Quote Originally Posted by SenoritaAmarys View Post
After clearing all the PvE content, I've had enough time with the game and enough experience to make my final call. This games network code is atrocious and extremely unreliable, unresponsive, and clunky feeling mess. Despite this, I still like the game, but damnit--to deal with this extremely pervasive problem really puts a dampener on my enjoyment of the game.

Simply doing things such as clicking, "Ok" on the UI comes with a noticeably laggy response, it's everywhere in everything. The PvE encounter design is great, but they demand twitch, reactive, predictive based game play, and at the same time the game is unreliable and laggy. I still squarely base blame on my self for any mistakes and I just needed to compensate more, more. I can say for sure that while some people might not be able to compensate for this, the games netcode and associated problems are at best, extremely unintuitive and unsettling. I can perfectly understand why people get hit, and it is not entirely their fault
Thank you for posting this and it underlines everything I intended to say. This is actually one of the more recent posts that echoes my sentiments exactly... and it is the main reason I've given up playing Coil for about a couple weeks now. Been reading this thread on and off since it was on page 4 and have tried to be as unbiased as possible in establishing what could be wrong.... but now, it is such a glaring problem that it cannot remain unaddressed.

Time and time again, I have thoroughly tried to examine what could be wrong with this aspect of game play and in many instances, the results point to the network code. I have tested it several several several times and realized that whether I play in London or I play in Chicago, the results are always the same: The red zones still pound me.

Mind you, in both places, I connect from a very powerful wireless network (heck...in Chicago, the campus I play from actually helped develop the wireless technology for Motorola). I even recently got my IT department to double check my settings and change my wireless router... so I know it definitely is not my connection. Plus, I hate the fact that this problem continues to fuel heavy animosity between players.

It saddens me because I completely adore every other aspect of this game... the environs, the graphics, the story, the concept and the crafting. I've loved this game immensely since 1.0; however, this... thing... just pisses me off so much that I just might cancel my subscription until the next expansion or PS4 release.