Has the community weighed in on the recent network changes? I loaded up a couple of guys last night and ran them around without noticing much. Of course much of the lag that the changes were to fix probably are not noticeable by soloing so thought I would ask? Overall a good step forward? Or is it just another dead end?
I was able to log on for a couple of hours last night. Didn't get to go to any highly populated areas or take part in any raids, but overall my performance was better than it has been for the past 2-3 weeks. I did experience a little hitching and latency a couple of times, but much much much less than usual. To me it also seemed that the animations for my characters and the npcs were smoother. All in all I would say that this was a great change and well worth the wait. Especially since this is only the second day since the patch and it will be fine tuned in the coming weeks.
Overall after one solid night of play, I am confident that the wait was worth the reward. Had a certain director acknowledged the problem when he created it, assigned the proper devs then, we would have retined those players that came and tried the game when it went live on steam. As it stands, that was a incredible opportunity lost. Now within a few weeks as they track, tweak, and fix all the little niggles, we will see a very stable and great gameplay experience. Too bad its really kinda late, nothing like fixing the barn door after the cows have gotten out, been run over and smuushed into organic stew by an 18 wheeler.
I guess I should of posted here instead of the Update News post... "I have been having issues chunking. Sometimes it is delayed by a few seconds (almost seems that it will take me to login screen). Sometimes it temporarily boots me out of game then back in, resulting in either: - my UI not having any abilities, getting thrown to the next chunk (crossing to the 2nd chunk line of the general direction) - getting dismounted after chunking and having no parachute, falling to my death. I usually 3 box, and while in a group in KDQ, 1 or 2 of them would drop out in the above manner. I live in Australia and my normal ping in game is about 300-500 ms, is the server giving my VG client, enough time between chunk transitions? it wasn't like this before (not on a regular basis that is, before it would be every blue moon)."
This is probably the single biggest undertaking with Vg since launch. These are growing pains. If you didn't expect this for the first couple weeks you were kidding yourself. I am very pleased with the results so far.
Yep weekend stability was pretty bad, I am sure with a day or two they can fix up these issues. As an aside though, in future, if its such a massive code update, shoving it out the door on a Monday or Tuesday maybe a good call.
It's far from perfect, but for the first time in months Exile had a Tharridon kill that didn't have 7, 8 or 9 adds spawning all at the same time. There is obviously still work to be done, but it feels like progress to me.
I would also like to give two thumbs up so far based upon two days of raiding. It may not be perfect but it's a definitely a good first step in the right direction. Dear devs, Thank you for getting this out to us.
This is great to hear, this has been a big thorn in the side for players, just wish it was fixed before going on steam.
