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Article #606Epic to play over the net at E3 and mplayer?!?!
From: ge... Bad Karma
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 00:00
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How the hell are they gonnna do this without seriously embarrasing the company. I mean the game is all but unplayable over the net and I can imagine that it will be even worse on mplayer. I would love to be able to see this one up close and personal. If you ask me they should just send Mark to E3 and they should get back to finishing the game. It's unfinished, and the most important part of the game (multiplay) is what needs to be finished. Hey don't get me wrong the single play is incredible. The best I have ever played. It didn't effect me as much as Doom did, but that came out of nowhere so for me it made a bigger impact. It sure was fun eyeing those lizards playing dice and sneaking up on them with a loaded eight ball and clearing the room <g>. The multiplay aspect of fps is what ensures a games lasting success these days however. So in my view this is the most important part of these kind of games. Game designers should start there and work around it. Epic obviously did not do this, but hopefully it's not too late and they can fix it. Hopefully they can add some umph to the weapons too. I have played alot with the bots and even a few hours of net play and the weapons don't really hold my interest. A few tweaks here and there might some of the weapons actually fun to use. (I do like the rifle though alot). I'm finished with the game now I wanna play dm but I can't. Were gonna have to wait until after E3 and foreign releases before anything is done. Sounds like priorty isn't with deathmatch right now. Netplay is sevrerly broken, and I betcha it's gonna take months before they get it working right...if they even can...maybe there's something about the engine that won't allow it, who knows (not me). By then Halflife will be out, and maybe Sin etc. Those games will probably qw quality dm out of the box. If Unreal is not playable by then ppl will move on other games. Then what will we have? 200 ppl playing Unreal at mplayer and a few other straglers here and there...the games following will be over. Geoff Leach (Bad Karma) ICQ# 4063263
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From: ge...@centuryinter.net (Bad Karma) Subject: Epic to play over the net at E3 and mplayer?!?! Date: 1998/05/28 Message-ID: <356cbcfc.106197310@news.ld.centuryinter.net> X-Deja-AN: 357152980 Organization: CENTURYinter.net Newsgroups: alt.games.unreal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit