I’ve not had much in the way of game performance problems for a while, but trying to play Bless Unleashed was painful earlier when I tried to sneak in a few quests. The early zone my cleric is in was busy with players, and there was a lot of chatter relating to some dragon fight and lag. So it might not be entirely the fault of my 10+ year old gaming laptop being a bit long in the tooth.

The last two sessions were fine lag-wise, but as I was playing earlier I was seeing noticeable “ability lag”: I’d press a button and the results would be delayed by a half-second or so. In an action-combat game that’s quite the problem as positioning generally matters more. Towards the end I noticed my character’s health dropping with no discernable reason, no enemies were nearby but his health bar started ticking downwards…