User blog comment:Luperza/Server Downtime Game Update 09 05.22.2013/@comment-6034641-20130522181207/@comment-6034641-20130522203522

I know exactly what you mean, I am a mod developer myself of a very successful mod that just reached its 10 year anniversary and has 3+ servers filled at any time and runs on the old Quake 3 engine from 1999. We have had features made that needed time for players to mellow out from the excitment of a new feature to see that it is balanced.

Normally, that would be the case with most everything done in this game such as the new MAX abilities, and harasser weapons. However, the lattice system is just something where that logic does not apply as its flaws appear in low population servers (PTS) and high population.

I wrote a much longer post than this, but accidentally hit the mouse 4 button causing my browser to go back to the wiki home page and losing the post as a result.

This thread linked here, seems to be the best solution to the lattice problem and was posted before release. It is more or less a Hex-Lattice hybrid and seems to have very positive feedback in comparison to all the feedback I have seen throughout PTS and current release of the Lattice link system. I hope the SOE team can take a serious look at it as neither Hex nor Lattice alone can fix the underlying issues. This is also the bug I was talking about in my previous post. https://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/i-think-people-may-be-misunderstanding-just-what-the-new-lattice-is-with-pictures.126593/

Everything else released in this update is absolutely great, dont get me wrong. I absolutely love the new bases on indar, and the overall continent layout. The new MAX abilities are great, and things like the ZOE can be scary as an ESF or to see it charging at you as infantry. Same with TR lockdown, as it can be deadly. I have yet to see how the NC variant plays. The new weapons, bug fixes and minimap updates were also great and just what we needed.

Everyone at SOE does great work, I am just still not sure the facination with going with a full lattice system rather than a hybrid. (Hexes now in GU09 are just for territory control reasons anyway, so it doesnt count as a hybrid)