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cherryghost wrote: »I'd be interested but it depends on the ticket prices
idk the prices mate but ill pm ya the code anyway
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For now at least, it just depends on how technology in general advances really... when i first started playing online(About 11 years ago), 56k modems were the norm. Most of the time you'd be on a 250+ ping, within 5 years everyone was on 512KB boardband, pings were dropping to 60-70 average and before i stopped playing online(On PC) 20-30pings were the norm with 10MB being the standard... 5 years from now... i'd imagine most people will have 100MB fibre optic BB.. at least. So over the last 10 years internet has improved by nearly 100 times.. if it did that again over the next 10 years..
Once the hardware and network infrastructure improves there won't really be a need for dedicated servers as the host will be just as good. There will always be that host advantage.. but.. it'll eventually be so marginal that it wont make much difference. The biggest loss of dedicated servers wont be the superior connection.. imo it'll be that continuing to go down the matchmaking route, you'll lose a lot of communities.
Its also the game developers responsibility to have decent netcode aswel. TBH... i was suprised at how well MW2 ran when i first tried it out as it was my first time playing online on a console... especially since the main game i played before hand had such a huge "****ING LAG !!" culture (i.e... blame every death on lag) and has probably the best hitboxes and netcode out of any FPS to date.
Listen... Marty Mc-fookin Fly will be zooming around in his hover-skateboard before the likes of Eircom, UPC etc catch up with the rest of the world.
These games have a shelf life of exclusivity of one year. With millions of people playing online, there's f**k all excuse.
I accept that some people's "go-to" excuse is Lag.. but it doesn't invalidate when it IS the real issue. I've lost count of the times a kill-cam's version of events differs immensly from what happened from my perspective.
Removing stopping power IMHO was a great move in general. One person's gun should be as powerful in his/her hand (...ok "his" - who are we kidding
) as in the hand's of the opponent. The propogators of SP will say that it evens the field if they have worse connection, but they are forgetting the person with the better connection can be even better if they select that perk.
The next step is dedicated servers.
Frankly, I don't mind that much getting killed in a fair fight... what makes it fookin infuriating is getting killed in an unfair fight.0
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