A Masterpiece
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Join Date: 2013-05-01 Member: 185073Members, Reinforced - Gold, WC 2013 - Supporter
Join Date: 2013-05-01 Member: 185073Members, Reinforced - Gold, WC 2013 - Supporter
177 hours in and I'm yet to be disappointed by a design decision in this game.
The quality of the art+sound content, and the Spark engine itself, are amazing. The core gameplay is rock solid and the additions introduced in the many updates have invariably added to the experience. Despite the complaints I constantly hear about balance I've never actually seen a balance issue that isn't statistically blown out of the water by the skill gaps between players and the relative organisation of teams.
I always have fun in this game. EVERY SINGLE TIME. And it's not just the quality of the game, but the quality of the players and the way the game encourages interaction between players. The community in Aus is awesome and growing and I suspect it's the same elsewhere.
All boxes ticked. A Masterpiece. Don't stop being awesome, UWE.
The quality of the art+sound content, and the Spark engine itself, are amazing. The core gameplay is rock solid and the additions introduced in the many updates have invariably added to the experience. Despite the complaints I constantly hear about balance I've never actually seen a balance issue that isn't statistically blown out of the water by the skill gaps between players and the relative organisation of teams.
I always have fun in this game. EVERY SINGLE TIME. And it's not just the quality of the game, but the quality of the players and the way the game encourages interaction between players. The community in Aus is awesome and growing and I suspect it's the same elsewhere.
All boxes ticked. A Masterpiece. Don't stop being awesome, UWE.
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Too bad this isn't always the case.
You're one of the lucky ones.
You could start by agreeing that the game is a masterpiece
But I dare you to make a map with sparks and say that again ^^ Or play it without a NASA-PC and see how much fun it is. It is a good game, but still far away from being called masterpiece. But I agree that it is fascinating. Like the Empires Mod or NS1. I really like the rts/fps-mix. But I would name different games for the title masterpiece nevertheless.
Masterpiece....pftt
(Good game though, but what you are describing is a magical world)
Yes the game has problems, but all things considered they did a fine job and are still doing so.
Probably a little over competitive, but that is sport for you in the antipodes.
Don't get me wrong the game is fun but its no masterpiece. The fanboy is strong in this one.
Until then, I call shenanigans, good sir!
Also, nice post OP.
Breath of fresh air, like someone else said around here. :-)
I think we've all experienced green blood and no damage numbers; and by the strictest definition, that is a hitreg issue. The strictest mind you. But your point is also moot as any hitreg issue could be blamed on latency with net stats on, so it would need to be a lan video on a perfectly stable server with perfectly stable fps to be 100 percent confirmed hit reg bug. Which is why your point is impossible to prove and we must go on feelings alone.
The hitreg may be as good as it will get but the hitboxes could be better, and the shooting could be tighter, but I'm the first to state that perfection is easily visualized and difficult to acheive.
Also, which I'm sure you know, ping has a large impact on hitreg, especially in a client side system, which is unavoidable but I'm sure could be made better.
I haven't. If you are experiencing this and it happens just before you or whatever you're shooting at dies, then it is most likey lag compensation/interp related.
If it was a true hitreg issue, it would most likely happen during other events as well.
As Ironhorse said, provide at least some proof, even if it's of the latter event.
Have you actually seen the hitbox picture of the skulks in NS2? The hitboxes are pretty much perfectly wrapped around the skulk model. It's not like NS1 where the hitboxes had to be done in blocks on the model.
The times people have tried to prove there was a hitreg issue have actually turned out to be wrong because when their video was ran in slow motion, their bullets would sometimes go inbetween the skulks legs as the skulk was running.
You can argue that because the bullet size is so small for events like that to happen that it gives the feeling of hit registration issues.
In Sewlek's balance mod, I believe, bullet size is increased and some have reported a better "feeling" as you so put it.
The problem is that reading IronHorse's post it makes it look like there are no hitreg issues left, when it's just that there are no good repro steps, because I still see blood-but-no-numbers quite a bit with wallwalking skulks a lot of the time.
I experience blood-but-no-numbers all the time, and it seems like 95% of it is from the pistol.
The real masterpiece would be pulling off the NS2 product without going bankrupt along the way. I don't think it would have been possible if Charlie was a pessimist.
I don't see much room in this topic for "hitreg", because I know how difficult it is to realize mplay online in real-time, and I have yet to see an engine without such (minor) issues. For people complaining about inaccuracies I have only one advice: go play LAN.
Just open your eyes, an incredible load of work has been achieved.
For years, enthoutiasm, vision, doubts, deceptions, fun, anger, will ... I wish I were a part of such an adventure.
you not the only one but seems they only believe with video proof...
What is Red Orchestra 2, for $3 in the humble bundle.
NS2 is good, and has the potential to be great, but balance issues need to be sorted out. When Starcraft first came out it was a mess, but eventually after Brood War, several patches, and years in time passage, it became the king of the genre.
they did few things, but they did them flawlessly and that's what matters for multiplayer
NS2 will never be balanced for a wide range of skill levels, even if they magically fix all the issues
RTS will never be a masterpiece as long is it relies on giving orders to units controlled by a dumbass AI
multiplayer TBS can be perfect, but they haven't many good ones (chess doesn't count. white is OP)