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Shaun Iwairo
Commando Perkone
Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.09.15 05:37:00 -
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I'm not very good at FPSs but I really do enjoy them. I've played Eve a bunch so the lore/themes/fitting/SP aspects of Dust appeal to me. I love the idea of Dust but it is just a nightmare to play.
In BF4 on Aussie servers I can usually always manage a positive KD, averaging around 1.5. In Destiny I'm around a 0.8. In Dust I'm lucky to be a 0.2. Watching youtube videos of Dust I notice hit markers appearing instantly, but when I play there is always a big delay (feels like half a second). I've lost count of how many times I've lost all my HP after 'one' hit from a non-OHK weapon, then I see the hit direction mark, then the death screen. In the squad finder menu, 80% of the squads will have 0 bars, the rest will have 2 at most.
So, to other Australians, is this typical or do I have a particularly bad connection? How many bars do you see when you go into the squad finder? Is there any other way to check my connection to the servers? What was the gameplay like when Dust had an Australian server, and how is it different now? Is it possible that aim assist is messing me up, moving my crosshairs to where the client thinks the enemy is but the server disagrees? Should I just wait for the possibility of a more local server when the port finally comes? |
Jonny D Buelle
The Warlords Legion
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Posted - 2015.09.15 05:44:00 -
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Kiwi here, been playing since Jan 2013. It might be your connection. I used to be with Vodafone and their unlimited plan then I found out they were throttling and had hidden caps (check your fair use agreement) after I switched to 2degrees (not sure if you have them over the ditch) had no problems and got average of 2-3 bars in squad finder connection.
Honestly, back when we had the Oceanic servers, it wasnt that great. The European and American players used it to afk farm for ISK and SP and pretty much ruined it for us. Though now we pay them back by connecting to their servers with high ping  .
At the moment, just grin and bear it, hopefully when (if) dust ports it will fix a lot of problems.
Combat and Logistics Officer of T-W-L
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Andris Kronis
WarRavens
Imperium Eden
99
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Posted - 2015.09.15 06:01:00 -
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Aussie here also :)
300ms delay is normal for me. 0.3 seconds. It doesn't usually get better than this, only worse.
Internode for an ISP, very good ISP.
Bad actual connection due to poor quality copper in my suburb.
2-4 people gaming in the household at any given time.
I can say a whole sentence on voice comms before it get repeated in another client that sits next to me = more than 1 second round trip.
Dropship piloting is somewhat challenging unless using an ADS and then it's a lot better.
Usually no bars unless they are also Aussie, like other WarRavens or guys in "The Black Lotus Initative" channel (shout out to the Noosa guys)
Yes, my name is Latvian, I know .... well done.
Would you like a cookie?
FC in Training.
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Shaun Iwairo
Commando Perkone
Caldari State
8
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Posted - 2015.09.15 06:10:00 -
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Jonny D Buelle wrote:Kiwi here, been playing since Jan 2013. It might be your connection. I used to be with Vodafone and their unlimited plan then I found out they were throttling and had hidden caps (check your fair use agreement) after I switched to 2degrees (not sure if you have them over the ditch) had no problems and got average of 2-3 bars in squad finder connection.
Just went into Dust to confirm the squad finder connection... http://i.imgur.com/CcPkkZk.jpg. Not great. I am with Internode who are a pretty decent ISP in Aus so I doubt it'd be them doing anything dodgy. You know any tricks for improving the PS3 connection? It's fully wired.
Jonny D Buelle wrote:Honestly, back when we had the Oceanic servers, it wasnt that great. The European and American players used it to afk farm for ISK and SP and pretty much ruined it for us. Though now we pay them back by connecting to their servers with high ping .
Heh yeah I heard stories about that. Damn Euros and Yanks messing things up for us like usual.
Jonny D Buelle wrote:At the moment, just grin and bear it, hopefully when (if) dust ports it will fix a lot of problems.
Edit: Also for your KDR, dont worry about it. This isnt BF where KDR matters, this is a game where you try your best to help your team. You cant shoot? Throw some hives down for those who can, or an uplink to bring us slayers in or bust out a rep tool to keep us alive. Find ways to help the team while you improve your gungame, but whatever you do, DONT GIVE UP.
First time around playing, I realized that without an Aussie server my gungame was going to suffer, so I went full Min Logi. Bought the APEX suit and everything. I'd signed up in Beta and by the time I actually got around to trying it out I had 20ish m SP. All of it went into Logi. So it wasn't so much the missing out on kills that was bothering me, it was being dead before I had time to react. I'm almost positive my Tacnet doesn't report reds when it should.
This time around I bought a remap and went into a bit of Amarr and Min Assault because I thought I'd play this shooter as, ya know, a shooter.
I'm sure it's wishful thinking, but I'm hoping there's some other Dusties from my side of the world that've had the same problem as me and there's a magic fix. |
Shaun Iwairo
Commando Perkone
Caldari State
8
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Posted - 2015.09.15 06:14:00 -
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Andris Kronis wrote:Aussie here also :)
300ms delay is normal for me. 0.3 seconds. It doesn't usually get better than this, only worse.
How do you put up with it? 300ms ping in an FPS is beyond unplayable.
Do you think there's any merit to the idea that aim assist makes aiming more difficult for us here due to the huge difference between client and server? |
Andris Kronis
WarRavens
Imperium Eden
100
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Posted - 2015.09.15 06:50:00 -
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I play a lot of logi and sometimes assault or scout for specific reasons. (I'm usually doing logi like things but in an assault or scout suit)
Doors and Corners is how I try to stay alive.
I watch a fair few you tube vids for tactics and fits that might help, or I work out the fit from watching the video and suit performance. (I also enjoy the videos)
1 v 1 suffers a lot under high pings so I try to avoid that where I can, it doesn't really work out all that well so I'm happy if I can "go positive" in my matches, 2.0 is my happy place and any better than that is time for a screen shot and a happy dance.
Using a SSD has helped with massive frame drops, eg gallente research facility.
Changing screen scale down to my minimum of 720p and dropping the quality down to low helps with other inherent game issues.
So it gets down to only being the long ping that I have to worry about in most circumstances.
There is significant delay in in-match menus which can occasionally be deadly and trying to restock a suit while in a match is so painful that I try and keep at least 50 of my primary suits stocked at any given time.
My two best buddies in game; Kira Halycon and Summer Sault kick me in the backside at regular intervals to stop me being too negative about things and help me to improve my game.
Yes, my name is Latvian, I know .... well done.
Would you like a cookie?
FC in Training.
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jane stalin
free dropships for newbs
433
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Posted - 2015.09.15 09:42:00 -
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I'm Australian, I have some issues but not as bad as the others here |
Shaun Iwairo
Commando Perkone
Caldari State
10
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Posted - 2015.09.15 09:46:00 -
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jane stalin wrote:I'm Australian, I have some issues but not as bad as the others here
Who is your ISP? Have you done anything to make sure you've got a good connection? |
Racro 01 Arifistan
Simple Minded People Pty. Ltd.
606
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Posted - 2015.09.15 09:47:00 -
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you missed the heyday of when there was the oceania server where aussies could play with no form of latency or lag issues.....and your MLT gear would beat back the proto stompers since they were form other servers thinking they could come over and make free money only to find out their connection was absoltley horrible....since they happened to be the majority at the time they complained enough to get our server shut down so now we have to go and play on the other servers and put up with their latency/lag and their switches and their glitches and.................you know how this goes.
F.Y.I. join the 'black lotus inititve' channel its run by my corp and we are mainly aussies of in there with the exeption of a few other corps that we run with.,
https://zkillboard.com/kill/47521458/
https://zkillboard.com/kill/47521142
Oppose me and you shall incure my wrath.
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Shaun Iwairo
Commando Perkone
Caldari State
10
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Posted - 2015.09.15 10:48:00 -
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Racro 01 Arifistan wrote:
F.Y.I. join the 'black lotus inititve' channel its run by my corp and we are mainly aussies of in there with the exeption of a few other corps that we run with.,
Will do |
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jordy mack
WarRavens
Imperium Eden
738
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Posted - 2015.09.15 11:28:00 -
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yer pretty much what andris said.
you just learn to play with it.
it makes you alot more stategic coz u have to go for only certain kills, and avoid certain players (scr and rr mostly).
also this game is just laggy as **** atm anyway.
Less QQ more PewPew
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