The 1.30 PATCH POLL

[blackwiggle]

I thought I'd start a poll to see what the general feeling is about the 1.30 patch/update.

[crawdad62]

blackwiggle I'm on late at night. I know you know that since I see you there. Honestly the first night of the update it was horrible but that's to be expected. Now when I'm on there's really not too many people on and as a result there's not many people joining or waiting on races which I believe adds to the problems inherent to the update. I'm sure if I were on earlier when the Euro guys play in mass I'd be more frustrated. Is it perfect? Absolutely not. Last night I got disconnected from the very first race of a tournament and I've never had that happen before. I get a momentary freeze which I've grown to live with and it doesn't freak me out anymore although the first few times it happened I banged wall right after it unfroze. BR's seem to be less consistent but it's so arbitrary that I can't say for sure. Spectating a race is less than desirable. Other than that I'm fairly pleased.

I voted I like it,but problems slightly annoying

[Wip3ou7]

Honestly I wish I could say what my opinion was but ever since the new patch went live I havent been able to play online with my main account and that completely discourages me from playing the game at all. It really dissapoints me because I was looking forward to playing online with the new features. Please fix this bug.

[IH8YOU]

Just a rant - deleted the rant to spare you all.

Copy-And-Paste Stinkleroy's comments over here...

[rushin]

think i am really in the minority for liking the patch

the bad thing (lag when ppl join a race in progress) is not a game killer for me, and all the new things, especially being able to see all the races going on and thus reinvigorating online play far, far outway this issue.

Hopefully with a bit of thought this lag can be reduced further, but even if it stays as is i think the patch overall is a good thing!

random thought on spectator mode:
The implementation for spectators is a bit iffy, mostly because of the fps, so maybe instead of giving cockpit views have an overhead representation of the course with ships on it, think pixel junk racers Something to reduce the impact on players is the important goal though and ghosts jumping in their cockpit is not helpful...

too much thinking, not enough coffee, must run

[Sch@dows]

I like it,some problems, but I can live with them.

I experienced some freezes the first night but nothing since then.
I like some of the new functions like quick-joining with a friend, in-game invitation, or the badges.
It's still not perfect, and something has to be done for the solo mode (AI cheating too much because ... it's a bad AI -__-) but, i like that step.

[jan709]

random thought on spectator mode:
The implementation for spectators is a bit iffy, mostly because of the fps, so maybe instead of giving cockpit views have an overhead representation of the course with ships on it, think pixel junk racers

brilliant, i think thats more fun to watch than a camera that just circles around one ship!