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Gearbox Could Have Made a Call of Duty Title
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Black Ops 1 wants to talk to you - its Zombie Mode allows just that (via Mulekick Perk).fix-the-spade said:
Still, a CoD by GearBox? Wouldn't mind. I mean, Treyarch is already giving the series a (relatively speaking) slight twist even if you don't count the Zombie mode.
very true. a person who has above the average but not yet good connection will have trouble due to how his connection is loaded being the host. take mine for example which according to speedtest fit in 5% top in the world - it will jsut hammer though it with no problem at all and i will have 0 ping.Dogstile said:According to speedtest, my internet is better than 90% of the UK (When Virgin isn't dropping the fucking connection. Get it together!). This means I am always the host and we abused it horrifically as all my friends who lived near me would all get a fantastically low ping. Sometimes we'd be able to get in an extra two bullets before an enemy even realised we had started firing.SkarKrow said:There are servers? I was under the impression that it was P2P hosted and that's why it plays like arse if you have an above-average internet connection.DVS BSTrD said:That's because the only challenge in making a Call of Duty game these days is keeping the Multi-player severs running
OT: I swear I read this a good week ago... really? The Escapist news room is either slow or deliberately misleading today it seems.
P2P hosting methods are broken as hell. Above average connection,you will be owned constantly due to it taxing your connection. Awesome connection and you will just effortlessly steamroll everyone.
there is a downside though. i play on a very slow computer, so if the game itself (not the internet) lags for me, it leave little for the hosting part, so whole match starts seeing spikes due to low hardware. oh how fun it is when they dont understand why the game just "Froze up for me for 2 seconds"
Condescend away, Randy! I'm glad you had more class than to stick your head in the boring bucket of shit that is the CoD series.
I kind of imagine something like the WWI themed levels of Timesplitters, with Captain Price being more like Captain Ash...Suddenly I want it to happen.kburns10 said:
I get something around 12MB/s through my cable, wifi in my room is down to something like 3MB/s.Dogstile said:According to speedtest, my internet is better than 90% of the UK (When Virgin isn't dropping the fucking connection. Get it together!). This means I am always the host and we abused it horrifically as all my friends who lived near me would all get a fantastically low ping. Sometimes we'd be able to get in an extra two bullets before an enemy even realised we had started firing.SkarKrow said:There are servers? I was under the impression that it was P2P hosted and that's why it plays like arse if you have an above-average internet connection.DVS BSTrD said:That's because the only challenge in making a Call of Duty game these days is keeping the Multi-player severs running
OT: I swear I read this a good week ago... really? The Escapist news room is either slow or deliberately misleading today it seems.
P2P hosting methods are broken as hell. Above average connection,you will be owned constantly due to it taxing your connection. Awesome connection and you will just effortlessly steamroll everyone.
If I take my cable and shove it in my PS3 everybody is just lag fodder in COD and thats boring. If I try to use my wifi I lag like crazy. They did do that stupid thing where if you had a better connection you basically got mandatory, think that was in MW3.
I never lag on PC mind, but then that's usually dedicated servers. I do get ripped apart by aimbots a fair bit though.
Dedicated servers are a much better solution provided they don't sell them all off like EA did with BF3.
Ah randy, for every time you feed us the necessary PR bullshit there are statements like this which makes me really like gearbox.
But wait, isn't a big chunk of cod the zombie mode by now? And are we not getting something like that in colonial marines?
But wait, isn't a big chunk of cod the zombie mode by now? And are we not getting something like that in colonial marines?
*checks to see what Gearbox has done in past 10 years*
*finds out that they've done nothing special*
*finds out they've done nothing on a technical level*
*finds out that they're mostly linear shooters*
They should have done it as this would've given them some money to actually do something.
Activision - Cod (it broke record sales *shrug*)
Blizzard - Starcraft and Wow
Bioware - ME1
Microsoft - Halo 1
CD Projeckt - witcher
Valve -HL
And so forth...
*finds out that they've done nothing special*
*finds out they've done nothing on a technical level*
*finds out that they're mostly linear shooters*
They should have done it as this would've given them some money to actually do something.
Activision - Cod (it broke record sales *shrug*)
Blizzard - Starcraft and Wow
Bioware - ME1
Microsoft - Halo 1
CD Projeckt - witcher
Valve -HL
And so forth...
So instead of making one episode in a dull, grey, poorly balanced shooter franchise (CoD), Gearbox decides to forge its own path... and creates its own dull, grey, poorly balanced shooter franchise (Borderlands) but with *pseudo-RPG* elements! Intellectual freedom, huzzah!
Have fun reveling in your mediocrity, guys, while the rest of us play XCOM and Far Cry 3.
Have fun reveling in your mediocrity, guys, while the rest of us play XCOM and Far Cry 3.
(I would have mentioned Duke Nukem Forever, but a: that wasn't entirely Gearbox's fault; and b: I've spent the better part of a year trying to wipe that abomination from my mind.)
They added existence to DNF, which was a pretty radical shift in development.DrunkOnEstus said:
I'm glad they didn't work with Activision, we wouldn't have gotten Borderlands 2 otherwise. Plus trained chimps can churn out a dozen COD games in a year. It doesn't take much effort to change the number on the box art.
