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No Online/LAN Co-op for Halo 2
BlueMoon writes "It has now been confirmed that Halo 2 will not include support for co-op mode on Xbox LIVE or LAN play. The co-op mode will remain for offline play only. Bungie made all attempts to implement it however with the complexity of the game it was simply impossible to have a worthwhile co-op experience." You may not be able to play together, but as consolation, check out the Halo 2 Ads pointed out by an anonymous reader.
Bandwidth to our homes isn't fast enough because the rich must become richer before we progress technologically any further. Also they totally let a convicted monopoly abuse their "free market" so they can maintain proper control over the huddled massed.
Demand proper network play for Halo 2!
Cutscenes: you don't have them simple.
Coop should play seamlessly, that is why quake 2 was good, a lot of seamless cuts between maps - and halflife was golden for that.
What they have to do it decide what can be delegated to the clients, and what must be synchronised over the network.
Also in coop you can reduce the effectiveness of physics to one interaction at a time. Blam, warthog flys in air.
You forget about it as it does its thing on each client.
Boom it gets hit again, ignore!
It finished its thing - you can now worry if it gets hit again, send this info to the clients, and let them work out the physics, since it is the same code (even send any randomised stuff centrally)
I am not saying it is easy, but since multiplayer gaming is assumed in many games, they could have made an effort. How often does being able to shoot a warthog in mid air effect gameplay?
Sounds like a weak excuse or weak network code.
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This news is just further confirmation that M$ and Halo are lame.
Kill Zone will reign supreme!
That's right. This one falls squarely on the shoulders of those damn democrats. All the hippie pot-smokin' draft dodgin' liberalism got us into this mess.
;)
A little less weed and a lot more networkin' and ya might just have your online co-op mode.
I say, vote libertarian.
(Nevermind that libertarians want to legalize drugs and treat it as a health problem and not a crime...)
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
They're liars. It's not too hard if you design it properly. It's all about marketing a 'new' game for more revenue - even though it's most likely the same game / code as the first one with new levels and updated graphics.
I actually bought Halo for the PC, discovered that they don't allow Co-OP -at all- for the PC, and took it back. I won't be buying this one for the same reason. I'd rather play Unreal Tournament.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I mean, the only way it becomes (almost) impossible instead of hard is when you don't account for it as you plan and revise.
When the submitter says "worthwhile," that decodes as there being too much lag to support network co-op. Is this a consequence of being too lax with one's networking code?
The other possibility is that the Xbox hardware isn't powerful enough. But if they can implement deathmatch, et al., why not co-op?
Co-op makes for a good time, and it should get more respect than it does from developers and gamers.
I have it on good authority that the single player/co-op mode has one of the WORST endings - possibly one of the worst in gaming history (that, or it will rank way up there).
Games I expected to have a bad ending generally don't - Doom3 had quite the stylish ending despite my worst fears. But now that I think about it - I doubt there will be a great ending to Halo 2 (Maybe a bonus for beating it in legendary mode - the assgrab scene was pretty damn funny.)
Why can't all fpga/microcontroller manufacturers just release free optimizing compilers???