What were the technical roadblocks to Bungie pulling off on-line Halo 2 co-op?
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Patrick Klepek
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Sai said:
the true mystery
The Abominable Snowman
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You can't appropiately, to the T, sync the games online, from what I heard. It'd be a bad experience. People would just bitch about it.
I'd like to see those Elite rocket packs in the future. That'd rock as Downloadable Content.
I'd like to see those Elite rocket packs in the future. That'd rock as Downloadable Content.
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FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
God, I wish this was in there. I assume they know that a lot of people feel that way and if they could have, they would have (within reasonable constraints).
xexex said:
Those are perfectly good reasons why they took out the stencil shadow lighting and such, but not why online co-op isn't in (since neither would have much effect on it).
My best guess would be (as suggested above) that there isn't enough bandwidth when you get into areas where there are very large numbers of characters fighting against/with you. In those situations, you are probably well over the 16 player limit for regular multiplayer. There may also be memory constraints - there isn't enough room in memory to run the campaign and maintain networking information for each character.
Either way - I hope it comes out as a download later. I'm probably the only person out there who would trade the whole online multiplayer mode for online co-op. It was a huge disappointment to me that they didn't include it.
LinesInTheSand
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http://www.svencoop.com/ghostface said:
ToyMachine228
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While there is a Halo 2 topic being discussed...Can anyone get me a video of "Sword Flying"?
ToyMachine228 said:
http://files2.bungie.org/learningtofly.mov
^^QT, 27meg
http://files.mythica.org/halo/darkhelmet/learningtofly.wmv
^^WMP, 42meg
Amazing stuff.
Parallax Scroll
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Hahaha, awesome.GhaleonEB said:
Uncle Dukey
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I still think it's cruel that there's a co-op selection in system link mode....
Demigod Mac
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Online co-op works well enough in Quake and Unreal. Then there's Sven Co-Op for Half-Life.
Littleberu
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Demigod Mac said:
And there's Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon.
I'm sure they stress tested co-op and had it working. Probably is...not every country has the same bandwidth....I'm sure in Japan with their 10MB+ broadband for dirt cheap you could do Halo 2 co-op without a problem...but in the UK for example where even 1MB is still expensive, forget it. But I wouldn't be surprised to see it avaliable as a download content offering next year - some UK ISP providers start proving 3-4MB links from early next year. Bye Bye BT those money grabbing bastards and their 30 GIG cap.
Nobody ever actually created a CO-OP mod for Halo PC either...
Hell, has there even been a high quality CO-OP mod for Doom 3?
System Shock 2 is the PC CO-OP king!
However, all of those games load data in an entirely different fashion than Halo and Halo 2. I believe that's part of the problem...
Those games simply load a map on both machines and start. When you reach the end of that map, a new map loads. Halo doesn't work like that...
Hell, has there even been a high quality CO-OP mod for Doom 3?
System Shock 2 is the PC CO-OP king!
However, all of those games load data in an entirely different fashion than Halo and Halo 2. I believe that's part of the problem...
Those games simply load a map on both machines and start. When you reach the end of that map, a new map loads. Halo doesn't work like that...
Littleberu
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dark10x said:
There hasn't been a high quality Doom 3 mod or Halo mod to begin with. The community isn't there.