@ superrey19
I'm guessing the difference lies in the fact that the server list in BF3 is displayed pretty much instantaneously as opposed to in-game server lists, where you download the entire server lists with all the additional data like player names etc. and have to wait for the entire process to finish.
Still, it's a dumb idea and one of many shining example of DICE's crappy design practices. You have the game running, you close it, you ch...
So? It doesn't make it a good system. Certain people would like it even if DICE included a huge thorny dildo with each copy of the game that they'd need "use" to keep the game running. I can't reason with that.
Yes, but in case of both these games and many other idTech based titles that I played using a third party server browser, you always had the option to use the in-game browser if you so preferred and, most importantly, you could just right click, copy th IP, paste it in the console and connect to a new server without having to restart the whole game. Can you do that in BF3?
"I mean seriously...name one battlefield title that wasn't plagued with server browser issues at launch."
Here's an idea: Instead of pulling stupid shit like this, how about they hire someone competent enough to create an in-game server browser that actually works? That's insane, I know! Why would anybody do that? It just makes too much god damn sense.
Welp, DICE never was good at fixing stuff. That's why their games feel like ea...
Interesting. Some nice servers you must be frequenting then. That or the COD/BF/"pseudo-realistic soldier simulator FPS" crowd's getting worse and worse as years go by.
2011, when having dedicated servers in an FPS multiplayer game gets you in the news... Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.
What?
Let Carmack out of his office and let him talk tech 24/7. I'd say that's somewhat of a novel way to create media buzz around an upcoming game. And it works, I love listening to this guy.
MAC? Anything for Solaris or BeOS while you're at it?
@ Laika
OK, and you have every right to think that. When a 6'8" basketball player enters a room that's 7 feet high, he'll tell you that the ceiling is pretty low; on the other hand, somebody who's 4'5" may see it quite differently. See what I'm getting at? It's all a matter of perspective.
Let me help.
These games all look and play the same. They're all equally laughable as, even though they're supposedly all about competition between players, they mostly consist of wading through 5496504306580435609548509 of AI controlled monsters every single match. They require very little skill to play, the skill ceiling is incredibly low, the controls are terribly limiting. They're kind of like a dumbed down mix of an action game and an RTS for the mentally h...
If you had read my reply with actual comprehension, you would've realized that I am aware of the distinction between the two. Either way, he's wrong. The only one who's confused about this topic is you.
What the... You're so misinformed it hurts.
First of all, global warming is a fact. There have been periods when our planet was much hotter and much cooler than it currently is. Right now, it's getting warmer. The question is, how much of an impact burning of fossil fuels has on the rise of global temperatures.
Also, we've been around for at least 50,000 years (in our current form), possibly more than that. The Earth formed around 4.5 billion ...
Keyboards don't have pressure control. None of them do. In some keyboards, you could press a key to the point where it "flickers" on and off, but generally the key is either pressed or it is not.
You can press the keys quickly enough to make the car go slower, brake lightly, take shallow turns. I used to play a lot of racing games on my kb before I bought a pad; I can play equally well using both controllers. Pad vs kb/mouse in any kind of game where you have ...
What a load of CRAP.
If you likened the whole FPS genre to sports where any kind of ball is used, be it baseball, basketball, golf, soccer, pool, bowling or whatever, then COD and BF would be like rugby and (American) football (or the other way around, doesn't matter). Sure, there are some differences, but if you take the entire spectrum of FPS games into account, you'll quickly realize that these two are almost identical products made with casual gamers in mind. Th...
Over 50 kills in a single life playing a snail-paced shooter with the skill ceiling set so low you need to lower your head even when you play it for the first time? God damn, that's pretty impressive. Want to post some pub score tables?
Not really meant to be offensive. As someone who plays these sorts of games competitively on top level, I find your douchy, elitist attitude quite laughable. Just sayin'.
@ DeadlyFire
Does _everyone_ like it now? I doubt it. Their client is a slow and laggy resource hog; it often eats up more resources than the game that I'm running through it. I often can't download the games that I paid for due to servers being overloaded or really slow download speed.
Competition is never a bad thing. Stop overhyping Valve. Their games are average at best and Steam isn't the best/most convenient/cheapest way to buy games for...
Is everyone so busy hating on COD (no, I'm not fond of the franchise myself) that they've forgotten about Electronic Arts all of a sudden? All the sports games they regurgitate every single year? The Sims games and the expansion packs? And most importantly in this case, the whole Battlefield franchise, which clearly reuses some of the code from the first game in the series as it exhibits the same kind of lag/rubberbanding issues it did a decade ago?
- 2002: BF1942, ...
@darkpower
"So why in the hell would you measure if someone would want to hack your server based on if they invested money into the game or not?"
First of all, stop overusing the term "hacking". 99,999% of the time, cheating in a online game has as much to do with actual hacking as changing a light bulb with being an electrical engineer.
Now, I'm going to try to answer your question with a simple example that should di...
Server browsers keeping previous map-data in their memory? What? The game does that. Unless it's restarted every time you change servers that is.
Loading new maps or restarting maps after the game's already been running for a while has always been drastically faster than loading them from scratch for the first time after launch. Just as it's much faster to reopen a large document in an application like, say, Adobe After Effects, that's already running, than ...