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snipey47a
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Hi all,
I wish to express my frustration at the event happening right now which is meant to be like a No Win Scenario. Will deal with that one in a moment...
There is consistent lag and stalls throughout the entire mission but it gets much worse to when it is unplayable at level 19 and 24. This is made worse during those siege levels that a ton of NPCs pretty much spawn on top of the KM. Then you get a few stalls and the ship is dead mission over. And, a siege level that is only meant to go for 60 seconds went for 362 seconds (just over 4 minutes) due to the server lag... when there isn't enough resources to keep the clock counting correctly then you know there are some serious issues.
Frankly this is unacceptable in my opinion and I would have thought these lessons would have been learnt from last year and the year before when the game had lag issues. We just tried it 3 times and all had the same issue. We won't be doing the mission again until it is fixed.
Finally, comparing it to NWS. This new mission is a mere shadow of what NWS was. In NWS there was the challenge to stay alive as well as the challenge to protect the transport. This new mission has NPCs made of paper and a transport that doesn't benefit fully from the heals that are being cast. There are some nice twists like your Boffs abilities getting longer cooldown or being stuck at full thrusters and they are interesting challenges but when it is virtually unplayable what's the point?
So Cryptic, if you are reading this please fix this new mission to make it playable and listen to your community for a change and bring back No Win Scenario. If normal was too easy in your eyes then adjust the rewards accordingly. Have an advanced map the rewards the Kirk Protege title and scale the difficulty up slightly. The old elite version was too hard for 98% of the player base and took an hour to do. The rewards didn't reflect the time spent doing it.
Snipey
I wish to express my frustration at the event happening right now which is meant to be like a No Win Scenario. Will deal with that one in a moment...
There is consistent lag and stalls throughout the entire mission but it gets much worse to when it is unplayable at level 19 and 24. This is made worse during those siege levels that a ton of NPCs pretty much spawn on top of the KM. Then you get a few stalls and the ship is dead mission over. And, a siege level that is only meant to go for 60 seconds went for 362 seconds (just over 4 minutes) due to the server lag... when there isn't enough resources to keep the clock counting correctly then you know there are some serious issues.
Frankly this is unacceptable in my opinion and I would have thought these lessons would have been learnt from last year and the year before when the game had lag issues. We just tried it 3 times and all had the same issue. We won't be doing the mission again until it is fixed.
Finally, comparing it to NWS. This new mission is a mere shadow of what NWS was. In NWS there was the challenge to stay alive as well as the challenge to protect the transport. This new mission has NPCs made of paper and a transport that doesn't benefit fully from the heals that are being cast. There are some nice twists like your Boffs abilities getting longer cooldown or being stuck at full thrusters and they are interesting challenges but when it is virtually unplayable what's the point?
So Cryptic, if you are reading this please fix this new mission to make it playable and listen to your community for a change and bring back No Win Scenario. If normal was too easy in your eyes then adjust the rewards accordingly. Have an advanced map the rewards the Kirk Protege title and scale the difficulty up slightly. The old elite version was too hard for 98% of the player base and took an hour to do. The rewards didn't reflect the time spent doing it.
Snipey
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ingame: @Felisean
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edit: Had another couple of attempts and it really is so laggy as to be nearly unplayable. It's so bad that CRF (assuming it actually activates when you click it) doesn't actually speed up cannon fire.
Anyone determined if this is acct bound like sompek or w'ere expected to bounce around mindlessly on every alt?
Its a shame as I know theres many Players out there who want to go as far as they can and see if its beatable.
Hello rubber banding my old friend, time to bounce around the battlezone again, where are all my bug reports going?, out of love with this game I am falling, As Cryptic fail to acknowledge a problem exists, Shakes an angry fist, And from Support all I'm hearing are the sounds of silence.
The team is aware of the lag issues some players are facing, and they're putting some things into place that should help.
yeah thats why I was wondering.. I never assume account unlock unless cryptic specifically states it.
that would be highly appreciated.
And there is an issue with the reward for alt toons. Finishing the project on one toon doesnt grant the unlock to the rest of the account.
ingame: @Felisean
Can you also mention the lag problems on Risa, regarding the pvp races. Difficult to compete when you get such things as the jumps sending you miles into the air, and you get disqualified..
Forgot to check but are the tokens for the maru event account bound or do I have to make sure not to overlap when the timer ticks off with the "wrong" character.
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What I was wondering was are they account bound or bound to the character that gets it.
If they are character locked and the wrong character gets it then you get put back a day on collection as it's one per day for the entire menagerie on the account.
And if that is the case then it's something to consider adjusting for the next weekender.
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l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
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So I am assuming that means the weapon is account reclaimable.
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Exactly what I wanted to know.
By the number of issues that have been raised here I do think they could have bumped it a week to make sure all the kinks were out and have the ability to hype it on their podcast. But that would break tradition of something being released then patched within a few days.