Dec 9: 3h Solo Turbo HC

Desync, missing so much back to back that mana flask is running dry without killing any mobs at all several times, one death to dsync, first was to your not in this leage and you know it. Sometimes it hits you, sometimes it dont, today isnt my day its just all over me. Good luck everyone. Not a single magic, rare, or unique that was usable in either run, heck that was going to one of the worst runs ever at that rate anyway, haha. Just my luck though.

Good luck everyone, have fun, unless its hitting you too. That just sucks. Net code patch soon plz!

(could be continued internet problems on my end I guess, they chagned the modem out to get it working, God I hope not its disconecting randomly as is, if thats it Im just going to have to cancel internet and not play games at all :( )

-edit: Actually considering thats the first time I ever had one of those your not in this leage and you know it deaths, it might just be that they gave me a crappy modem or something. Wasnt even in hot water really when I ported. Great, that would be my luck.

Well that was unpleasant. Used portal, got DC or something(back to the login screen), reconnected and my hero was in normal league. :(

Died to a sea witch with substantial damage aura and multiple projectiles.

I was going to kill Fairgraves and I had gotten to his NPC, but this sea witch was standing on Fairgraves not moving. I looked at its mods and was about to create a new instance because a monster shouldnt be standing directly on the Fairgraves NPC. The sea witch actually dysnced and hit me but still appeared stuck on my screen =(. Thats how I died

How you gonna fix massive desync fighting brutus?

Would be really important for future turbo races

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KenshiD wrote:

How you gonna fix massive desync fighting brutus?

Would be really important for future turbo races

+1.

Died to a desync when he was on the other side of a wall on my screen.

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drew_benton wrote:

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KenshiD wrote:

How you gonna fix massive desync fighting brutus?

Would be really important for future turbo races

+1.

Died to a desync when he was on the other side of a wall on my screen.

+1

Ick. Well, at least I found my first Elemental Hit.

Stupid Brutus had this much life left. [--_____________]

And I'll never know if I'd have been better off using Phase Run, Elemental Hit, and a big shield.

Life is hard.

Died again to an empty screen... in under 1 second... while my flasks failed to work.

Damn, its almost like the EXACT SAME THING happened in yesterdays race! And no 200 ping to excuse it this time.

Im going to be blunt: The netcode and sync in this game absolutely sucks. Even with the nonstop threads regarding this in the bug forum, and the 10+ people that give feedback on it in every single race, you guys just dont seem to get what a massive issue it is. I read some dev comment referring to the netcode as "extremely advanced client prediction" and had a mad rofl moment as this couldnt be further from the truth. The server has no idea where the client is half the time, monsters teleport nonstop, players take damage when nothings nearby, flasks work half the time at best during combat, kiting large groups is absolutely impossible as the damage pours in no matter where you are or what youre doing. Teleporting back to previous areas is so common i factor the time lost into my race strats beforehand, and purposely avoid killing things or leveling in areas where the desync-o-matic "move you into position" non-feature can increase the teleports or get me killed. All moving skills, whirl, charge, brutus chain etc desync both players and monsters constantly and trying to move past monsters in tight passages is almost a guarantee of multiple teleports back to that area. Its still quite possible to die during zone out or zone in as well.

And this is at 75 ping on a clean connection, 100 fps. I can only imagine what a disaster the gameplay is for those with suboptimal machines or isps.

So my feedback is: FIX the netcode! Make it a real priority, and more of one than its been so far by an order of magnitude. And if you dont have anyone up to the task, hire someone who is. If the game goes live with the current sync issues youve got a not insignificant chance of pulling a hellgate london within the first few months, the gameplay wrecking effects are seriously that bad.

Ill be back after the netcode/server upgrade patch. Heres hoping it works!

GG all.

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KoTao wrote:

hellgate london

The single point of failure in that instance was completing about 1/10th a game, and then having to stretch that out by an order of magnitude to fill space.

Not being sure where the hell I am while Leap Slamming doesn't quite compare.

Dying to vaal when he is less than 10% health left around 2h 15 min mark. Killing couple remaining adds when he is coming back from underground, and he surprises me with triple lazer combo which I couldn't avoid. Vaal is bit rng on how often he is spawning adds, in turbo solo constant add waves are making it really difficult, but if he pauses making adds it didn't feel so hard.

Was pretty bad item luck from early to mid race, running often with white weapons and only 2 transmutes dropped in act 1. Suddenly my luck changed in the end and got some decent stuff.