multiplayer not playable: asynchronism, lags, bugs ...

hey everybody,

if you already tried to play the multiplayer you probably noticed that it's not playable at all. The game runs totally asynchron, players lag around, disappear, seem to teleport, the minimap and scoreboard shows weird stuff, sometimes the loading and finish fails...

People already complain about this in the steam forum but I'm not sure if the developers take notice of it there:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2307592
or http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2325427

Since SkyDrift is a great game it would be quite a pity if things stay like this ...!?

Have a look at two runs I recorded: http://vimeo.com/34295952

I like the game a lot, I have always been a fan of alternative racing games like Wave Race, 1080°, ExtremeG, Episode 1 Racing, Motorstorm and many others, so Skydrift is perfect for me.

I really hope they fix it, I only played multiplayer once and I thought everything went fine, but after seeing that video I'm not sure anymore ._. This probably hurt the sales on Steam already.

Thanks for your reply. I'm happy to hear that you're aware of the netcode problem.

Just one thing: even when I play with a single friend and non of us two quites (we're in a voice chat the whole time) the game also starts to desynch and ranking etc. fails. So players leaving a game can't be the only cause of the mess up. I hope you consider this.

I never had lags, but i often see players lagging around the world...

Hi,

I am having same problems with online multilayer matches and few more.
Sometimes I don't see other players at all, and sometimes I am at first position for whole race (regardless of mode of the game) but I appear last or have DNF status at the end.
Also I had some problems with points, when I play few online games and check leaderboard there are no new points won shown in races.

Please try to fix these bugs soon because we're all missing good online experience.
Few of my friends won't even play anymore until bugs are fixed :(

Regards

I played some more online and the problems are very annoying. Having a good race is basically a hit or miss. It's a shame, because when it works the game is simply awesome.
I really hope you can fix this soon, so when there is a sale on Steam or someone ask if the game it's worth it, we can 100% recommend it, instead of warning them about a broken online mode : (

There aren't just multiplayer issues when another player drops. They happen on multiplayer matches even when everyone is still around for the next match. I've been in races where I was clearly in the lead, but then somehow it failed to register one of my laps and I ended with DNF. I've been in races where no matter how many missles or guns you fire at someone, it never registers a kill. Races with more than 3 or 4 players are a disaster - it seems to lose track of everyone.

Fun game, but you really need to fix the Multiplayer and improve the race finding mechanism - it is really hard to find a decent race most of the time. I'm never sure if nobody is online or if everyone is off racing.

Nothing yet? At least a confirmation that a patch is being made would be enough.
I'm already convincing people of being cautious with Bang Bang Racers on the Steam Forums because of the lack of support of this game. It's not something I like to do, but I think I have the responsibility to warn people considering what happened with this game.

But believe me, fix the online and I will recommend Skydrift (and other games from this company) forever.

Fix the multiplayer already!
Most of us bought the game to play online and that's almost impossible.

Bumping for great justice!

Anything new? Patch release soon?