Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

DOOM 3 will use P2P System?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-believe-it-when-I'm-fragged-on-it dept.

Ant writes "From Page 6 of FiringSquad's QuakeCon 2002 Postmortem article: John Carmack said something at the end of the Q&A about how the multiplayer will be only four players? Tim: After 2 hours of talking up at the podium, sometimes you leave a few details out. Doom 3 multiplayer will be fully scalable. It will be a peer to peer system. We haven't started working on it yet. Tell everyone not to panic - it will be fine. John just forgot to mention it'll be scalable past four players. It's hard to give a hard number because we haven't started working on it yet. Right now we're focused on making Doom 3 a kickass, over the top single player game."

2 of 223 comments (clear)

  1. Slap-in-the-face to ATI and Matrox by ptbrown · · Score: 5, Interesting

    P2P is a fad and I predict that sometime after the beta they'll have things set up in a more traditional client/server fashion... though they likely won't call it that.

    But what I found much more interesting was this quote:

    "Absolutely, but Linux version basically means an NVIDIA version - that's the only safe bet for working video under Linux in Doom 3."

    Gah!!! I hope ATI and Matrox see that and consider it a challenge. It's really discouraging that the only quasi-respected video drivers for Linux are proprietary.

    --
    Any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from Gods.
  2. Not article material by cybermace5 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OK.

    Someone asks about the multiplayer Doom 3. They haven't worked on it yet. In the middle of a live Q&A session, Tim is assuring everyone the game will be multiplayer. He starts throwing out words even though he doesn't know the exact way it will work, because, hey, they haven't done multiplayer yet.

    Tim blurts "It will be a peer to peer system." That's the entire discussion of that in the whole article. There is nothing else.

    By "peer to peer" system he simply meant "yes, you will be able to hook up your computers and play together" and nothing else. Why does this deserve a front page article? It doesn't. It was obviously something he said while in a live situation and he wasn't sure of the details.

    The poster of this article looks sillier than the stock market and Alan Greenspan. What's even more disturbing is that Taco fell for it too. Someone needs to send over good strong pot of coffee.

    It's days like these when the trolls start to make sense.

    --
    ...