Whats the point of playing hardcore?

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arbait_333 wrote:

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bhavv wrote:

I die from DC / lag / rubber banding several times a week in this game.

A hardcore & Online game with always connected internet required is a retarded mechanic.

interesting that some reach such high levels then.. its like they don't have problem with any of these things... hmm

Alt F4.

PoE has been full of lag and desyncs since the beta started. More often than not the game will just freeze and shut itself down with an message for me.

I've read plenty of cases on this forum and on youtube streams where loads of people lose all progress on their HC characters from a desync, lag or client crash. If you think that such things don't happen in an online game you have to be completely delusional.

If the game was single player and didn't require an internet connection Id gladly play it on hardcore all the time.

I remembered I also recorded a video of death by desync and have it on youtube. I appeared to be completely safe and had ran away from some mobs, but then I rubber banded back into them and got instant killed when the desync / lag caught back up.

Happens. All. The. Fucking. Time. In. This. Game. And. In. No. Other. MMO.

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bhavv wrote:

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arbait_333 wrote:

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bhavv wrote:

I die from DC / lag / rubber banding several times a week in this game.

A hardcore & Online game with always connected internet required is a retarded mechanic.

interesting that some reach such high levels then.. its like they don't have problem with any of these things... hmm

Alt F4.

PoE has been full of lag and desyncs since the beta started. More often than not the game will just freeze and shut itself down with an message for me.

I've read plenty of cases on this forum and on youtube streams where loads of people lose all progress on their HC characters from a desync, lag or client crash. If you think that such things don't happen in an online game you have to be completely delusional.

If the game was single player and didn't require an internet connection Id gladly play it on hardcore all the time.

I remembered I also recorded a video of death by desync and have it on youtube. I appeared to be completely safe and had ran away from some mobs, but then I rubber banded back into them and got instant killed when the desync / lag caught back up.

Happens. All. The. Fucking. Time. In. This. Game. And. In. No. Other. MMO.

stfu about desync

if u have really bad desync u just cant play HC or SC, no difference at all between leagues

etup wasnt desyncing

stick to the topic n00ps

The topic is 'whats the point of playing on hardcore'.

I was entirely on topic with my criticisms of HC mode in this game.

If Etup wasn't desyncing and still Alt F4ed, that makes him a bigger 'noop' than any SC player that never once presses Alt F4 while playing this game.

I can play SC fine as long as I'm getting more EXP than I lose. Desync doesn't have to happen constantly for it to be an issue in HC, it only needs to happen one time and you lose your character.

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ventiman wrote:

ohh look i bunch of excuses why i cant play hc how suprising

ever thought...maybe its you and not the game ?

Honestly dude, you should re-read my lengthy post with an eye towards the mockery of anti-HC-zealots. I was needling people who insult players from either league based on which league they play.

Then you should ponder how to conform to my parody of HC players a bit less. Because really, you're picking the absolute least-effective way to get under my skin. You are acting in the exact way I made fun of your type for acting.

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Happens. All. The. Fucking. Time. In. This. Game. And. In. No. Other. MMO.

First off, this isn't an mmo.

Secondly there are perfect counters vs desync to minimize its effect, ore drastically reduce the chance of u dieing when they occur.

It is not that i disagree with u, i play all league's and have a lot of joy from all of them.
But when i play hc/onslaught, i adjust my play-style. Even when i play anarchy/ default my builds are on the "safer" side of the possibility's. It just comes naturally to me to aim for the least/zero deaths depending on the league i currently play.

When more coding problems get fixed desync's will be spotted a lot faster by the master-side and will rubber band u faster then it currently doe's, which will help a lot of people.

"Whats the point of playing hardcore?"

Challenging oneself, even full aware of the current disadvantages. Having a better economy because of the structure of the current trade-game. I'm happy to say i don't do it to show off to anybody ore some reason like that.

By MMO I meant a game that requires an always online connection, and online play with other people.

All such games suffer from some extent with connectivity issues, but the amount of lag and desyncing in this one is the worst I've yet encountered.

when u press F1 u can see what your connectivity is to the current "instance" you are in.
I would suggest finding people from the same country to play with, thus reducing the instances where u end up with 300+ ping.

As for desyncing issue's, simple tactics can be applied. Using oos when you feel something is off, locking down shift when you attack so you don't "track down" a mob and end up somewhere else then u intended, having a totem to distract mobs from u if u happen to desync, being aware that mobility skills tend to amplify desync issues. Once you become aware of things like this, desync rarely offers a problem.

Hope this helps.

so OP watched one guy stream and then applies what he saw to an entire playerbase? if serious and not another troll i will just go ahead and leave this here for the OP to review:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

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reboticon wrote:

Stop with these threads already. It's the same as when people who play hardcore call standard scrubcore. It's e-peen stroking and it doesn't help anyone. Play the game how you want.

this

Boem, skip to the last 20s of this video, none of your suggestions would have helped:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QihUBv_R3EQ