I don't know how loading times in games work (what effects them etc). But can Frostbite have something to do with it? I did all three stars in Arcade last night and I think the loading time probably were like 20-30% of my total spent time heh.
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Star Wars Battlefront II |OT| The Circle is Now Complete
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He had one in the last season of clone wars, but it wasn't for fighting and its not the one they used in the game.
Good to hear man. I'm enjoying the shit out of it. Did a total 180 after feeling very disappointed after playing the beta.
Also: 480 mb update downloading as we speak.
Patch notes:
https://battlefront-forums.ea.com/discussion/83395/star-wars-battlefront-ii-release-notes-patch-0-2
Edit: mostly bug fixes by the looks of it.
Let me guess. You're playing as the Specialist right?
Well, at least these updates seem to be coming in quick. I wonder if the connection errors are getting sorted soon too?
Are you kidding me with this stuttering?
Its so bad in Galactic Assault even after the patch.
Its so bad in Galactic Assault even after the patch.
Are you playing in DirectX12? If so, switch to DX11 and the stuttering should be gone. It was for me.
They fixed the typo in the Defender Heavy trooper challenge (it used to say "Staring Heavy Training" instead of "Starting") which I was already previously convinced is why that challenge was literally broken since it was looking to tie Defender points to the name of a challenge that didn't exist, but didn't have time this morning to check.
Haha, you know it.
Specialist on the large open parts, Officer on the more confined parts of the map.
I get black screen when launching the game. Apparently I'm not the only one. PC. Fuck this shit I wasted my only two gaming hours in days on this.
OP
OP
I was playing on the patch a 2 and half hours ago and I didn't experience that, no one was. I won't log back in until that's fixed now. If my progress is ever actually reset I'm selling the game.
Ah I see. I played 2 hours after the patch got no problems so far (PS4)
They really screwed this patch up goddamned.
I'm on Pro and got thrown out of the last 3 matches I played. In the main menu all my unlocks are there and my classes at the right level, but upon entering a game it's all gone.
I'm guessing that the DICE office isn't a very jolly place to be right now....
I'm on Pro and got thrown out of the last 3 matches I played. In the main menu all my unlocks are there and my classes at the right level, but upon entering a game it's all gone.
I'm guessing that the DICE office isn't a very jolly place to be right now....
I'm in a discord group with a lot of other Battlefront players and it's not even been mentioned.
The official forums are littered with complaints about the patch.
And at first I had no problems after installing the patch, but somehow it started bugging like hell.
I'm not sure, but I think I restarted the game at some point, maybe that triggered it.
Starfighter is...amazing. I really hope we get some more maps for it and a way to play it offline eventually. Honestly we need some way to play with vehicles in arcade. Hope they implement some way to do that in the future. Either way Starfighter man....starfighter.
Generally there are three phases to loading:
1) File I/O; this is raw throughput of reading data out of storage and into memory. This can be affected by poor data layout contiguity which increases seek times for the read head vs the actual time spent reading data, poor read buffer size choice, etc. It can also be caused by background processes also performing reads or writes during the load which causes the OS scheduling algorithm to try to balance throughput needs.
2) Decompression throughput; this is the time spent on either dedicated hardware unit or the CPU to decompress the data read in via the storage subsystems. On both consoles there is hardware accelerated support for Zlib decompression, but some folks opt for higher ratio software solutions like LZMA, Oodle Kraken, in lieu or in addition. Disk space concerns are huge right now in this generation. Decompression time is usually smaller than I/O, though, so they pipeline well, so it's not aggregate time for (1) + (2).
3) Serialization; this is any operation that the process needs to perform on the data in order for it to be ready for use at runtime/main loop. For most immutable assets like textures this is nothing, but for game objects this can involve unpacking structures that need to be memory ready and fixing up pointers, running load-time subsystems that might do some sort of additional spatial partitioning, priming the pump on AI related state machines and pathing setups, etc. High variability here.
If I had to guess based on my knowledge of DICE's engineering I'd say some sort of just-in-time scene graph/visibility/etc. processing in (3) is what's problematic. But it's just a low percentage guess.
So not only is there the fiasco over the game's monetization scheme resembling a really bad free-to-play mobile game which had to be temporarily suspended in the face of the public pressure against it, but now they're resetting the progress of some players with a patch meant to fix the game up? Holy shit.
A thread title has never been more apt.
A thread title has never been more apt.
I was just saying that and I've been on the new patch since it dropped with no issues. Now I'm having issues however.
Don't reset the game or so I guess :). I just got thrown out from a game, my star cards were unavailable, everyone was level 0 etc.
I might just try resetting it to see if it causes the issue. Got to go to work shortly anyway.
So after getting kicked randomly from a match, I no longer have access to star cards and progress has been reset. So my advice is to not play the game if you want to try and enjoy it currently.
Edit: Restarting the game does nothing to bring progression back FYI. Base ps4.
Edit: Restarting the game does nothing to bring progression back FYI. Base ps4.
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Just started playing post patch. Kicked out of game in less than 5 minutes.
Started the match with none of my star cards equipped and using the stock gun in officer class.
Literally said I was level 1 officer.
Scared tf out of me so when it kicked me I looked at my class and it looks like all my stuff is still unlocked...
Wtf is going on?
Started the match with none of my star cards equipped and using the stock gun in officer class.
Literally said I was level 1 officer.
Scared tf out of me so when it kicked me I looked at my class and it looks like all my stuff is still unlocked...
Wtf is going on?