What a difference a 'jitter' makes....

c0y0te

I hooked into some ranked server last night with a pretty lousy ping, but it was the only ranked game in town (so to speak) hitting around 140-150 pings. I tried it - being desperate for some online action and woah - what a difference that made from the usual sub-100 ping server game...

Sniping - pretty much impossible unless you get a lucky shot off.

Driving - Very very funny... especially when those trees magically appear in front of you from nowhere. I can just see the insurance claims now

Flying - Don't even go there.

Flag Defending - more a case of using your body as a shield for someone else to defend it actually; not much more you can do.

Anti-Aircraft - actually quite possible because you are stationary, waiting for those flares to dissappear anyway so by the time you get a shot or two off, the missiles have locked on to the correct target.

Mine Laying - the only safe thing in town. At least when you throw the mines they won't go off in your face (unless some obliging idiot comes driving by), but avoid the claymores...you won't have time to get away before they go boom!

Was it enjoyable? No, not in a million years.
Was it laughable? Hell yes. For a while until the insanity wore off and I just gave up trying to find another server.

Dingatron

I know where your coming from and feel your pain! I pretty much gave up the flying and driving on a server a few nights ago and eventually packed in the game altogether. Need the patch soon before people start to lose interest in the game, although I'd say they'll play the next patch release very carefully.

Deadwing

ive given up on ranked servers tbh. It takes forever to find one with an open slot, and by the time i do find one ive been trying so long im in a bad mood and dont feel like playing. Im sticking to normal servers from now on, if i see a ranked one with space, ill get on it, but til then, i cant be arsed spending half my game time trawling through the server browser