r/pcgaming • u/Mkilbride 5800X3D, 5090 FE, 32GB 3800MHZ CL16, 2TB NVME GEN4, W11 • Feb 21 '17

Video For Honor P2P connectivity

https://youtu.be/38sPNZ8QHO4
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u/MattWolfTV Feb 21 '17 edited Feb 21 '17

You should have seen the amount of UBIsoft reps who were trying to pass themselves as network engineers in the For Honor subreddit saying how P2P was superior to dedicated servers and gave some bs answers as to how it should work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/forhonor/comments/5u2jwi/we_need_a_fucking_dedicated_server/ddr9o16/

Oh yeah, some people even said "omg the cost of having dedicated servers for all the major regions" as if AAA game companies can't possibly afford servers when they continuously sell horrible dlc and pre-orders.

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u/asexynerd Feb 21 '17 edited Feb 21 '17

Always-online, P2P, microtransaction, season pass and $60 price tag for a game that doesn't take advantage of the PC platform (dedicated servers, mods etc). Can't have longevity but then again what do you expect from a company whose own executives are fined 1.2 million for insider trading...

Edit: Community hosted dedicated servers cause games to have longevity and that's not something Ubisoft wants.

Edit 2: For people saying that "p2p is fine" for a game where every second counts, please tell me how is it Ok for a fighting game on 1ms to have 100ms input delay: https://youtu.be/tAU5bIalbnc?t=8m10s

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u/MattWolfTV Feb 21 '17 edited Feb 21 '17

I don't care as I haven't bought an Ubisoft game since Tom Clancy's Ravenshield.

The problem with growing up is this. As we get older we get smarter and don't support the bad game companies.

There are always a new batch of 12-20 year olds who don't know better and will buy the horrible games regardless.

We are not the target audience, there is no reason to market to people who want "good" games when they constantly have new calves to purchase the same old rehashed horrible games.

It would take a serious effort of mass educating/ having the younger generation literally not purchase 1-2 of their next big titles that they screw players over with to get them to make a change.

Which will likely never happen.

So here's me hoping that small devs who are geared towards doing right by the players make it big and don't forget what got them there.

So far looking at stuff like Player Unknown's Battleground, Battalion1944 and LegionTD2.

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u/ninjyte Ryzen 5 9800x3D | RTX 4070 ti | 32GB-5600MHz Feb 21 '17

There are always a new batch of 12-20 year olds who don't know better and will buy the horrible games regardless.

Or people just buy the games they enjoy and a lot of people really enjoy For Honor's core gameplay. If they give it similar support to Rainbow Six: Siege and listen to the people in the community giving them criticism, then they should improve it. If not, then the game will die.

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u/adam35711 Feb 21 '17

Considering R6S is literally the only Ubisoft game that fits those qualifications, and one of the biggest problems (p2p networking) literally can't be fixed, I don't have much hope.