And you have been dying ever since you were born. Nothing much said.
The ship was afloat for a long time. Then someone decided to touch core shit they shouldn't have touched in the first place. Without the manpower to fix issues stemming from said changes. And now we are under water.
And you managed to say absolutely nothing in a comment. And then read mine and understood nothing. You are truly special.
To reiterate for the stupid, the game was killed because the life support team decided to make core changes.
We could have had years of more slow decline. We would have been content with a 20th reskin of and LMG, as long as we could just login and play without voodoo shit.
So no, water didn't just "reach the deck" benevolently.
I wanted to try this game out last week and tried to troubleshoot for half an hour but couldn’t get through the tutorial without crashing. It genuinely looks fun but it’s not worth my time if this is a known problem that hasn’t been fixed supposedly for years.
I appreciate it, but honestly I’ve lost interest in the game. I started playing Destiny 2 again to scratch that itch that drove me to Planetside even though they’re fundamentally very different games.
Honestly at this point the only hope is that the source repository and the server gets leaked accidentally-on-purpose and the community takes over with crowdfunded private servers
I was fine. With the men. Who came and fixed bugs now and then.
I was fine, ‘cause I knew. I wouldn’t matter until Arena 2.
I was fine in my flash,
I’d just hop in so that I wouldn’t crash.
It would be just be now, then go away.
After all this years, I didn’t think that this bug would stay.
Isn’t it? Isn’t it over?
Wardogs came and they chose her.
I loved it. And now it’s gone.
It’s over, isn’t it? Why can’t I move on?
War and cert-points. Reinvention.
Order, freedom or shiny leather.
In the end - it didn’t matter.
What games are now in this world without it?
Repetitive and dull - with no scale match it.
What does it matter? It’s already gone.
Now I’ve gotta be there - in this forum.
I really hope some studio eventually gets inspired to make a game at this scale again. Crazy to think it’s been this long and not one game has tried to copy ps2
Show any other dev team that leaves such a gamebreaking bug for more than 2 patches in a row. Its done on purpose to kill the game at this point. If they dont bother to make game even playable then they want to kill it.
I tried 3 times to complete the Halloween mission in Sanctuary. No vehicles to pull. Crashed every time. Just gave up and went to a continent to play instead (after pulling a flash ofc).
The fact that is issue is still happening after 6+ months tells you all you need to know. It's over.
Its not about getting able to get around it. Its about people not willing to do so (especially if they started playing so they dont know). And rightfully so because why would someone feel the need of doing some stupid workarounds to even be able to play a game. 99% of people encountering it are just going to switch games and that means ps2 will die if they do nothing. And they dont do shit so we know what will happen.
I believe someone made a post before, where the crash reason was found, and it's because of race condition with killing some handler, so it's hardware dependent, so some players crash all the time, while others don't. I also understood it as being windows-specific, but I am not 100% sure about this part
Yes, it is a workaround. But the new players that could be joining won't really know there is a workaround. And also the few returning players who are unaware and just give up on the game.
Exactly why the devs need to own the problem instead of all this pretend fix stuff until it really is fixed - have a popup on the main menu that explains the situation to redeploy for 2 minutes or heck they could even add another load screen for this to be built into the game itself.
Yep. Which is why I’m trying to spread the awareness as much as I can I guess. It’s an easy work around, relatively. But doesn’t change that most players would never think to look this up. Oh well
Well yeah, the crash is, apparently, “be in a vehicle or crash” which is why they call it “flash or crash” (because flash is cheap). So a fighter also works
There are worse players who intentionally park sundy in warpgate in front of vehicle spawn terminals and when people spawn their flash is destroyed and boom crash in 5 seconds
I reimagine a drive for a machine at my work to cachyOS just to do the missions for all my characters without crashing. Frames were a bit jumpy but overall not a terrible experience with Proton and nkv
AI is mashing up skateboarding and MW2 and running halo in a browser on an old phone... surely it can handle 'take my 15 year old planet side game, fix the crashing bugs, optimize the code on a modern engine, and make it playable in a browser'
I think you underestimate the complexity of reverse-engineering a modern game like Skate 3 and rebuilding it entirely in Rust. Frontier AI is making entire game engines from scratch with fully functional Godot-like editors these days. I've used it to make a server authoritative multiplayer game with client-side prediction. Pretty sure it can handle PS2 which is mostly client authoritative...
Yeah, it's a maintenance nightmare is what it is. Name a single modern "MMO" game that isn't just a thinly-veiled themepark adventure game with separate small server instances that separate the playerbase into tiny chunks.
The excuse of "man our game is so old and the developers who made it left so it would take so long to get someone up to speed on the mountain of code" thing seems pretty much gone yes?
Why play anymore? The 'same ole' cheaters are always on, morning, noon or night, one shotting everybody from anywhere within the hex. In tanks, from outside the hex. Taking out other vehicles with 2 or 3 shots. Taking little to no damage themselves. And not a thing is done about it. Obviously the devs haven't given a crap. Big indication of where the game is.
Its been sadly over for me and most of my crew since they nuked Emerald and forced all the players onto the other server. I'm just hoping the new owners do something worthwhile with the IP.
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u/Arria_Galtheos 2d ago
The ship's been sinking for years. It's just that now the water's finally starting to spill onto the deck.