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Article #76Re: Quake 2 and modem support comments.
From: Gash
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 00:00
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i don't know if you 2 have been playing on 2400's for the last year or what, but since the 9600's came out, modem play has been as smooth as it could be, and we're now playing at over 3 times that rate...what more do you want? If you want my advice, get a faster modem, obviously what you have can't be faster than a 4800.... --- >Gash< dsrt...@mho.net AbRaXuS wrote: > I second this. 1 on 1 is where the brain really gets a workout and > lagless > modemplay has been around for a long time since Quake. Heck, if id is > really lazy, rip out the DOOM code and put it back into Quake. > > -- > AbRaXuS of Clan Warmasters > http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hidayat/warmasters > > Lorne Torres <pe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article > <01bc7b99$5af74ae0$5cd2b4cf@qb-pers>... > > We know the guys at id are rich, driving extremely nice cars and > such.. > and > > I'm sure it's not a primary concern from what I can tell so far from > the > > interviews of the people in direct contact with the game that modem > play > is > > a priority... but we all dont have T1's in our homes to get smooth > games > on > > the net of course if we were all rich we'd have them...... there are > many > > out there that will only play on LAN's because of the amount of > lag...now > I > > dont want to get into why the internet is laggy for games and such, > but I > > would just like id software to consider adding good modem code to > the > game > > for people out there that want a good smooth one on one game. > > > > -=Persecutor=- > > > > > >
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