The game is in version 1.0.  Bugs are to be expected in any game that has just been released and and you seem to think the developers are doing nothing or that they were aware of bugs but released it anyway.

Of course it was beta tested but do you think those testers played the game in every single way, using all the different combinations of items, demigods, maps, situations etc? Of course not, so there are going to be things they didn't expect because they can't predict how the game will be played.

It is one thing to recognise a bug and completely another to reproduce the bug, then find what is causing it and then to fix it.

You're probably used to playing many games which have been out for a while and been through many patches, this is normal in an online multiplayer game.

This is all aside from the colossal amounts of hindsight bias you are using.

no it isnt, this release was awful bugwise and conectivity wise, especially when they are game breaking bugs that were complained about during beta

Actually, I find Zikurat to be pretty functional as a 2v2 map, taking even less time to get around than on Leviathan.

And if you're trying to alt-tab out of the game to mess with other applications and such, I recommend you try playing in windowed mode, which works very well for that purpose.

I kinda would of expected the beta testers to use the multiplayer system somewhat, it was hugely flawed on launch.

Not true, pantheon is as broken as ever (both connectivity and abuse issues, all of which should be dealt with).  It's very common for games to have bugs/missing features on release.  It's quite uncommon for games to have game breaking bugs unfixed 2 months after release.  Only custom games now work proper, but without real community features there is a big chance of the following happening:

1) There is almost no player interaction (as in no chat lobbies, no functional friends system) - you PuG and get matched against a premade team on voice with total randoms on your side, some of which are new to the game and you get stomped.

2) You PuG another game and repeat 1) or just get lucky to run into a friend or a good team, so 1) happens to the other side.

3) You then go on to play the evening with the team from 2) and keep stomping the randoms that come by.

4) In both cases, there is a huge chance that someone on the weaker team will drop from the game (the so called rage-quit).  Quite often this happens after only a couple of kills.  You usually go and rehost a game with the same quality team (or PuG another game and hope for a better team)

5) Occasionaly, YMMW, but quite rare - your good team gets matched against another good team.  You play an awesome game for 45 minutes and feel satisfied even when you lose.  Unfortunately it took 3 days/3-4 hours per day to get it.

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If you press shift+tab and bring up the impulse menu, there actually is a generally chat/lobby but I agree it is somewhat difficult to find.  I would have expected it to be prominently featured in the multiplayer screens.  Similarly, there is a friends system built it - though it is of marginal functionality.

The best solution imho is to either join a clan (XoO, the clan I'm in is pretty casual orientated with a few members who like to do the clan wars stuff) or find a public vent server.  Another clan, MoX was kind enough to post the details for their vent for anybody to use, see this thread:

http://forums.demigodthegame.com/352296

I have seen a few other people post up details for public vents. Finding a team of regulars and getting on voice chat doesn't necessarily improve the competition, but the more people that do this the more decent teams you will see out there.  And there's always in hosue games if you get enough people on any given vent.

i think South Park still has the record on "Shit" though, 162 times in 22 minutes. nice try though but I wouldn't be calling the Guiness Book just yet. 

Sounds like it's not joining you to the right channel. (#demigodgame)

i really laughed at "the game is still in beta-testing". if anyone around here is clueless, than it´s you!

if a game is still in a beta-stage it should not be able to be bought, cause i am no beta-tester, i am a customer. btw: the game was released months ago!

" I'm guessing", yes you are a lot and yes, you guessed wrong a lot too.

Use windowed mode.