Guild name: Judgement Time

Oh gosh.

Badass, man. I'd like to join your guild. But I'm at work. Have you heard of any of these names? And what are your thoughts? Paul Heyller, Richard Dolan, Graham Handkock, Randal Carlson, Steven Greer, Linda Moulten Howe, Grant Cameron? And there are various other names that I could add, but this should give you a taste.

I'm not a "suit" just a middle aged man who has been searching for a long time and still haven't quite fit the pieces together,not sure if I ever will, regarding stuff that I have experienced. I lot of what you say is in line with a lot of my thinking, in this game to. So It'd be really awesome to join up and share information.

I'm kinda the loner type, sorry man. I'm definitely not active enough to support a real guild. I thought about recruiting but..eh, not enough stuff to do for me to consider it worthwhile. I had a dude in to see what happened when you invited people and stuff but I didn't like him so I kicked him. And the private aequilibrium, the only feature that guilds seem to offer, is tremendously ass-backwards.

I mostly did it for the name and banner but those things don't really seem to extend past the main menu screen.

I will give those people some consideration though. Always down for some cryptic mysteries.

Shit, you play it since the update? Now there is no respawn part before the last run to the extraction zone, it just goes right to it.

Now you can just hang out at the extraction zone and leave once the generators are done. That is a nice change. Sucks for Antagonists though, since they pretty much lose that last bit of final confrontation. No one likes Antagonists though, so I doubt many will care.

Having dropships unload right over the guns in the second phase is a silly idea, though. Dunno who came up with that but that combined with Captain elites..fuck. I mean, the gunships already shoot at you when you grab a turret. The dropship goons shit all over newbies and teaches them that standing by a gun emplacement is a bad call..then has a bunch of gun emplacements they are encouraged to use in the very next part..it really makes no sense. Especially since in no other occasion are you punished for using a gun emplacement.

Also, the elevator comes so fast now after the part where you blow up the wall. If you like 5th Council then you should probably stand right next to it the whole time. You will not have enough time to make it back from the other side where the enemies drop in at. You get like 10 seconds to get inside after someone pushes the button.

From a lore perspective, the changes really makes no sense either. Why are they sending their Captains to die on a Hades transport that they themselves are assaulting with their own ship? I understand sending grunts because they are seen as less than human. But the Captains represent a significant investment of Aleph. Aleph is THE most important thing to the Wardogs. Seems like the last thing they would want to do is waste it trying to take a transport that might only have a small bit of Aleph in its engines.

They show up to take Loaht, a high-value target, and to get the Lyre Sphere, a high-value target. Should we be lead to believe they care enough about their Dogs to actually help them in a fight for what they must assume is just another raid on a Hades transport meandering through their territory? That is dumb.

And if they are so gung-ho, why don't they continue pursuing the Raiders once they make it to the reactor? I get that the grunts would probably give up without a Captain around and then start stealing whatever was easiest to grab. But now there are Captains there to lead them, for whatever reason. At least there would be some Aleph in it for them. But they just mysteriously give up. Not a very Wardog thing to do.

Nothing major. It displays 98/44 rather than the 95/95(I think it was 95..) it used to show. Doesn't seem to affect anything else.

Fuck and many other swear words are in many of the cutscenes and yet..we can't write fuck? Or shit? What the fuck? Literally Harec says "FUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK!" in a pretty common cutscene that you pretty much have to watch even if you try to skip it.

What the fuck? Lame. Double lame.

Man, first I can't use the guild name I have wanted since like forever ago but now I find out I can't even write what I want in my own guild. And to top it off, I didn't even get a single blueprint in my rotation.

Woo guilds...definitely worth the wait.

I am joking. They were not worth the wait at all.

Drow, I think he wants to actually fight and win against the Hans Antagonists. Not simply evade Antagonists altogether.

Arnold, you're right; suiciding in a match in order to lose can get you banned. However, what Drow is suggesting is a 4-man surrender squad which is just fine with MSE in the same way that friendly Antagonizing is considered an unbannable offense.

They have done a good deal of re-structuring to the rewards so lowering your MMR in order to evade the difficulty of the game is no longer lucrative. Before if you had 0 MMR you got the same rewards as someone with 50 MMR but now you will get very very low rewards without being in the 30-40 MMR range.

Anyway, let us not attend to matters such as these in this thread when there are many many others that can be used.

I'd personally like to know if Urgehal has had the opportunity to take on a Hans Antagonist since starting this thread.

I'm no expert but it seems to me that the problem comes from the peer-to-peer connections Spacelords utilizes.

Unfortunately, this game is not super popular and so the matches you get will most likely be based in more remote locations than California. And those 999 ping could really be anything from a very bad host to some other type of connection obstacle, such as weather or what have you.

I have had very good ping playing with EU region people and very bad ping with NA region people. My connection is based in NA. Though recently I have noticed a significantly reduced amount of lag in both cases.

The solution is..nebulous. You can try to play at more peak hours; more players will give you better chance at a better connection. When I play at 2 AM PST I notice a lot more lag, probably because most players in my area are asleep by then. Inversely, when I play at 7 PM PST I find the lag is almost non-existent.

Being the host might mitigate the problem but it seems to choose one based off an intent towards a better connection for everyone overall. So, it is impossible to guarantee.

The inclusion of a ping-filter is probably already standard in the netcode that Spacelords uses. There are an enormous amount of factors that go into match selection; player MMR, Antagonist MMR, wins in a row, losses in a row, good connection and probably many more I am unaware of.

Match selection systems are generally designed to make the best choice possible to ensure a quick match start while having a balanced, gameplay-wise, fight.

Unfortunately, we do not have dedicated servers as they are costly and require a lot of maintenance. If the game became more popular then it might be foreseeable in the future but as it is this is a pipe-dream.

Also, I believe the low ping option is for yourself. It determines if you are to be selected as a host or not. It is by default on but if you turn it off then you won't be selected for host. I could be wrong, I haven't really messed with the options a lot lately.

Finally, yeah we all have experienced this problem. Peer-to-peer has this fallibility.