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Season 2 was premature

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
Season 2 should've been tested one last time regarding smoothing out the game before being sent to Live.

  • Walking in ESD sounds like someone is stomping their feet down as they move.
  • Server-end lag is bad, such as Rubberbanding.
  • Exploration zones are still really messed up. It's annoying to wait 2 minutes for a zone to load and find it empty. Or the instant crashes (which was reported in Tribble for 2 weeks!)

Cryptic, please stop rushing things out the door, okay?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Here's an idea, log off your computer and go outside for an hour or two, come back and all the lag'll be gone, just like that!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    This is a problem Cryptic couldn't resolve without queues, and you know how much people would whine and moan about queues.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    It wasn't premature. They said it would be out July, and its at the end of July. It's bordering on being late.

    As a general rule of thumb in MMO's if you have a low patience threshold, you never log in on patch days.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Schedule-wise they were on time.

    But testing wise, it was rushed.
    Here's an idea, log off your computer and go outside for an hour or two, come back and all the lag'll be gone, just like that!

    I'm not the only person in STO experiencing the same lag you know, plenty of others are rubberbanding like crazy as well.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Azurian wrote: »
    Schedule-wise they were on time.

    But testing wise, it was rushed.



    I'm not the only person in STO experiencing the same lag you know, plenty of others are rubberbanding like crazy as well.

    Yeah and usually when there are less people online the lag reduces.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    From what I seen most of the problem is due to the memory being allocated to new people's characters, so the problem is starting to allievate. But still B'Tran is still having problems like empty maps.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Strongly disagree that Season 2 was premature. I think it was time and was ready. Bugs still exist, don't they always? But Season 2 leaves the game in a better state than it was with the previous season. For the majority of players, Season 2 is an improvement (perhaps a very big one).
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Azurian wrote: »
    Schedule-wise they were on time.

    But testing wise, it was rushed.



    I'm not the only person in STO experiencing the same lag you know, plenty of others are rubberbanding like crazy as well.

    I agree this update was clearly rushed.. there are quite a bit of bugs and little glitches that should not be on the live server
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    don't forget to mention the bad pvp queue changes. at least for ground pvp this change was devastating. 2 games all evening and countless failed ones with waiting times like a hour between it even gets to the point of a 30s dialog box.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Did you put into account that maybe a lot more people are on the server?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    I already said that. :P

    However, there are other bugs that are troublesome. Like Exploration Maps still coming up empty (inspite of the longer loading), PvP Queues are really troublesome, and there other things here and there.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Well after 5 maps in a row kicked me off the game in B'Tran I turned it off and went to sleep. I hope it will be better today. And I think it was rushed from what I have read so far. Especially that most avaited Diplomatic Corpse seems one big fail to me.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    i definitly think it was premiture lastnight :eek:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    I've had a blast playing S2... more challenge, more to do..and I have yet to run into bugs personally. I'm very satisfied.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Very happy about s2.0! And now, with the July 28th patch, the most annoying bugs should be gone!

    However i DO agree that the "running on a tin roof" sounds should be fixed, but now that the new content is out there, Cryptic will have a lot of time at their hands to do bug fixes and polish/tweak existing content and features. And they have said they will!

    I'm much happier having some new stuff to play with while waiting for them to fix the bugs!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    PVP queues are now completely broken
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Season 2 Bugged pice of trash. What was point in testin it on tribble.

    How the bloody hell can cryptic kill all the exploration missions. Try get on any crash crash

    Cant belive what a total TRIBBLE up two days spent more time logging in then anything else. Thanks for sweet fa
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    OMG.... feel like I just had $15 stolen. Bugs and Typos galore. The must frustrating so far has been that the Klingon tailor is totally FUBAR. It changes the costume when you go into editing so you have to redo the entire thing. If you click UNDO it will grab costume pieces from a previuos toons edit. Hit undo a couple of times and your character changes completley. Hit it again and you are just floating eyes.

    This is definately the last update I resub for until they do Romulans.

    Oh well atleast StarCraft is out.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    I would like to point out that in the "State of the Game" address, dstahl did point out that Cryptic acknowledges that Season 2 is rushed, that Season 2 does contain bugs, and that Season 2 would have the fixes patched in for the things that are known issues and bugs.

    Working in the industry that I do, I am fully aware that some times, it simply can't be helped, and a product has to go out, in the shape it is, with fixes and polish to be applied later. Think of Season 2 as a "Draft" with a "Final" to be submitted later.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    "Season 2 was premature"

    If only I received a dollar for every woman who said that.... wait. Sorry, lost my train of thought.


    Anyway, I like the new additions to the game, they're not perfect but if you can see the difference from the base game 6 months ago and now, there's a whole dang lot of improvements.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    I agree its looking better and better!!!

    Only ***** so far is I have 1 gb update to dl, Ill have to break down pc and take to friends just to get it!~!! Quite gimped.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Azurian wrote: »
    Season 2 should've been tested one last time regarding smoothing out the game before being sent to Live.
    • Exploration zones are still really messed up. It's annoying to wait 2 minutes for a zone to load and find it empty. Or the instant crashes (which was reported in Tribble for 2 weeks!)
    Cryptic, please stop rushing things out the door, okay?

    I play tested Tribble, and the release candidate build I had no issues with Exploration Zones. In fact, I would say on Tribble, it felt really solid and ready to go, the only thing that wasn't quite right was the Undine Fleet Action, and I don't think they have pushed it yet, for just that reason.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Are people forgetting that Atari forced the developers to release this game at least a year before it should have?

    We can complain all we want, that fact will not change, and now the devs have to work harder to support a retail game which is incomplete. If you dont like the game as it is then its best you not renew your subscription and come back in a years time when most of the bugs will be fixed.

    Now if it wasnt for the lifetime sub I wouldnt be playing the game right now due to the Legacy game. I would have waited and read reviews, and if I had then I would have read all this negative feedback and said no way. But I am glad I went for the lifetime sub, been able to see exactly how much work and effort the devs have put in and just cant wat to see the game in a years time esp when they get the user content thing going.

    So imo it's wasnt Season 2 that was premature, but the whole game, but the updates and patched are helping a lot to make the game stable.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    It may have been released early, but Cryptic is quick to throw out new content and not throughly fix the bugs as it hits live. We seen this ever since Season 1. In fact some people are almost expecting it like clockwork where they have people test, claim to fix the bugs, it goes live, and then trouble occurs.
    Rexy wrote:
    I play tested Tribble, and the release candidate build I had no issues with Exploration Zones. In fact, I would say on Tribble, it felt really solid and ready to go, the only thing that wasn't quite right was the Undine Fleet Action, and I don't think they have pushed it yet, for just that reason.

    I was there too and many people were quite vocal over zone chat and in the Tribble forums regarding the Exploration zone's with it's many bugs. Like Aid Missions not rewarding (which is still occuring), Mobs not dropping loot (still happening), and some maps even now still are stubborn in loading.
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