We need a new PvZ shooter
It's been too quiet for too long. BfN lost new content support over a year ago now, and the playerbase is mostly focused on GW2 from what I can see from playing online, the video content on YouTube, ...
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@Iron_Guard8 you mention that GW is already 7 years old, and of course GW2 is 5, but what does worry me is that GW2 is already showing its age and more so than GW; probably because GW2 has always been plagued with bugs of one sort or an other even while it was being supported, and not so GW.
When playing GW2 I experience problems such as:
1) Stock Pea disappears from my character list when playing the Town Hall quests
2) The game freezes, particularly when I use the Engineer's Jackhammer
3) The Kill Counter does not register kills properly (that is the most debilitating error of all. I have let off a Shuck Shot right in the face of a Toxic Brainz in Legendary mode. Knocked him out, but no kill is registered! And knocking out a Tox B in legendary mode is undoubtedly the most satifying of kills.)
4) I get thrown off the server in mid-game (Can't quite remember if this happened while the game was being supported)
5) When entering a game I have found myself placed underneath the road surface and can follow players walking above me.
Bit of a pain, as I really like GW2 and prefer it to all other games in the Garden Warfare franchise, and would hate to see it become unplayable for the reason that @stukapooka puts perfectly, namely overall polish.
@PerniciousPeaI don't experience 1, 2, 4, or 5 on PC, but 3-where the game states I caused damage but the target didn't take it is something I encounter in all 3 games unfortunately. It's a netcode issue that I wish they'd have fixed by the time BfN came around.The only shooter where I get booted from multiplayer matches is BfN. I do lose connection to Ops in GW, as the lag can be terrible if I join someone where my ping must be bad to their location as they host the Ops.
I do have other bugs in GW2 though:
- Turret mode bugging out-where it fires your normal weapon while in turret mode instead of the turret mode weapon.
- All-stars stuck reloading when they aren't supposed to reload at all.
- Logging in as a plant in the zombie base.
- Imp-Kata not causing any damage to anyone at certain spots in the backyard.
- Hackers-not a bug per se, but if they used an anti-cheat like BfN does, it would be at least better than it can be.
Despite these issues, GW2 is still a massive success and even today the Reddit links are mostly GW2, although GW and BfN are still posted about, and I'm closing in on 3k hours in it even as I type this, working on quests.Part of why I was more forgiving of BfN's awful launch was how bad GW2 was at its launch, which it mostly recovered from, as we can see today. The gaming industry as a whole really need to stop launching games with so many issues, and I'd like GW3 to learn from the good and bad of all 3 current games and give it time to be solid before its released.
