Announcing Fireteam Ltd, Splash Damage's New Online Services Partner

(TheSgtBilko) #21

Split on this!

So far all games that has gone that route has meant less or no way of “niching” your server and no mod/map tools.
Would be nice if SD would break that trend though.

(tangoliber) #22

Just make sure you always have a match browser, please…even on consoles.

If I search for a Brink game on PS3, I can’t find real people. There are real people out there playing, but the matchmaking process is invisible, and apparently won’t set me up with any match where I don’t have a very low ping. I have to go on PC to find Brink matches.

And yet, I can go into ETQW on PS3 and immediately find 3 matches with people in it… because it has a match browser, and the entire process is visible.

(signofzeta) #23

[QUOTE=tangoliber;393244]Just make sure you always have a match browser, please…even on consoles.

If I search for a Brink game on PS3, I can’t find real people. There are real people out there playing, but the matchmaking process is invisible, and apparently won’t set me up with any match where I don’t have a very low ping. I have to go on PC to find Brink matches.

And yet, I can go into ETQW on PS3 and immediately find 3 matches with people in it… because it has a match browser, and the entire process is visible.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I agree. Although it wouldn’t matter to me personally, it would be better to have a match browser. I played all 3 versions of ETQW, and let me tell you, it is easier for me to find matches on the PS3 version, which uses a match browser, like the PC version, than it is to find a match on the xbox 360 version, which uses matchmaking.

In the PC and PS3 version, I could enter a server, and when I don’t like that server, I can leave and join another one, provided if there is another one. With the 360 version, if I don’t like the server that the game picked for me, I leave, search for a server, and the game picks the same one that I left. Sometimes, the host is asleep, and the game doesn’t even start, and the players are stuck in the lobby, with players coming and going. It is that ridiculous, and the match hasn’t even started yet, while on the PC and PS3 versions, I would already have played the game.

(tokamak) #24

Does this open the way of seeing Fireteam applied to W:ET as well? We can all dream.

(.Chris.) #25

That be pretty cool actually.