How will Multiplayer be handled?

Booya2020 · 09-03-2001, 01:28 PM

I hope it won't be the zone like in AOK. If it is im gonna throw myself out the window. What I dont understand is why they cant make it an in-game interface which is so much better! I don't even play AOK multiplayer because it drives me nuts!

*Lord JayVizIon* · 09-03-2001, 01:35 PM

all evidence points to the zone...

09-03-2001, 01:41 PM

Well, I've ranted about this before, and I know how everyone loves my long, irate diatribes so I'll keep this short

I hope that if it is on the zone, they put in a record keeping system like the one on b.net with SC. Even somehting as little as that would make it infinetly easier to find a suitable opponent. Thus much improving everyone's gaming experience.

09-03-2001, 01:43 PM

Yeah, but what if u really suck and no-one want's 2 play u. then what?

*Lord JayVizIon* · 09-03-2001, 01:43 PM

yes, battlenet was pretty dang cool if you ask me. however, i don't think they'll do their own multiplayer server system b/c they've never done it before and LEC games with multiplayer capability are on the zone.

09-03-2001, 01:51 PM

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Originally posted by Paladin
Yeah, but what if u really suck and no-one want's 2 play u. then what?

If your really bad, then you'll be able to find other really bad people and have a decent match with them. The more yyou play the better you'll get. Right now, I'm horrible at AOK, and whenever I try to get a game going I get annhiallated by a vetren player. If you can't play anyone around the same skill level as yourself, its difficult to improve your game. Having a simple win/loss record will rectify all of this.

Booya2020 · 09-03-2001, 03:29 PM

What about the other lucasarts games? What sevice do they use? What does Force Commander use? Its probably the same as that.

Darth_Rommel · 09-03-2001, 03:33 PM

I think FC is on the Zone...

09-03-2001, 04:46 PM

If you really suck and cant find anyone else to play they have a skirmish mode where you could say, put yourself up against 1 computer and type in cheat codes! Then you would finally win!

09-03-2001, 04:47 PM

I also thought i read somewhere that they were thinking about making it accessible to GameSpy.

09-03-2001, 09:33 PM

one word: "wormnet"

Anyways, the zone would be fine i guess, but i would really like to see a wormnet type thing.

09-04-2001, 08:59 AM

most if not all LA games are hosted by the zone, so I say the Zone will be hosting GB as well.

09-05-2001, 12:36 PM

MSN Gaming Zone is ok even if it does crash often and the zone friends mess up. Mostly cause like several 100,000+ people use it.

09-06-2001, 12:11 AM

I hope they have the same multiplayer system as counterstrike,although unlikely I think that is the best multiplayer system oout there much better than Aok's system