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Originally posted by GetRekt

I do regret buying the game now; This is an atrocious attitude. Ultimately your reponse as a developer to a correctly idenfitied issue in the game is simply that they don't have the finer details on how your sausage is made? If I click any kind of zone transition in the MP mode I have to sit around waiting for the load screen, then wait about the same time again just to finally get into the new zone. Weirdly this doesn't apply for monoliths, but I'm sure you have a "well, actually" for that too. I suppose while you're here divulging the nitty-gritty of how it's really so hard to move players around on a server you could let me know why it takes about a minute to join a friend's party too?

Originally posted by shrewdlogarithm

You'll be too tired to see me but I genuinely hope I'm wrong - for your sake and mine...

Originally posted by shrewdlogarithm

Not releasing that fix before launch is madness, if it doesn't work, and you cannot have tested it at any scale, it will be a disaster...

All online game launches are bad, you cannot sensibly scale for the Invasion that the first week or 2 brings but you do everything you can to ensure the ONLY new stuff is the players...

I'm literally planning to sit out the first month because I've been through this too many times before as a player and developer and its always bad

Originally posted by makingtacosrightnow

For what it’s worth, I’ve been playing about a week and I use nvidias streaming service, 0 lag and rubberbanding on my end.

Originally posted by dragonguard270

As a fellow IT person I want to say I feel your pain and nicely done keeping the rant out. I have been tempted to make a few of my own and I have little to no skin in.

Originally posted by Aeonera

Am i right in thinking that the bulk of the issues people have with online stem back to unity's netcode structure? My perception is that unity's netcode isn't quite built to handle  the communication requirements of a game like last epoch.

This isn't criticism, obviously the decision on the engine used to build the game has many different things that go into it and i have little doubt that using an engine more suited to the online requirements would have meant significant concessions in other areas or would have been straight infeasible for cost reasons.

Originally posted by AjCheeze

The biggest issue with the servers is the delay to entering a new zone. Offline its instant, online it can take a few seconds. Its long enough to be confused. Click a zone and you can still run around and question if your going to the next zone. A story quest takes you to a new zone but really you were standing around for 10 seconds after a boss with nothing to click on wondering whats going on. Instead of a slow loading screen we are taken into a limbo state while waiting for the game to let us move on. To the loading screen.

Disconnects and lag in game arent that big of an issue for me its the delays after clicking to enter a new zone and wondering if the game is working right and you auctally clicked it. #1 server issue as a player i see that should have been addressed when online launched. It just makes blasting through zones feel so bad with a long pause. Currently i would suggest players to play offline if they are not going to use any multiplayer exclusive features b...

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Originally posted by Naxerism

The frustration is understandable, server stuff will always gonna be a weird topic to talk about because of the points you mentioned.

The reason I made the post is that I've seen A LOT of comments that, based on the games history (since MP came out), are assuming pretty bad stuff which obviously isn't good.

From experience, if they go in with those assumptions, and the launch doesn't go "well", they further cement that mindset and hold on to it for a long time (even after the issues have been resolved), ultimately giving bad rep for the game.

An example is people saying blizzard are bad at launching their games. All because in 2012, more than a decade ago, the Diablo 3 servers was in a bad state for a while. It's kind of ridiculous.

In the end the important thing is that things are running as smoothly as they can.

Originally posted by Magic2424

Like a toggleable option more similar in implementation to masochist. Where as factionless feels like something that isn’t obvious to players looking for that challenge. I don’t know what the actual process for picking factions looks like, but if there is a very obvious ‘I don’t want a faction’ button that explains the added challenge then I would consider it more ‘planned’

Originally posted by LEGOL2

I just hope you are not bringing ruthless in 😁

Originally posted by Magic2424

Factionless? Or something more ‘planned’

Originally posted by Papa_Kilo2020

I am having the opposite problem. I have just started the game a few days ago, I just hit level 43 and it seems as though every story quest is sending me into level 20 areas.. I need help in knowing where I should take my char to in order to level up against equal or harder things. I have unlocked as many idol slots and passives as I can from quests I had.. wheredoigo! 

Originally posted by Cadmus_or_Threat

I've been doing echoes for like six hours and didn't realize there were quests 😔

Originally posted by Morcas

I hope this is something that finds a solution. As I understand things, going forward, there's no way to financially support the game outside supporter packs/mtx purchases.

For those of us who prefer to play offline or are forced to because of latency issues, there's little point buying something that can't be used.