First off, love the game. I think its great. I havent stopped playing since release. But, beyond what we got for Feb bug fix month and future bug fixes, i feel like Dev’s have not addressed the biggest elephant in the room. I havent seen it discussed on a dev video, i havent seen any responses in the forums or public acknowledgement to this issue. It’s one simple question i am hoping we can get a clear and in depth answer to sooner than later. Its one of the biggest issues in the game and although i have zero programming or game developing knowledge, i can appreciate that it is not an easy issue to fix.
What is being done to fix the ever-present issues in PvP related to desync, lag, rubber-banding, character ‘skating’ in locked animation state, abilities simply vanishing into the earth with no effect, etc.? Or is this as good as its going to get?
Actually what I would have to do based on past experience with other games and companies would be the following:
apologize and acknowledge their mistakes of serious dimensions, to date they have not acknowledged having made any critical errors, or made bad decisions, they have not apologized to the community for their mistakes, or their problems in the game
create (assuming they don’t already have it) a department dedicated to purging the game’s base code, going through every line of code from scratch, rewriting it, purging it, and simplifying it, as there are plenty of examples (as well as leaked information) of that the game was written quickly and running and has a lot of dirty code, the reason for the countless failures with the patches. If you have an internet network with 1 million cables connected without labels, without indications, all of the same color, without being organized by groups, without a plan or instructions, every time you try to repair a connection it is normal that you break 3 or 4 not knowing what or where
implement initiatives that show more transparency, with what they are doing and why they have decided to do that and not something else, a decent and published roadmap with objectives for 3 months, 6 and a year. weekly information, since currently the information is minimal and monthly, along with a very neglected forum (in terms of information) where the poor administrators of the forum (heroes for me…) find out about everything late, almost at the same time as Players
immediately merge all your servers to ensure that no server has an average weekend population of less than 1k there are currently more than 30% of servers that on a big day like a saturday the maximum number of connected players does not exceed 30
Only with this, without going into bugs or new content, in a month or 2 the game would change 180 degrees and almost certainly the flight of players would be reduced to a minimum