256 multi-player! Holy crap!!

[Twilight_guy]

256 players? Cluster fuck is the only word that could accurately describe that. 36 man servers in TF2 is bad enough with 256 guys you have the potential for absolute mayhem and more shrapnel flying through the air then an exploding pointing objects factory.

Difference is TF2 doesn't have designated leaders and chains of command.

True, but I don't think any game in history has forced players to adopt a chain of command and leaders. If you don't designate a leader through game mechanics, everyone will act on there own and if you force someone to be leader, everyone will fight over it and then ragequit when they don't get it. It's like trying to force coked up monkeys to work together to build a replica of the Eiffel tower out of legos.

 

[EvilMaggot]

Yes, you read the title right. Zipper (the people who made SOCOM) are curently making MAG, a multi-player only, PS3 *sigh* exclusive title. It supports 256 person matchs, 3 factions, and a whole lot of ass-kicking fun...hopefully.

atlittle old news

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hmm might get it ^^

 

[Ionami]

Great, I hate to be the dark cloud here but the PS3 online player base is very small though. This is going to make finding 255 other people a very, very long and annoying process I suspect. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

I'm sure that you will be able to find at LEAST 255 other folks playing the game SOMEWHERE in the world.

I mean, even if only 150 people are online, you'll all be put in the same match, resulting in a massive battle anyways.

 

[Pyro Paul]

... um.. ArmA, OFP, PlanetSide...

why am i supposed to be impressed?

of course, in ArmA and OFP your battlefield is litterally ALL of an Island mesured in several square Kilometers. as fun as it sounds to jump into a room with 128+ players and participate in massive battles, the fact of the matter is, it gets really boring when you have to wait 5-10 minutes in Travel time alone after each death just to get into combat. and god forbid you take a Tank... what takes 5 minutes in a helicopter takes you half an hour plus in anything slower than a humvee....

 

[PAGEToap44]

Great, I hate to be the dark cloud here but the PS3 online player base is very small though. This is going to make finding 255 other people a very, very long and annoying process I suspect. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

It probably means up to 256 people.

 

[FloodOne]

Everybody bitching about working as a team, and the designated leadership, should really read the latest gameinformer.

Each squad has one leader, with seven subordinates. The people in the squad can chat with each other, while the squad leader has a dedicated channel to talk to other squad leaders. Four squads will equal a platoon, which has its own commander, issuing orders to the squad leaders on their own dedicated chat channel. Four platoons make the team of 128 (its called a company) and it has one overall leader issuing orders to the four platoon leaders. The responsibility is broken into pieces.

Squad A is tasked with covering Squad B's attempt to detonate explosives on a bridge, while Squads C and D are storming the barricade. Its not one person commanding 32, its four people commanding their respective squads.

And not anybody just gets to be a leader, you have to earn some XP and enlist in an officer tree. So some games, you might be a squad leader, other times you might just be following orders

 

[phar]

The online PS3 player base inst that small. Finding enough players will be no sweat. It obviously wont be done by dedicated servers.

You're kidding, right? It will be done on dedicated servers. As powerful as each PS3 may be, it can't manage the data of 256 people AND send it to every other PS3 playing that game fast enough.

Although, this isn't that new. As someone already said, it has been done before with PlanetSide [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlanetSide].

Whooops a bit of a typo.. you are correct.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Couldnt they for once just make a game good instead of big

 

[SsilverR]

PS3 CANT HANDLE IT YOU SAY!? .... you all underestimate the power of the dark side mwahaha .. or ... the light side if you .. you know .. got a white or silver ps3

 

[Demon_Zeya]

One for each pokemon!
With a little pocket change.

You do know there's nearly 500 now, over that if you include the ones with multiple forms (Giratina, Shaymin, Rotom, and maybe Acrceus if you think about it

 

[Erana]

One for each pokemon!
With a little pocket change.

You do know there's nearly 500 now, over that if you include the ones with multiple forms (Giratina, Shaymin, Rotom, and maybe Acrceus if you think about it

Meh. No one counts missingNo. or the baby kangaskhans, even though they came far before those silly-looking new pokemon.

Still, 25X, 50X, whatever you wanna say, its a bigass number of people to run around shooting each other.

 

[Captain_Caveman]

I can barely even find 1 other person to play SSF2THDR with, and that's one of the top selling games on PSN. 256? Yea i'd love to see that lobby

 

[Internet Kraken]

LAG

 

[Evilmonkeysniper0182]

From what i have heard with the ps3 connection it will bomb as soon as you get over 8 players on it, would be pretty awsome to watch if it did work though

 

[Worgen]

it sounds kinda like planetside to me, big battles in that would have a ton of people in them, and were pretty epic

 

[phar]

From what i have heard with the ps3 connection it will bomb as soon as you get over 8 players on it, would be pretty awsome to watch if it did work though

Well can I get a source or did your 360 have a chat with you the other night? The destructoid article clearly had quite a few players playing it just fine..

Lag will not be an issue as people point out. Its really not that hard to beat.. look at any mmo, they have hundreds of people on the screen at once and they are lag free. Its not hard to setup the netcode for it. The only problem is how many people can the PS3 handle on the screen at once