Fall Guys event is held back by long queues and the low server tick rate

[Boblawblah]

1st round 24 players start, 16 qualify for next round. 2nd round 16 start, 8 qualify for next round. 3rd round 8 start, 1 captures the crown.

And the rewards go up each round? That's not too bad I guess.

[Thurmnmurmn]

Is it basically 23 people lose, 1 wins, so you have a 23/24 chance of getting 50 points? ...I really hope it's not that bad.

Nope, you only get 50 points if you get eliminated on round 1. And there's 16/24 who make it to round 2. Then 8/16 go to the final round.
So essentially, you need to beat a third of the 24 people to get more points than 50.

[Krokov]

And the rewards go up each round? That's not too bad I guess.

Yes they do.

[HermitUK]

And the rewards go up each round? That's not too bad I guess.

Assuming you have a full lobby (rewards scale down a bit with less players) as far as I can tell its:
Round 1 - 50 for losing, 100 if you qualify
Round 2 - 50 for losing, 150 if you qualify
Round 3 - 50 for losing, 200 if you win

These add up, so losing in Round 3 is 300 in total (100+150+50) for instance

[ICountFrom0]

Yeah, I'm hoping that this will show SE that the netcode needs to be updated like yesterday. I'm hoping they see this as a wake up call /copium

Why should they update it?

The intended audience (JAPAN) it's working fine. Everybody is so close to the server they can walk outside and pat it like a puppy.

What do you mean everybody else is thousands of miles from the server and the system don't work? Sorry, can't hear you over our awesome net. Must be a you thing.

In short, because this will never happen to the people in the office in JP, they'll never even notice it...

[Reap00]

As the title says, the servers are holding back a crossover that is surprisingly well executed. Making the stupid bean game fit into the XIV universe has been executed very well but the gameplay is ass. Not only does it take 5 minutes to get into games right now, which is awful given you're only guaranteed a minimum of 50 currency, but the actual gameplay is suffers due to the tick rate.

Had a game earlier where I got to the crown first on my screen but I'm running into an invisible wall before the game catches up with the client catches up and has someone else fly into the crown and win. That's not so bad because you at least get 300 points or whatever for making it that far. However, the next game has me die first round because of the swinging balls and it's honestly a 50-50 if you'll get knocked off when you're past them or not.

Again, the core concept is well executed but it just feels really bad to play because of XIV's quite substandard servers for a large and modern MMO in 2023. You're years behind the mark and if this upcoming cloud server test isn't successful... just keep buying more servers I guess?

Don't play it. It isn't hard. XIV has been around for 10 years and has been thriving throughout those 10 years with the current setup. If you think a company will drastically change their infrastructure while they are continuing to make bank I am sure I can find something to sell you.

[Johners]

And the rewards go up each round? That's not too bad I guess.

You can easily get the glamour with a few hours of gameplay and likewise the mounts, minions etc with a few hours more. It's only going to be truly insufferable if you're after the 100 wins achievement for the King/Queen Bean title.

[Jargal]

Don't play it. It isn't hard. XIV has been around for 10 years and has been thriving throughout those 10 years with the current setup. If you think a company will drastically change their infrastructure while they are continuing to make bank I am sure I can find something to sell you.

"You pay monthly to play a video game and you are criticising bad decisions and systems of the game YOU PAID FOR? Madness! stop trying to improve on the health of this video game!" in a nutshell kind of comment.
I'm glad people with your sort of mentality have their opinions dismissed as a joke by everyone with a modicum amount of good sense.

[Johners]

"You pay monthly to play a video game and you are criticising bad decisions and systems of the game YOU PAID FOR? Madness! stop trying to improve on the health of this video game!" in a nutshell kind of comment.
I'm glad people with your sort of mentality have their opinions dismissed as a joke by everyone with a modicum amount of good sense.

Clearly we just need to play other games, that's what Yoshi-P wants after all.

[Myrany]

1st round 24 players start, 16 qualify for next round. 2nd round 16 start, 8 qualify for next round. 3rd round 8 start, 1 captures the crown. You're guaranteed to get 50 points no matter what, with more points earned depending on how far you progress.

Not quite as I learned last night if you have less than 24 in the start your MGF is reduced accordingly so it can be less that 50.