Is the game playable without a private server?

[Rift]

Used to play this on Xbox with a friend that had there own server. It was quite fun. The enemies could be difficult, they'd chase players down and if one bandit gets attacked those nearby would swarm the player.

On official servers enemies mostly don't do anything. Most the time I can walk up and wail on one without it even fighting back. They don't really chase. And the unless two bandits are standing inches apart they don't even notice. If an enemy has some high HP they might get throw a few punches, glitch back their HP or start teleporting all over the place.

I'm assuming this is because of the large buildings and loading for the other players online. But it doesn't seem to take that many players online to make a server unplayable.

Is this an issue with all the public servers? It's hard to find out as the game removed the feature to move characters from one server to another,

Ty

[Deacon the destroyer]

Originally posted by Rift:

I'm assuming this is because of the large buildings and loading for the other players online. But it doesn't seem to take that many players online to make a server unplayable.

That would be the issue. PC isn't quite as bad, if you hunt you might find a playable public but Gportal and over built hoarder bases. some have been collecting loot since the game dropped.

[RealLocutus]

Funcom seems to have changed the behavior of the enemies with the latest patch. We play on a private server and since the last update we also encountered that the human AI does often not care that you are approaching them.

And to your first question: Yes you can play the game without a server - but when you play Multiplayer with a friend the move radius is limited around the host. Dont know how large the radius is bc I never tried it.

[jfvgames]

The distance is 50 000 units, from what i have experienced it's around 150-200 meters.