I laughed my *** off for a good five minutes. That's exactly what the gameplay is like now.
Thanks Bonehead, made my day!
I laughed my *** off for a good five minutes. That's exactly what the gameplay is like now.
Thanks Bonehead, made my day!
I played a bunch of shadow war yesterday and the added incentive to not die was that the lag got increasingly worse after each loading screen. So the more I died, the more i suffered. After 4 or 5 deaths I could pretty much just shut off my PS3 and go eat a sandwich.
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I haven't played the game in probably 6+ months. I logged in thinking I would do all the season stuff I've missed, catch up on some story.
Wow, this game is so broken. It's shameful that they even leave it online in its current state. Normally, when I hear people say things like I just did, I think it's the usual internet hyperbole that you find in the community for pretty much every MMO in existence. Not so here.
From the moment I made a new character through the mission to help the E-Rep get the medical supplies, the enemies never appeared to move. While I have to chase everything down at the spot where it spawns to kill it, the mobs clearly are moving, because they're shooting me from everywhere, no matter what cover I try to hide behind. I died twice doing the starting few missions.
Nobody new is going to stick with this game, no matter how much they like the TV show. I doubt the current and/or long time players are going to be able to ride this out much longer either. Trion, please, either take the game down and make this right, or just put a pillow over its head and empty your clip into it.
uploaded a recent video , recorded about an hour ago
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24...ble_videogames
Seems about right lol i just gave up for now. will try again later tonight.
I haven't played for long, but if anything lag issues seem to be getting much worse with Trion's recent patches.
When I first started playing, lag was about what I'd expect for such a game. Other cars might do a lot of short teleports instead of moving smoothly. Sometimes a downed player might zip across the map instead of crawling normally. Maybe my car would vanish a few seconds after I started driving. Mostly the game seemed to be able to handle, or at least hide, lag issues.
In the last few days, the game has often been an unplayable mess. And it isn't just so for me. Friends living in different cities with different ISPs are seeing the same issues. And it isn't that everyone suffers at the same time. One will find the game fine while another on at the same time in the same area finds the game nearly if not entirely unplayable.
If you find the game fine, it seems to stay fine as long as you are logged in, unless you go into some separate instance. Playing co-op missions is a gamble, because it seems at least one of the four people will find the game broken upon starting the map. Finishing a co-op mission is itself a gamble, because even if the game worked for the mission itself, it might break when returning you to the normal world map.
And by broken, I don't just mean bad lag. Finding all players and enemies are locked in place is a fairly common occurrence, and the game may let you play seemingly for a half-hour or more before it realizes anything is wrong. Or maybe you find that you can't switch weapons or get your vehicle to appear, and going to your loadout screen shows that you have no loadouts. Or maybe most things seem to work, until you realize that enemies don't die when they run out of life and the game ignores when you try to revive others or activate objects, only for everything to happen in a burst of a second, and then freeze up again.
Testing with friends has shown that even the in-game chat function doesn't even work properly, with random players unable to see messages from certain other players in particular channels. (We tested Group and Clan, so it shouldn't be an area issue.) One night I couldn't see my own messages in Clan chat.
yup pretty much my game experience since patch 2.2, sometimes takes a hour to start others as soon as nore then 10 npcs & players it starts and i have a good PC/video cardOriginally Posted by LegendaryU2K
P.S. played a lil Archeage today an even tho TRION did NOT make this game they are alrdy fraking it up, i noticed fading toons like the defiance bridges and people starting to run in place, just wait untill they add a lag patch to it :P
I was playing Shadow War earlier today and the lag was pretty severe, but according to Trion...
I logged in tonight to play with a friend and it was awful. Enemies stuck in place, I was rubber banding, couldn't shoot or change weapons and my car despawned every couple of hundred meters. I also got booted from Co-op missions twice.
It's just getting worse and worse and there's hardly anyone in the game, it's not like it's crowded.
Honestly Trion, the game is nearly unplayable. If you can't fix it just pull the plug on it and put all of us out of our collective misery.
This is EXACTLY what I have been experiencing the last two weeks...
People, as much as I love Defiance, I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that we have the dubious honor of witnessing the slow, agonising death of a game...
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