I've Just Had a Lag-Free Experience
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 2:39 am
Last night I tried something I haven't done in almost two years: I played a single-player skirmish with a really low-level home city. I figured: "Ah, it's late, no one's on ESO and I feel like spamming muskets." I thought it would be just another comp stomp, but how wrong I was!
I have never seen such clean gameplay in my life! I mean, the vils moved exactly when I clicked on them and went exactly where I told them. They even seemed to move quickly, snapping back and forth between herding and gathering with effortless grace. There wasn't even a wait between the game loading screen and the crate-gathering. "My goodness," I thought, "now I'm really seeing how much command lag affects my play!" If games played like this on ESO, I don't know how I could lose. I could even micro!! I felt invincible!!
It got even better. I got in a few battles and my muskets responded with incredible speed. They fired right at the moment I clicked and moved right afterward. They couldn't touch me. I even split my units into three or four groups and just pwned everything with lag-free clicks. No units walked stupidly into battle. Everyone did what they were told, even cav. It was simply a beautiful thing.
On reflection, it is amazing how much lag affects game play. If things were always as sharp as they were in this skirmish, this game would be even more fun than it is now. WOW!
I have never seen such clean gameplay in my life! I mean, the vils moved exactly when I clicked on them and went exactly where I told them. They even seemed to move quickly, snapping back and forth between herding and gathering with effortless grace. There wasn't even a wait between the game loading screen and the crate-gathering. "My goodness," I thought, "now I'm really seeing how much command lag affects my play!" If games played like this on ESO, I don't know how I could lose. I could even micro!! I felt invincible!!
It got even better. I got in a few battles and my muskets responded with incredible speed. They fired right at the moment I clicked and moved right afterward. They couldn't touch me. I even split my units into three or four groups and just pwned everything with lag-free clicks. No units walked stupidly into battle. Everyone did what they were told, even cav. It was simply a beautiful thing.
On reflection, it is amazing how much lag affects game play. If things were always as sharp as they were in this skirmish, this game would be even more fun than it is now. WOW!