What is the problem here? It's next to impossible to find a game with all good players with acceptable pings unless you play during the 2 hours of primetime every night and you allocate 30 minutes to refreshing the lobby and waiting. That or one of the two 'clans' happens to have more then 2 people on vent which is also rare. Conversely there are 2-3 noob games being hosted almost every time I look at the lobby.
I think that there needs to be a base element of the game that is totally free and also integrated into the general playerbase. Even a demo with only 2 demigods and 1 map would work if it also bolstered the online population of the paying customers. The idea is that the easier it is to get a game started, the more people will buy the game. Multiplayer games are competitive by nature so that needs to be supported very well. Stats, stats, and more stats is the first st
I think the thing with games that last forever and never really die is that they actually work. If these super laggy games persist with random dcs it's simply not going to be worth the effort.
Who the hell are all these people saying that reg is good and why don't they know who I am and listen to me?
I understand how frustrating it must be to sit there and read these threads for Brad without being able to say very much. I can also understand how unbelievably frustrating it must have been to see Oculus without the debuff remove functioning (I've played more games than anyone as Oculus, and by a long shot if you exclude Celmare who is somewhat close to me). However, I wasn't offered any explanation for why something so simple never got fixed. I don't blame Brad, infact I'm
I agree with most of what pacov said. That Oculus issue is also a sticking point for myself. I remember logging on every day and I would see "Frogboy's 3v3 Oculus Fun" games hosted several times a day for a few weeks, back before he was released. Brad personally put a lot of time into testing Oc and I really can't understand how something that took Ptarth (sp?) a matter of minutes to fix via a mod never made it into the final build. Did Brad really not notice that the
Um, where did this $100k per dg figure come from? That sounds completely ridiculous to me.
One less problem at least. Thanks
Yes, logging in took only 3 seconds now instead of 30. Is this going to effect double dc's and seamingly random lag with everyone having stable pings/sims? So the problem is the NEW servers? Interesting.
I did infact 1v2 a couple UB's as rook, which in and of itself made it worth it. The replay also didn't save correctly and won't upload even if it did. Oh well. Yet another example of 2x people dcing at the same time. And no Synn, even if I had a point I don't care enough to think about what it might have been. Besides, who posts on e-forums with points?
HoN is really bad because it's trying to be a clone of a 10 year old mod for a game with extreme limitations of that time period. As you mentioned, it's view distance is locked to about 3 feet above your characters shoulders and you can't rotate or pan the camera. Why? Because that is how DotA was. Why was DotA like that? Because that's how Warcraft III was. Why was Warcraft III like that? As I recall reading about a decade ago it was
Has anyone ever played a game that has such a large percentage of it's games ruined due to increadible lag or mass disconnects (a year after release)? I've played dozens, probably hundreds of games over the last two decades and I can't think of any. I really want to punch a hole through my wall, but instead I'm posting here.
Interesting, I never saw that post as I was away for a month in September without a comp and never checked old posts. To think, all this time I was being a noob... I blame everyone else for never telling me this. It's also pretty retarded as it wildly inflates the total available xp/gold in a game. If both teams ninjad each others ports and somehow could still farm... I don't want to think about that.
edit: I removed all the stupid things I said so it doesn't confuse people. Read the thread linked below.
I don't like pushing portals early because then you lose the massive xp/gold from the creeps and all you get is some measily amount of warscore. Unless you are Oak and you can chain lock a portal from level7. Alternatively you can push right into the cit through the portal but I like to get higher level as it's more fun. I didn't port for giants because I was a noob. :)
I don't have time to watch it now but I just happened to watch this recent rook replay a few seconds ago looking for a reg one. Figured I'd post it here for ya while I'm posting the reg one. http://www.gamereplays.org/demigod/replays.php?game=51&tab=upcoming&show=details&id=112684
Here is my most recent SoR reg replay: http://www.gamereplays.org/demigod/replays.php?game=51&tab=upcoming&show=details&id=112683 Warning: it's really boring. I get 1 kill the entire time and it happens at the very end. It's not about the kills though, it's about supporting the team with endless spam and denying McShane a tower kill. 
Ok, honestly Mr Frogboy I think you need to pull that best dev from wherever and send him back to the demigod netcode. In the last 24 hours I've had several more games with 2 people disconnect at the same time for no reason, increadibly laggy games with 2 second pauses every 3-4 seconds while everyone in the game has 4-8 simspeed (maintained) and maintains <150 ping to everyone else, the games are so laggy I'm more interested in staring at the connection screen to monitor pings/sim
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Dear clanmate orcun, 10% of the time you are a noob reg! Also now that we have a clan can we have me go AA and everyone pitch in for an early ashkandor? I'm pretty sure if this game ever really had players and was competitive, stacking an AA reg early would be the dominate strat.
any regulus who chooses anything besides SoR is a total noob, uncluding cow and orcun with their inferior wrath!
since peter=minions and oc>minions oc>peter even with a total noob on your team. Any other dg would have been owned. GOOD JOB PLAYING OC!
Here is a good dynamic to be aware of: minions are worthless in 4's and 5's and mostly worthless in 3's against decent players or dgs with lots of aoe.
oh christ, the last time I played with mith he died 6 times as oak... ;(
caps are for noobs