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[Roadbeer]

Iguana Iguana, on 08 April 2014 - 04:42 AM, said:

I wonder what PRIVATE stands for...

Sold to us with a "lobby" system.
Wonder what LOBBY stands for...

[Sharknoms]

Roadbeer, on 08 April 2014 - 10:04 AM, said:

Sold to us with a "lobby" system.
Wonder what LOBBY stands for...

I admit it... I dont read the forums frequently so I might missed it.
But I cant remember when they said something about Private Matches in combination with Lobby...

[Roadbeer]

Iguana Iguana, on 08 April 2014 - 10:26 AM, said:

I admit it... I dont read the forums frequently so I might missed it.
But I cant remember when they said something about Private Matches in combination with Lobby...

In fairness, they keep referring to a Lobby, in Paul's LM post it mentions is, in Russ's NGNG 105 interview he mentions it, and in occasional tweets we get "just played in the lobby and it's pretty cool" or something like that.

But I think what they're calling a lobby and what almost everyone familiar with the term as it's been used in the past were expecting are two wildly different things.

[Oderint dum Metuant]

If we make the private function so private and un-user friendly and super difficult nobody will use it.....then in three months we can say we're removing it because nobody used it!
Just like we put in third person when 90% didn't want it and nobody uses it!

It's funny you guy's go on about PGI saying a lobby, PGI will never implement a true lobby system because people won't return to their game modes in the open que.

Edited by DV McKenna, 08 April 2014 - 10:35 AM.

[Sharknoms]

Roadbeer, on 08 April 2014 - 10:33 AM, said:

In fairness, they keep referring to a Lobby, in Paul's LM post it mentions is, in Russ's NGNG 105 interview he mentions it, and in occasional tweets we get "just played in the lobby and it's pretty cool" or something like that.

But I think what they're calling a lobby and what almost everyone familiar with the term as it's been used in the past were expecting are two wildly different things.

So we have again another instance of bad communications it seems.

[CeeKay Boques]

DV McKenna, on 08 April 2014 - 10:33 AM, said:

Just like we put in third person when 90% didn't want it and nobody uses it!

But but but... it didn't break the game! So... they came through on that... 3rd person is not OP.

Edited by Technoviking, 08 April 2014 - 10:37 AM.

[Oderint dum Metuant]

Technoviking, on 08 April 2014 - 10:36 AM, said:

But but but... it didn't break the game! So... they came through on that... 3rd person is not OP.

And still pointless wasted dev time.

[Roadkill]

Roland, on 04 April 2014 - 09:41 PM, said:

That we played with 1200 baud modems that plugged directly into the wall.

Ah yes, the good old days. I have vague memories of using a 300 baud modem as well, though I think that was only for BBSs and not gaming.

[Roadkill]

Roadkill, on 02 April 2014 - 10:00 AM, said:

That nifty little box that pops up when you launch to let you select the game mode?

USELESS. Why? Because it doesn't remember your previous selection. The game can remember what Mech I had selected, so it can damn well remember what game mode I had selected as well. Except that PGI doesn't have the competence to think that far ahead.

So now, every time I launch, I have two extra clicks that I have to go through for no good reason in order to launch.

For the record, this has been either hot-fixed behind the scenes or stealthed into some other patch. The UI now remembers your last selection(s) in the game mode menu.

[Splitpin]

Roadkill, on 08 April 2014 - 01:06 PM, said:

For the record, this has been either hot-fixed behind the scenes or stealthed into some other patch. The UI now remembers your last selection(s) in the game mode menu.

Well no actually. It only (now) remembers if you are dropping solo. If you are dropping in a group the group leader still has to select each time.

[Roadbeer]

Splitpin, on 08 April 2014 - 01:32 PM, said:

Well no actually. It only (now) remembers if you are dropping solo. If you are dropping in a group the group leader still has to select each time.

More proof that PGi hates groups and wants them gone.

[Deathlike]

Roadbeer, on 08 April 2014 - 01:47 PM, said:

More proof that PGi hates groups and wants them gone.

No... it's just a minimally viable update.

[Novakaine]

I'll still calling poof "gone" 90 days from start.
Any takers?

[12Bravo]

Novakaine, on 08 April 2014 - 02:25 PM, said:

I'll still calling poof "gone" 90 days from start.
Any takers?

Did I miss something?

[Roadkill]

Roadkill said:

That nifty little box that pops up when you launch to let you select the game mode?

USELESS. Why? Because it doesn't remember your previous selection. The game can remember what Mech I had selected, so it can damn well remember what game mode I had selected as well. Except that PGI doesn't have the competence to think that far ahead.

So now, every time I launch, I have two extra clicks that I have to go through for no good reason in order to launch.

Roadkill, on 08 April 2014 - 01:06 PM, said:

For the record, this has been either hot-fixed behind the scenes or stealthed into some other patch. The UI now remembers your last selection(s) in the game mode menu.

Correction: It has only been fixed for solo drops. Still doesn't remember your last selected game mode if you're in a group.

Which may have been the case all along, as most nights I only play one way or the other. So it's entirely possible that they haven't changed anything at all.

Edit: Splitpin beat me to it.

Edited by Roadkill, 09 April 2014 - 07:54 AM.

[Novakaine]

12Bravo, on 08 April 2014 - 04:52 PM, said:

Did I miss something?

Dead lobbies.
Refer to Novakaine's wild eyed theory posted here somewhere.

[Sandpit]

Sooooooooooooo

We have an online
multiplayer
pvp
mmo
persistent campaign and universe
team oriented game

that has
no lobbies
can't team up past 4
can't easily and intuitively form a private match in game without 3rd party crap


Sound about right?

This is becoming a bad joke.....

[CeeKay Boques]

Roadkill, on 08 April 2014 - 11:54 AM, said:

Ah yes, the good old days. I have vague memories of using a 300 baud modem as well, though I think that was only for BBSs and not gaming.

That's like an epeen comment, if it was about your peen being old and shriveled.

I kid!

[ApolloKaras]

Sandpit, on 10 April 2014 - 12:55 PM, said:

Sooooooooooooo

We have an online
multiplayer
pvp
mmo
persistent campaign and universe
team oriented game

that has
no lobbies
can't team up past 4
can't easily and intuitively form a private match in game without 3rd party crap


Sound about right?

This is becoming a bad joke.....

So I ask whats wrong with 12Bravo's idea? (Other than I cant seem to get it to register me lol)

[Sandpit]

Saxie, on 10 April 2014 - 01:55 PM, said:

So I ask whats wrong with 12Bravo's idea? (Other than I cant seem to get it to register me lol)

I didn't see the idea so I can't comment on it. My point was just showing how PGI has done their best to take the team out of team oriented gaming