It definitely wouldn't bother me as much if I hadn't gone through this last summer with CoH. That episode was obviously a problem on my end. Had a weak 3g connection that was crummy no matter how I used it. Fast downloads, but slow response times. Then we got 4g in this area, my connection was solid, and NCLimp did their thing. So yeah, when I see big pings starting up again it's like... ugh.
Logged on this morning, solid connection, bumped up the video until my card screamed, ran some alerts and started the Nighthawk? thing. Had no problems the whole time.
As a side note.. If you can play with all the essential video bumped up it sure adds to the immersion.
I haven't been having trouble with the game, until tonight. I couldn't get the updater to patch past 80%. I'm currently reinstalling from scratch.
This morning someone said something similar in Zone.
When I have problems, it's with everything. Seemingly every time there's a handshake I'll either get the Red Text (lost connection) or a big delay and then in the game /netgraph is a roller coaster of lagspikes that never go below 200ms ish.
I never post anything negative about the game and I'm not trying to get down on them now. If I had the bandwidth I'd simply DL STO and fool around with that until things straighten out with CO. Re-installing is rarely if ever a bad idea. If I had the bandwidth I'd do that too.
Verizon, on the other hand, you suck. You Internet hoarding misers. I've had Internet access long enough, in enough ways, to know when I'm being ... wronged.
Thanks for letting me vent & gl with your connection DW.