I loved NS and I'm falling out of love with NS2...
Since the last update, I was wondering if it was my imagination or what, but I've confirmed on multiple servers and it really is killing my gaming experience. I always thought that the game's netcode could use some improvement and that the game would get better over time, but I'm standing beside myself on how terrible it's gotten.
Aliens: 2/3 of my all deaths as alien are due to latency issues (deaths are in the several hundreds), as I find myself dying behind walls and even rooms away from where marines are shooting at me - it's gotten so bad that even 2 rooms away I'm falling to my death.
Marines: 1/10 pistol rounds actually register on moving targets - I remember when in NS1 it actually worked. This weapon is practically useless, unless your're shooting at an Onos running in a straight line or at stationary sturctures.
After countless hours of gameplay, it feels to me as though the game isn't capable of handling multi-player. Events that happened seconds ago (ie: me flying out of the room seconds before a marine starts to fire upon me) are being fed back to my client incorrectly (ie: I hear the marines begin to shoot after I'm already in a room or two away, I'm flying just fine, and then I die instantly).
This is very disturbing, as the gameplay events that I experience visually and audibly on my client do not match up with consequences and events online, which are fed back to my machine and re-displayed, as it never happened on my end - it's like a double-take or deja vu in which I'm completely fine one second and the next second I'm dead out of nowhere.
It feels as though, when playing as aliens, I have a very long invisible tail that marines can shoot at to kill me, from rooms away and/or behind walls.
My ISP is 15/5mbit FiOS and nearly all of the instances are happening with my ping at a steady 20-40.
If someone can relate or please shed some light on this, it would really relieve the pain and shed some stress.
If someone can relate or please shed some light on this, it would really relieve the pain and shed some stress.