[2019] It's been years and official servers are still absolute cancer

Originally posted by Flobarooner

Yes, I understand that, but the 4 posts I linked are some of the top of all time here. There is only one on the other side of the aisle, which is praising the interaction between the devs and the players, 3 years ago. That post has fallen by the wayside and is no longer relevant. The other posts are still relevant and the issues they concern are still present in the game after nearly 4 years. Even in this thread, the other comments are basically "just don't play official", which is not the answer.

Even if you want to say Reddit isn't representative - what is? The official server chat that's constantly full of people calling each other pussy bitches and racist slurs?

Originally posted by Flobarooner

Yes, but how do any of my suggestions effect them? I'm not talking about unofficial or private servers. I would play them if it were practical but it isn't; they could go down at any second, you're at the behest of its admins and they might have wacky rates. I want to play the normal game on proper dedicated servers, I just don't want it to be cancer. Which it is, and I think everyone is more or less unanimous on that.

Originally posted by Flobarooner

some people still enjoy and are not as frustrated or impacted by these issues as you are

I'm sure that's true of literally any issue with any game ever. That's not the point.

It's impossible for me to recommend this game to anyone. I would literally feel guilty if they bought it because of me, because I know they will likely quit within a week because it's so bad as a new player. Even the menus are awful to use and completely unintuitive. If you join a new server through a player invitation, it isn't favourited and you have to remember to do that manually. The chat covers the bottom of the skills list. The inventory is laggy and delayed, most menus are difficult to navigate with a controller - trying to get to the right box in say, the options menu or the skills list is a pain. You can't even filter sessions by settings, or put multiple filters on at once. Say I want to find a server with <300 ping, 20-40 players, >300 days uptime and 10-20x taming or harvesting, how do I do that? I don't. I trawl through hundreds till I find a decent one, or find a player-run website providing that service for me, free of charge. There's tons of QoL issues that make it a janky experience for someone new, and gives the impression of a buggy, unfinished game. Which it is, let's face it. Rubberbanding still happens every minute, draw distances are awful, AI pathing+targeting is worse, collision boxes are worse still. It's by far the jankiest game I've ever played, and probably has the most toxic playerbase in game bar maybe GTAV Online.

Is there any reason for me to hold out hope? There hasn't been an update in an extremely long time and these issues have literally never been addressed in the four year span of the game. I've not seen any indication of an intention to fix the game's fundamental bugs besides meshing, and even that took the HOD scandal which was frankly f**king embarrassing for Wildcard. You say stay tuned but really, why should I? We've been told to be patient and that better days lie ahead for years but I still don't see anything on the horizon.

At this point I'm pretty much hoping the game is remade to its full potential in 10 years time by a better company. Or at the very least, rebuilt from the ground up like Rust.

Originally posted by Luckboy28

But let's be honest, though, Ced -- Reddit is a pretty good cross-section of the gaming community. If everyone on reddit is livid, there's probably something wrong with the game.

And the OP wasn't talking about tweaking settings or coming up with new "game modes" like limiting the tribes to 6 players (which does nothing at all to stop mega tribes).

OP's point was valid: The core structure of how the game works needs to change. Somebody shouldn't be able to lose months of work just because they had the audacity to sleep for 8 hours, etc.