OPR is supposed to be one of the pinnacle things to do in the game at this moment. Currently, there is no joy in playing OPR right now and here is why.
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The map is too damn big. It makes people want to only play range, and on top of that, the balancing of classes for PVP at the moment favor ranged (this is a completely different topic that needs to be addressed as well). It makes for a miserable time just having to bob and weave random musket shots from spawn.
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The unbalanced teams in OPR is an issue. Sometimes it is skill based as to why you get steamrolled but other times it’s that the other team has healers, or one team might have all ranged, etc. There are a ton of variations as to why but regardless it is a problem and needs to be addressed. (Possibly assign roles to join OPR, like healers/tanks/mdps/rdps/etc. This might even out some of those unequal games.)
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The amount of desync / server lag / latency that happens while in OPR AND the open world is terrible. Being that there are WEST coast and EAST coast servers(America) only, those that live in the central areas, no matter what server you choose, you will always be playing behind people who lives closer. This becomes worse as the peak of the day gameplay happens. Your shots don’t register, your hits make animations and even the sounds trigger, but no damage has been done. This makes the PVP complete garbage.
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The amount of bugs that have been reported and not fixed blows my mind. The most annoying at the moment, is the framerate drop after dying, or about to die, or almost killing someone. Framerate will go from 50-60fps down to 2 fps. This causes the “5 seconds” rez timer, to be 10-20 seconds long, and that saying it doesn’t crash your client. Also Spells that make me immune to damage (reposte/ice block) are casted, cooldown starts, and yet I am not in the damage immunity and I’m dead. You can blame this on the “PC” but other people with significantly better hardware than me have the same issue.
All of this and you can add in the people who are aimbotting. Anyone who can shoot someone through trees while rolling backwards and then shoot you in the head the very second you come out of an iFrame, are 100% cheating and you can’t tell me otherwise. You don’t get lucky like that. This ruins OPR, even after reporting you still see the same people doing it. It’s either the Devs don’t even care, or they don’t want to get rid what small population of people they have playing.
TLDR; OPR is garbage.