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Multiplayer Shooters For Modems And Slow PCs?
rekrutacja writes "Soldat is a multiplayer action game which takes the best from games like Liero, Worms, Quake and Counter-Strike, and gives you fast action gameplay with lots of gibs and gore. It only requires a modem and a PC with a 333mhz processor, since it was written to meet the reality of the Polish Internet, still dependent on modem connections and cheap computers." For those countries and locations where you can't get broadband, and PCs just aren't that swift, what other action-based shooters are still reasonably playable?
I tried soldat out about two weeks with a bunch of friends that have cable or DSL. The game lagged quite a bit even with three people playing simultaneously. More than six people was annoyingly lagged and nearly unplayable (like Ragnarok Online in open beta). And yes, we did rotate game hosting duties, so no it didn't lag because the person hosting the game was slow.
Yeah, you might be able to play Soldat on a slower computer, but you can't do medium to large multiplay on a 56k with it...
doom and the various 3rd party doom engines now available should run splendidly(doomsday engine provides hw acceleration too, and 3dmodels if you wish).
and then, of course, quake. heck, quake2 even.. combined with the various mods for them that come in boatloads should provide enough gameplay for the next millenium... switch to tribes1/2/ut if you get bored with it. mw2:mercs, it-76...
if a game only has ipx gameplay you can use programs such as kali(http://kali.net) to wrap it to work over internet easily.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Global Operations fits somewhat closely with your criteria. It's not so much that it has a lot of cheat protection as it just isn't popular enough to spawn any signifigant cheats.
It's got pretty decent gameplay, it's cheap ($10), runs great on a somewhat dated computer since it's got dated graphics, and doesn't require quite so many different key presses as some of the other 1st person shooters out there.
So, no, it doesn't do better. It has a small following, but enough people that you can always find at least one 8 vs 8 game full at all hours. I've been playing daily for about 6 months (and I get tired of games fast).
Don't both trying with a modem. It's pretty bandwidth intensive, and a lot of people will kick you out if you have modem-level pings.
Because if you look up some facts about Poland:b ook/geos/ pl.html
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/fact
You'll notice the the per capita GDP is $9,500. Nobody has the money to purchase expensive gaming systems
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