely is going up. I've also gotten disconnects later in game myself a few times.

Can you disable those crap at once?.

It is still horrible, perhaps they fail to understand that the problem is the connection? If they try the servers in the same city where they are located, they obviously work great.

pretty bad job so far