To the few of you that enjoyed this event i congatulate you on being a lucky individual for those of you, like me, who didn't feel free to rise in anger as you read this:
Well what wonderful event we had, what with all the crashing and running and missing out on things and mistakes being made who had time to even stop and enjoy the uh.... the uh..... secenery?
So lets begin with the leak, Walrus, im sorry but that was just stupid, plain and simple, and almost everthing that went wrong today can be blamed on that. How many people woulnd't have known the locations were it not for the leak? Too **bleep** many, too many people that ended up lagging most of us out and crashing the server.
But keeping with the theme of going in order, at least you guys rectified the problem.... several hours after the fact, when everyone had made themselves a nice copy (yes i did, its a fool who doesn't use the information he can get, besides at first i didn't even think it was a mistake) so then we all move past that and begin the stream of terrible events which comprised an even more terrible compiliation or whole event.
So we start off with a new cinematic about the General and the helicopters, and of course the helipdas come to once again serve no purpose. But at least we had the criticals.... which proved extremely hard to accomplish for any level 50's not to mention entirely clashed with most peoples beliefs about new people in the matrix aswell as the dealing with those who seek peace with you.
Anyways we finish these criticals to find once again there is little relevance to the main threat at the time, im not the critcals aren't important, they just weren't for what was going on at the time.
Finally after the criticals it became time to ... wait for i, soemthign entirely new to this community.... "wait for something to happen" and after a day something did happen. The oracle showed up at Debir Court. Wow, what an amazing thing i mean this is the oracle, the person respnsible for helping morpheus find the one and helping neo find out he was the one. And of course as the 300 peope flock to the area and wait to here her speak what happens...... The Debir courts crash, the whole area becomes locked down and no one can get in. I was annoyed because i was near the bench she sat on, and i could tell she was there beacause of the LET shield was in place, but then i crashed.
Well that was a terrible occurance but i was sure it wouldn't happen again, and besides thanks to the leak, i knew the gist of what she said anyway.
So the next day Niobe shows up, here to encourage us to stay strong and be ready for Flit Guns and the fight ahead of us, also we get to learn about who the biggest spammers of all are: Tyndall, Flood and Agent_Pace.
Of course we all flock to meet niobe and well we show up to attend.... wait for it, something not easily predicted, we crash again, i say we reffering to those that did since apparently the are didn't go down.
Well once agian the leak allowed me to know what she said so i was merely ready for the flit gun. Saturday now and after wishing tyndal to *CENSORED* and loading my Flit Gun we hear rumours that today the assassin is scheduled to die, everyone takes up posistion and ..... waits for somehting to happen.
Well after he shows up and runs around a bit, manges to waste another day of my life he leaves and that was saturday.
Sunday, the big day, "the Death of the Destroyer" here we are waiting in our area of choice to attack the assassin, waitng.... waiting.... and waiting.... finally what comes? A truck load of people who half of which attained their locations though false means but it doesn't matter much anyway since in retrospect the players potsed freely the decriptions. So we move around and get set up and..... wait longer.
We tune in to the radio to learn that vector and syntax seem to already be underway while we continue to wait. Finally as though a shinging beacon of hope for saving this pathetic event, the assassin shows up, and with the collective movements of people back and forth lags the server to an even 3 FPS (was about 1 fps for me and i cranked my graphics way WAY down.) and of course the select few who have better computers than cars and houses, those who have computers with cooling systems and names most can't understand or even pronounce manage to bring the assassin to about 50% of his health.
As he continues to ping pong back and fourth (the area we were in was club avalon BTW) he comes back and.... wait for it: CRASHES THE **bleep**ING AREA WE WERE CHASING HIM IN! NOW THE TOILET FACED SOB COMES BACK WITH FULL HEALTH AND CAUSES MORE THAN A THIRD OF THE PEOPE THERE TO GET THROWN FROM THE GAME.
*gasps for air*
So finally he comes back and does some more ping-ponging and kills a bunch of us and runs away, later do we find out that he has been killed by (i don't even know who killed him, i was just gald it was over with) and thats the end.
Oh wait, an added bonus, Niobe will now be telling us how great we have done, no tyndall, don't talk for once in your meaningless existence, don't break from character just for us. So we get stuck in the biggest rush for Jacobs Ladder i have ever seen, HL's go down in Apollyon and the the areas directrly attached to it.
Finally as i start to run to Jacobs Ladder from Kedemoth Central, and i near Jacobs Ladder.... wait for it......
I Freakin Crash again. And whats worse, is i fail to jack back in at least 10 times (no lie) and when i do i fail to get to Apollyon or Jacobs Ladder. Instead i end up in Lemone, sitting with my Zionite Faction family and what do we have to show for it:
Get this: We have the **bleep**ing Faction tag glitch.
You wanna know what really fries me about this, is that two months back, Scarlet Prime, my faction was chasing the assassin. We actaully found him, when everyone else had thought he had left. We descended upon him and surrounded him. Do you know what he did? He sat down, he sat down and then when more Scarlet Prime members showed up, he Manually jacked out, no HL no phone just a good old fashion /exit.
I don't know what to think, i can't express my growing loathing for SOE for the poeple that want our money but don't want to earn it. They reduce the servers, put more poeple on them, and then put even more people on them by giving us alternative characters.
I can't, i can't for the life of me understand why i am still with this game, i know deep down its the community, its you people, you bastards holding back from leaving this pile of crap. I don't honestly know what to do anymore. I have come to a point where i don't want to be Neo, i don't want to be all powerful, i just wanna be able to run the game well and i want the Matrix Storyline to stop sucking and being so god damned irrelivant. If this is the indicator of the quality of future events for us, i don't think we should have stopped the assassin.
On one final note, seriosly whats wrong with this game, i play WOW and i run it like a dream, it runs fantastically and it has more people, more servers, more area, more things to do and more and better everything but it runs better for me. I don't get it.
I will say one positive thing about this event though SOE, at least now that its over, i can go back to playing WOW because the next event won't be here for what, another two months. BTW great original sotry line here with this one. Way to pull a friggin halo 2 on us. Well you know that assassin guy you were chasing months ago? Yeah, go chase him some more and this time use these terrible guns. Oh yeah the person who get the last "lucky" yeah thats right, luck not skill, shot can be the winner.
It should have been a one hit kill on the assassin, and the first person to shoot him could get the reward or at least the 3rd or 5th shot or something, cause he took like 1000 shots (like 2000 if he crashed) and the person who gets it is like hey im the greatest, it was the work of everyone that allowed you to get the final hit, so big whoop on you, personally i don't think there should have been indiviudal awards, at least not for that.
Although its hippocritcal of me, because i would want one, if i had given the death blow.
Also congratulations SOE you blew me out of the water, you actually produced an event that was worse than the hunt for Neurophyte.
Darminian
