Do you think this affects Deathball?

Ker]v[et · Post by **Ker]v[et** » 14-05-2005 02:43

Well some stuff were sad about ut2007 and they came up with a "problem" of ut2k4 (the bold part) what you think? Does this effekt our DB? O_o
/me thinks about boosting and 4jumps

English:

Down With The Hip-Hop
Also expect to see a big change in player movement, with a lot of UT2K4's bounciness dialed down. "You want the player to feel very powerful and free and able to do all kinds of cool stuff -- but it's not so cool when you can't hit the people you're playing against because they're doing [so much jumping around]. And there are also network considerations, especially since [a big part of this game is] Internet focused. It's hard when you've got some latency," Steve says.

German Translation:
Schluss mit dem Umhergehüpfe

Viel Neues darf man auch vom Player Movement erwarten, weil viel vom Gespringe und Gehüpfe aus UT2004 rausgenommen wird. "Der Spieler soll sich mächtig fühlen und frei allerlei coole Dinge zu machen, aber es ist einfach nicht cool, wenn man seinen Gegenspieler nicht erwischst, weil andauernd wie blöd durch die Gegend springen. Außerdem erzeugt das auch Probleme mit dem Netzwerk. Viele 'Lags' in UT2004 sind darauf zurückzuführen." sagt Steve.

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Scotteh · Post by **Scotteh** » 14-05-2005 04:22

instead of thinking ahead to ut2007, lets first wait to see if 2.4 ever comes out k?k.

beefsack · Post by **beefsack** » 14-05-2005 05:24

also ut2007 isnt going to be a simple port job for db, it would be an entire rewrite

would be awesome if ut2007 mods could run on the consoles and pc

i think the playerbase should be quite huge assuming epic dont do something bad with the game...but anyway its still more than a year away :p

NoSexualFreak · Post by **NoSexualFreak** » 14-05-2005 09:53

if db was to carry on until 2007, i would like to see it on another engine... bigger games will be out.

and yes dodge/jumping/blah will be fucked but it's upto davidm

`Ghost` · Post by **`Ghost`** » 14-05-2005 10:11

/me agrees with Scotteh

Ker]v[et · Post by **Ker]v[et** » 14-05-2005 15:02

Maybe i ask it wrong (wasnt talking about 2k7)but..
..what i ment was:

Do you think our UT2k4 mod DB is effected by this "latency cause of jumping" ?`I mean with boosting and stuff there is more "jumping around" as in the normal 2k4 games (partwise). Or isnt it really there or so small that we would not feel it.

you know?

Weisso · Post by **Weisso** » 14-05-2005 18:42

it's just normal latency caused by the packet transfer between client and server. it affects every game that is played online. the jumping around, such as in DM, is especially seen online as a problem since people can jump around and not be in the same position in reality as in an opposing client's screen due to the latency from packet transfer, however, it doesn't affect DB as much in terms of jumping as it does in things like keeping where people believe they caught balls, but in reality haven't

Ker]v[et · Post by **Ker]v[et** » 14-05-2005 19:37

ok, maybe the german translation was irritading to me as i red "that were the reason of most lags in ut2k4"

Messy · Post by **Messy** » 14-05-2005 19:51

"Viele 'Lags' in UT2004 sind darauf zurückzuführen."

WTF, that pretty much says most of the lag-problems can be brought back to the fact jumping is so important o_O

Bad translation?

Fragger · Post by **Fragger** » 15-05-2005 17:10

Will db even last that long?:hmmmz: