Weekend classic lag. Goodluck
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So I’m here to complain again by why is weekend classic so laggy. I just played a player that swung at [censored] near everything and he absolutely murdered me. I’m 31-6 online. 850 player and I’m playing in gold 1 league so I downgraded intentionally due to not playing much between the break. but most of all I went almost hitless. It felt like I was playing on GOAT. The best I can explain it is when my opponent was pitching the pitches were zipping in at GOAT speed sometimes and when I would swing there would be a pause then the game would press play and fast forward through a swing. It was impossible. This keeps happening on weekend classic yet in regular ranked it’s a toss up and not as likely to happen. I’m at a loss and will keep complaining about it until I figure out what’s going on.
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Jesus this game is playing bad right now. Post anyone if you are having input delays or serious lag. Trying to figure out if it’s me or not.
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I have not had any problems playing online. You might have just had a bad day, ive been there
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@Talkingben9558_XBL Everyone wants to come on here and down play everything everyone says.
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@SpawnOfDitka_XBL
If you want to say something about the thread's actual purpose, I would be happy to offer my perspective, but insulting people over a discussion (that you inserted yourself in) about a video game is ridiculous. -
@Talkingben9558_XBL where is the insult that I made.? Do not down play what the op is saying. If he is saying the game is playing bad. Then that's what it is. Because the game this year does indeed play Bad at times.
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@SpawnOfDitka_XBL
Bro this is a video game its not that deep. Chill out -
@Talkingben9558_XBL its not deep at all brother. Just saying. The op clearly had a connection lag issue. Which a ton of us are having this year with this game. Hitting etc all seems off this year. So if you are always having a great connection and experience.. consider yourself lucky.
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I appreciate you guys replying but something is severely off again with this weekend classic for me. I’m not sure if it’s my location south Central Part of the country but let me put this into perspective. If u look at my logs I am having a very very difficult time hitting suddenly. In my ranked matches before the weekend classic I was not. This has been consistent with every weekend classic. The best I can explain it is the game is slowing down to speed up really fast. Almost like it’s being slowed to negative speed then suddenly put in 2x speed. Thus making some pitches come in at GOAT speed and my swings are heavily delayed. I’m running stupid fast fiber internet. I checked my current speeds they are almost 1k. The game during weekend classic has been a wreck for me. I’m even playing a league below what I typically play and I’m getting slaughtered. Pitches are going right down the middle regardless of input randomly. Defenders are slow to field, and most of my swing timing is severely late. I tried to offset this by swinging early but I think my last round. 3rd of this classic I almost went hitless. It’s really tough for me and I play on HOF, legend, and goat offline. And seldomly lose on ranked. Im probably 3-8 on total weekend classics
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@RAisEdByGoAt_XBL it might be because of WC matchup system the pool is smaller and more susceptible to bad connections as the search widens (more hops on the network?)
I have yet to see a difference between RS or WC; most are fine, once in a while it’s bad, sometimes awful. I’m in the northeast btw.
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@yankblan_PSN
I appreciate the reply. I’ve heard the east coast and west coast get substantially better connection but I have no clue if there is actually any validity to that. It’s so tough for me on weekend classic that you could literally just beam fastballs down the plate on me and I can’t seem to catch up with them. Yet I’m 31-9 on ranked. Several of those losses coming from the same types of issues. I just wish I could figure it out because the weekend classics are the worst. Ranked is a toss up. I can go several matches without issues then suddenly a whole day is issues. My opponents say they aren’t having any issues. It’s miserable to try and hit and field especially silly the delay in baserunning my god it’s bad. -
@RAisEdByGoAt_XBL yeah the base running input lag is bad. I’ve had many pickoffs go against me because of it.
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Does anyone know why it happens to one person and not the other In a match ? I’m truly curious because I don’t know hardly anything about this kind of stuff
I guess it would probably be wise to stick with ranked so I’m not constantly complaining everytime there’s a classic. Maybe weekend classic just doesn’t work down south I don’t know.
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@RAisEdByGoAt_XBL I have been dealing with this for years on google fiber internet. I promise you there is literally nothing you can do. It's basically the lag compensation in the game for all the people with not so great internet, especially the people on the coast. I am in KC and majority of my opponents are east/west coast and I get this all of the time. I stopped being competitive as it will just drive you nuts. I could list a host of problems you probably see like warping pitches, delayed baserunning, more fielding errors and the list goes on and on. Feels like you are throwing slow pitch softball while trying to hit 120 mph blitz balls.
You would have a better gameplay experience if you just moved to NY and shared your wifi with 50 neighbors. My theory is people with these connections always get connected to say the NY server because their internet is so bad they can't match with anyone to say the Florida or Chicago servers.
It will never change because too many "elite" players wouldn't be able to go 200-10 if they actually made the connections like they should. This game should have had an accurate ping indicator years ago. It is 2025 but the connections feel like a 2005 game. I actually saw better connections in Socom in 2002. You think it is bad now? Wait until people start leaving the game and people with not so great internet are the only ones playing.
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@DemIsE4_XBL my man you are spot on with warped pitches. That was the word I was looking for. And for me today it was even warped swinging. It was like it glitched or lagged through the follow through of the swing every time. I get some ranked matches where the connection is ok. But it never really happens during the world classic. It’s been very tough to play. This years iteration has by far been the worse
Is it because we aren’t on the east and west coast ? I appreciate the reply
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@RAisEdByGoAt_XBL The old underwater swings or swinging with a pool noodle. Just more signs of a bad connection. I literally have a good connection game maybe 20% of the time. Those games usually don't last 3 innings.
It is not because we are not on the coast, it is how SDS does their matchmaking. It is just really bad if you have high speed internet because you are matching with opponents further away. The game is going to bad for someone on a P2P (peer to peer) connection. Message your opponents on those games and ask them what state they are in. A lot will respond to you and I bet you notice they are quite a ways from you.
I have done literally everything on my network you can think of. Calling google and having them come out, changing cables, changing router settings, DMZ, QOS and a host of other things. I even tried VPN. Problem is when I VPN through NY I get west coast or midwest opponents, west coast and get east coast. Funny thing is I did VPN last year through Australia and played a top 50 guy. He had 4 runs through 8 innings at Shield Woods. Had I played him on my wired connection, he would have mercied me in 4 innings. I believe there is a server in TX but with high speed internet you likely rarely connect to that. I see streamers from NY and Florida playing regional people all the time. I rarely get a regional opponent. Really doesn't help as St. Louis and Chicago have really bad internet also.
I took a lot of [censored] for years on this forum regarding this issue because people are just ignorant. If they don't see it, then it doesn't exist. My favorite is you can't have an opinion unless you are elite at the game. This game has had major connection issues for years.
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Glad I wasn't losing my mind. I was having a really hard time with it last night so much so that I just gave up and quit in the 6th inning because I couldn't seem to get a strike across the plate. pitches were ending up on the opposite side of the plate from where I aimed them.. pitches coming at me had millisecond freezes... swings had hitches... it was bad. I just assumed it was a connection issue with me or my opponent. I had no idea weekend classic specifically has issues but I believe it now as I usually don't have these issues.
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@DemIsE4_XBL also in KC... i've played online like 6 straight days with no issue until this WC game which was pretty much unplayable for me. I gave up.
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@Barfy-Bad-Gas_XBL You have google fiber? I've made WS at least 4 times every year since 17. There are a lot of games I can't catch up to outlier or 95 sinkers on all star. Due to that (connections and can't ever get a good pack pull) I make sure I don't get to HOF. I would love to play HOF or even legend if the connections we're good but there just not.
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@DemIsE4_XBL yup... google fiber with the 5 gig upgrade. it's smokin'.
