Teh zerg war has landed!

[Dracus]

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm?loadNews=2704&fp=1152,864,1378690281

Looking forward to it?

/Dracus

 

[Jebelious]

that actually sounds like fun, bigger battles would be kewl

 

[Chimaira]

Seen zerg on Lancelot. no need of cluster here xD

 

[Job]

And not one mention of lag.

 

[Tesla Monkor]

Actually, yes. It's better than not having any RvR at all.

 

[Morchaoron]

"Last night, players participated in a massive RvR combat session where more than 1,500 characters simultaneously fought one another on a single battlefield."

WTF?? 1500?? what about framerate? i remember getting 0.2 fps 2 years ago with the 300 people relic wars, what about 1500??
daoc has never been framerate friendly but playing a game with less then 1 fps cant be fun...

 

[Flimgoblin]

would be 1500 spread across the NF zones

 

[Motowntheta]

Nice Zerg on Merlin also

I have soo much fun in the BG's with my Heretic, it doesn't even matter there a useless RvR class

 

[Draylor]

it doesn't even matter there a useless RvR class

And there lies the problem with RvR since NF.

It really doesnt matter what you do: the side with most numbers will win. Whether you play 'well' or go AFK it makes virtually no difference to your changes of winning or losing.

Fun? Some folks think so, I struggle to understand why

 

[Devilseye]

"Last night, players participated in a massive RvR combat session where more than 1,500 characters simultaneously fought one another on a single battlefield."

WTF?? 1500?? what about framerate? i remember getting 0.2 fps 2 years ago with the 300 people relic wars, what about 1500??
daoc has never been framerate friendly but playing a game with less then 1 fps cant be fun...

Same thing i thought when i read "1500"

Does Catacombs improve FPS? or not?
Seems impossible to play for me then
Got a GF6800 Ultra (DDR3 256MB)
and was also running on 2fps when albs raided Dun Ailline

 

[Helme]

What a load of crap.


1st of all I play on Iseult which was one of the 4 servers forced into the cluster this week.

2nd the 4-way cluster was a zerging lag fest from hell.

3rd 1500 people where not in 1 fight; that's just toall BS.

4th the 4-way cluster was only up for 1 nite and the common RvR zones (called NF = New Frontiers) crashed 3 times that night. The lag was so bad you had a 4-5 second delay casting spells and RAs were not working.

5th NF is around 12 zones total not counting the north sea. So you have 1500 people spread over 12 zones.
The zergs were very large I'll give you that much but that game isn't playable when more then 200 people are in 1 fight. And you can't use the new Catacombs client to play RvR unless you have a very powerful computer; otherwise you get the slideshow and then insta death as you lag into the zerg.

6th cluster sucks

Hehe someone is bitter

 

[Afran]

Does Catacombs improve FPS? or not?

Better graphics more fps oO doubt it

 

[Flimgoblin]

Better graphics more fps oO doubt it

it's better than ToA for RvR apparently - they've optimised some stuff

 

[Shike]

it's better than ToA for RvR apparently - they've optimised some stuff

uuh wah?

On _some_ machines it runs better ye.. but most do not use the cataengine afaik, since they lag more.

I have a p4-3.0, fast HD, 6800LE, 1G ram.. i lag more with it and there is some slimy weird lag attached to the engine aswell which is impossible to get rid of.

 

[Flimgoblin]

think it's the lack of pre-cache option, if you have >1G memory you can use precache and run better with ToA, according to some.

Didn't notice much difference myself, but I was RvRing on pendragon where there's noone around so not likely to.

 

[Sarumancer]

the new engine enhancements in catacombs are startling...

it really shifts on hardware where the TOA engine would bog down to a crawl


the new graphics engine/models DO help.


oh and it was 1500 in rvr,not 1500 at one battle...


still, wouldnt mind a euro cluster....