The UT2K4 Demo

[I am Idler]

Originally Posted by Flavius

Do you judge the quality of a game by the amount of problems with its code or the amount of players enjoying it?

both

[I am Idler]

Originally Posted by Flavius

Half-Life is WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH years old and still tons of people play it. I'd consider that a success

the people who plays it is happy that so many finds slow games and retarted weapons amusing.

These are the same people who buy britney spears records and thinks Theamion and Koen are worthy of breathing air

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally Posted by Flavius

Do you judge the quality of a game by the amount of problems with its code or the amount of players enjoying it?

Did you actually read my first post on the subject or are you just picking my opinions out of the aether?

I only care about coding when it affects the enjoyment of the game. In half life and counterstrike, the obvious flaws were the netcode and the weapon spray.

Furthermore, I said I didn't like counterstrike because I don't enjoy it.

Your point about games being popular is also pretty irrelevent.

Look at, say, System Shock 2. That's a great game, and it sold 3 copies. Ditto every other Looking Glass game, along with things like Battlezone.

On the other hand, we have games like Tiberium Sun, Red Alert 2 and The Sims, the last of which isn't even a game.

They're all popular.

[Intrepid00]

UT2k4, seems like a fun game, but nothing I am going to rush and get.

Fav is the buggy with the blades of doom. Stick those suckers out and slice down people in a bloddy mess

Not to mention, its really, really pretty on my 9800 Pro and yet so smooth.

[Leshy]

Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri

Look at, say, System Shock 2. That's a great game, and it sold 3 copies. Ditto every other Looking Glass game, along with things like Battlezone.

I have one of three copies of Thief & Thief 2?

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally Posted by Leshy

I have one of three copies of Thief & Thief 2?

As do I.

I wonder who has the other one.

[Intrepid00]

I 'had' theif but I smashed it to pieces and throw it out.

[pablissimo]

Hey you can break the blades off that buggy dealy by driving it into lampposts

How fantas

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally Posted by pablissimo

Hey you can break the blades off that buggy dealy by driving it into lampposts

How fantas

Or other vehicles, or the wall.

[Intrepid00]

Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri

Or other vehicles, or the wall.

There ment to slice people up, not veichles.

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally Posted by Intrepid00

There ment to slice people up, not veichles.

Yep. Which is why they break off.

[Intrepid00]

Which is the neatest feature.

[BesigedB]

Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri

Yep. Which is why they break off.

The gun thing on it is a bit crap though.

[Intrepid00]

Originally Posted by BesigedB

The gun thing on it is a bit crap though.

It is? Power up, its wide shot and it hurts a lot on infantry and other buggies.

[Lupin]

Originally Posted by I am Idler

the people who plays it is happy that so many finds slow games and retarted weapons amusing.

These are the same people who buy britney spears records and thinks Theamion and Koen are worthy of breathing air

suffering from cliche makes you blind, an ol' man told me once.

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally Posted by BesigedB

The gun thing on it is a bit crap though.

It's great if you can use it. Kills small vehicles (and foot people) in one hit, severly damages the Hellbender and tank.

[pablissimo]

The gun thing is very useful against powercores.

Just an FYI.

[Intrepid00]

Originally Posted by pablissimo

The gun thing is very useful against powercores.

Just an FYI.

Interesting.

[Deciduous]

I must have downloaded the wrong thing, I seem to be playing Halo

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally Posted by Deciduous

I must have downloaded the wrong thing, I seem to be playing Halo

The vehicle physics is reasonably similar to halo, but the vehicles are much better designed, and the gametype is more similar to a structured BF1942.

Of course, that's only the ONE MODE out of the multitude on offer.

[Intrepid00]

Learned spider mines will seek targets with seconday mode laser pointer thing. So there was this buggy running up and down the center power core mowing people down. I just planted myself a little army of spider mines and sent them a few feet ahead. When the buggy came down to get me the spider mines took him out

It was quite fun.

[Intrepid00]

So I played last night again, I am emensly dissapointed by the netcode. It reminds me of BF1942 and if its released with poor netcoding like BF1942 at such god awful levels then I am most diffently waiting to buy it.

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally Posted by Intrepid00

So I played last night again, I am emensly dissapointed by the netcode. It reminds me of BF1942 and if its released with poor netcoding like BF1942 at such god awful levels then I am most diffently waiting to buy it.

The only problem I've found with the netcode is when servers hit the 18-24 person mark. It's been perfectly playable on a 12 person server with 120 ping, for me (and I'm used to 30's at the most)

[Intrepid00]

Yes, exactly. Just like BF1942 was at one point and I am not going to pay $50 again to wait for the netcode to get dcent for larger groups after a year.