[Official Event] A Delicate Balance: Force of Arms

[Fab]

My framerate catastrophically dropped to cinematic console-tier, and I have a pretty powerful PC.

Freelancer only uses a single CPU core afaik. even with the best processor money can buy you'll lag.

I had no connection issues during the battle at all, just missiles being not calculated on the client at all. I'm afraid that is unfixable

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[Aazalot]

Despite the potato FPS that was a good fight had by all.

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[monmarfori]

Good fight, though my FPS suffered heavily.

[Sarwar]

I wonder if the potato laptop users were playing a stop-motion animation?

i'm the victim of this

[0xCosmin]

That was the most epic fight I've been in, thanks everyone who joined.

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[LuckyOne]

Kudos to all the Corsairs for a valiant attempt. But the forces of Malta have proven to be superior. Hopefully the Freeport survives and is returned to their rightful owners (why the devs didn't turn FP9 into a destructible I have no idea, would have been fun seeing if it would be destroyed accidentally by the crossfire - and I'm sure it technically could have been done).

[Antonio]

Hate the performance or not, pictures like these are what makes it so fun in my opinion. Kudos to everyone for showing up. Did we break 100 simultaneous players in Theta?

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SNAC Montage Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Thruster SNAC

[HUMPHRESS]

Forget all the player issues. What about the technical issues?
Do people genuinely enjoy fights so massive that they make the game server dysfunctional? Lag you both framerate-wise and connection-wise? I couldn't for the life of me shoot other snubs. Missiles were completely random in their behaviour. My framerate catastrophically dropped to cinematic console-tier, and I have a pretty powerful PC. I wonder if the potato laptop users were playing a stop-motion animation?

edit: people say the server crashed, why promote this kind of self-destructive activity is beyond me.

Discovery Freelancer Power Point Edition ™
TBH I think its fun to be part of the spectacle and I just love how massive the fight is, even though it was super lagy for me.

[Culbrelai]

How are you guys having so many issues with performance in a 2003 game? The only lag I get is server side lag (where missles don't move, people lag across the screen etc)

[GreySeiker]

Congratulations everybody for the battle. I think it was the largest battle in discovery by far.

Except you, server, you failed us and died.

Pray for FP 9, good person, better station.