It's hard to have a good session of Hawken nowadays.
If I'm lucky enough to play on an Oregon server (within my fitness range), I will have a good time, because those servers seem to be stable for me. However, at the time of this writing, it seems that Oregon servers no longer exist. Hmm.
So, the most populated servers are usually Ashburn or Dallas, which are rife with hit registration problems, teleporting mechs, and higher-than-normal pings - all of the things that players have been reporting for months. The only mech I seem to be able to play on those servers with any degree of efficacy is Rocketeer, which can get a little boring after a while.
Los Angeles servers are sometimes better, but not always. Yesterday I was playing on one, having one of the best games I'd had in a while: My K/D/A was something like 15/0/20, I was playing Siege (my favourite game mode), having a blast... I was juuuust about to get my daily -
And then? Everybody's pings spike by 100-200 all at once. People start teleporting all over the AA. My missiles no longer lock. Mechs start running in place or running into walls. Play resumes as normal for a few seconds before it happens again. I sit in lag-limbo for about 20 seconds, and then I'm booted with the message: "Your connection to the host was lost." The server goes off the list. Everybody in that server was apparently kicked.
I felt like throwing my keyboard. Nevertheless, I check the server list, and my choices for servers are now barely-playable Ashburn or barely-playable Dallas.
$#!@
And I guess I just realized that this is what playing Hawken is like these days. There's no such thing as a reliable server anymore, and I'm having a lot less fun as a result. Back when the game was barely alive, in development limbo, the servers were somehow in better shape. I don't understand this at all.
So unfortunately I'm probably not going to be playing Hawken as much until this issue is fixed.
This isn't a "threat", I'm not quitting the game for good, nor am I going to tell my friends to avoid this game... I'm not even saying that Reloaded is doing a bad job, because in all honesty, they're doing a great job in every other respect.
But this server problem doesn't seem to be going away. Until it's fixed, I would rather spend my time enjoying myself instead of being frustrated.
Thanks for the great games, guys, and I'll see you when I see you.
Edited by Nightfirebolt, 22 July 2015 - 06:23 PM.
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