Losing patience...

[Clantron]

Today I entered the game and I still need a Progeniter killshot so I decided to go for a Major Scrapper. I come at the first location with 20 minutes to spare. I have not seen a single person on the server but I figured I'll give it a shot, maybe some will join in. I figured if I can do it in 4 minutes per Arkfall I may even have a chance solo. After the first one I leave in 3 minutes to the next one. Arkfall 2 gave me a "Bonus" Wave 4. I lost a little bit of time. Arkfall 3 again "Bonus" Wave 4. Yup, you guessed it: "Bonus" Wave 4. And once again on Arkfall 5 I got a "Bonus" Wave 4. I saw only 1 hostile scrapper remaining as the timer hit 0.

These "Bonus" Waves are starting to really piss me off when you're trying to do a Major Arkfall. Ofcourse one could say "Don't do Major Arkfalls", but there's a problem you see. Most of the time there's simply hardly anyone around.

And then there's the disconnects. I disconnect about every 2hrs. I've tried support tickets but they always get responded to in a fashion of "Disable Media Server" and "Reinstall the game" followed by a "Restore File System", which all leads to nothing... and I'm far from the only person having connection issues. Yesterday we tried a Warmaster with about 30 people outside the Arkfall. 5 actually made it in. Nobody rejoined in the 15 minutes that followed. Then we have the issues of disconnecting during Major Arkfalls or Incursions, making you lose all the kills (and now score most likely) you've amassed.

And then there's the clan issue. I started playing this game 5 weeks ago and created my own clan about a week into gameplay. I have some friends in there and I've been unable to set clan rights sinds about 2 days after creating it.

Commandeer Cronkhite co-op map I've never seen working. I tried my luck once and managed to get in after 4 hours of pending for group. The result was a very unpleasant situation where I entered from what I asume near the end of the co-op, nobody did anything for several minutes so I continued on, resulting in the rest suddenly yelling at me for screwing everything up. How the heck are new players suppose to know about this all. Maybe start with a 'bug avoidance tutorial' at the start?

And then there's this... Most of the week I enter a server where it's pretty much dead quiet, and then sometimes I enter a server where you can barely kill anything in a Siege or Arkfall because there's 100 orso people ofwhich most are using detonators on the spawnlocations. There seems to be no middle ground.

Alright I guess I ranted enough now......
I'm just losing my patience with the game....

[crasher]

Today I entered the game and I still need a Progeniter killshot so I decided to go for a Major Scrapper. I come at the first location with 20 minutes to spare. I have not seen a single person on the server but I figured I'll give it a shot, maybe some will join in. I figured if I can do it in 4 minutes per Arkfall I may even have a chance solo. After the first one I leave in 3 minutes to the next one. Arkfall 2 gave me a "Bonus" Wave 4. I lost a little bit of time. Arkfall 3 again "Bonus" Wave 4. Yup, you guessed it: "Bonus" Wave 4. And once again on Arkfall 5 I got a "Bonus" Wave 4. I saw only 1 hostile scrapper remaining as the timer hit 0.

These "Bonus" Waves are starting to really piss me off when you're trying to do a Major Arkfall. Ofcourse one could say "Don't do Major Arkfalls", but there's a problem you see. Most of the time there's simply hardly anyone around.

And then there's the disconnects. I disconnect about every 2hrs. I've tried support tickets but they always get responded to in a fashion of "Disable Media Server" and "Reinstall the game" followed by a "Restore File System", which all leads to nothing... and I'm far from the only person having connection issues. Yesterday we tried a Warmaster with about 30 people outside the Arkfall. 5 actually made it in. Nobody rejoined in the 15 minutes that followed. Then we have the issues of disconnecting during Major Arkfalls or Incursions, making you lose all the kills (and now score most likely) you've amassed.

And then there's the clan issue. I started playing this game 5 weeks ago and created my own clan about a week into gameplay. I have some friends in there and I've been unable to set clan rights sinds about 2 days after creating it.

Commandeer Cronkhite co-op map I've never seen working. I tried my luck once and managed to get in after 4 hours of pending for group. The result was a very unpleasant situation where I entered from what I asume near the end of the co-op, nobody did anything for several minutes so I continued on, resulting in the rest suddenly yelling at me for screwing everything up. How the heck are new players suppose to know about this all. Maybe start with a 'bug avoidance tutorial' at the start?

And then there's this... Most of the week I enter a server where it's pretty much dead quiet, and then sometimes I enter a server where you can barely kill anything in a Siege or Arkfall because there's 100 orso people ofwhich most are using detonators on the spawnlocations. There seems to be no middle ground.

Alright I guess I ranted enough now......
I'm just losing my patience with the game....

Bonus waves:
Yer killin' 'em too fast in the first 2 waves.
I use a pair of combat shotguns, dual-wield, swap every 4-5 rounds until it gets heavy.

It's magic on mongrals and most omnis, works on hoverbots.
Works on skits and archers, too.

Do that for the first wave or two, and go to AR/LMG/SMG whatever later on if/when you need to.

BMGs work on skits, mongrels and nanos, too, and a lot faster than a stream of bullets at each one.

Can't help your disco's, and coops were rarely a prob besides the occasional glitch back in the day when I still did dailys.

Dead shards or overcrowded shards, no middle.
They screwed up the system mechanic that efficiently averaged populations to shards, and created/coalesced players to shards as needed.
It was probably a ninjanerf gone bad, and they don't know what they monkeyed with, so they don't know what to fix.
That guy who new the architecture got fired back in may.

[Amack]

Kill slower. Literally. The faster you kill the waves, the more bonus waves you get.

As it is currently, if you find yourself on a quiet shard, the only escape is to have someone on your friends list in a different shard (shows red mark in friends list) that you can fast travel to.
With a little luck, they can balance this out better sometime in the future.

You are not alone with the disconnects. Mostly prevalent on the PS3 platform, but Xbox has been experiencing issues as well lately.

[Clantron]

That's quite some calculating to make it in time then...
Was using BMG on first 2 waves and alternating with VBI Shotgun in 3rd/4th.
thx for the 'kill slower' replies

[crasher]

That's quite some calculating to make it in time then...
Was using BMG on first 2 waves and alternating with VBI Shotgun in 3rd/4th.
thx for the 'kill slower' replies

Tis a subtle game that requires The Gods to change the very fabric of the universe at random times in chaotic ways.
Don't get comfortable, we're changing the fabric to a different plaid on alternate Tuesdays, but not until 2 weeks later for PS3 users.

You HAVE been warned.

[rebtattoo]

Tis a subtle game that requires The Gods to change the very fabric of the universe at random times in chaotic ways.
Don't get comfortable, we're changing the fabric to a different plaid on alternate Tuesdays, but not until 2 weeks later for PS3 users.

You HAVE been warned.

Always 2 weeks later....

Oh well, it makes not buying ******** DLC much easier! Saving a bit o' money!

[Scapes]

And then there's the disconnects. I disconnect about every 2hrs. I've tried support tickets but they always get responded to in a fashion of "Disable Media Server" and "Reinstall the game" followed by a "Restore File System", which all leads to nothing... and I'm far from the only person having connection issues. Yesterday we tried a Warmaster with about 30 people outside the Arkfall. 5 actually made it in. Nobody rejoined in the 15 minutes that followed. Then we have the issues of disconnecting during Major Arkfalls or Incursions, making you lose all the kills (and now score most likely) you've amassed.

Regarding the disconnects experienced during multiplayer events, the team has been made aware of this issue and are in the process of sleuthing out the cause. It sounds like you may already have, but tickets to our Support Team help us track down the cause and address it if you have time.

Sorry for your lost patience!