[Videos] Billy Buskell denying issues about off-host headshots

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I don't even have a fucking narrative. I'm a nobody calling him out on his "netcode" comment. Got super defensive, and apparently we're twisting his own words. There's a video of you saying it Billy.

I have gigabit service from Rogers in Toronto. Wired from PC to modem (yes, with cat5e). 

All this just makes me want to give up. 😩

Ugh.

I don't like where this is going, on either side. Respect is a two-way street, and, for mind-bogglingly obvious reasons, a 140-character limit is an absolutely terrible way to maintain it.

This is why responsible companies maintain official forums.

There is never going to be any lack of bug reports/criticisms being couched in hostile terms, or coming across that way. It's the internet. Changing the format doesn't fix the problem (and in the case of Twitter makes it much worse.)

What I'm seeing is disturbingly similar to what happens when two echo chambers butt heads over conflicting narratives that each blindly uses to support their own perspective. It's non-productive and it's happening as much from BioWare right now as it is from the community. While some effort could be made to address the problem from both sides, it's starting to look pretty hopeless.

In the world of the internet, people reporting problems with their games are often upset when they do so. It's an unfortunate side effect of the way the industry works. We don't have much choice, as the games get released in a state that requires bugfixing for 2-6 months as standard. The community is only responsible for that in so far as they keep buying games in that state. When they report those bugs, some emotional frustration is inevitable. Which does not excuse people hurling insults or being aggressive, but ignoring reality does nothing to address the issue.

What upsets me is the recent pattern of BioWare employees making statements that are false or deceptive. Then those statements are ultimately questioned and criticized, only to have BioWare employees immediately deny having said them. I had this done to me by a former Community Manager (on reddit no less) but only after a moderator informed her that she had to answer me or they would shut the AMA down.

So she answered me by blatantly lying to my face about what she said (after having had screenshots of her quote repeatedly linked in the AMA.)

At that point, I lost all respect for her. And I won't lie, I saw that as indicative of the changing corporate culture at BioWare. And since then, I've seen the pattern repeat itself in big and small ways, but it's getting worse over time, especially with the shutdown of the one official channel between the community and the developers.

At this point, I just wish people would respect the complexity of everything. BioWare employees and the community alike need to put more effort into creating a better way of communicating.

In our case, unfortunately, our power is extremely limited. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try, but we're definitely going to need a real long-term strategy from BioWare for communication and QA with the community. The current system doesn't cut it, and it creates inferiour work while promoting negative interactions.

For the record, I'm as content to wave my hands and walk away from it all as anything else. My emotional reaction to most of these issues has been over and dealt with for quite a while. These days, I feel little more than disappointment when I see things go south (whether in terms of technical quality or communication quality.) There is still plenty of room for repair on both fronts, but it isn't going to happen under the current system.

I probably shouldn't have bothered typing all of that. :l

I'm just having a little fun, nothing personal.

I see.

I'm not a dev, but common sense tells me this: If you're on-host, there is no margin of error, enemies are where they should be at. If you're off-host, you don't have control over where the enemies are, their position/movement/actions are constantly communicated to your client via a layer of networking / synchronization - that's why the enemies can even move around at all since you don't have any control over that. And somewhere in that communication layer, something goes wrong and the hitboxes are not updated as they should be

Exactly my thoughts when I read that. I guess it wasn't just me