Unacceptable Net Code - Lag and Rubber Banding

[Vale]

Seriously we need to talk about the atrocious rubber banding going on. Nearly every game is plagued with insane connection issues. Rubberbanding so hard or even just watching everything come to a stand still and then when the game catches up 10 seconds later you're dead and your team thinks you stood there to feed.

It's almost 2025 and this kind of net code performance is literally unacceptable. This issue was and has been present in Smite 1 for YEARS now, and it's literally killing my desire to play and fund smite 2.. I want Smite 2 to be great but being literally unable to play the game due to poor and or lazy net coding is just unacceptable.

[Vale]

While we're on the topic of bugs... Why do the microphone options not work? Like... not at all. It does not matter what input you select, Smite 2 will always forcibly use system default microphone. It's little bugs like these that seemingly went absolutely untested and just sent to live that make me have very little hope for the future of the game. Not to mention the abysmal state of balancing right now.

[anotherland]

i also don't like the way assets load, just a tiny stutter then it's fine until you load the game again. the stutter from shaders and skills can be a bit much, especially in the beginning.

[ᴆᴀʀɢᴀṣ]

Mention this on bug reports thread on discord

[Kaimick-TTV]

Originally posted by anotherland:

i also don't like the way assets load, just a tiny stutter then it's fine until you load the game again. the stutter from shaders and skills can be a bit much, especially in the beginning.

Your complaint is because of stuttering in an ALPHA ? Tell us you never played an ALPHA with out saying you never played an ALPHA.

They have already addressed this quite a few weeks ago, Visual bugs are on the low end of the fix-it list, they are worried more about mechanics and how god effects affect the surrounding area and other gods

[Kaimick-TTV]

Originally posted by Valarynn:

Seriously we need to talk about the atrocious rubber banding going on. Nearly every game is plagued with insane connection issues. Rubberbanding so hard or even just watching everything come to a stand still and then when the game catches up 10 seconds later you're dead and your team thinks you stood there to feed.

It's almost 2025 and this kind of net code performance is literally unacceptable. This issue was and has been present in Smite 1 for YEARS now, and it's literally killing my desire to play and fund smite 2.. I want Smite 2 to be great but being literally unable to play the game due to poor and or lazy net coding is just unacceptable.

Can I ask you what your PC specs are, and what your Net specs are?

I am running the game on the highest settings with 2 gigabytes of DL speed and I constantly get 150 - 190 FPS and the game never lags.

Now I am not saying your system is as good but that also means you have to lower the Graphics settings because this is an ALPHA, it is not Optimized and probably won't be till February 2025 when the open Beta hits but I would hold your breath for full optimization till full release

But I am not having nor have I ever had those issues, nor have some predominate streamers running the same settings I am, which makes me believe that your rig isn't top end and your net isn't top end, ( and that isn't a dig at you no shame please don't take it that way) We all can't have top of the line PC's to run the game like I do, but we have to be real about things and lower the settings.

Also, another thing that can affect (and it has been this way for years in Smite 1) it depends on what server you're playing on. The US East cost is the most stable, US WEST is about 25% less stable. And I realize this pisses people off but Only one good EU server is good, One South American Server is good, and from my understanding, all the African servers are kind of poo-poo. But all the Main region servers are about 80% more efficient to the US EAST server. Semi-Pro players and pro players are playing in the regions qualifying for Lans so it can be done and I have no experience with that. But I do know that they are sustaining the Net code and not pushing for improvements right now as they are focused on getting 50 gods by January and the release of Aladin. After that, they will start slowing down on god releases and focus on the other details which I would imagine is better stability for non-US EAST servers.

I sympathize with you, but I would look inward before you get too angry, Also Understand that an ALPHA is just an that, an ALPHA, things aren't polished there will be major problems, and any problems you have should be reported to Hi-Rez not to steam that has nothing to do with SMITE 2,

I hope this all helps, again this was not meant to be mean or insulting just trying to potentially help you.

[Ve]

any fix to this?

i just got smite 2 today and i've got bad rubberbanding myself. its weird too, its pretty bad in Arena but everything is fine when in practice mode. -____-

[BobbyHertz]

I updated my BIOS and it seems to have resolved both this and the crashing issue several others have been having as well.