I think its intentionally like this to test the 'Instant Battle' feature.

Sadly that means games are a lottery.

it does seem with this precursor build the bugs and glitches have increased.... i havent given up on the game but the hard resets and freezing plus the invaild fittings are starting to get a bit annoying. it makes it harder to test the game if the game has become very unstable...

Indeed!

I was in EVE Beta back in 2003 and I remember them CCP pplaying with pirate difficulties, and lots of other adjustments but hardly any connection problems or freezing and stuff.

The worst that happened to my company was 1 day rollback at the time we were moving with everything from low sec to high sec because of invincible pirates which CCP wanted to test on us. All the assets and wealth in Beta was carried on to Full version when EVE started.

So it was difficult but not as annoying as beta of DUST. Considering that we are doing all this to get wiped again...
I tested some things to get an idea here in Dust what to become when it goes live but what purpose is to try playing on this unstable build if we get to ground zero in few weeks?

I pray every single time I am at controller loading screen to be able to play and then pray again to have a dropsuit which is VALID. What sort of game testing experience is that?

3x times got "The server is full" (who the **** cares, why would I even want to connect to a server that is full!!)

Then I got to a battle just to see its final "DEFEATED" screen (another 5 minutes of waiting wasted)

So far I didnt have more than 4 continous battles without glitch, freeze, invalid dropsuits and so on

My theory... from a "Server Full" persptive...so many players are connecting to a server so fast, that even though intially there may have been a slot for you when the client queried the server.. by the time your client is actually finished establishing itself all the slots were taken up by players with better connections than you.. so "Server Full" happens because of your shabby network connection and not because the client at first attempt tried to put you in an already "full" game...



This happens because the client found an open spot somewhere... anywhere...anyhow.... There is no logic to say, "There is only 1 minute left in match so please don't try to connect to those open slots..."... This actually happens in a ton of games.. the main difference being you don't have to wait so long to find this is the case


I've had similar experiences usually 2-3 in a row before things start to degrade. There's probably too much debug code and/or logging and/or resource leaks happening that cause any more than that many to degrade the client too far.

L8r,
FH