Nice to hear we are having the same doubts right now... For me the most fun was leveling up and getting the next upgrades and getting into matches looking forward to finding out how much things have improved by spending those credits. It's not even about winning but more about feeling the difference in weapon and armor performance. Right now I don't even spend my credits anymore. I have the vap, infiltrator, airborne, rocket launcher fully upgraded...that's it... don't see any reason to upgrade other weapons. Plasma Cannon is just not strong enough. Antimatter is just not my style. Other armors are just way to slow for me... Being fast enough to run away is always fun in this game even if you get killed faster. I think I will hit the Apple Store to test out game performance on a iPod touch 3rd Gen. I never had the feeling my 3GS is slow, but those lags are just crazy.
don't even bother man. my sister got a 3gs and I put my 3rd gen and 3gs side by side and I was surprised to find out 3rd gen touch doesn't even take advantage of the open gl 2. The guns all look like shit on the 3rd gen compared to the 3gs, not to mention the lack of character shading and detail. And coming from a person who experiences absolutely no lag ever, after playing on the 3gs I found out that the 3rd gen doesn't even have as good framerate as the 3gs. Did they just totally forget to include the 3rd gen touch in the same category as the 3gs? Wtf?
That surprises me.... the iTouch 3rd Gen is the most powerful iDevice up to this date. Should have the same graphic chip as the 3GS it has more CPU power though. I really don't care about the way graphics and shades look. I played it on my 2nd gen iPhone and it's ok... not as nice as 3GS but ok. I would expect the iTouch 3rd Gen to be way faster...now even without the OpenGL 2.0 optimizations it should at least offer higher frames per second. I would love to hear MJ/Allen/Chris/Tim comment on this one! I know Tim once stated during lectures at Standford that the iPod touch 2nd Gen was by far the most powerful iDevice up to this date... @Terrorist If you're playing on your sisters 3GS do you experience more lags than on your 3rd Gen iTouch? I'm lagging like crazy right now even in bot mode, which should not depend on connection/pings/and stuff.
I never get lag when regarding my connection on either device. The 3gs plays much better than the 3rd gen touch because of the smoother framerate.
Damn. That might explain it...I'm having something around 200 all the time... No lags in NOVA though.
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hope the update was like this!! no lag!! balance the rocket launcher and minimize the damage bash shield will only appear 3 times per game
You forgot the option to disable the scrolling for the look controls. And a button to clear the followers list
You forgot matchmaking. I'm not a whiner, but matchmaking by skill is bullshit and totally not fun. I am level 42, and yesterday my skill was 6000+, today only about 5000. Why? Not because of the lag. Not because of the controls. But because I have ZERO chances against 60-70+ levels with the same skill. When I play people my level, I win 99% of the time. And matches should be based on level. That way the skill matters. Not the upgrades. If they don't adress matchmaking in the next update, I'm done for sure. I know it's naive to think they will, but I still hope, because I like Eliminate.
My noob account is Level 20 right now and I'm level 6500 or so. I beat lvl 60-70 no problem. You have to land more shots than you can take but that's Ok. I was surprised to see how good I actually can keep up with higher leveled players even completely without upgrades on everything. I could beat level 7000-8000 easily if I could only see them faster and with less lag in game. Most of the time I have to predict their movements and aim in respective directions. There is no better way to match than skill even if there are differences in gears and ranks. Playing it again from level 1 on my noob account I have realized that there are many level 50+ players who can't play. They have a skill level of 7000 and below which is not much considering they are fully upgraded and after level 48 all players should have equivalent gears. Matching those by rank levels would mean letting pros with 9000+ skill play with them. Those games would be 10-0. ALL THE TIME! I guarantee that! That in the end would mean that the further you've come with energy the more difficult the game will get and if you are unskilled your game will end 10-0....every time after reaching level 50+... that would suck! Those people would have bought energy by that time...spent time playing and end up being matched against people who are just more talented or have a ping/connection advantage... for unskilled players that would mean their game and competitiveness ends at some point in time. Weeks ago I was criticizing the matchmaking by skill myself but now I see there is no better way to do it. Maybe a mixture of skill and level. If I play Nova my games end 50-0 or and end by people leaving my match. That's because I get matched with noobs 99% of the time. That is cool for me, but who wants to own people way below your skill all the time? Eliminate is very challenging that way.
