Curse

Relgar Wraithclaw · Jul 31, 2005, 09:13 PM // 21:13

Below is a list of things that annoy me greatly. My suggestion is to fix all of them, preferably within a reasonable time frame. 1 year is not a reasonable time frame.

1) Ridiculous lag - I have a shared connection and I know I get some lag spikes sometime, but with the frequency and severity of lag and jumping around that I experience I know that it cant always be me. I may jump to 3 or 4 places on the screen before finally settling at a spot. Sometimes when I am running and I start an attack my character keeps moving. I wind up about 400-500 feet away from the mob I am attacking and swing at thin air. The lag is horrid. Maybe its A.nets way of getting us to quit playing? Then they would have to pay for less bandwidth.

2) Horrible chat setup - Lets say I'm starting a group. I advertise for people to join and get several responses. The town/outpost is either huge or packed with people so I cant find the people to click on them. I have to manually type out each name in the invite box before clicking add. This is annoying and stupid. Chat setups in other multiplayer games I have played have been more advanced than this for the past several years. It really should be easier.

Also, I should be able to hit Tab to cycle through the last few people to message me. I dont want to have to scroll up the window to see who sent what message, click the name box, type the first few letters for the name to pop up, hit down, then enter, then tab to move over to the message box. This is also stupid and unncessarily complicated. Again, games moved past this cumbersome, stone-age method years ago. Fix it.

3) Being attacked by a ridiculous amount of mobs at once - Even with groups of eight, if I aggro one monster I shouldnt be attacked by every single mob visible on the screen at once. I dont think theres any way to survive that.

Here's a link to an example. If you look closely and count my group is being attacked by 13 mobs at once. And thats not even all that were there originally, some have already been killed. Does this make sense to anyone else?

4) Pathing still sucks - I stopped playing for a while so maybe this was improved a little bit, but my character still cant figure out how to get around something that is directly in front of him. I still have to tell him to step left, THEN go forward. Why is this so hard for the computer to figure out? Henchie pathing also sucks, of course. Here's another example showing how marvelous and revolutionary the pathing system is. It shows Lina stuck behind a catapult. I'm the grey dot north of her on the minimap. Thanks, Lina. <3

That's it for now. I'll come back and post more when something else pisses me off. This should give A.net plenty to work on for a while, though.

MoldyRiceFrenzy · Jul 31, 2005, 09:16 PM // 21:16

hmm the lag shouldnt be bad, i have dial up 3kb/sec and its normally fine unless somethings interrupting the system when im downloading a page or somthing. maybe u should try to do a adware/ spyware scan.

johnnylange · Jul 31, 2005, 09:22 PM // 21:22

I have shared DSL connection speed of about 3 Mbs and rarely I get some lag. I agree with MoldyRiceFrenzy advice.

About the monster issues, sometimes you just get a whole mob on you, best advice is to stick closer together.

I don't seem to have very many problems with pathing. Usually in town if run into the merchant or in missions pets get in the way alot, but thats about it.

On a side note I sometimes get people in a group using the "lag" excuse as to why they're not fighting...damn scamers.

inspectreo · Jul 31, 2005, 09:28 PM // 21:28

Hmm i have cable and i always lag whenever skills are casted or when i enter the arena. Sometimes if i'm in crowded district and when i duel, by the time i enter the arena my teammates are already dead. I think it has to do with the computer or graphics card..

Also you said you had 3kb/s!?!?!?!? thats really slow... and yet you don't lag... i thought dialup was 56k...

Ultimate_Gaara · Jul 31, 2005, 09:39 PM // 21:39

1) sadly lag effects most of us, if not all... and it has since the days of the first online game, so it is something we have to deal with.. Not Anet's fault

2) i agree finding people is hard, and its hard to type in every single name.. ive never tried it but... if you wisper them can you just copy and plaste the name into your party window thing?... ive never tried it, but its worth a shot

3) Live and learn, ive pulled one guy and like 15 other follow, i guess Anet wants to make it a little difficult.. but to me it seems everyone in your screen is running around into the mob.. so its hard to tell exactly whats going on

4) dont get me started on pathing.. i hate feeling fat, i can save the world and slay every monster in my path, but throw in a gentle slop and im done for...

johnnylange · Jul 31, 2005, 09:42 PM // 21:42

I forgot to add about adding people to a group...If they whisper me I just copy and paste their name in, other wise I just type it in. Whats so hard about that? lol.

Lost · Jul 31, 2005, 09:43 PM // 21:43

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3) Being attacked by a ridiculous amount of mobs at once - Even with groups of eight, if I aggro one monster I shouldnt be attacked by every single mob visible on the screen at once. I dont think theres any way to survive that.

Creatures are grouped together. If you attack one, the rest in their group will come to the aid of that one. If a creature attacked one of your party members, the rest of your party would rush in an aid them.

ZD_kusanagi · Jul 31, 2005, 09:44 PM // 21:44

What is your problem seriously? this is a free usage game that has been opened up to every person in the world.... and you complain that after each update it lags for a couple days? get over it. im sorry, but i've met alot of people like you that just complain, complain, complain! yes henchies don't do so good all the time, but this game is based around pvp so it shouln't matter most of the time.. and what you said about mobbing?.. that mission you were on was MEANT to be hard.. and you only aggro certain mobs. they always consist of aorund 4-6 creatures. if your aggro bubble hits more than one, then its your fault, not the games. so don't just complain about a FREE USAGE game. try to ignore the little things and practice alittle more so you dont HAVE to rely on the henchy ressing you.

Kazahana · Jul 31, 2005, 10:08 PM // 22:08

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Originally Posted by Relgar Wraithclaw

3) Being attacked by a ridiculous amount of mobs at once - Even with groups of eight, if I aggro one monster I shouldnt be attacked by every single mob visible on the screen at once. I dont think theres any way to survive that.

4) Pathing still sucks - I stopped playing for a while so maybe this was improved a little bit, but my character still cant figure out how to get around something that is directly in front of him.

about #3 which do you think is smarter for the mobs to send in a few at a time hoping they win or to send in the whole army and know they will win. take the thunderhead keep mission for example. the enemy is sending in maybe 4-5 at a time of thier 50 or so man army would it not be smarter to send in all 50 at once than 4-5 at a time to get picked off?

#4 while i agree that the henchmen pathing needs some improvement you are in control of your own character you are suppost to control your character that means you need to move your character arround things sometimes ok.

Relgar Wraithclaw · Jul 31, 2005, 10:25 PM // 22:25

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Originally Posted by johnnylange

I forgot to add about adding people to a group...If they whisper me I just copy and paste their name in, other wise I just type it in. Whats so hard about that? lol.

What's wrong with saying it could be easier? I've seen any number of games that make it simpler. I think the current interface is cumbersome and should be improved.

Relgar Wraithclaw · Jul 31, 2005, 10:29 PM // 22:29

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Originally Posted by Kazahana

about #3 which do you think is smarter for the mobs to send in a few at a time hoping they win or to send in the whole army and know they will win. take the thunderhead keep mission for example. the enemy is sending in maybe 4-5 at a time of thier 50 or so man army would it not be smarter to send in all 50 at once than 4-5 at a time to get picked off?

Most groups of mobs consists of 4 or 5 that work together. You aggro one you get them all. That makes sense. Having a group of 16 that attack when you aggro one is a bit overboard. Sure it's more realistic to have them all come at once but if we were going for realism I wouldnt still be standing after 4 guys with axes started slashing me and 1 guy was throwing fireballs at me. The complaint was focused on groups of impossibly large mobs.

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#4 while i agree that the henchmen pathing needs some improvement you are in control of your own character you are suppost to control your character that means you need to move your character arround things sometimes ok.

Yes, I'm in control of my own character. But they also gave us click-to-move movement. If they're going to implement I would expect I could click somewhere and have my character figure out how to walk around a tree. Or, more poignantly, around the small rock that is directly in front of him.

Ristaron · Jul 31, 2005, 10:37 PM // 22:37

The only thing I agree with you on is the lag.
I have a top of the line computer with the fastest internet connection my provider offers. Yet I still have to run on 'fastest' to get a smooth gameplay. And half the time it's NOT SMOOTH!!

I shouldn't have to play on crappy visual effects in order to get a halfsmooth gameplay. Especially with the system I have.

To everything else Mr. Complain went on about, suck it up and stop @#$%&ing please. Henchies are dumb (the AI needs buffing), pathing could use a little work, enemies are in groups just like you are (it's only stupid when two groups get aggroed when the aggro bubble hits one of them... i.e. glitch). It's a free game for everyone, all it needs to be is smooth and interesting.

Aracos79 · Jul 31, 2005, 10:39 PM // 22:39

If I recognize your picture correctly, that's in the Frozen Forest on the way to Copperhammer Mines. That area around the stairs is always difficult. There are 2 or 3 "overlapping" mobs and one of them is very large (8 or 9 creatures if I remember). The best thing to do is move in on the flanks, not charge right up the stairs. This way you have a better chance of not aggroing all the mobs and hopefully picking off the smaller ones.

As to your suggestions:

1) I don't think we have a right to complain too much about server status, as we are not paying for server maintinance through monthly fees. Granted a game should always function properly, but I think ANet is doing all they can.
2) I'll agree with you on this much. You should be able to click on someone's name in the chat scroll and get a menu of options (ie. invite, whisper, ignore, etc.)
3) Besides what I mentioned above, overall the PvE in this game is rediculously easy as it is. I don't think they need to make it any more mindless. :P
4) It's AI, what do you expect? If you want party members that won't ever get hung up on the scenery, get human players. AI routines will never be perfect. And you have to admit, they are MUCH better now than they were at release.

Relgar Wraithclaw · Jul 31, 2005, 10:41 PM // 22:41

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