Again, I return with another rant. Actually if you read my previous 2 rants (which were like over a year ago) you'll see not much has changed in QL. The game is still pretty much shit with the same shitty netcode and pretty much the same shitty maps.

I still play the game often, but only because I am so extremely bored and it's very convenient to play using the web interface - which IMO is the only big plus of this entire game.
But I still can't believe how incredibly shit the netcode is. And people play in tournaments for prize money with this? There isn't a single match that I didn't encounter at least a rail going through someones body, never mind the occasional rails through the wall, unregistered rocket splash hits, unregistered SG hits etc...

So RG is pretty much a joke in this game. I still can't figure out how to shoot this biatch. It feels completely random; i.e. sometimes you get a hit by aiming in front of the enemy, sometimes behind,... And every now and then you get that "holy shit I can't believe this was a hit" moment. Basically, with RG it comes down to: aim and fire, you might get a hit.
Then there's the SG which I believe is the most fucked up weapon in the entire game. Sometimes it feels incredibly overpowered and other times (especially up close) you can't hit shit. Of course there's the overpowered LG with its knockback etc... but this has been debated a lot already.

What really pisses me off is the netcode. Remember how loud arqon was about competitive gaming and competitive features before he joined id (I'm assuming he's still working for them?). Where the fuck is this guy now? Everything about the netcode is horrendous. They can't even code a proper code to show the real ping; yeah, I have 21ms on every server I join, sure id. Why can't they just strip out the code from CPMA or OSP?
If I weren't bored as fuck I'd delete this shit immediately, instead of getting pissed off, because my rails go straight through the models.

It's been like a year since arqon joined and what exactly has been done? You can't even vote when a match is in progress. What kind of shit is this? So every now and then some asshole joins and starts team killing and you can't even vote to kick him. Instead you have to either play till the end, or convince everyone to go spec so the match restarts and you can vote. Which is useless anyway, because he'll reconnect back when the match starts. Jesus fucking christ, are you people serious?
Basically the way that I see it, they are trying to dumb down the game and increase the luck factor to get more noobs to play it. And keep all the good (competitive) feature in the "pro" (payable) version (is that shit even available yet?).

IMO they fucked up the game at the very beginning by including dm6 and later ztn. Now no one plays anything else than dm6 in tdm, ztn in duel, dm6 and ca1 (or whatever it is) in CA,... thank god there's at least some map rotation in CTF. Instead of starting from scratch and include some new (good) maps, they put it ztn and dm6. And of course, you can't get anyone to play anything else. Frankly, after 8 years of dm6 I am getting a bit sick of it.

Arqon post some shit about this game. Is this still being developed at all? When can we expect this going out of beta, in 2012? And will the beta finally have those bug fixed? You know, the ones that weren't in the same game 9 years ago...