2.0.4c Patch Notes and Deployment!

I appreciate that you guys keep working on performance. At least in my case, the map losses in the 1ME have been eliminated, the situation was far more dire when 2.0 came out so whatever you're doing it seems to have an effect.

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ACGIFT wrote:

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To be honest it's something I've enjoyed and loved from the time I figured out how it worked (which is to say, after about an hour or two in) it has always been my favorite mod to see when rolling a map.

To me, it seems most people hating beyond are those that largely just blindly charge through everything in the game, and it HEAVILY punishes you for that by throwing Haast in your face.

Having learned to manage my positioning well, Beyond is a great source of extra EXP (I'm getting upwards of an extra 50% over what I'm typically getting) and especially loot. My only complaint is that I sometimes run out of portals to carry out all the rares! (that, and I'm sometimes running low on scrolls!)

Hear hear especially the lack of portals to haul out the loot, another thing i like about the beyond map mod is, the way you have to position, and kite mobs towards a killzone in order to get the most haasts
:-D

beyond is a + in my book

-Rott

Ps. Ohh and Atziri without clientcrashes is something i look forward to

don't nerf incinirate to much :'( or at all! :(

pick on cyclone if u want :D

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CorranHorn wrote:

GGG, you have sworn up and down for YEARS that we, as a community do not know what we are talking about, are incorrect or are crazy for saying "hey it lags so much more with ground effects in maps". You made pages long posts about it with your tech team and have either lied or never knew what YOU were talking about.

Now that it seems you finally realized something every player in 2013 figured out, what else are you missing?

Can you reconcile what you learned with this about other portions of the game? What other gross misconceptions are in the GGG offices that do not exist for your actual users? Whose job is it to ask themselves that?

RAIN This has been talked about for years too, but buried as a requirement for immersion into the environment. Whatever the hell that means.

TEXT on screen. ( chat, too much loot, you name it simple text on screen lags like a MOFO. )

Just a couple examples that have, as you say, large misconceptions for years.

THANK YOU for addressing this issue.

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Noshei wrote:

Wish they would remove beyond as well. Worst league mod by a long ways. I refuse to play the game while beyond is going in.

I agree. After playing this "one month flashback" event I can strongly say that hardcore leagues are the most annoying and punishing. Leagues like beyond or invasion for example are designed to kick players in the balls repeatedly. Fuckin sadists. Standard leagues give much more interesting gameplay and have better rewards, like for example exiles, strongboxes or tormented spirits. Now looking back at beyond league it brings up bad feelings. Unbalanced monsters popping up underneath your character with reflect auras, giving crappy rewards, little strategic gameplay and it makes gameplay experience not challenging, but punishing. There is no risk vs rewards. Probably only masochists could truly enjoy playing these hardcore leagues.

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Invasion league isn't any better than beyond. For example, I've encountered spider invasion boss, which shoots ethereal knives off screen. Yes, off screen. Furthermore, it has increased area of effect so large that ethereal knives cover the whole screen. So in the end we have a boss which we don't see and it deals damage in the whole screen, there is literally nowhere to move to avoid these attacks. What kind of strategic gameplay can exists here?

The game is still lagging & freezing for me & my guild mates are commenting the same - I can see no improvement after the patch - the mobs are just too huge & I too hate beyond mod with a capital H!

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DanielPereira wrote:

How long??

"we'll be removing the Rampage mod from the remainder of the Flashback leagues."

I also concur Beyond is GREAT I love the mod, I wish we had all mods all the time or at least some random variation of them as it makes the game actually fun to do play throughs as there is varied content this way. Also hunting warbands has brought me to other areas that I normally wouldn't go back to ever! Great league good changes keep up the good work :)

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Nauzhror wrote:

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Noshei wrote:

Wish they would remove beyond as well. Worst league mod by a long ways. I refuse to play the game while beyond is going in.

And I think Beyond is fantastic. Not everyone feels the way you do.

Beyond is great... until one the three enemies that can one-shot you spawns.