God of War: Ascension Multiplayer

[c3RAMburger]

This is the first big test of a game that's never had competitive MP before. I had a better experience in the closed beta of the last month than most new MP tests. No lag other than an occasional hiccup before a brutal kill. The gameplay itself isn't meant to be Street Fighter twitch-speed, but think of it more like MK; brutal and more free-form. I'm sure SSM is talented enough to get their netcode running as smooth as possible by launch time.

[Goldhawk1]

It might get better...might... so far it started out good and almost every update it gets worse.... 1.08 made it slightly better, after they brought the servers online again the game dropped in quality pretty quick, lots of lag...but it was still playable.

1.09 made the game completely unplayable. It didn't get better over time, it's getting worse.

[c3RAMburger]

It's been as smooth as last month for me.  Getting into matches is no faster/slower, but I haven't experienced any lag that interferes with gameplay.  Played to level 11 Zeus tonight so a decent amount of matches.  

[Goldhawk1]

Well, for the people who are experiencing lag it's gotten worse not better. It'd not like a rare few of us have experienced lag...everyone in my clan talks about it a lot so it's not like it's exclusive to a few of us.

[RichYungThaBest]

for the first time yesterday, I exp issues with attacks coming out when I did not do them. Hell, I would not have my hand on any buttons, and my character would some some crazy combo on his own. As for the lag question, what many ppl do not understand, is that this game rarely shows lag the way other game does; which is, that things chop up. I have been in maybe 2 matches where that happened, and we got disconnected. The lag in this game is apparent when enemies are avoiding attacks that were shown to hit, or even worse when graples do not conect. They are seemless, but have a massive impact on the game. Next time you try to grapple when yor opponent has the halo over their head, and it does not connect, then that is lag. Next time you witness an enemy dodge roll after your attack lands, then it is lag. Next time both you and your enemy clash attacks and they follow through and do not take damage, then that is lag.

After the 1.09 patch, the lag has gotten worse, but it is only one day. If it is this way next week, then we can complain.

[kreepingdeath13]

I havent experienced any lag. Hope it gets worked out for you guys.

[Goldhawk1]

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RichYungThaBest wrote:

for the first time yesterday, I exp issues with attacks coming out when I did not do them. Hell, I would not have my hand on any buttons, and my character would some some crazy combo on his own. As for the lag question, what many ppl do not understand, is that this game rarely shows lag the way other game does; which is, that things chop up. I have been in maybe 2 matches where that happened, and we got disconnected. The lag in this game is apparent when enemies are avoiding attacks that were shown to hit, or even worse when graples do not conect. They are seemless, but have a massive impact on the game. Next time you try to grapple when yor opponent has the halo over their head, and it does not connect, then that is lag. Next time you witness an enemy dodge roll after your attack lands, then it is lag. Next time both you and your enemy clash attacks and they follow through and do not take damage, then that is lag.

After the 1.09 patch, the lag has gotten worse, but it is only one day. If it is this way next week, then we can complain.

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Exactly this, I've only have ONE match where people were skipping around lag wise...but that could have been due to a ton of different problems.  

But for the most part lag in this game is depicted in combat not working right.  As in, like you said, grapple not working, people not being effected by attacks, people being knocked down into brutal kill mode then just standing up and walking off while gaining health for some reason, people running around with 0 health...literally 0.  

[Rumba_Lumba]

^never experienced any of that. no lag for me as well.

ign even made a post about it. http://ca.ign.com/videos/2013/01/09/why-theres-no-lag-in-god-of-war-ascension

grapple not working isn't lag. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. if there are no gold arcs above your enemy's head, then grapple won't work. so far, grapple has worked much better post-patch. you just have to time it right. if you spam the grapple button and whine that it doesn't work, of course it won't.

never had any of those issues like people with zero health walking around or something.

[ElementDuck]

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Goldhawk1 wrote:

Exactly this, I've only have ONE match where people were skipping around lag wise...but that could have been due to a ton of different problems.  

But for the most part lag in this game is depicted in combat not working right.  As in, like you said, grapple not working, people not being effected by attacks, people being knocked down into brutal kill mode then just standing up and walking off while gaining health for some reason, people running around with 0 health...literally 0.  

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Your post here pretty much captures the essence of my concerns. Sure, there are a bundle of other issues (problems with traps, magic, etc.), but this is what causes me to temporarily stop playing out of frustration.

[Goldhawk1]

We aren't talking about trying to grapple someone when they don't have a halo over their head...that's monstrously obvious. What we mean is when they DO have a halo over their head be it when they're running, dodging, getting launched or they fail grapple. You try to hook em and it just bounces off when there IS a halo over their head.