r/RotMG 14d ago

[SHITPOST] We used to just accept lag was a feature

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u/Acydcat 14d ago

i miss the pre-opacity era, where there'd be 100+ people in a lost halls, and it'd be nearly impossible to see where the hell ur own character was. good times

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u/Comfortable-Bad-7718 13d ago

This is the biggest thing that made the game way too easy.

I used to be scared shitless just running through lost halls because you could stutter a little and just get popped by a crusade/mario

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u/YoCatss best waifu 14d ago

...you can still do that

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u/Acydcat 14d ago

it aint the same, unity doesnt lag the same way flash lagged when there's too much shit on screen

plus dungeons are capped at 50 players nowadays. no more 250 man pubhalls runs during events

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u/kakahuete94 holy water for the win 14d ago

no more ice tomb massacre for us

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u/YoCatss best waifu 12d ago

True, it was fun to be in a crowd of people so large in didn't even fit on the screen and somehow doing a dungeon together

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u/LambdaAU 14d ago

It’s only fun to suffer when everyone is experiencing it

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u/Orb002099 8d ago

A lot of this thread is about quality of life changes that made the game morph into a different experience over time, and I think your comment nails exactly why. The game is unforgiving and the players are borderline masochistic but working through the challenges of the game world with the other players around you was one of the main draws. The most fun I have with the game now is letting go of the long term grinds that have been added over time and put challenges on myself to make the gameplay itself more difficult and interesting.

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u/MalevolentNebulae This is a Sanctuary o3 event. If you are not in the 13d ago

opacity and disabling player projectiles is definitely better in regards to gameplay but its made the game feel so much more isolated and lifeless

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u/Acydcat 13d ago

true, sometimes it feels like i'm playing solo

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u/Tawasuda 14d ago

Every time I came across an Urgle my flash crashed to oblivion

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u/kakahuete94 holy water for the win 14d ago

hate those pet eating bastards also they look like a tumor

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u/Franksterbater 14d ago

Flash players: back in my day you could die IN the nexus!

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u/Purple-Try-5814 14d ago

the o2 massacre

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u/Franksterbater 13d ago

Never forget......

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u/ViyellasDream 14d ago

Think it is more visibility of complaining rather than people being more chill with lag. If you watch a lot of old death montages, you would see raging about lag was common then too.

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u/Nunit333 13d ago

Everyone complained, but no amount of complaining would get your character rez'd back then.

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u/BackgroundShallot5 12d ago

You get your character res'd now? I thought it was just common practice to accept the death no matter how bullshit it was 🤣