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More and more land is being lost due to Ice Gauntlet lag… You guys really need to get you act togther and make some kind of announcement… Its come to the point where more or more corps. on Caer Sidi is stopping to log in, and going to other games due to the state of New World.
As it is right now the most important part of the game, is bugged and is being exploided and there has not been a single respons from New World Devs. If this is not adressed soon, it might end up killing the game.
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“As it is atm, wars (the biggest part of the game) can not be done, du to the massive lag when the opposite side are running 50 ice gauntlets to lagg everyone out on purpose”
Pretty bold to claim that the faction is intentionally abusing this. Many factions like to run 10-20 mage dps-ers. Those 10-20 people will run ice gauntlet + fire staff and will coordinate all their spells to be at the same time, usually initiated by a tank’s great-axe. Sometimes there is lag, however that is never the intention. Magic is simply the best AOE damage option for clearing points and companies are simply doing it in the most effective way (at the same time). Flaming anyone other than the devs for this is ridiculous. Attempting to play the game properly, whilst also being able to coordinate 50 people simultaneously, should not be met with crude insults and incessant whining in global chat. However that’s just my humble opinion.
P.S. I also know for a fact that on many servers there are at least 10 people playing siege at all times and 5 healers never changing weapon. Your math seems very very off. That isn’t even accounting for the melee dps players or tanks who will barely use ice gauntlet (and people from these roles playing it play it because they enjoy the weapon). That means that there realistically are only ever 25 ice gauntlets used at one time maximum. Again your math seems completely off.
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where have you been the last few days. check twitter, reddit, youtube, forums… if you cant see that there is an issue, you are clealy one of those that are using the effect and try to downplay it.
Its funny how citys that have not changed hands before, that has some of the highest upgrades, that have been attacked every 2nd day, and never have fallen, fall in 9 mins, after being attacked by a force using the force server lag strat on points.
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I’ve never said some people weren’t abusing it, I asked if you were sure that the people on your server Caer Sidi, were abusing it, like you claimed later on in the thread. Of course there will be companies that abuse this, just like there are people who exploit to gain 70% influence in 4 minutes, or use bots to fish. There are always some bad eggs. However was your loss due in any way to your own faction missplaying, or is it actually a case of “har har ice gauntlet go brrr”.
Condemning everyone who uses ice gauntlet as an exploiter isn’t constructive nor is it helpful to the discussion.
even if it isnt done on purpose or you cant tell if it was. it still makes the game unplayable and can cause someone to lose territory or not be able to win a territory.
And that’s completely down to the servers + the devs (when a faction isn’t abusing it, if they are ban them). However if the people are just trying to play the game and have fun are getting attacked in global (literally if people lose a defence its instantly exploits by the attackers and everyone should go die) where that just isn’t needed. Defending that sort of behaviour is just going to poison the community.
it is a well know fact that the wars a laggy as hell, that we can live with, because the lag, is still playable though.
But it is also a well known fact that you can exploit that lag, by massing players on a point, and have x amount of players throw down Ice Storm, at the same point will make the sorounding area completely tiltet with lag, wich cause players to be “immune” to attacks because they are not where their “toon” is, cannons have no effect on them, but they still get the points for capturing a point. because before they caused the lag, they where counting as being on the point.
On my server we have 1 alliance who are none stop using it, and they are taking 1 city after another. It has nothing to do with bad war leading, bad playerbase, its all about who ever uses the lag attack wins.
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What server are you on?
Half the issue you are describing is literally playing the game though. Amassing players on a single point is how you attack flags. Cannons and Repeaters do have effect even through lag. I know this because I play dedicated siege and still occasionally get hit-markers on them. Ice Gauntlet isn’t the only thing causing lag. Gravity well and healers spamming a point do as well, however you’re not screaming about them.
People exploit the system, that is a fact. Your video showed it. However just because a company uses an ice gauntlet doesn’t mean they are exploiting. Again some people and companies are trying to play the game as intended, which includes coordinated spell usage and about 10-20 mages on dps.
All animals are living things, not all living things are animals.
I use the ice gauntlet, haven’t had a single bit of lag. Turn down the effects details.
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lol… if they were trying to lag everyone out, they would lag themselves out too. Buy a better pc or dont play wars
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You did not read or understand the issue. Why bother to reply?
at this point…we just lost everfall to this. lets hold off on fixing it until we gain it back. the enemy knew about this exploit. used it. Turn about is fair play…game on.
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We don’t need it to beat them and take it back. We just need them to fix it so skill matters again.
Nobody has a problem with players using ice gauntlets. We have a problem with the fact that it literally makes the game unplayable. AGS needs to fix it.
We’ve been fighting the same company since launch and have had 0 problems defending against them. Never even lost a point until today when they started using this crap and swept over us in 10 min.
That isn’t 25 players who like ice gauntlet gameplay, that is absolutely clear intent to exploit. It’s fine, it will only work once. That doesn’t change the fact that it needs to be fixed.
War was always meant to devolve into an AoE meta. The server just can’t handle it and that’s a problem. Just ask 2008 Aion.
We did a tally today of all our gauntlet players tonight. We have 10.5 gauntlet players (I say .5 because one doesnt use ice storm.) We haven’t changed weapons at all. Isofelia for example was spam reported for using this “exploit”. His gauntlet is level 1 and he plays tank every war. The lag is a problem. Exploiters are a problem. The syndicate faction on Caer Sidi are not exploiters, and are just playing the game better than the other factions.
This was on Kashira Segura and as I indicated, it only worked once, they haven’t been able to take a settlement since.