Whiskey's Airborne PC Multi-Player Preview + Recent Updates

[Whiskey]

Hiya! My article is now up over at PlanetMOH, combining information from the Ft. Bragg MP summit, and a recent trip to EALA to see some of the fixes/updates they were telling us about.

Danke!

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[rudedog]

Whiskey, is it possible for you to find out if EA will be offering servers 0-day for the general public?

Because if we have to upload 7+ gigs of files, it's going to take a while before we see anyone playing online.

Also all these non disclosed features you speak of. Will EA be releasing a list of things to expect before the game ships so we know what to expect in the coming patches?

Also do you know the time line EA is shooting for, in regards to patches after the game ships?

Any information you can provide us, is appreciated. Thanks for your time.

[Wolverine]

Ranked vs. Unranked
Ranked servers will continue to be investigated and researched for possible inclusion sometime down the road in a later patch/update.

Translation:
"If this game sells well enough in the first three months or so we will then implement the ranked server scheme"

Oh really? Guess I won't be bothering with this game then. Not gonna spend all the time and money just to have EA stick it in and break it off a few months down the road.

[Dirtynap]

Ranked Servers:

Thats the first mention I have heard of any developer implenting a ranked system on the U3 engine. I was hoping no one would bother.

I would like games developers to have a global system but have it bulit into ever game server and then admins could opt in or out when they wanted, at no extra cost to them. Plus it would be cool if admins could get the stats from there server and display them on there websites if they wished.

What I don't like about ranked systems are that they cost people more, they have unlocks, I hate not being able to use all the weapons (that I paid for) until I spend 3000 hours of my life playing the game.

Thats just me, I hope that MoH:A doesn't go ranked, for starts it kills the modding community stone dead.
Yes Battlefield has its mods but they are not exactly drawing vast numbers of players, or servers, and they probably never will.

[Manzi]

Whiskey, is it possible for you to find out if EA will be offering servers 0-day for the general public?

Because if we have to upload 7+ gigs of files, it's going to take a while before we see anyone playing online.

Any information you can provide us, is appreciated. Thanks for your time.

http://www.totalairborne.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7885&postcount=25

Just FYI, you will have to upload the full game to the server to set it up. I know that's not what a lot of you want to hear, BUT we're trying to make it so that when patches and stuff come out you won't have to reupload the whole thing. It will just address what's been changed. But that's all going to have to be figured out by engineers who generally know far more than I do

[rudedog]

See this is what happens when they don't listen.

FYI guys,

from what I've been told, Ranked server if there will ever be any in Airborne is not like ranked server for BF.

I told them to get away from calling them ranked because of the confusion BF carries. This also carries over to IW and CoD4 and their interpretations of ranked server which again from what I'm told will not be like BFs

However this could all change with a patch or two or three....

[rudedog]

Thanks Manzi,

I'm glad they listened to me on the separate patches for servers, let's hope they get that right.

What I was asking Whiskey is, will EA be hosting servers until the community can get the CDs / DVD uploaded to servers around the world.

I know once. the first one or two GSPs gets the files up on fat pipes, they usually share these files ( I can see the top brass at EA cringe at that, oh well give us lemons and we will make lemonaid).

Cross our fingers that this will work in the long run.

[Wolverine]

from what I've been told, Ranked server if there will ever be any in Airborne is not like ranked server for BF.
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EALA needs to adopt the QS9000 standard. What it says, basically, is that you say what you do and do what you say. As for their PR it would be more like say what you mean and mean what you say.

[TSI_Destroyer_NL]

looks like im uploading 8 gigs to our ded box lol.:rolleyes:
last time i uploaded cod2 it took more then 14 hours .

ps:good review whiskey..

[Dirtynap]

I would just like know when the Linux files will be out, if ever.

Also I know U3 is multi threading but is it also 64bit server wise?

[DPGmaximus]

What upsets me the most is that I was hoping the Objective mode was going to be like MOHAA where it's round based, and you have to blow up a certain objective. I saw the post that there could be something like this in a future patch, but wth why wait? Why not give the fans something they can really cheer about. Man, I just hope this game isn't over hyped like MOH:PA was.

[ButchCassidy]

I would just like know when the Linux files will be out, if ever.

Also I know U3 is multi threading but is it also 64bit server wise?

I believe that the UE3 Engine can run in native 64 bit if the game code is developed that way.

[TSI_Destroyer_NL]

i was hoping for some more server info from EA or from like say IW
sence for my clan on our ded box we host spearhead and cod2.

all i know know is dedicated server at launch
6 maps
3 gametypes al tho i stil say TDM is TDM parachuting down is not making it a difrent gametype (verticality in moh is not something new on my server i have flyable planes and teleports so u can also acses build roofs etcetc. )

Pb out of the box and hooks on DMW

12/16 players.

Create an EA acount to even play MP



But simpel info about maybe a thing called Auto download is that even in there? or Http redirect dual or even quad cpu support a clear awnser about the ranking of servers speaking of ranked here is a question.


Question.1 when you bring out a game whit your first intention is to make it ranked/unranked but know on release you say its unranked or no ranking system yet you either play whit all upgrades on or all upgrades off.

After release modders mappers are going to look in tho,s files and try /will mod the game i have no doubt that after release in that first week there wil be mods out there! so whats going to happen if EA brings out a patch that enabels the rank system couse basicly all the servers that run until the ranking comes are unranked.

if patches come that enable the rank system where is the software for the rank system ?(is that already in the 7 gigs we all uploaded to our boxes) couse clearley if ranking is in the first patch there wil be thousands of unranked servers online!

[Grim]

Good write up Whiskey!



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