Having set aside a day for gaming today, I decided I might as well try Far Cry 2’s multiplayer this morning. I’ve not played a great deal of it, but its quite fun. What isn’t fun though, is the amount of bastard hackers on it.
I came across the first one on a team death match. I was doing my usual thing of sniping, when I spotted someone and emptied at least 5 shots into his chest. He was still standing. WTFOMGHAX! Because there was around 16 people on the server though, it wasn’t that big a deal. I had plenty of other people to kill. I say kill, my team was getting thrashed. So much in fact, that they were doubling our score.
After that abomination of a round it was on to a little four player deathmatch. One of these had the same ‘hack’. He would not die, no matter how many bullets or profanities I threw at him. It was infuriating. No matter how many times anyone shot/blew him up, he would still be standing. I got some sort of revenge in the end however. I spotted him just over a ridge and shot him a couple of times then hid. He came down looking for me and I darted past him, to just behind where he was originally. I hid in a little hut and prayed he never saw me. He never, and went back to his sniper post. That’s when I crept up behind him, and shoved a machete in his back. He died! Hazaa! I figured that he must have some sort of ‘I can’t take damage’ hack, but a machete in the back is a one hit kill. I thought it might just work, and it did.
It didn’t take me long to get used to FC2 multiplayer. It plays a lot like COD4, and I was quite good at that. I could see myself getting into it a lot more if it weren’t for one thing – the stupid, stupid ’server browser’. I call it that because I can’t think what else to call it, other than ‘waste of fucking space’. Needless to say, it barely works.
Basically, to get into a game, you have to wait ages. After you have waited ages, you have to wait longer for people to stop pissing around and be ready for the game. Then you wait for it to load, then you can play. You can’t just pick a server and jump in…well you can, but only if the game hasn’t started yet. Its ridiculous, slow, and just over intrusive.
What FC2 multiplayer has probably done more than anything is make me want to play COD4 again, but that’s for another day. For now, hunting The Jackal is my only concern. Anyway, I have all day for playing today (Sunday), so I better make the most of it. Byes!
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I hate MP games where you cant justjump into a match.. these wait for games are stupid.. they just go on with the same ppl in circle until the games over.. no new players can join mid game… just stupid and stale…
On another note i found a pretty decent game idea (yet to played and tested) an MMOPRTS – massive multiplayer online persistane Real Time Stratagey, for those that didnt know. Could be a real good thing…
What I forgot to mention was that after each match, you are dropped back to the menu screen, so you have to go through the waiting all over again. Very fucking irritating.
Your MMOPRTS, I’m afraid, has been done. I can’t for the life of me think what its called, but from what I remember you get a town and then build an empire or whatever in the world with armies and what not. It might even be free, but I think it is a totally overlooked idea.
The world needs a Online: Total War I think. It would go through 1 month cycles or something, so after each month it all gets reset (with bonuses for winners), so no one just dominates all the time. Obviously the idea would need loads of development, but I think it would be fun.
i love your screen of your score at the end. me thinks you wouldn’t have included it if you hadn’t come top lol
Oh did I come top on that one? I never noticed….. ;)
Yeah, not my idea.. http://www.playsaga.com seems good but you got it in one, get town or sumit, play and kill.. only just release (summer this year) It is free and i will be giving it a shot, i like different things like this… there was a total war type game out.. very old tho. you where a commander that started with a few bots, there where 2 teams, 1 planet divided into sectors. The aim was to build up an army and in true RTS style fashion, take the sectors. Red Alert tried to copy it with there world domination multiplay thing (i believe it was a Red Alert thing, number 2?)
It was quite good as the sectors kept changing hands and players could reinforce other players by joining the same sector. it was a very good game.. just lost out on graphics, it was free too but dont know what happended to it….
haha… yea.. :( i have still to buy this -.- but i never liked the “WAIT FOR OTHERS” rule for multiplayer games… whichever idiot invented the idea should be shot… but at least the single player rules ;D
lol nice score ;-)