adillon Posted February 15, 2005 Share Posted February 15, 2005 if my memory serves me right, half-life was never playable online. HL2 is playable online now (HL2 deathmatch) but isn't fully tuned, is still lacking proper animations for some aspects, and still has some bugs that need to be worked out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Nah, Half-Life was playable online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adillon Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 well heck, i sit corrected ... and all this time i though CS was brought about because there was no online playability for HL. go figure ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifandor Posted February 16, 2005 Author Share Posted February 16, 2005 I wonder if the server setup will be like it is not with battelfront the stand alone server if not that might suck cause i dont think anyone want to sacrafice thier game so everyone can have a server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Uhm... you can start a server and play in it in BF. Anyway, I believe this will be set up more like UT, considering it uses the UT engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifandor Posted February 16, 2005 Author Share Posted February 16, 2005 UT? and...... I mean like where you can creat and run a dedicated server on window instead of a PC server Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Yeah, run a dedicated server, then just click back into the game. And you can play on your dedicated server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifandor Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 sweet...........Ive never heard of a game where you can play your own dedicated server before that will be awsome. For battlefront i was using only my laptop to use a dedicated server that i could get into and playing the game on my good PC. im not going to host or anything because my computer wont be able to handle it on dont think, sweet...... At least ther shouldn't be a shortage in servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coupes. Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 If you play on your "dedicated" server, then it's not a dedicated server anymore, is it ? Isn't that the whole purpose of a dedicated server ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifandor Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 Originally posted by coupes. If you play on your "dedicated" server, then it's not a dedicated server anymore, is it ? Isn't that the whole purpose of a dedicated server ? That is what i was thinking allthough it is very possible. for example say in a game that is not dedicated. You can be playing kick some one.....use adminisrative opstions, what ever. with this maybe you wont be able to do that unless you go back to your server options and use the admin opstions their. Maybe when you are playing in your own server you are just like an outsider with now power. could be idk...guess we'll just have to see.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adillon Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 running a dedicated server (and i'm talking from my JK2 experience) puts the game into a console which you can then minimize. you'll need to start up a second session of the game and connect to your server (via IP address, server browser, etc) in order to play on it. as for admin powers within your server, you'll need to set up an admin password via your server configs. after joining the game, you can then login using the proper console command(s), and be able to kick/ban/etc to your heart's content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 Originally posted by coupes. If you play on your "dedicated" server, then it's not a dedicated server anymore, is it ? Isn't that the whole purpose of a dedicated server ? It's still dedicated because even after you leave the game the server is still running so long as you have a constant connection to the internet. Originally posted by adillon running a dedicated server (and i'm talking from my JK2 experience) puts the game into a console which you can then minimize. you'll need to start up a second session of the game and connect to your server (via IP address, server browser, etc) in order to play on it. Exactly. That's how it is in a majority of games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifandor Posted February 18, 2005 Author Share Posted February 18, 2005 dont people only usually play dedicated servers though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Originally posted by Sifandor dont people only usually play dedicated servers though? Most, but not all. Why? I don't really see where they question came from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifandor Posted February 18, 2005 Author Share Posted February 18, 2005 Originally posted by InsaneSith Most, but not all. Why? I don't really see where they question came from. eh, i dont know either... Just wonderin.. lol.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coupes. Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Thanks for your answers guys, as you probably have guessed, I've never set up a server, or a dedicated serverfor that matter. My understanding was that dedicated severs were used instead of "normal" servers to get better performances overall, so I didn't really see the point in setting one up if you still played on it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurgan Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Originally posted by adillon if my memory serves me right, half-life was never playable online. HL2 is playable online now (HL2 deathmatch) but isn't fully tuned, is still lacking proper animations for some aspects, and still has some bugs that need to be worked out. If memory serves, Half Life had standard deathmatch (and a few options) right out of the box like every other FPS, but with subsequent patches and map packs (officially released) Team Fortress Classic was added. Then came the mods which became commercial expansions for HL, like Counter Strike. It's a bit confusing because some of the more popular mods became commercial. The same thing happened incidentally with UT. The publisher (Valve for HL, Epic for UT) paid certain mod groups to finish and release their projects in a box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurgan Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is how its referred to: A "listen server" is when you're just running the game and people can join. It's non-dedicated. If you exit the game, it's over and everybody is disconnected. A "dedicated" server can be on your own box or a seperate box, but it's the one where it's a console window that can be minimized. It is supposed to save resources by not having to render all the 3-D stuff in real time, however you can still join your own. Usually running a Dedicated Server requires a little more processing power than a listen server, but with powerful machines it's not such a big deal to join your own on the same machine. The thing is most pc gamers run windows as an operating system, but use a Linux dedicated server (on a linux box they have or on a rental server), due to issues of stability (and Linux is free) and because most people don't have a super high speed connection necessary to run a big server. Plus and the fact that if you surf the net or do anything online while running the server in the background, the players get lag as a result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Pretty much, yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagabond Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 Anyway, I'm looking forward to this game too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifandor Posted February 21, 2005 Author Share Posted February 21, 2005 I hopw IGN's review isnt entirely true because i would like this game to be the best on ei have, I am not a hardcore gamer or anything but i know a good game when i see it. I have not had ALOt of experience with games so i have not see the greatest of them but i think this one will be one of my best. Who is this guy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurgan Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 It's a battledroid from The Phantom Menace. And a greater nerd than I can tell you what kind of Battle droid... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Another review has been released, and again, multiplayer does not seem to satisfy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Originally posted by ZBomber Another review has been released, and again, multiplayer does not seem to satisfy. They said it was good, but not revolutionary or anything spectacular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Originally posted by InsaneSith They said it was good, but not revolutionary or anything spectacular. I think people just assumed that a squad based Star Wars game would have a revolutionary MP. I thought it'd be *sorta* revolutionary... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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