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[We.the.North]

Here are my big turn off, in order :

#1 : 1/3 of the game I play with my friend, one of us disconnects. Not only we have to quit the game to play again, but we have to make a new group and constantly "alt+tab" to chat outside game sessions.

#2 : Hackers. It happens maybe every 5 games, I face someone blocking all my attacks. Feinting, aiming in a different direction before a zone attack, light attack spam, nothing works. It's even more surprising since I main Peacekeeper and people on this forums seems to think the light attack spam or the zone attack are too quick to be blocked. Yet, I get 100% blocked followed always by their zone attack, then they turtle again, and they counter guard break 100% of the time. I've seen the "autoblock bot" program, I know what it does and I know it's out there. I report those players, but lets be frank, players can't be the game's police, Ubisoft needs to do better at detecting those kind of behaviors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XijyLanX2A

#3 : Related to Hackers and what makes them super effective : the Defensive Meta. How is 2 people looking at each other and nobody is swinging their weapon any fun ? People know being super defensive is the best way to win a duel. Who cares if you get hit by 1-3 light attacks after feints. All you need is one parry followed by a guard break followed by a combo and you outdamaged severly those 1-3 light attacks. Duels and Brawl are unplayable atm because of all the turtles. It's a real fun killer.

#4 : Revenge Gear. Oh my god. My gear score is 98 and I also use revenge gear. It's absolutly broken on the giving end as well as on the receiving end. I know Ubisoft "is closely looking at the matter", but come on. At no point in the developpement process did you realise this was broken? Dont you have a whole quality control departement that could flag stuff like that? Now that you acknowledge the issue, how about a small quick fix while working on a more balanced permanent solution? You're as slow to fix the game as Hearthstone developpers are at balancing theirs ... which should speak by itself.

#5 : PR campain. Ubijurassic and other Ubisoft PR employee lurking these forums just saying our opinion matter and our feedback is being passed along. Always being positive and nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Cut the ********, the game is absolutly broken in its multiplayer state. How about we receive a real warrior's den talking about the real issues? Two weeks in a row, warrior's den was a joke and no real content about futur updates or balance was given to us. We dont need to know what will be in the final update patch, we would just like you to acknowledge specific broken things on characters and different approach being considered to fix the problems. Also, who cares that you "supposedly" fixed a lot of the connectivity problems (which I see absolutly no difference on my end since 2 weeks ago). I see through all your PR ********. Start being close to your fan base for real and talk about the real problems. Dont use your patronizing tone that everything will be alright. The community is running out of faith towards Ubisoft.

#6 : Matchmaking : I would estimate about 80% of the games in Dominion will be over at the loading screen. You will see a vast difference in gear. Also, later in the game, you will also see a vast difference in player skills. I dont mind if the match making takes 1-2 more minutes to find players if that means we'll have a good game with players of similar skill and gear.

#7 : Slow balancing : We know balancing is a long process. But you know what works even better ? Iterations. When you know something is absolutly wrong for the game, how about to do a small quick fix in the right direction before the real balance patch ? Everybody knows revenge is absolutly broken at the moment. How about you hotfix it down a little before you are finished testing your big change internaly ? Spkeaking of PR campain, I only heard good things about game companies making multiple and frequent balance adjustment. Stop being so scared to make a bad move and move already. Your balance patch will not be perfect even if you plan it for 3 months, start doing smaller and more frequent iterations.


I understand a lot of these things have already been said on the forums, I'm just adding my voice to them. Also, Ubisoft PR specialist, dont even bother posting here, I have absolutly no faith in you being helpful in any way and your uselessness on these forums only angers me.

[Mia.Nora]

I want to believe in them, because it is all I have left as hope at this stage.
The moment I dismiss their presence as PR ********, is time to bury this game.

That being said, I completely agree %100 everything you said. I really hope things turn around, and sooner than later at that.

[Ex__Machina]

I have an account renown of 17 between betas and release with a win rate of close to 80%, so I'm playing decent players. I've yet to experience even a single person who I thought was hacking....

What system are you people playing on???

[We.the.North]

I'm playing on PC. Here's my Peacekeeper's score : https://fhtracker.com/profile/pc/We.the.North/heroes

Hackers usually happens at night around midnight eastern time. Like I said, I'm not the best, but I'm good enough to make the difference between a very good player blocking most my attacks and an autoblock bot blocking 100% my attacks + 100% my guardbreak and countering everytime with a zone attack.

Yes, I do feint, use mixed up attacks, aim at a different direction my zone attack comes from when I use it, all this while throwing guard breaks from time to time. Extremly good players at blocking yet still get hit from time to time and counter with "vortex" and such combos ; hackers blocks everything and counters with a single zone attack.

[Ex__Machina]

i don't know what to tell you. i play pc also and i've never once encountered a person i thought was hacking in any way.

[MassiveD.]

Who cares, get good

[Thief183]

I can agree on all except for hackers... sometimes we just become predictable... and a good player will block everything

[We.the.North]

Who cares, get good

With a name like "MassiveD" I can only say : Shoo, troll.
https://fhtracker.com/profile/pc/We.the.North/heroes

Looking at your stats, I return the comment to you : Get good lol
https://fhtracker.com/profile/pc/MassiveD./heroes

I can agree on all except for hackers... sometimes we just become predictable... and a good player will block everything

Like I said, there is a difference between landing 1/20 hits because your opponent is crazy good and someone blocking 100% of your hits. I main a peacekeeper (light attacks are quite hard to block due to their speed), but I do use feints or aim in a different direction before throwing in an occasionnal zone attack. Now, I'll still give the benefit of the doubt to the player, he might be very good. But then, he counter-attacks with a zone attack 100% of the time. It's "robotic" and weird. Here's a video of the "auto-block" 3rd party programm I'm talking about :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XijyLanX2A

Look the video at 1:31, that's a crazy good clue your opponent is using the cheat. The PK feinted a crazy fast attack into a GB that got countered right away. Chances are extremly small even the best player in the world would have countered the guardbreak. But hey, "get good" heh, hackers dont exist right.

[JohnWick87]

i want to love it to. but connectivity and balance are getting ****ed up in every way more and more every week...

[massive02]

to the OP,

yeah your absolutely right; the game is in terrible shape right now, but it's not the end. My suggestion is just take a break from the game for a while and come back after a few patches.