Positional desync in online games

dev_91 · May 2, 2019

Noticed some anoying positional desync in online games recently. Experiencing teleporting enemies, weird hitboxes, taking damage from nowhere.

Playing lot of Vermintide 2, love that game, combat and movement mechanics just feels on point, unfortunately badly underperforming because of positional desync so game is nearly unplayable for me. Feels bad, game state updates at realy low rate, just
like im loosing some game state data whole time. Im pretty much sure this issue have something to do with Xbox Live services and way this game use them.

Own both xbox one x and xbox one s consoles, game just looks better on xbox x no major performance improvements, no signs of CPU overheat. Underperforming on both systems no matter which connection I use wired or wireless

Recently blamed my ISP for poor internet quality, got new router ZXDSL 931VII with latest firmware up. Technician had back to me with results of network analyze saying theres nothning wrong with network from his point of view, no package loss, no wifi signal
interferrence. I preferre wired over wifi conn.

To be clear I have open NAT in xbox network settings. Tried to swich between different router settings, enabling UPnP, Port forwarding xbox live ports + static xbox IP, DMZ settings, setting up IP lease time to infinite, firewall off. No improvements.

At that point I started to think about possible localization issues. Im located in Croatia, south-east Europe, country not on list of officialy supported xbox live countries. Connected xbox to UK VPN hotspot just for testing purposes. No improvements.

Have 30Mbs down 4Mbs up internet speed, have no gamebraking issues in other online games like Division 2, Anthem, CoD, Battlefield... Noticed some minor input lag but games generaly run smooth in 30+ fps. Vermintide 2 in other hand is disaster. Noticed
some minor desync in World War z but its rare and not that big deal.

Recently done console factory reset, reinstalled Vermintide 2 on xbox x, removed all dlc content. Nothing works. Experiencing desync even in private VT2 games I host for myself. Something just feels off. Friends have no similar experiences. Experiencied
desync since release, it just got 2 times worse recently (2 months ago)

Gamer tag: dev91

Please take a look at Vermintide 2 captures to get better insight into problem.

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Revocke

Hi!

I'm sorry that you have this kind of problem, but this issue is probably related to Vermintide 2 servers quality.

You can message the developers on Vermintide forum/reddit/twitter about this issue, i'm sure they will look at it.

Hope this helps!

xThe13thWarrior

Im getting desynced constantly now, even when I don't choose alts. The games a mess online.

Zehq

They aren't hard bro lol, they're pretty easy, they need to be more challenging. I think I only got desynced once. I got desynced more times in that last chase against Charles than I did in the entire game.

Juxtapose13

[quote user="EvilShadowNinja"]

havent played this since rain came out, just wondering if these online issues were fixed:

1. constant desychns & game freezes

2. game freezes/desychns when trying to select alt costumes

3. preorder costumes & fatalities not selectable/usable

[/quote]

A patch was released in July 2011 that greatly improved online stability, though it's still not perfect.

The game rarely freezes, however desyncs can still occur based on a number of factors. If both players do _not_ have the same compatibility installed or if they have a pre-order costume installed that they did _not_ delete and re-install after July of 2011,
desyncs are significantly more common. This also answers your second and third point.

Moley UK

I have the same issue. Haven't played online for days now as it's just too damn frustrating! A month ago it was fine, no problems. Now I get lag a pretty much constant desync.

This NEEDS to be fixed.

Positional desync in online games