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I never imagined a server “upgrade” would pull the brakes so hard on this game for me. It just happened all of a sudden, so it’s a bit surreal, but overnight the game is just not playable for me. Not that I cant still play it, but that I cant have FUN playing it. I am not ragequitting more than sadly being led not to not play. Its more a serenity quit.
The connection to the server that decides what is reality is just so bad now that gameplay is such a mess that I question the intelligence of Australians left playing this. Heck its not even that I felt like Australians were treated as second class citizens. I always felt well that’s the nature of the internet, longer distances mean more lag more packet loss less reliable synchronisation with the servers etc, but the evidence says otherwise. IF ANYBODY needed a performance increase its Australians, not Eueopean players, they were already in he 110-130ms range and doing just fine, so if they moved servers for performance reasons it should have been closer to asia not further away!
Let me walk you through what the game feel like now for me. Every form of interaction with the game is like a slideshow, where you feel it is happening in a dream instead of right now. Lets quickly skip over the massive delays in targeting an enemy, target info gathering, missile locks, zooming in and out, heat vision, nigh vision, coolant flush, startup/shutdown, incoming misssle warning delays etc. Lets just deal with the enemy mechs and shooting at them.
You fire your weapons at an enemy, a sound is instantly made, your heat instantly goes up, instantly loose your ammo, you MOVE about 20 metres down the road, and then somewhere from a location back a few seconds ago, you see your weapons fire come out of thin air behind you, travelling into an area where the enemy mech was 2 seconds ago, and it either goes right through them or it hits them but you never register a hit anyway.
At the same time you feel like 50 things went down and you missed all of them happening one at a time, like they are supposed, to because they came at you in a flood. You take 50 clicks worth of damage, the enemies have had 50 goes of seeing you and reacting and targeting you moving around, suddenly missiles are slamming you with almost no warning, you’ve been pelted by mechs that must’ve seen you standing around like an idiot for a good second or so, not reacting because on your end you saw nothing of them. I am NOT TALKING ABOUT DESYNCS. I mean the game as it is non stop.
You can be even prepared and wait for an enemy to come around a corner, shoot them the instant they appear, nothing happens for a few seconds, you see the enemy immediately warp back into cover, the server catches up, your take damage and your shots NOW begin to fly through the air but its too late they have cored you had a cup of coffe and moved on and you’ve shot a wall where they were 2 seconds ago.
One more time of this and your dead before you could even click the mouse. Anything faster than 90kph circling moving on the field? Forget trying to hit them. It doesn’t matter if your aim is perfect or if you learn to aim ahead and SHOOT INTO THIN AIR. Even if you register damage It will only be a fraction of a fraction of what your meant to register. Your only hope is shooting at standing still assault mechs that are not aware of you, even if they spot you buy the time they turn around on your end, they have already began firing at you, by the time you can react and retreat you’ve taken tons of damage. Oh and ALL of the above is only using pinpoint damage weapons like ACs PPCs and gauss. You have NO HOPE of landing a laser beam, they are like tickle devices.
I’ve never been bothered by OP this or that, or “balance”, or lack of of content or maps etc, NONE of that every bothered me, heck I don’t even mind loosing most of the time, I STILL enjoyed the game immensely. But you now feel like a baby trying to catch a fly out there. Everyone just runs rings around you, you may as well just shutdown and serve as an easy kill for the real players. I still try to drop, but its with a meh sad face because I know I cant possibly have a good game, and I don't know how much longer I can do that.
Edited by l33tworks, 05 September 2014 - 06:51 PM.
