Devastation MP Demo Fix

I'd grab it, but I'm afraid my comp can't handle it (1.2ghz amd, Radeon 7200). My X-box is slowly winning me over.

If you guys want to say you don't like the game remember to do it politely ;-D, and if you want it to be of help try to point out what can be improved in the game. You're in front of a developer that is "closely" listening to what you're saying. I find this admirable when I think of how other developers work.

Constructive critisism is what we need, and not plain bashing. This is a capitalistic society, yes... but I find it kind of rude to bash the hard work of someone else like some ppl here are doing. Even from the point of view of the customer an objective and constructive type of critisism can sometimes be better than a plain "it stinks".

Just my 2 cents,
Decameron

PS: I'm not a developer of the game nor have nothing to do with it (in case you're wondering).

Weapon sounds are being redone.

QUOTED from Devastation forum:

The majority has spoken. Apparently this was a legitimate enough gripe and we will comply like the good developers we are trying to be. Most of the weapon sounds will be given an overhaul, with more bass, and pitch adjustments. I cannot promise anything but these changes should be in the full patch.

Thanks again for all the feedback and support. Keep it comin!
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Vic DeLeon
Sr. Producer
Digitalo Studios

Ok, sorry. Perhaps we shouldn't fix anything, and instead let the community grouse because there was a performance issue in the code.

I guess companies should never fix a game after its released, or improve upon it with patches.

Come on man; there was an issue with the demo and Digitalo busted their effin asses all day to identify it, and get a fix out as soon as possible. They actually give a damn about gamers and want to give you the best experience possible.

We understand that first impressions can be a killer...but that doesn't mean we should throw up our hands and not correct an issue. We have more respect for the gaming community than that.

Ok I gave it a second chance, and it seems a lot better now. It's still pretty generic though, where's all the interactivity that people talk about? I can shoot barrels and make em roll and blow up...but I don't find the control options to do all the other stuff I've read of. Kicking, picking up just about anything, and then throwing it...how?

well, i've tried it a few times, and have to say that when it wasn't kicking me to the desktop (twice) or locking up completely (twice) it was pretty boring on top of it. the FPS genre needs more innovation than this; hopefully the SP game has something catchy going because the MP mode is rather boring from what i could tell.

and i understand the quest for reality, but these sounds suck.

Holy fark ! This game ROCKS !!
Stable as fark to me..framerate is good, netcode seems to be just fucking fine, was playing ctf with 8-12 players for about 2 hours with a ping of 120-140 and it was smooth and accurate 99% of the time....didnt seem to notice anything wrong with it.

Weapon arsenal is great, lots of variation, looks good.
Playermodels look great, physics feels good..but yeah, some of the weapon sounds seems a tad on the weak side..but it dont bother me that much, I really have yet to find a game where the weapon sounds fit me 100%.

Anyways...I never even heard of this game until i saw the demo, but im glad i gave it a shot even though all the "l337 shackers" was talking all bullcrappy about it.

Im gonna play some more now! =)

Why would physics be optional on the server side? Devastation's hook is all the physics and interactivity. It would be like having a Red Faction server that you can turn off the Geo-Mod functionality.

Anyway, until I see reviews of the full game that say that the performance issues in the retail package are non existant, and there'sa patch to butch up the weapon sounds, I think I'll let this one sit on the shelf. I know what the sound guys were going for... more realistic sound, but if I wanted realistic, I'd be playing Raven Shield, not Mad Max meets Counter-Strike.

Okay, I got the patch and played for a bit. My framerate was, I am happy to say, vastly improved. The lag was still an issue (teleporting was common), but not nearly so much of one as it was before. Despite all this, however, the game struck me as largely unremarkable. The environments look very nice, but the player models are, well, goofy looking. They seem kinda stubby to me and their animations are, to say the least, unconvincing. The weapons sound are anemic--realistic or no, I can't respect a shotgun that has less bass than my own voice.

I wish they'd given us a territories map to try out. It would've given us a better idea of what to expect from Devstation multiplayer. We hardly needed a demonstration of vanilla CTF, a gametype that I feel confident in saying that we're ALL familiar with. You'd think they'd want to show off some innovative gameplay.

Sorry guys, but I can't give you my money just yet. If the single player demo is good, then we'll talk, but for right now... good effort.

The game sucks. A patch won't fix it.

I thought the game was much better second time around. netcode is still a patch away, but it was much better, and I like using the exploding barrels as strategy in guarding the flags.

So what's the general consensus?

ahahah people think a cheat already exists, i got 15-0 and they were clueless as to how. meh.

My guess is that there will be a patch available when this thing hits retail shelves in a couple of weeks, I dont mean to nit-pick, but this shouldnt be the way that it should have to be, seems like the publishers any more care more about the income than any of the playability of the games they release. I noticed ddog seems to be one of the devs, or works close to the devs or something, but here is something to remember, first of all we are gamers, not your dev friends who are going to hold your hand and tell you your game is all-right and all the thousands of voices we have are all wrong. When we see something wrong, we are going to complain about it till we see it is fixed, or atleast addressed, or goes ignored.... I mean hell look at how bad we talk to George Brussard from 3DRealms ;P Dont take everything you see on here personally, its nothing to jump at, hell if anything its something to look at and say "Well this needs to be addressed now, or in a future patch." This is a site dedicated to gamers and gaming news (One of the best if I may add *wipes his nose off*.) and we feel we are free to express our opinion here, just because you are watching doesnt mean we are going to kiss your ass, or any other devs ass...your a developer, yeah we may respect you to a certain degree, because you give us what we love (Games, not teh sex)but we are not the type of people to just sit here and go "MAN THIS GAME IS TEH SHIZZLE" for everything released, hell look at all the gone gold, announcements, reviews and you can see that. Alot of us were just really hyped about the preview that Maarten gave us, and feel when the demo (Of an ALREADY gone gold game) comes out to feel rushed, and unfortunatly incomplete (in my opinion atleast) it was kind of a let down. I still have high hopes for the single player game, but I think I am going to have to see what others think, and let a couple of patchs go through before I even think about buying it. Though I will have to say gg for getting this patch out asap, it atleast feels playable now. </ends stupid rant> Sorry guys.

damnit, i had a long post and my cat hit the fucking "back" button on my keyboard and i lost it.

anyway, performance is better but im really dissapointed with the sound. I've picked up about ten different weapons now, from the auto-shotgun to the super sniper rifle, and they all sound the fucking same! Like a cap gun. All of them. Why?

Is there something I missed while playing this? The game I played was very much like sof / sof2 / other 'realistic' deathmatch games, only it was very hard to tell if you'd hit someone, and everyone was moving so fast that it didn't really matter. Seems to lack the fluidity seen in UT2k3, I would assume is its closest relative. Whats in this game that hasn't been done 10 times before?

Besides getting dropped a lot and a majority of the other player having pretty bad pings 300+ I thought it was fun. Deathmatch was lacking but CTF was pretty sweet. Just needs a little more polish. If this would have been called a "test" instead of a demo would everyone still be whining as much? Just a thought.

Im going to go try the patch and give it a fair chance. It has great potential. BB when Im done playing. I hope I wont be back for a while!

I actually had quite a bit of fun considering I am playing at 3AM with no sound... the graphics are excellent, but I'm not sure about the feel of the guns. Either way, the deathmatch was better than most.

This is just something minor that bugs me, all the other stuff aside...

When you start up the game it goes full screen like any normal game, shows you the logos of everyone that has a hand in it...then it drops back to desktop to do the splash screen, then it goes full screen again. That's retarded.

yeah, right. It's only in the demo cuz they are fixing it now. heh

So now we're starting to... patch... demo versions ? Uuuuhh - whaaaahaaaaa ?
DEMOS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY !!!

I got a general protection fault with this new "fix" the first time I ran it. My computer is really rock solid, too. I've never had a general protection fault in UT2003, and this goes back to September of last year.

Devastation worked fine when I ran it a second time, though. Performance is a lot better.

Still way overhyped, haven't found it much fun. Maybe I'm spoiled.

/goes back to BF and SoF2

This patch really does improve things a whole lot. I tried a couple games last night and it was extreme ass - really, really, unaceptably bad lag (and performance in general). Just now, on the other hand, I got done playing a few rounds (on a couple different servers) and it was quite a bit of fun. Not bad at all.

even though this game still runs 10-30FPS, it has one of the coolest guns i have ever seen in any game.

the P-LASER is much like a rail gun, only with a far more satisfying after effect, screenshots do no justice to how cool it is to see those guys burn and the ashes fall.

sweet, time to crank this up again tonight.

TAKE TWO

if this patch isn't over 30megs I don't want it

doh, i had already uninstalled it and deleted the install files. i'll redownload it, reinstall it and give it a shot.

*crosses fingers*

that was fast. good job guys.

Me waits for full game review before trying out demo

I don't get it. How could they miss so many major issues? I mean, they obviously tested this demo for a while...

tis a sad day when demos get released without testing them first

Yay, now we can play Firecracker Wars aka Rat Hunt @ 60fps!

Seriously, as a multiplayer game, this would suck at 100fps or 10fps, with a 4ms ping or a 400ms ping.

The single player and COOP might totally rock (though I doubt it), but this just isn't cutting it as a MP game--it's all too obvious. I hope this company pulls it off next time. :(

fix my performance!!!

I'll try to be nice. Thanks for the patch...and stuff.