Fix the lag issue in PC.

It's the culminating event of the game. The pinnacle of all the grinding. You work for months to even get in one. You strategize, analyze, and learn to counter. You do FW for gear. You organize entire groups on both sides. You grind for isk. All so you can go into battle 16 v 16 competent merc.....

In a pool of f*cking molasses!

CCP, until you fix this you will continue to lose active members. They will come back for updates and events, but as soon as they see that PC is still 32 mercs wrestling with tar they will leave again. All the balancing, additions, and changes to bonuses and suits count for nothing if you can't even tell the difference between a wall and the enemy?!

Praying you hit the target isn't a strategy, but it's what we're doing now. Trying to be the first into the war barge to get the server shouldn't be necessary. Leaving the battle and returning helps, but I shouldn't have to!

I dont want anymore BS suggestions for how to work around it! "Shoot at hipfire, and pray the aim assist helps", no. "Let's hope the hit detection works today bro", is now a common phrase?! So is "bro I can't go into that city it's too laggy"?! If the GC needs me in the city, and I can't even f*cking go because of lag what's the point!!

Let me describe what I've experienced, and heard from other mercs so maybe CCP stops listening to guys who haven't experienced it. Those of us who are stand no chance at ever competing in PC. It's a lost cause, and you (PC top 5) players are going to continue to have no one but each other to fight. There won't be any new teams to fight because we can't fight due to lag. Today it was so bad we just stopped fighting in one battle?! There was no point. It sucks because the enemy team has no idea what you're up against, and think you can't play the game.

In the pubs and FW I can fight clearly, and win battles. There's no slow movement like I'm moving in quick sand. I can receive an order, and perform it without a hitch against the same guys in proto gear! I don't even have to be proto to kill them! In pub matches they go down. They seem to be moving normal, and take damage just like me. I usually run in advanced gear to keep my wallet stocked, and find that in most pub matches, whether the enemy goes proto or not, I don't need to.

Why is this not the case in PC? I can run full proto everything on any of my four proto suits, but in PC it performs worse than my advanced suits do in pub because I'm moving in slow motion?! At this point I'm no longer participating in PC like so many before me because I feel I'm being cheated. I am not one to spend any time blaming other players, but that's exactly what starts happening.

It's frustrating that CCP hasn't focused any effort on PC. They can add OB support from eve, change weapon dps, or anything they like, but none of that makes a difference when your logi has to tell you there's an enemy in front of you. Until they fix the server and client issues their only adding more stuff to the lag pool.

My question to CCP is if they've ever actually participated in a PC match?

Now I can watch great PC matches on YouTube, and think everything is running fine too. It's not! I've had matches with no lag where we have won and lost. I'd rather lose a match that was clear then win one that wasn't. How do I know the enemy team wasn't lagging when we won? That's not a fair win, and I wouldn't except it any other way!

There IS an issue, and to listen to 5% of the community and think "oh it's fine", is poor management.

I have a hunch that modded controllers and amped kb/m doesn't help with an already struggling system. This engine has to compute shields, armor, weapons with different effects, explosive damage, differently configured suits, mods, and all for different individual players. It may work great for C.O.D. because everyone has the same hp, weapon dps, and generally all do the same thing. All perks have set algorithms, and work the same for each player. In dust this simplicity is a joke lol!

I beg you CCP! Hear the rest of us out!

TLDR please :)

Too Long Didnt Read ^^

It means that life is short, and I can't afford such a big part of it reading a wall of texte :)

I think I got the big lines of it reading the first 2 paragraphs ^^