I have an older computer running on xp so expect, and experience, a little lag, however that lag wasn't apparent in the early stages when only a couple Heroes where in formation. But I noticed recently that now there is *always* a hitch when the heroes kill a monster. it last about a quarter second to half second and starts as soon as play begins, and in later stages when the formation is full and the enemies start getting thicker that hitch sometimes lasts as long as a second, which becomes pretty distracting when there are a lot of enemies on screen dying.

I didn't mention it when I first saw it because I thought it was just my own crappy system causing it. But after multiple resets, ensuring my stuff is updated, and giving my system a real good maintenance and cleaning it still occurs when it didn't used to.

Just wanted to throw out a heads up on this to see if anyone else is experiencing it or if it is actually caused by my own computer.

Yes, lag is horrible now. Every monster kill causes a hitch/jerk in frame rate.

It's not like I can't play this game in one window, but I can play two different instances of Crusaders side by side. The thing here is that both perform as bad and laggy as it would perform if I run only one instance of the game.

http://i.imgur.com/rZd1oKh.jpg

Re: lag...

Since we have an event again, paid close attention so as to read all the stuff and enjoy the new enemy characters.

Seemed to be no lag until around area 30 or so; very noticeable by area 50. Seems to depend upon how many crusaders are unlocked and/or how many upgrades are bought. By the time i had 18 of the seats activated [using lvl all and upgrade all buttons the whole time] the lag was very noticeable. [pauses with each kill, black wipe pausing at least once on it's way across].

Despite no lag in the early areas, and the fact that i was babysitting through the first 50 areas to see the entire story, reaching area 100 took an hour and 20 minutes. Common wisdom on the boards [which i never actually tested myself] was that insta-killing got you through ~100areas/hr. If it is the lag causing that extra 20 minutes, i'd say it was pretty bad - and, again, that's with the first 30 or so areas having no lag at all.

Don't have those others you mentioned, but did try on chrome just now (currently on area 207 of a RP2 FreePlay) and getting the lag there just as bad as on IE and Firefox.

@ Missy: Are you using RoboTurkey? It's possible there is a bug related to him.

Yes, he's in my lineup. I'll try to restart and remove him before it freezes again and see if that changes things.

*Yep, pulled him out of the lineup and am progressing again.

@ Missy: If you refresh, you can use RoboTurkey again. Let us know if that fixed it.

Erika, I too am experiencing really bad lag since the event or update came out. A run that should have been 6-6.5 hours took over 9 hours

I'm not on a terribly old laptop, running Win10, using chrome and have cleared all cache etc

Really? There was some additional Roboturkey lag that I didn't notice and it's fixed now? Okay, but hitch lag still remains.

I think Lisa's talking about the same sort of lag i mentioned above - nothing to do with roboturkey because i don't even have roboturkey - that occurs on all objectives/freeplays/campaigns and has done for several weeks now. The person who started the thread pinpointed it to 'recent updates', someone on another thread pinpointed it to the update where missions were introduced, but i'm not entirely certain it hadn't started a bit before that.

Added note to maybe help pinpoint the cause: in the higher levels (high enough that the pausing is very noticeable, but not so high that i actually NEED my whole formation yet), the lag clears up if i remove everyone down to just one or two crusaders who are still insta-killing.