I haven't been playing much the last couple weeks, mostly because of the return of the micro-stutter a patch or two back. I am also a bit tired of the maps. I'll play here and there while they iron out the wrinkles but I will play a lot more when new content is released.
Is this game already dead?!
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Many people seem to confuse the 'game is dead' with 'not as popular as CoD/BF3/MoH/CS' etc etc.
All i can say is thank god. If it was as popular it would be obviously be ****.
The uniqueness & difficulty is what makes it so good.
In Europe the only issue i have is getting onto the servers i want to play on.. as they are always full. There is large list of servers to choose from... game is miles from being unpopular let alone dead.
It is these forums that is so damn depressing...with the daily melodrama that gets played out, it is tedious.
All i can say is thank god. If it was as popular it would be obviously be ****.
The uniqueness & difficulty is what makes it so good. In Europe the only issue i have is getting onto the servers i want to play on.. as they are always full. There is large list of servers to choose from... game is miles from being unpopular let alone dead.
It is these forums that is so damn depressing...with the daily melodrama that gets played out, it is tedious.
Show me those full servers plz... Right, and no laggy as **** 64player servers, or without PB, or without hardcore mode enabled.
A lot less all of a sudden
Look in your browser list Sherlock.
I'm not your personal maid.Not that easy isn't it?
The guy 2 pages ago was right, compare it to CoD WAW which was way before it became the commercial mess it is now, and that game still has looots of filled up servers.
Compare this to this (not even) 2 month old game and yes, you can conclude it's dying a slow dead.
And don't even try to compare it too the niche RO1, this is far from that game. It doesn't have the same qualities which people like me who're looking for a bit more realistic game are looking for, neither does it have the qualities some kid on a controller is looking for.
I used to boot it up once in a while but I pretty much gave up since 2 weeks ago.
I got fed up with relearning how much I had to lead my target on every server, this is if that damn browser would work at all, fed up with the ridiculously dumb voice command system, the complete lack of decent tactical game/teamplay (no matter what server), the pathetic sound, ...
Who knows, if they decide to put out a patch which further fixes stuff I might reinstall but at the moment, it was 24€ wasted.
The guy 2 pages ago was right, compare it to CoD WAW which was way before it became the commercial mess it is now, and that game still has looots of filled up servers.
Compare this to this (not even) 2 month old game and yes, you can conclude it's dying a slow dead.
And don't even try to compare it too the niche RO1, this is far from that game. It doesn't have the same qualities which people like me who're looking for a bit more realistic game are looking for, neither does it have the qualities some kid on a controller is looking for.
I used to boot it up once in a while but I pretty much gave up since 2 weeks ago.
I got fed up with relearning how much I had to lead my target on every server, this is if that damn browser would work at all, fed up with the ridiculously dumb voice command system, the complete lack of decent tactical game/teamplay (no matter what server), the pathetic sound, ...
Who knows, if they decide to put out a patch which further fixes stuff I might reinstall but at the moment, it was 24€ wasted.
To be honest, there are only 2 servers I'd even think about joining (except custom servers for TWI game night or Pistol Night)
Your post is totally wrong. You are talking about me. Do not talk about me, talk about the game. I want to see you with a bolt action rifle against 4 people with MP40. Yes the bolt action rifles are deadlier but the majority of players is using SMG's and you are screwed, you will kill 1 or lets say 2 guys if you are lucky and by that time you are dead because of the SMG rushers.
Communication and cooperation in pub servers - hah nice joke there mate
Welcome to the online gaming too.You win because of the team, not because of you. Theres no you in RO2 <.<
Friday afternoon 4.30pm in the UK.
505 ranked servers
61 populated ranked servers (yes i counted them)
= 444 empty ranked servers
Thats a snapshot of the reality of the situation from a server Admins viewpoint.
I don't know when the peak time will be today, but those figures tell me its time to shut my servers down, and leave the 64 slot lagfest servers to it.
is this game already dead?!YES
505 ranked servers
61 populated ranked servers (yes i counted them)
= 444 empty ranked servers
Thats a snapshot of the reality of the situation from a server Admins viewpoint.
I don't know when the peak time will be today, but those figures tell me its time to shut my servers down, and leave the 64 slot lagfest servers to it.
is this game already dead?!YES
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Yes same here, not much going on atm.
Just wanted to play a Friday afternoon game
but the choices are poor. Lagfest on the 40-1 server with 48 people or playing 2vs2.
Yes same here, not much going on atm.
Just wanted to play a Friday afternoon game
So I take it that you joined the 2vs2 to help them populate the server, and didn't simply come here to whine that so few people are playing,... right? Because, you know, if 40 people decide they don't want to play, simply because they can't play in a game with more than 4 players, then that is a 44 player server that could be full.
Self fulfilling prophecy people. I know two potential customers who have decided to be stupid and not buy the game based on threads like these. Their response when I suggested the game was something along the lines of "Oh, the game looks cool and all, but based on what people on the forums are saying I don't think it will last."
The game, which was never alive in the first place as it is not a living being, but rather software, will not 'die' until people actually stop playing. Not just when a lot of people stop playing, but only when All the people stop playing.
You should take a reality check pill my friend, out of a total of 505 servers,their were 444 EMPTY servers, and that has nothing to do with anything that people are saying on this forum.
For many many reasons, ppl. just don't want to play this game.
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I talk about the game. By "you" I meant "player" in common. It's just the manner of speaking, nothing personal.Ratter said:
A rifleman putting himself in a position where he must stand alone against four assault troops aiming at him is a bad rifleman and should die. A well placed rifleman can kill a half of these assault and still lives to tell about it. Even one assault versus four rifleman will most likely die, because he has to face multiple targets at once.Ratter said:
It happens and when it does it's a great thing. I don't say it's common.Ratter said:Communication and cooperation in pub servers - hah nice joke there mate
There are many of "you" in the team. If each of those "you" will do his duty then they'll win. Multiple "you" supporting each other - even for a short while - can form the team. I often organized a mob of "yous" into some kind of unit (I mean a bunch of guys in a specific point of the map at that time) and they did well than standard "you" who isn't encouraged to do something as a member of the team.Ratter said:
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Why on Earth would you look at player numbers when most humans are at work or school? Do it again at 9pm on Thursday night and tell me what you see.
You are wrong ... you don't know that we have different time zones ? , so maybe in your country people are at work or school but in other places people are sleeping or are having free time , when it's 9 pm in east coast in USA in europe most people are sleeping and in Asia are starting a new day ...
Anyway , today , being betwen 6:30 and 7:30 PM in Europe there are only 1810 people playing RO2 ... new record ...
BF3 has been released... it has bigger maps, mortars and XXX million dollars ads. Are you surprised?
The population decline happened LONG before BF3 came out. It was already in the 2000's 3 or 4 weeks back.
The game is not completely dead, but in certain time zones the player pop is pretty abysmal (under 1000). That is certainly not what TWI had planned for, nor the people who bought the hundreds of servers that now lie empty.
Whenever I boot up there's maybe a 32-40+ count server mostly populated, and a 64 man server almost entirely populated within 0-150 ping. And I usually get higher than what the server browser states, anywhere from 150-300. If it's a 64 server, I also anticipate plenty of server lag and refuse to use a bolt action in that case.
It's impossible enough having to compensate several feet in front of someone at 50 meters, but throw in jerky motions of other people and you're not hitting a damn thing that's moving with a bolt.
I still can generally enjoy the game for the most part, but the server lag issue is undeniably killing this game worse than anything else.
It's impossible enough having to compensate several feet in front of someone at 50 meters, but throw in jerky motions of other people and you're not hitting a damn thing that's moving with a bolt.
I still can generally enjoy the game for the most part, but the server lag issue is undeniably killing this game worse than anything else.
How can people afford to rent 400 empty servers?
Almost none of them advertise or bring anything new to the community. How the hell do they expect to get even one player?
Almost none of them advertise or bring anything new to the community. How the hell do they expect to get even one player?
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