One reason OFP2 will fail!

NO DEDICATED SERVERS

Have fun playing multiplayer guys, gonna lag like crazy above 8 players... hmmm I guess that's why consoles only have 8 players.

It is the end of the world! :V

Oh no!

Think of the children!

I hate games with GOOD mutliplayer gameplay that implement a horrible system.

First Red Faction (so much potential, imagine huge 32 player destruction warfare on dedicated servers and ingame chat) now this.

...:lol: :lol:You scared me there bro.What makes you think i wanna play it in multiplayer? If thats the case i got arma 2. Playable singleplayer campaign is the point...

NO DEDICATED SERVERS

Have fun playing multiplayer guys, gonna lag like crazy above 8 players... hmmm I guess that's why consoles only have 8 players.

simardbrad

NO DEDICATED SERVERS

Have fun playing multiplayer guys, gonna lag like crazy above 8 players... hmmm I guess that's why consoles only have 8 players.

simardbrad

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NO DEDICATED SERVERS

Have fun playing multiplayer guys, gonna lag like crazy above 8 players... hmmm I guess that's why consoles only have 8 players.

Dr_Brocoli

Hey, I found other reasons on a forum:

- no indicators for your squad's position. If one of your mates is hurt and falls down, you'll spend ages searching for him in the grass.

- you have no idea where the enemies are shooting from. ARMA's soldiers shout stuff like "enemy at 12 o'clock", which everybody knows what it means (since it's relative to YOUR position). Here, they shout the cardinal points - useless, because you have to check your compass first.

- press Q for the radial menu. The menu stays on-screen after you release Q, and you use WASD to navigate it. Crap.

- 60 degrees field of view. That is HORRIBLE. To put it in perspective, Bound in Blood has a 57 degrees FOV, and COD4 65 (which can be altered from the console, but OFP:DR has no such option).

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NO DEDICATED SERVERS

Have fun playing multiplayer guys, gonna lag like crazy above 8 players... hmmm I guess that's why consoles only have 8 players.

dos4gw82

I'm sensing some... I played the game this morning and it has no dedicated servers. At least the mission editor is still there. Then again the mission editor is not as user-friendly as the arma2 one.

From my sources, which I don't have a link (so you can believe me more not), OFP DR will have dedicated servers. They offloaded the programming of them to a 3rd party towards the end of development. They were rushed and really behind schedual.

As for other thing, the mission editor is actually much more powerful than that of ArmA 2's, at least from what I gather. A built in script editor really helps that. The AI in OFP is 10x smarter than ArmA 2's. The game engine is rock solid and runs well on a much wider range of machines. The game has amazing production values.

Dedicated servers may come or they may not. I hope they do.

I doubt the game will be as bad as ARMA II, itll take a lot to be that bad rofl.Dr_Brocoli

wow

Dedicated servers may come or they may not. I hope they do.Wasdie

It was pretty much a dealbreaker for me... no dedicated servers, no CD-key, no anti-cheat protection. They really half-assed the multiplayer in this one. I was expecting something to rival Battlefield 2, but it will be difficult if they don't provide proper resources for the community.

Also apparently no server browser...... wow.

It was pretty much a dealbreaker for me... no dedicated servers, no CD-key, no anti-cheat protection. They really half-assed the multiplayer in this one. I was expecting something to rival Battlefield 2, but it will be difficult if they don't provide proper resources for the community.

Also apparently no server browser...... wow.

MyopicCanadian

I've played it! It's a horrible game anyways!

I doubt the game will be as bad as ARMA II, itll take a lot to be that bad rofl.Dr_Brocoli

I've played it! It's a horrible game anyways!

deathtrooper31

how so?

the only real negative seems to be this (the multiplayer) and the difficulty from what I have read

now I wouldn't say the game is horrible, it just shouldn't be called OFP.

kinda reminds me of a mix of BF2 and COD4..

PHEW! i almost pre-ordered this. i was hoping for something to replace BF2, but i guess i was hoping for little too much.

no server browsing / dedicated servers = console port = strict NO from me.

goddamn gaming industry...

kinda reminds me of a mix of BF2 and COD4..

simardbrad

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kinda reminds me of a mix of BF2 and COD4..

napalm_winter

So does being able to control the evolution of a species from primordial all the way through till space travel, at which point you become a galactic god and can do anything inside of an entire galaxy.

...:lol: :lol:You scared me there bro.What makes you think i wanna play it in multiplayer? If thats the case i got arma 2. Playable singleplayer campaign is the point...

dakan45

In that case, good luck having any fun playing that fugly, bad AI-ridden mess!

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...:lol: :lol:You scared me there bro.What makes you think i wanna play it in multiplayer? If thats the case i got arma 2. Playable singleplayer campaign is the point...

THA-TODD-BEAST

In that case, good luck having any fun playing that fugly, bad AI-ridden mess!

where are you people getting your information from?

yes at this point there is no dedicated servers which sucks but they are working on it... and there is server browsing.

NO DEDICATED SERVERSsimardbrad