SoT Servers .....

  • MrEstiercol
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    Good night

    First of all, I don't want this post to be taken as an insult to the company, but as constructive criticism.

    We all know that the servers of this game are bad, it is not an unusual situation to suffer all kinds of strange situations due to their poor performance, but since Community Day, the experience is terrible, I would say that there are moments when it becomes completely unplayable. Never has a player swallowed shots in a row like these last weeks, 15 minutes ago in hourglass, a player has tanked two rounds of doublegun without eating nothing.

    I am unable to understand how a company like Rare, with the support of Microsoft, after 5 years... allows players to continue suffering all these injustices, it is unacceptable that in 2023, an Indie company has better servers than us, it is shameful.
    Please, we just want to play on a level playing field, this game has turned into a rng fest, where the server decides if the shots hit or not, if the water comes out of the bucket or not, if you get healed by eating or not. ... it's a disgusting experience.

    Why do all the online games I play work at an average of 18-25 ping and in SoT it is impossible to play less than 100 from Spain?
    The crew I usually play with have left little by little because they are tired of this situation, and like them, many others. Players with 3,000 and even 5,000 hours leaving the game tired of its malfunctions and extreme lag.

    Xbox servers perform even worse than crossplay ones, and playing controller vs MK is ridiculous, plus the game is full of cheaters on PC, which leaves us in a dead end. We have decided to take a long vacation, we are going to try other games where skill matters and it is not a pitiful server that decides if we win or lose.

    I have tried to be as polite as possible, although I am very disappointed, the only thing that works well is the damn pirate emporium, that never fails.

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  • WolfManbush
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    6 ships has always shown an obvious decline in performance

    it's just how it goes, social side of the community pushes for it and the devs regularly communicate that it's what they want/intend

  • IX Indi XI
    Castaway

    @wolfmanbush 6 ships isn't an excuse.
    Even having 2 galleons on a partnered Private server, although less lag in general, its still pretty bad when it comes to performance.
    People saying ''hit reg'' is better then it used to be, I just laugh at that statement, it's not.
    Have not seen any improvements the past 2 years I have been playing this game as my main game.
    Literally had a player tank a pistol + EOR shot 5 times in a row while staying on cannons like a bot as if nothing happened. Just shooting blanks.

    The network in this game is just bad. You can completely miss your shots and still kill the enemy (Backtrack) which happens a lot to. You literally get rewarded for being bad rather then good at times. I wish I was trolling with this statement, but I'm not...

  • WolfManbush
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    @ix-indi-xi said in SoT Servers .....:

    @wolfmanbush 6 ships isn't an excuse.
    Even having 2 galleons on a partnered Private server, although less lag in general, its still pretty bad when it comes to performance.
    People saying ''hit reg'' is better then it used to be, I just laugh at that statement, it's not.
    Have not seen any improvements the past 2 years I have been playing this game as my main game.
    Literally had a player tank a pistol + EOR shot 5 times in a row while staying on cannons like a bot as if nothing happened. Just shooting blanks.

    The network in this game is just bad. You can completely miss your shots and still kill the enemy (Backtrack) which happens a lot to. You literally get rewarded for being bad rather then good at times. I wish I was trolling with this statement, but I'm not...

    It's a heavily streamed game with plenty of skilled shooters creating that footage, it clearly shows issues during combat (which they acknowledge to some degree)

    Not much we can do about it. They know that many that engage in combat have issues with it.

  • Foambreaker
    Sailor

    Sounds like your connection is bad, the servers are fine, I play on Xbox no problem but I am on Ethernet connected to fiber, I get 800-1000 upload and download and ping is less than 15.

    I almost never get server lag, I do get some display lag if I pile too much loot on deck.

    Smokin fast!

  • BurnBacon
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    We all know that the servers of this game are bad

    Depends.

    Xbox servers perform even worse than crossplay ones

    Xbox player, and no they dont. (series X)

    plus the game is full of cheaters on PC

    Hence why xbox players dont suffer as much

  • Tommy
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    There is probably a misconception on profitability using old servers instead of upgrading. If you have servers over 4 years old, these are at least 5 years old, upgrading servers would be more cost efficient since lower power consumption as well as higher performance. I guess they don't care about performance or the environment.

  • D3ADST1CK
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    @tommy said in SoT Servers .....:

    There is probably a misconception on profitability using old servers instead of upgrading. If you have servers over 4 years old, these are at least 5 years old, upgrading servers would be more cost efficient since lower power consumption as well as higher performance. I guess they don't care about performance or the environment.

    You're assuming they haven't upgraded the hardware in the last 5 years.

  • WolfManbush
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    @tommy said in SoT Servers .....:

    There is probably a misconception on profitability using old servers instead of upgrading. If you have servers over 4 years old, these are at least 5 years old, upgrading servers would be more cost efficient since lower power consumption as well as higher performance. I guess they don't care about performance or the environment.

    It's not like everyone approaches this game the same way or with the same interests

    People that fight a lot at high performance will see the issues more

    People that are regularly involved in intense situations will deal with issues more

    Casual players, people that don't fight a lot, those that avoid the intense situations (which is a significant amount of players) will have a decent time performance wise with some bugs here or there.

    They struggle to keep up for the high performers but most of the players on most of the servers are gonna do alright overall.

    I and others have some criticisms of how the game is marketed vs the experience in game but on this topic it's the opposite of that, they don't advertise an intense high performing pvp game, it is marketed as the silly adventure pirate game so on that they deliver, mostly. Understandable why experienced players get frustrated but they do what they can with what they have.

  • MrEstiercol
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    @foambreaker

    I am not speaking only for myself, you can watch Spanish SoT partners on PC an check their Ping, people with better net than me (I have 600Mb simmetrycal) playing at 120 ping every day. Check RageAtreyu, Check Parzival8 or Natea, all spanish players with high ping values and extremely bad servers performance.

    How can you explain it? Every single spanish player has the worst connection on Europe? No man, this is not our problem, I play other games with low ping values and zero problems.

    @BurnBacon I say the same, you can check a lot of people who plays on Xbox Only servers with even more server issues.

  • KlutchxKay
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    I believe Rare uses the Microsoft Azure servers which are notoriously iffy and questionable. Which isn’t exactly in Rare’s control, although they do regularly implement patches to improve stability, the issues aren’t as widespread for most players and isn’t exactly a priority for them as far as I know.

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