Your party system Sucks, and how to make it NOT

I'm sorry i have to say it, its just garbage
so here are my issues in order of how detrimental they are to the game experience

Issue #1
public parties are not based on geographical region

i don't want to be shown parties in the EU or Asia when im in California
your goal should be to show people other people in the same area
people should be shown my parties when they are PHYSICALLY CLOSE to my location
so we can have the same ping, speak the same language
i cant even VIEW the ping of the party members
going back to another person hideout or the ziggy and trying clear inventory via identifying selling/ salvaging and putting in stash and just normally for the next map, is miserable both in the ziggy and in a random person's hideout who has everything far away with a weird layout with the useful things far away... then doing that at 150+ ping when u cant talk to people.

communication is key in any multiplayer game... STOP SHOWING ME PARTIES WITH A LANGUAGE BARRIER at ping that would get me killed during mapping, dodge roll doesn't WORK to effectively evade shit on a MASSIVE PING DELAY.

and don't even get me STARTED on the absolute disaster of "volatile plants"
that shit needs to be straight up deleted, you want me to stop moving so they can reach me THEN dodge... and if i dont they follow me forever? and if i mess up one i get 1-2 shot??? that's hard enough at 20 ping.. oh but wait lets make chaos do DOUBLE DAMAGE because idk i guess they just want everyone to run chaos inoculation because there is basically no other option to not get instagibbed if your playing with more than 100 ms ping, cause good luck timing that correctly.. and thats assuming you can even SEE it with all the shit on screen in a party. half the time i just get 100/0 with 75% chaos resistance becuase i take 2-3 of these to the face because i cant even see them let, and when i even can i have to try to guess when they will reach me and do a preemptive stop and dodge because of the ping delay
seriously even after your "nerf" to it its absurd.. take another 75% off the damage it deals, again...
at least give me something like the iron maiden sound effect for Diablo 2 when they activate so i can run away shitless like a scared toddler when i hear it.

and then there is slight green gas on enemy death the chaos dot ground effect u also cant see half the time

Issue #2
Parties are different per in game area

if im in my hideout endgame there are almost no parties shown, i have to go to the act 3 ziggy past to even see most parties
and then again im shown a bunch of parties from other places around the world at 150+ ping
granted pre-endgame this isn't as bad, but this should absolutely NOT be a thing in your hideout when your postgame

Issue #3
i keep getting shown 5/6 parties that say "full" when i try to join them

if they're full... dont show me

all this combined really hurts the gameplay experience..
98% of my time i just find myself playing alone because trying to find someone close by and not afk is basically impossible

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SwiftKitten#3681 wrote:

I'm sorry i have to say it, its just garbage
so here are my issues in order of how detrimental they are to the game experience

Issue #1
public parties are not based on geographical region

communication is key in any multiplayer game... STOP SHOWING ME PARTIES WITH A LANGUAGE BARRIER

and don't even get me STARTED on the absolute disaster of "volatile plants"


Issue #2
Parties are different per in game area

Issue #3
i keep getting shown 5/6 parties that say "full" when i try to join them

if they're full... dont show me

all this combined really hurts the gameplay experience..
98% of my time i just find myself playing alone because trying to find someone close by and not afk is basically impossible

Issue # 1:

you can choose a region you want to party with, who cares if you see people in other regions, refine your search, dont blame GGG for your lack of Effort.

Communication is fixed by the above,

Volatile plants has nothing to do with Parties.

Issue # 2:
Of course parties are different in different areas of the game, its called sharding/phasing/instancing, and has been in games for decades, its to reduce server load and let their hamsters have a break.
yes sometimes this puts you and a party member in a different phase, its a simple fix, port to the other player, and ggg you have sorted the issue.

Issue # 3:
this happens as Parties have pending invites that are yet to be accepted.
this has nothing to do with GGG's system, it is working as intended, and until someone declines that invite or it times out, it will still say 6/6.

maybe this game isnt for you if you are desperate to play with people and are finding no one, hit up the LFG forum channels or try and find people in game around same timezone to clan with.

there are options to alleviate the stresses you have, and this aint one of them.