How is this game's Netcode so atrocious?

[Aid of Healer]

Friends joining your sessions can cause it to crash, armors you last worn not saving, unable to select stratagems sometimes when joining others, Disconnecting randomly mid game afterwards unable to join back.

Even as far as the game still thinking you're in a match despite crashing on your whole team and booting everyone out.

[Slithy]

Too busy nerfing weapons to bother with it.

[Mepho]

It's pretty much in line with the rest of the code, what do you mean?

Dare I remind you that at first the game didn't even register loadouts and would spawn you with starting gear?

[Creamy]

this is disrespectful to what makes the game and gameplay fun the engine is the secret sauce, your netcode examples dont even compare to how melee teamattacks expose it, helldivers is running on abandonware an abandoned engine from a different developer, game engines are the hardest aspect of development but they hit a gold mine with this engine because of how fun its physics is its same reason so many games are boring these days all running on same few engines UE made game dev for small teams too easy with all the purchased assets every game feels plays the same

[Aid of Healer]

Originally posted by Mepho:

It's pretty much in line with the rest of the code, what do you mean?

Dare I remind you that at first the game didn't even register loadouts and would spawn you with starting gear?

Why I am shocked at my memory being so terrible, It appears I suffered from such trauma that I must've mentally blocked out the garbage state of the netcode and assumed things were better since launch

[Mepho]

Originally posted by Aid of Healer:

Why I am shocked at my memory being so terrible, It appears I suffered from such trauma that I must've mentally blocked out the garbage state of the netcode and assumed things were better since launch

I haven't played the latest patch yet, but things have been degrading since launch.

Yes they made a couple of "fixes" (like my friend list finally started working a couple months ago, provided I have crossplay on for some reason, if I turn it off then the friend list stops working) but overall the game's worse off from a technical POV.

Worse performance, crashes (or should I say more crashes, but I had none before the Arc Thrower patch), general failures on missions (bugged terminals, bugged objectives, straight up bugged missions etc.), collisions are FUBAR (with corpses sending you in the stratosphere and rocks eating you randomly), the general weapon balance is worse enough that it feels there are LESS weapons than before, I could keep going.

[Aid of Healer]

Originally posted by Mepho:

Originally posted by Aid of Healer:

Why I am shocked at my memory being so terrible, It appears I suffered from such trauma that I must've mentally blocked out the garbage state of the netcode and assumed things were better since launch

I haven't played the latest patch yet, but things have been degrading since launch.

Yes they made a couple of "fixes" (like my friend list finally started working a couple months ago, provided I have crossplay on for some reason, if I turn it off then the friend list stops working) but overall the game's worse off from a technical POV.

Worse performance, crashes (or should I say more crashes, but I had none before the Arc Thrower patch), general failures on missions (bugged terminals, bugged objectives, straight up bugged missions etc.), collisions are FUBAR (with corpses sending you in the stratosphere and rocks eating you randomly), the general weapon balance is worse enough that it feels there are LESS weapons than before, I could keep going.

The game is in such a horrid state of limbo.
You have performance and technical issues since day 1 of launch. Its been over 5 months i think? Yet some of these problems have not been dealt with.

Why not? Because these devs put out patches and content that come with a myriad of its own issues. Entire warbonds being near useless save one grenade and a gun or armor.

Now the devs have that and the previous set of piling problems they haven't fixed and it becomes so damn bottlenecked that every patch that drops breaks the game a little more than it fixes. Its a miserable cycle tbh.

It also doesn't help that there's a very loud minority of players that pushback hard on any criticism this game receives, there's even a streamer called maplewoodtv that argues with his chat whenever an opposing view gets mentioned about HD2. Its insane, you can say something like 'xx should be buffed' and they will crucify you with skill issue.

[pRaX]

That's peer2peer for you.

[Footman]

Dead Engine.

[Fractured]

Man, feels like that is every game I've played lately. It sucks.

EDF6 has been an outright abomination with desync. And Starship Troopers Extermination is randomly unplayable laggy.

[ObsidianKey]

Aid of Healer, actually focusing on a problem that matters. ✅

Guns? Nah, I'd crash report and netcode.

[Weezer Blue Album]

Bad wifi?

[Aid of Healer]

Originally posted by ObsidianKey:

Aid of Healer, actually focusing on a problem that matters. ✅

Guns? Nah, I'd crash report and netcode.

Did i stutter kid? Stop lying to yourself, you look like a shill pretending a plethora of other problems don't exist as well. You forgot pelicans used to instant take off if one person boarded it just last patch.

[Aid of Healer]

Originally posted by Fractured:

Man, feels like that is every game I've played lately. It sucks.

EDF6 has been an outright abomination with desync. And Starship Troopers Extermination is randomly unplayable laggy.

that sucks bro. I've thought about Starship troopers but the state of the game rn isn't very enticing to step into. The animations look horrendous and the bugs are like soap on water.
At least on the bright side that game has an actual roadmap and the devs are slightly more competent than AH.

So far DRG has been the only PVE shooter that is legitimately good despite its current flaws