Quote (Kaylin @ Dec 3 2021 12:24pm)

They seem to have devoted a non-zero amount of effort to removing as much desynch as they reasonably could without converting movement/spells to a system which would verify player actions on the server before allowing the client to perform them (which I suspect would change how the game feels too much). Look at how attacking with no target is actually synchronized between clients now or how equipment is displayed on other players that would previously be str bugged (primary weapon issues aside). These and many others were quirky behaviors we had got used to from 2000 but probably don't appeal to selling a game in 2021 that's supposed to look finished. There's obviously a ton of unfinished or terrible stuff which on some level means things like the online glue screens weren't as important as fixing gameplay issues. I personally don't think they would undo synchronization work, nor try to hack around it, to make animation cancelling issues from equipping an item function more like 1.14d when other changes in d2r seem to indicate these sorts of things were intentionally removed.

Quote (Kaylin @ Dec 3 2021 10:24am)

They seem to have devoted a non-zero amount of effort to removing as much desynch as they reasonably could without converting movement/spells to a system which would verify player actions on the server before allowing the client to perform them (which I suspect would change how the game feels too much). Look at how attacking with no target is actually synchronized between clients now or how equipment is displayed on other players that would previously be str bugged (primary weapon issues aside). These and many others were quirky behaviors we had got used to from 2000 but probably don't appeal to selling a game in 2021 that's supposed to look finished. There's obviously a ton of unfinished or terrible stuff which on some level means things like the online glue screens weren't as important as fixing gameplay issues. I personally don't think they would undo synchronization work, nor try to hack around it, to make animation cancelling issues from equipping an item function more like 1.14d when other changes in d2r seem to indicate these sorts of things were intentionally removed.

Quote (Happymiehl @ Dec 3 2021 10:40am)

What is ptr

Quote (ekoe @ Dec 3 2021 04:04pm)

Private test realm

Quote (Sapporo @ Dec 3 2021 03:11pm)

Public test realm

Quote (ekoe @ Dec 3 2021 10:11pm)

worded that poorly.
did you not get a invite? its been out

Quote (mIDDLES @ Dec 3 2021 03:43pm)

nice sleep

Quote (gumbardo @ Dec 3 2021 05:12pm)

^kaylin

I agree that fixes to server synchronization are all likely permanent, as these make the game better, albeit different.

One thing that I am surprised didn’t get fixed along with server synch is invisible casts/attacks that originate outside map range. I hope that this gets addressed eventually, but I’m not sure how they would fix it if it wasn’t improved by new servers.