HellFyre69 Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Originally posted by Bar_Tender I actually posted my reason, but I will elaborate. I'm one of those weirdos who actually prefers playing people he KNOWS, instead of playing on a random server. For finding games with my friends, loading QTracker, a small and quick-loading program, makes more sense than loading JO, which takes a bit of time. Also, with QTracker, I can search for more than one friend at once, unlike the JO search function. With QTracker, I can find the servers easily, and go straight into them when I load the game. where can i get this Qtracker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dissectional Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 The zone sux hardcore. I used to play on it in my old school q2 and jk1 days. lags like a mofo and nothing but noobs all over. jk2 i've tried on it and i spent the nwxt 2 days crying because it was so lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Brophy Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 the zone is very laggy and barely anyone plays on it but then again most clans play on the zone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthbong Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 THE ZONE IS A VERY BAD THING! I hate the zone. It sucks hardcore. Gamespy is okay. I use it wolfenstein and quake 3 alot, but have never used it with JK2 the in game browers works fine for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nhoj Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Originally posted by HellFyre69 one question... Why ppl use third party programs to find server... THe game has one.. and is very usefull!!! Why would they even think of using a program to find a server? I use Gamespy 3D instead of in-game browsers because: 1. I can set a list of "buddies." 2. I can set lists of favorite servers as well as see every server out there 3. It does just about every multi-player game, so I need to fire up only 1 application to see who's playing JKII, Q3, Tribes, etc. (and highlights servers with those in my buddy list). When I want to join a server, I just double-click it and it will launch the appropriate game and my custom configs. 4. There are IRC scripts that integrate the game launchers with IRC so it will announce that I joined a server, give the time and the address so that other's in my IRC rooms may choose to follow. Do NOT confuse this with Gamespy Arcade; I can't stand the one at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Hamlet Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 i use gamespy because i play rogue spear as well, and all of my old rs friends are on gs, and i dare not go to zone for rs, they actually have ppl pay for a patch that is supposed to stop cheating and doesnt, yet the people buy it and get cheated against anyway, so i stay away from zone as if it were not only a plague, but hell itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heide Posted July 9, 2002 Share Posted July 9, 2002 Originally posted by HellFyre69 where can i get this Qtracker? Here: http://www.qtracker.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emon Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 Originally posted by Agen_Terminator in game server finder=useless. Only if you're stupid and can't find a game without every little detail spelled out in perfect english in front of your face. The ingame browser is the fastest, the All Seeing Eye is really fast and has some great sorting options. I use both. GameSpy and the Zone are utter crap, avoid them like the plague. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JandoFett1842 Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 Say NO to the Zone! It sucks, wont ever load the game, chrashs my cpu sometimes, it just plain suck crap! I play on the in game severs! ONLY!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellFyre69 Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 ok here's a thought... Let say i'm using the in game browser? will i be able to look at gamespy's servers than you can find there.. or the other way around? gamespy can find in game browser? thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agen Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 Only if you're stupid and can't find a game without every little detail spelled out in perfect english in front of your face. I was donig it to get my ponit across, Q-Tracker and the all-seeing eye are the business. Gamespy and The zone are obsolete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrEEk_OuTcAsT Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 Because something is Microsoft or has .net requirements doesn't mean it must suck. Zone.com was one of the first serious and stable 3rd party online gaming clients and it still is the best for this even because of other reasons it doesn't support many games. Yes for JK2 the zone is not the best thing because most servers are dedicated but for the other games it rocks. If has an awesome game finder is ultra fast, uses minor resources, is ultra stable and uses a perfect Friends program. I can't really understand people using Gamecpy (both arcade and 3d). For the arcade users it is just stupid. With every click you do you have 400 banners in your face and you also have to wait for some time till they disappear. Non-broadhand connections have a great problem with Arcade because your bandwidth is downloading more banners than server info with results of awful unreal pings and more. From the other side Zone is very stable and doesn't have annoying banners. Yes the .net thing was a bad thing but still, it is the best service for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greedo626 Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 (I didn't read this whole thread) I used gamespy pre-1.03. now I just use the in game menu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HellFyre69 Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 Originally posted by GrEEk_OuTcAsT Because something is Microsoft or has .net requirements doesn't mean it must suck. LoL i agree.. I assume most of you guys must be using a version of windows... (XP 2000, me, or even 98!).. unless yall are using linux, or mac os (EWWWW) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrYepp Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 No the .net stuff makes it ultra-complicated to get an alias, or to sign up at all.. I only resigned up to play JK1, otherwise there's no way I would've put up with that crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
power_ed Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 i go with qtracker.. its a very usefull program.. and unlike the ASE its free to use the clan tag search function. in ASE you have to register as in PAY to enable that function. ::/Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moldy_Bun_Bolon Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 Whatever you do don't playo the zone it sucks the only game i play on the zone is age of kings anyway i ALWAYS get kicked out of zone servers for some reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|DEM|Mosleg Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 Nope, I tend to stay away from Zone simply because there are so many lamers there. I usually join games either from GameSpy Arcade, or from multiplayer within the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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