My problem with it is everyone is constantly talking about pve sucks and who cares about adventure zones because pvp is fun. Now you really don't have overflow as an option. Maybe they will get lucky and all the Teso fanboys will be more then happy to just quest and PVE and the pvpers will get fast queues. I don't think it could possibly be worse then that GW2 queue bullshit I went through.
No, it's evidence of a failed implementation. The megaserver is designed to be elastic enough to support anywhere from 1000 to literally billions of players. It's just a matter of whether the core systems that drive that are capable of handling the load. They've found that's not the case in the previous betas so they are putting this bandaid overflow bullshit in last minute to remedy the problem.
The release GW2 queues were hilarious. At one point at release would be literally 10 people from each faction allowed in WvW.
Most bots are developed through a mixture of disassemble and memory editing. The concepts behind macroquest are exactly the same as concepts behind modern bots, and things like aimhacks in fps. If a player gets feedback of any form from the game over having connected a hit, someone with the two aforementioned tools can read that feedback and make a bot that responds to it. Pixel readers and stuff like that are honestly far more memory/effort intensive, and are rarely/never used in commercial bot farms. If anything, you want to do the exact opposite, and completely kill the graphics processing of a game if possible, to reduce its memory foot and increase efficiency.
Are the bots reading the incoming and outgoing game packets for certain types of info? How do they do that?
Godfuck I remember trying to queue up when the resets would happen. Missing the queue was brutal, and you know that some assholes were in there dolyak farming instead of fighting for gravy train exp. Hell, most of em.The release GW2 queues were hilarious. At one point at release would be literally 10 people from each faction allowed in WvW.
This was in the last beta where queues were working more or less properly. I remember in release you'd see lines of 50+ people at each portal. The other problem with the queues is that it was faster to constantly requeue than to wait in the queue. The only people reliably getting in were those who macro'd a queue request + cancel that ran at 10hz.
The big driver behind waiting in a queue instead of going out and experiencing the world is that we initially had one day WvW fights and were competitive to the point of wanting to go undefeated, which meant we had to be on the top of our game every hour of every day since we could never accrue a substantial lead. We ended up going 30-0.
you could, but generally you just read the computer's own memory, and reading/changing that memory is exactly what a bot is and how it works.
Interesting info right here ^. I never knew much about them. First encountered it in PoP and was blown away by it.
Here's an AutoIT script I had saved from Aion.
I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't the case on release. I feel like the draw of the "good guys" (high elves, bright sunny realms) is going to be too appealing to folks who don't know that much about MMOs. Or subsequently are playing with someone who doesn't (e.g. my partner wants to play here). I've been trying to decide which faction to play on (I believe PRX is still going AD?) and now think Ebonheart might be the low man on the totem pole.
Does anyone know if they stoppedsendingthe buff (etc). information to the client or if TESO still has it in the actual data stream & they just filter it out/ignore it client-side?
No I don't, I was just looking for an clear answer from ZOS about nameplates in PvP, like the one they did regarding addons / API.
Haha I wouldn't mind doing that, but I doubt people would pay enough for the hassle to be worth it.
