Posted on 28 December 2014 - 08:42 PM

So this happened to me 3 times in two days,and I think many players (non-donators) have the same issue. I personally like UHC and I've been a "UHCer" for more than 1 year (Jul 14 2013) and when I can't find matches on /r/ultrahardcore I just check if there are some here. I like these servers because I don't get any lag (my connection sucks),but there are 2 things I'm a bit pissed about.

The first thing,prewhitelist for all donators. Donators can have a pre-whitelist and join the server earlier,and that would be fine for me,but unfortunately they fill 3/4 of the slots very often. Badlion's server can handle 200/250 players,and sometimes (10 or 5 mins before whitelist SHOULD go off) the scoreboard on the side shows 180 or even more in that UHC server,meaning that there are just 60 or even less slots for non-donators. I'm not saying they shouldn't allow pre-whitelists AT ALL,I just think hosts should set a prewhitelists-limit so that at least half of those 250 slots are open for eveyone,donators and nondonators. It is kinda unfair imo,not sure what most of the people think about this,maybe I'm just wrong ,but ,as I said, it gets very hard to get in a UHC.

Hosts never open the server at the time indicated here, in the match info. For example,I see a lot of UHC that SHOULD TURN WHITELIST OFF at 6pm EST (which whould be 11pm UTC),so I get on the server 10 minutes earlier and wait. When it is about 6pm(like 1 or 2 seconds before it is actually 6pm),I try to join the UHC server by getting in the portal/using the "Navigation" tool,and then find out that I can't join because wl is still on. I don't get it,it said 6pm EST and it is 6pm and it's still not open. After a few seconds (and sometimes minutes) the server randomly opens,letting people in ,except for me,the guy who tried to join at 6pm. Sometimes I manage to get in ( I just keep trying to join the server by going in the portal),but it's getting everyday more and more annoying. Yesterday there was this game at 6pm and they didn't turn wl off until 6:10pm,10 minutes after the time indicated in the "Match infos" thing. Is that so hard to use websites like time.is to open the server in time or atleast not 20-30 seconds later? I'm sure there are a lot of people who want to play a UHC on badlion and wait even hours before it starts,and then can't join because pre-wls and late-wloff.

I'm sorry if I made mistakes but English is not my first language :P
I don't want the hosts to do what I said,I just want you to think about these 2 points.
Again,this is just my opinion,don't kill me.
Thanks for reading :)

PS: The shrinking border in game is really annoying because it tps a lot of people in the same spot,allowing some players to get cheap kills… but this isn't really a big deal.

Posted on 28 December 2014 - 09:13 PM

1. Donators get to join before whitelist, this is a perk we offered and that they donated for, it would be unfair if we limited this perk or changed it. We are however working on optimization to increase the game size to around 300 players.
2. I hate it when hosts open games early or late, but sometimes an issue occurs that makes the game run on a 10 minute delay, unfortunately if there's not an admin around to alert the server you guys are unaware of this.
3. The border shrinking is so the games don't run on forever, you're suppose to start heading towards 0,0 before getting caught in the border, from a reddit uhc standpoint you would see a "meetup" having 250-300 players do this can be hectic, so we have border shrinking.

Posted on 29 December 2014 - 02:01 PM

But border shrinks even when you're in a fight much of the time. Can this be stopped?