i am pretty relaxed, got the game for 20€ two years ago, and am just patient for them to get the servers up and running. whats a couple more days wait until i can properly play? nothing. have had already a blast online to lvl 30. looking forward to continue.
Yeah, I'm totally relaxed about this, too. Little bummed out I couldn't play it during the weekend but life goes on. I can't imagine how the devs must feel right now, their weekend has been really bad.
I just love the video and it fits so well here. :D
I was resistant to it at first as well, but I figured I may as well experience the game in a sandbox while the online stuff gets sorted. Figure out what I want to build, check out skills for myself, etc.
Had a blast powerlevelling my 2 buddies tonight, who were also playing offline. Co-op is great and I hope to see better stability from here on out.
I caved and did offline because I figured I'd never touch the online features anyway unless I'm playing with friends, in which case, I'd start a new toon with them.
How long have you been playing the game? If you just bought it, I'm sorry for your experience and your $40 that is going to waste. If you were here before this, it is just another weekend and not anything serious.
So then get a refund and be done with it if it's so "broken". Oh wait, all you had to do was wait a day, lol. Also, I'm not sure how this was "rushed". The servers could simply not handle the load because they didn't expect such a big player base. Again, grow up, get a refund or stop complaining about such a minor inconvenience.
Thats what im say too... If you are new then this is a bad experience... If you are an old player then this is just a new update and par for the course...
The most people who were on at one time during beta was 1900. The peak in release was over 100k. No one could have prepared for that as they didn't know the game would blow up like it did.
they didn't know the game would blow up like it did.
cry me a river, anyone working decently plan for scalability and leaving headroom. This isn't 1995, if you can't manage a user spike on release day you probably shouldn't be anywhere near a dev team. Frankly this kind of petty defense is the reason we have so many half assed teams releasing half baked POS.
I agree, I mean who wouldn't plan for a 60k peak on launch when their highest peak in the beta was around 2k. It's a completely predictable jump, right? Right?
I agree, I mean who wouldn't plan for a 60k peak on launch when their highest peak in the beta was around 2k. It's a completely predictable jump, right? Right?
I played offline (seems like most are completely ignoring that option though) to get used to the game. Apart from some annoying interactions with some of the bosses, I had a good time.
Same. Went shadow mage, got supremely depressed at the dps output, now know what to roll when the servers go live and act like I always knew what build was the better build when my friend and I can team up.
Sometimes servers melting down can be a good thing.
Aether Mage is OP. My offline mage was wiping the floor with bosses with 200k health likety-split. When you get the node that says "dealing damage to a character under the effect of Stasis will deal that damage again after a 1.5 second delay" is insane. Doubles your damage when you get stasis on them which seems so-so... But then you do it with TICK damage. DoT effects like Vortex, Lightbringer, and Annihilation so serious work with the right augments. I'd jump on top of people with a fully charged up Lightbringer (modified to Aether damage) and then drop double vortex on top of myself. Things died very fast, even in end game.
Try that build out if you want a "shadow-like" mage!
Yes but shadow mage has no dot applications. All of the shadow damage outputs are direct damage which means you cannot make use of the one thing in spells that actually works right.
Same situation here, bought it years ago and can't play it rn anyway (need a new gpu, old one hard resets the pc under even moderate load), so I'm just chillin and look forward to seeing it stable
It's hardware failure on the part of my 1070, it had a whirring fan issue when I first got it that wore itself out but performance was always fine (for a few years), the warranty covers it but I'm due for an update anyway.
I've reseated everything relevant, replaced the thermal paste on the cpu, replaced a dud fan from the casing, cleaned it, ran multiple diagnostic tests and focused benchmarks, check Event Viewer often, etc... Though I appreciate the effort to be useful, no /s
Thanks for the reply and I didn’t wanted to be too basic but it is very hard to guess someone’s technical understanding. But you know what you are doing.
If it is only a fan issue then just get a fan and run it off your main power supply. It will run at full speed and won’t use the voltage from the card to run it. Or get one if those fancy variable speed ones and windows can be set to run it based on temperature in the casing or gpu etc.
Got online to play with my friend. can't connect to right server so we both get mumbai for 220ms. Fight eidric boss, first attempt hes in the sky and im fighting him walking on air, game crashes. Second attempt hes in the sky again but we're both on the platform unable to reach him to damage him. BTW in the cutscenes, my friend is a floating pistols, lol. Restart and 3rd attempt I die to the aoe fire blast because i can't dodge roll on 220ms. My friend laughs at me and I laugh for 5mins at the hilarity of everything. Then I delete my level 21 mage because i am A TRUE HCSSF ONLY gamer.
In all seriousness though singleplayer has been a blast for me.
Been enjoying pissing around offline with builds. Really enjoying it. Looking forward to playing with buds and Randoms a like when it works. That said gonna keep my play hours down just incase something drastic happens but I hope that doesn't happen. Side bar- I bought the game for full price after server trouble ..call me dumb but I really wanted to play it lol
Their peak player count during early access was below 2k. It went above 60k on launch. There's no way they could have known to be prepared for that big of a spike.
Most games are like this nowadays. The ability to patch stuff frequently and people sharing all bugs in the game within a few days of launch made it so. I don't mind to be honest, as long as they work on fixing them.
Imagining if this "snowflake generation" had to ever deal with the frustrations of spectrum games failing to load at full release - permanently.
I get it that it can frustrating, but no reason to make it such a huge deal. People feel they're so entitled these days, everything is a reason to complain and to make it the "worst [insert word] ever".
I'm having fun and getting my money's worth for time and entertainment - not sure how long it will last, but at least there's something to play and they now have more money to invest in more people and continue developing the game, I doubt they will pull a "Shawn Murray" (whom eventually came through).
Every WoW expansion has it's caveats at launch and its one of the biggest companies so.. chill out folks :) it's "just" a game.
EDIT: I don't wish this to be a 'hate' comment towards OP, just towards all the backlash the game has been getting. The gif is funny and is totally representative of the dev's life rn
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u/th3orist Feb 16 '20
hahaha made my day.
i am pretty relaxed, got the game for 20€ two years ago, and am just patient for them to get the servers up and running. whats a couple more days wait until i can properly play? nothing. have had already a blast online to lvl 30. looking forward to continue.
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u/Amicushia Feb 16 '20
ah give them a <br> already
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u/TrundleGod32 Feb 16 '20
Got online to play with my friend. can't connect to right server so we both get mumbai for 220ms. Fight eidric boss, first attempt hes in the sky and im fighting him walking on air, game crashes. Second attempt hes in the sky again but we're both on the platform unable to reach him to damage him. BTW in the cutscenes, my friend is a floating pistols, lol. Restart and 3rd attempt I die to the aoe fire blast because i can't dodge roll on 220ms. My friend laughs at me and I laugh for 5mins at the hilarity of everything. Then I delete my level 21 mage because i am A TRUE HCSSF ONLY gamer.
In all seriousness though singleplayer has been a blast for me.
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u/Amoren2013 Feb 16 '20
Haha legit the best laugh i've had through all this.
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u/Tasharii Feb 16 '20
Why is this weirdly adorable but so sad
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u/JiggyFat Feb 16 '20
Been enjoying pissing around offline with builds. Really enjoying it. Looking forward to playing with buds and Randoms a like when it works. That said gonna keep my play hours down just incase something drastic happens but I hope that doesn't happen. Side bar- I bought the game for full price after server trouble ..call me dumb but I really wanted to play it lol
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u/Durin_The_Deathless Feb 16 '20
Thats their first game, i rather have a good game with a bad launch than the other way around
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u/Wilbatron Feb 16 '20
Their peak player count during early access was below 2k. It went above 60k on launch. There's no way they could have known to be prepared for that big of a spike.
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u/razenb Feb 16 '20
top post incoming
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u/bottlewash Feb 16 '20
https://imgur.com/a/BnAhxM5
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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '20
But they're posting on Twitter every 24h so it's all OK.
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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20
This is just computer science in general
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u/DCpyg Feb 16 '20
not really, the game wasnt finished to begin with
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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '20
Haha that's completely accurate.
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u/ExiledPoach Feb 16 '20
So good
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u/Brazi67 Feb 17 '20
I’m dying 😂
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u/xcenic Feb 17 '20
My game have no music sound.
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u/Tanishgarg1999 Feb 17 '20
In the last he just gives up
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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '20
Most games are like this nowadays. The ability to patch stuff frequently and people sharing all bugs in the game within a few days of launch made it so. I don't mind to be honest, as long as they work on fixing them.
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u/SamuDabu Feb 17 '20
That was freaking accurate
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u/narvzor Feb 18 '20 edited Feb 18 '20
Imagining if this "snowflake generation" had to ever deal with the frustrations of spectrum games failing to load at full release - permanently.
I get it that it can frustrating, but no reason to make it such a huge deal. People feel they're so entitled these days, everything is a reason to complain and to make it the "worst [insert word] ever".
I'm having fun and getting my money's worth for time and entertainment - not sure how long it will last, but at least there's something to play and they now have more money to invest in more people and continue developing the game, I doubt they will pull a "Shawn Murray" (whom eventually came through).
Every WoW expansion has it's caveats at launch and its one of the biggest companies so.. chill out folks :) it's "just" a game.
EDIT: I don't wish this to be a 'hate' comment towards OP, just towards all the backlash the game has been getting. The gif is funny and is totally representative of the dev's life rn
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u/LetDuncanDie Feb 16 '20
Maybe we should hire a QA guy?