Wired
11-18-2002, 07:59 PM
well i talked with a few of the testers and game designers on the in game chat and found out this bad news....
1. dial up and cable connected people cant play against each other. example, im on dsl, therefore i cant play against a guy using dial up because it wont allow me.
this is a big time disapointment to me, this might mess with all my plans on putting on somewhat of a decent tournament... might be more of a headache then fun. we're keep figuring out ways.
another thing tonight that i noticed was the more people there is on, the worse the lag is.... what i mean by lag is that theres quads flyin all over and crashing for no reason. tonight while i was racing against alaska jim and a few others i crashed 3 times all on different straight aways for no apparent reason. hopefully it was just a bug and doesnt happen again.
well all in all this isnt shaping up to be the sort of online gaming i was expecting from a console system. hopefully it gets better and less lag and we;ll figure out something fun to do yet! :macho
1. dial up and cable connected people cant play against each other. example, im on dsl, therefore i cant play against a guy using dial up because it wont allow me.
this is a big time disapointment to me, this might mess with all my plans on putting on somewhat of a decent tournament... might be more of a headache then fun. we're keep figuring out ways.
another thing tonight that i noticed was the more people there is on, the worse the lag is.... what i mean by lag is that theres quads flyin all over and crashing for no reason. tonight while i was racing against alaska jim and a few others i crashed 3 times all on different straight aways for no apparent reason. hopefully it was just a bug and doesnt happen again.
well all in all this isnt shaping up to be the sort of online gaming i was expecting from a console system. hopefully it gets better and less lag and we;ll figure out something fun to do yet! :macho