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the overlay is ruining my life

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UPDATE: SINCE WRITING THIS POST, I HAVE TRIED TO PLAY. I POSTED AT 2:30, IT'S NOW 3:30 PM. IN 1 HOUR I HAVE LAGGED OUT OF 4 LOBBIES, KICKED FROM LOBBIES, PEOPLE JOINING / LEAVING MY LOBBY, FATAL ERROR ETC. I HAVE PLAYED 0 GAMES OF DEMI GOD IN 1 HOUR. I START WORK IN A FEW WEEKS, IF IT TAKES 2 HOURS TO FIND 1 GAME, I CANNOT PLAY THIS GAME ANYMORE, I WILL SIMPLY NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO SIT AROUND WAITING FOR A GAME TO HAPPEN.

UPDATE#2: It is now 4:00 PM. 1 hour and 30 minutes trying to find a game. no one will play me. I joined pro games, pug games, noob games. Even had a pre ask to play me with pugs, then they 2nd guessed themselves and decided not to. I am officially the greatest demi god player who has ever lived.

 

I believe the overlay in general is a step in the right direction for demigod, except it effectively ruins the gameplay experience for good players. Let me explain:

 

1. hosting games with friends of the same caliber of skill becomes impossible. pre's do not want to play pre's, pug's don't want to play pre's [3on3 game, 2 people know each other, 1 random player] (I get less games, but overall this is positive for the DG community as a whole).

 

The only time a pre ever wants to play me is when I have 2/3 of my team ready to play. If my team is on, no one wants to play us. If one of my 2 allies is on, everyone messages me wanting to play, so we pick up a random, who proceeds to get merked, and we lose. Most of the time we still end up beating the pre, but the game is more frustrating than it is fun because I have to baby sit whoever is playing with me.

 

2. I join / host a pug game. No premade in the title. A bunch of 30-60 percent players join. I'm at 84%. If I'm on forces of light, forces of dark complain that the teams are no balanced, so I go to forces of darkness, now forces of light say that forces of darkness is not balanced, so I leave the game or I get kicked.

 

3. By leaving the game my name is still in the connection window, ends up with me getting a loss with 0 favor points with my favorite demigod / entity "unknown entity." /sarcasm

4. If after all this nonsense you do manage to get a game, one of the following will happen.

4a. connection error

4b. ally drops, enemy farms AI ally

4c. invalid gamestate

4d. enemy rage quits by war rank 4

4e. Ally "has to go" so leaves 3:30 seconds into the game

 

 

My games played for oct. 19th are as follows.

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1036823/player/72049/    MY GAME CRASHED

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1036857/player/72049/ PLAYED A PRE WITH 2/3 OF MY PRE

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1036908/player/72049/ REMATCHED THE SAME PRE WITH SAME TEAM BUT WON

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1037620/player/72049/ ENEMY DROPPED EARLY, GAME DIDN'T GO PAST 3 MINUTES

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1037820/player/72049/ Game was fine

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1037911/player/72049/ Enemies rage quit one at a time as the game progressed

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1038024/player/72049/ PHANTOM LOSS - Did not play this game

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1038035/player/72049/ 1 Enemy rage quit early

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1038152/player/72049/ Normal game

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1038422/player/72049/ GOT SO DESPERATE I TRIED PANTHEON, ALLY GOT HIT WITH HEAVENS WRATH. PROCEEDS TO TYPE "??????????????????" THEN RAGE QUITS. N/A

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1038503/player/72049/ PHANTOM LOSS, DID NOT PLAY THIS GAME

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1038533/player/72049/ Game did not crash, but because of percentages, we were given an oak player who did not use shield, surge of faith, justice, and died 9x. I was level 15, enemy was level 10 across the board..... still lost. AT LEAST THE TEAMS WERE BALANCED WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1038699/player/72049/ Normal game, but after 14 minutes they all conceded.

 

Technically this date represents 2 days of play, Late night session, and a day session.

 

I'm finding it harder and harder to want to play. But the fun of an ACTUAL GAME keeps bringing me back.

 

If the teams are not stacked against me, I have no chance in finding a game.

 

It's not that I don't like a challenge, but oak's who fight 4v1 and beasts who buy more mana helms than HP and proceed to chase people past towers does not make for a fun experience.

 

 

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Reply #26 from Demigod Forums Top

1.  Host game with title "Balanced Teams"

2.  Balance teams

3.  Ensure that all players feel teams are balanced

4.  Play game

alternately

1.  Host game with title "3v4"

2.  Stack team of 3

3.  Play game

alternately

1.  Host game with title "You will never beat me"

2.  Anyone who joins will stay even when they see your stats

3.  Play game

 

Reply #27 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Ke5trel, reply 26

alternately

1.  Host game with title "You will never beat me"

2.  Anyone who joins will stay even when they see your stats

3.  Play game

 
End of Ke5trel's quote

I loled alot.

and yes still waiting in lobby.... games today - 0

Elemental: Reforged
Reply #28 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting morpheas768, reply 18
I prefer to play 1 game with noobs than not playing at all.
End of morpheas768's quote

Word.

Reply #29 from Demigod Forums Top

Stardock and GPG must implement a unranked game option and the endless waiting time will be over!

I really dont know why are everyone is so scared about a loss, stats and ladder are just a joke!

It is really bad, that so much good players already left the game, somtimes it is really hard to find 6 decent players at the same time for a good game.

But with all this latency between 2 games, it really doesnt wonder me that ppl leaving the game.

Reply #30 from Demigod Forums Top

RAWWRR is #1? lol.

Reply #31 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting RAWRRRR, reply 23
that's it.. those 7 things.. not that hard to do.. simplified..
End of RAWRRRR's quote

Well, ok this is not so hard ; yet it takes time (learning all builds, learning all items effects and cost), it recquires some gaming reflex (be attentive, watch, never just look the screen). Many people (I am one of them) play to have fun, not to become better players.

I have ~250 games, I am not a good player, and I dont really want to become "good". Yet I sometime play against "good players" (and be honest : good players often stack with no attention to team balance... example here in one of my last games : http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/1045559/player/52734/ - I knew I would lose that game before it started).

Most of the time I dont want to play a game I know I will lose, and I dont want to be able to win such games, I just want to play games that correspond to my actual level.

Looking to the number of good players that complains here, I think you should all play together and stop charging "medium-average" players for avoiding your games.