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Dickbeard the Pirate
Join Date: 2010-07-27 Member: 73082Awaiting Authorization
Join Date: 2010-07-27 Member: 73082Awaiting Authorization
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The issue also occurs with no hydras, such as at the beginning of the game. May get exacerbated exponentially the more hydras there are, but it was pretty unplayable even without them (at least as a 'rine where you gotta aim pretty accurately, not including flamethrowers). Unfortunate since I had a few great, full matches with 157. This is definitely the first time I ever wished a patch would have been held off until Monday since a fix won't be out over the weekend :P
But hey, that's the breaks of betas. At least we didn't crash any servers with 32 people and hydra spam. Certainly a step in the right direction in that regard. Now if we can combine the relative smoothness of 157 with the hydra optimizations in 158 we'll be golden!
**side note: LMG helicopter is back (or did it ever leave?). SOISOISOISOI my marine brethren!
gameplay wasnt as much degraded by hydras as before, yet i dont really want to drop more than 3 of them.
maybe its just a server thing, ive seen good pinging ones with 8 players or so which were crawling and lagging already in the ready room
Interesting factoid about the game was, for like 5 games prior, many comms were getting killed establishing the initial ip and therefore loosing the game and getting annoyed as a result. Eventually we got it going and we fended off the base rush. Anyway we were on the verge of loosing the game. No more ips, and i was in the west. Just finished building the cc myself when i was forced to dive in, or loose it. Main base ips were dead... in fact all were. The saving grace was, from the second cc, i was able to spawn a mac at the first (empty) cc, and get a stealth ip up and restore the dead power node. My freekin team rage quitted long before this, thinking that the game was surely over, and i had to call them back to the game. I was like... "ya bunch of quitters... get back in the ips up" lol. Naturally the flamer was on my todo list, and all went smooth after that :P
Very little lag that only lasted a minute. I think the Alien Commander afk'd because when Marines had flamethrowers, I jumped into the Hive and had to upgrade all our melee and defense as well as place structures to defend the hive.
Anyway, the game was great. I don't really like that the flamethrower covers your entire screen when you're on fire though. It usually doesn't matter as a skulk because you die like right away, but higher lifeforms this can get annoying.
And in US servers it is about 80 pings. There is a great improvement on those pings if there is no diveder number in code :)
It is also better then half-life.
Some random points:Â
<ul><li>significant fps increase | less "bogging down" then in earlier versions </li><li>hydra- / turret-spamming doesn't insta-kill the game any more</li><li>actual game-strategies are emerging - whip-rush anyone ;-)
(still totally imba gameplay, but hell, you actually can have fun playing)</li><li>8+ person-games tend to actually last 30+ minutes</li></ul>I'm finally starting to belive, that <!--coloro:#ffff00--><span style="color:#ffff00"><!--/coloro-->this might actually be a playable game in 2011<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
Barry