[Rant] "They should fix this game before..."

Seer · 2004-05-04, 08:30 PM

Every time someone comes up with a novel, reasonable new idea, someone else rolls out the tired old slogan:

they need to fix the bugs before they...
OR
the devs have more important things to do

Well, I am pretty sick of this line of thought. The present build of Planetside works wonderfully for the vast majority of people. I CTD and disco more often in Everquest, a five year old product, than Planetside. I have news for you: a pc game will never be free of bugs. A network game will never be free of lag. Stop asking for the impossible. Planetside has always been a very stable game, on every system I have played it on. It lags, but not nearly as much as you would expect, and has made incredible advances in this department since release.

So please, revise your expectations. If the game is continually crashing for you, maybe it's time to upgrade your crummy system. The price of admission here is, at least, 1 gig of ram and a 64 mb video card. Don't ask them to stop developing and expanding the game because you don't have a lot of uptime with your monochrome tandy.

Personally, I'm willing to accept minor bugs and crashes, and occasional server outages, if the payoff is new gameplay and new content. Presently the level of bugs and lag is such that further improvement will result in diminishing returns. I would like to see the dev team be a little bit more daring and creative with the ideas they are advancing than they are at this time.

BUGGER · 2004-05-04, 08:56 PM

I never complain.

I fear popups more than anything else.

SilverLord · 2004-05-04, 09:26 PM

I understand Seer but sometimes when the devs do something, it just seems that they should be working on more important things.

Desperado · 2004-05-04, 09:33 PM

I just want more FPS =C

Peacemaker · 2004-05-04, 10:02 PM

Get a better rig.

scarpas · 2004-05-04, 10:22 PM

Rbstr · 2004-05-04, 10:28 PM

/ fucking agreed

that fact is the FP swill only get better if you get a new system, or do some serious tweaks to the current one you have, it's just to complicated of a game to run on a not modern system, the game is probalby as best optomized as it can get, wiht the exception of that goof they made recently.

I find that Drivers make a big difference too, using the 57.72 drivers(Nvidia) i get >100 in sanc sometimes, but with the newest 61.11's i get 30 max(with much higher IQ however so i'm keeping them for now)

SilverLord · 2004-05-05, 10:10 AM

Rbstr, can you help me get some tweaks for my system? I don't even know half the stuff to do except overclock my vid card, which I do. So give me some tips or hints or whatever... I would really appreciate it.

My system, as far as I know.

Pentium 4, 1.8 GHrz
Radeon 9600np
640 RDRAM PC 800
Microsoft Windows XP Pro