Ok this is what I have to say after some experience the past few weeks.
I gotta show much love and respect to Microsoft and Blizzard. Why you ask? Well because, they're making Online gaming good, and extremely playable.
Here's my point: I've been playing UT2k3 and Warcraft 3 online almost nightly, if not more so. And with UT2k3 well I have a problem, most servers SUCK ASS (except Talen's that was lag free). Maybe it's cause I'm sticking to Deathmatch and all the really fast Servers are Bombing Run/CTF only but it's horrible right now. Ever since comcast came in and took over @Home it seems that most people don't have the bandwidth they used to (I've been capped to 14kB/sec upload, I used to get 120kB/sec). And quite honestly it's horrible that I can't get any good servers. Even sorting by ping doesn't help cause I've been on Ping 46 servers that had "Cozy Comcast Cable Server in NJ" which is my own fucking local ISP network! And it's laggy as hell, prolly cause the guy has a 14k/sec upload... <img src="graemlins/ohno.gif" border="0" alt="[Oh No]" />
And here's the other part of my UT2k3 worries: Cheaters Fucking people useing Aim Bots. I've seen a guy during a full strafe jump switch from link gun (two shots hit), to the Sniper Rifle and in the middle of his strafe jump NAIL ME with a head shot. He did this to tons of people (constant weapon switching with one or two accurate shots). It's happened to me on multiple servers. Fucking sucks ass.
But Warcraft 3...it's a breeze, a blast, no lag at all. Why? Battle.net Managed servers, LOTS OF BANDWIDTH!! And it's FREE!!! Sure it's what keeps copies of the game selling for years but still if you own a legit copy it's free and fast and mostly trouble free. Cheaters get on, but don't last, Blizzard bans em pretty quick.
And finnally we get to Microsoft. XBox Live! is going to be pay based, broadband only, and managed servers. It's going to be fast, virtually lag free, and the perfect place to play all the online console games I've been dreaming to play. I mean seriously playing CvS2 and MvC2 in a virtually lag free managed enviornment is a dream come true.
Anyway, that's about what I got to say, but I'd also like to know: Anyone have any good lag-free UT2k3 servers I can add to my favorites list?
Peace
JHendrix
[ October 13, 2002: Message edited by: JHendrix ]</p>
I gotta show much love and respect to Microsoft and Blizzard. Why you ask? Well because, they're making Online gaming good, and extremely playable.
Here's my point: I've been playing UT2k3 and Warcraft 3 online almost nightly, if not more so. And with UT2k3 well I have a problem, most servers SUCK ASS (except Talen's that was lag free). Maybe it's cause I'm sticking to Deathmatch and all the really fast Servers are Bombing Run/CTF only but it's horrible right now. Ever since comcast came in and took over @Home it seems that most people don't have the bandwidth they used to (I've been capped to 14kB/sec upload, I used to get 120kB/sec). And quite honestly it's horrible that I can't get any good servers. Even sorting by ping doesn't help cause I've been on Ping 46 servers that had "Cozy Comcast Cable Server in NJ" which is my own fucking local ISP network! And it's laggy as hell, prolly cause the guy has a 14k/sec upload... <img src="graemlins/ohno.gif" border="0" alt="[Oh No]" />
And here's the other part of my UT2k3 worries: Cheaters Fucking people useing Aim Bots. I've seen a guy during a full strafe jump switch from link gun (two shots hit), to the Sniper Rifle and in the middle of his strafe jump NAIL ME with a head shot. He did this to tons of people (constant weapon switching with one or two accurate shots). It's happened to me on multiple servers. Fucking sucks ass.
But Warcraft 3...it's a breeze, a blast, no lag at all. Why? Battle.net Managed servers, LOTS OF BANDWIDTH!! And it's FREE!!! Sure it's what keeps copies of the game selling for years but still if you own a legit copy it's free and fast and mostly trouble free. Cheaters get on, but don't last, Blizzard bans em pretty quick.
And finnally we get to Microsoft. XBox Live! is going to be pay based, broadband only, and managed servers. It's going to be fast, virtually lag free, and the perfect place to play all the online console games I've been dreaming to play. I mean seriously playing CvS2 and MvC2 in a virtually lag free managed enviornment is a dream come true.
Anyway, that's about what I got to say, but I'd also like to know: Anyone have any good lag-free UT2k3 servers I can add to my favorites list?
Peace
JHendrix
[ October 13, 2002: Message edited by: JHendrix ]</p>