Posts by Defrag

Thanks for the link -- it was a good read

It's not the greatest, is it? The number of kicks I got from PB in BF2 were ridiculous, and I got kicked a lot in the BC2 beta, too.

Heh when he's driving the car, the conversation audio pans as he swerves making it almost impossible to hear

Nice job

Well, considering Half-Life was released in 1973 and Half-Life 2 came out in ~2004, they have released more frequently

I thought portal was a cheery little game with a lot of fun touches, but I was somewhat taken aback by the praise lavished on it. I thought it was good (if a little short / sparse), but I didn't fall in love with it or anything .

It'll be interesting to see how Portal scales up now that they're throwing a lot more resources at it. Looks really nice so far, though!

It's interesting to see all of the gushing reviews that pretty much sidestep these things or don't even mention them. I recall the same thing happened with BF2 -- one or two of the reviews awarded a lower score due to the numerous bugs, but the 'big' review sites acted like everything was perfect. I guess it's a side effect of wanting to get your reviews out asap -- you only get a true picture of a large online game once it's hit the stores and these issues start popping up.

Hmm I just checked out the official forums and there's a 70 page thread about disconnects, (additional) punkbuster kicks and loads of threads about crashes. It sounds like there's a lot of issues to be ironed out. Great game or not, I'm going to wait for a while -- I have no desire to go through the first month of BF2 again, it was an exercise in futility.

The fov was sorted in BF2 but the GUI / HUD was still mangled.

Regarding BC2: The server browser in the beta was worse than BF2's, and BF2's server browser was a steaming pile of poop. The funny thing is this: Remember that thing called Gamespy (pre-Gamespy Arcade) back in the early 90s? It was this like, you know, server browser that you could use to -- shock horror -- find and ping servers. Also recall that it ran nicely even on Windows 95 using a 56k modem. It updated servers as it found them. You could cancel a search, filter by any number of criteria and various games were hooked into it.

Well, it's now 2010 and Dice are still making the most godawful server browsers. Why? Seriously. It's not a trivial problem, but it's been solved scores of times in the past, including a decade ago when using vastly inferior hardware.

How is it bug-wise? I cancelled my pre-order as the beta was unplayable for me; I'm either waiting for re-assuring noises from PC owners, or a demo to check out.

I just cracked and pre-ordered from play; heard a lot of good things from people playing the beta.

I loved dolphin diving in BF2. So many idiots did it compulsively that it was a cinch to mercilessly exploit their brain-dead habits

Step 1: Edge around corner and see enemy running towards me down an alley

Step 2: Back around the corner from whence I came

Step 3: Watch as the guy insta-prones without thinking

Step 4: Edge back around the corner with xhairs on the guy and insta-kill him, as he cannot get back up in time and he cannot fire at me without being a sitting duck

I used to get loads of cheap kills that way.

Nice one, GL! That wasn't so painful, was it?

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Hopefully it'll turn out great and they at least wont have suffered for nothing, but everything that's coming out at the moment don't exactly paint a pretty picture.

Unfortunately, if it turns out great, then it'll probably be a bad thing for the employees who stay as it'll 'prove' that crunch works.

The trailer was doing the rounds at work today without me saying anything! It's spreading

I've spammed it on various forums I frequent. I'm gonna buy the 4 pack

It's definitely not a hoax -- it's plausible and possible with today's tech (even without the bespoke compression stuff). However, whether it's a good time to roll out the technology is another thing entirely, though. I'm still sceptical they can deliver a good quality service and turn a profit, but I guess the cash behind it says "we believe so".

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this is what i was trying to argue as well. thank you.

I thought you were saying the opposite

Cool, Reno You should prolly update your sig

Haha, I just saw this pop up on the Steam page and though, "well, it seems it is time!"