Why Path of Exile cannot be a hardcore game while desync exists

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Understanding what desync is will help you deal with it. You don't seem to. The rubberbanding that you're complaining about isn't desync. You can't fix desync with a /oos command... only force a resync with it. Most players are using /oos completely wrong. They use it when they know that they're out of sync. Too late.

The problems of desync show up when a player is told by his client that he can enter a command (like attack that monster) and the server is in a state where he can't (the monster is in another room). Once you realize that you've done this... too late to hit /oos. You need to hit /oos before you enter the command.

Until you understand what desync is, most of the actions that you take to combat it actually can do more harm than good.

Once you understand it, you don't even really notice it's effects much at all. I've given up trying to tell people this, because they usually get all belligerent. I really wish there wasn't desync. I would prefer a stand alone client that let me play the game on my own, run by my own computer. It sucks not to be able to play the way I would like, and it must suck not to be able to play the game the way you like too.

I really don't see how "hardcore" and this relate though. Hardcore is just a hype term used to get people excited about a game. It has no meaning.

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DarthSki44 wrote:

There is some epic bullshit is this thread, and I don't want legitimate concerns to be pushed aside by some damn forum heros.

Some points I would like to make:

1. Desync exists in every online game - POE just is one of the WORST OFFENDERS.

2. The Netcode is piss poor at best. Granted GGG didn't have unlimited funds to begin with, and now redoing it is a fiscal and manpower nightmare.

3. They are totally in love with Accuracy as a combat mechanic. This won't change.

4. Collisions - Many maps have doorways, rocks, ect.. that cause all kinds of problem, both with players hitting them, and/or monsters doing the same. So yea, way to design maps that cause problems. I mean really can you expand some doorways or something?! Anything?!

5. Skills - Probably the most infuriating of this short list. GGG knows what causes significantly more desync, yet continues to release skills that serve to diminish gameplay experience. Some good examples are cyclone and multistrike. If it didn't piss me off so much it would be funny.

*Finally don't even get me started on other mechanical game issues like graphics optimization, or gameplay balance with solo play, and OP group faceroll. Desync is just the tip of the iceberg.

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DarthSki44 wrote:

4. Collisions - Many maps have doorways, rocks, ect.. that cause all kinds of problem, both with players hitting them, and/or monsters doing the same. So yea, way to design maps that cause problems. I mean really can you expand some doorways or something?! Anything?!