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So the way things stand atm, Bad Company 2 and 1943 are due out around the same time? Since that doesn’t seem like the best way to get money out of us, I can see at least one of those dates changing.
Don’t worry Sprog, the forums aren’t in danger of closing, yet. That we actually have a community here supporting the forum is an incredible bonus considering the original intentions behind XDC and it’s not something we’re just going to throw away. That being said, XDC is supposed to be a “clan†(10 years and I still hate that word!), not simply a forum, and in the time leading up to making the OP we were not functioning as one. Sure lots of us are still wearing the tags, but some have also taken them off and drifted elsewhere for the clan experience, or whatever you want to call it. I was thinking about doing the same.
I want to be able to log in and have a game with people I know I can have a good game with, but finding those XDC tags was starting to become difficult. There are various reasons for it, but at the end of the day it came down to a decision between whether I considered the decline terminal or whether it was fixable. It would also be easier to go elsewhere, and do the whole drift between various clans thing, but I’d prefer we got XDC working again instead. I was perhaps a little melodramatic in the OP, it was slightly alcohol fueled and written shortly after Liverpool being beat by Chelsea, but I was serious in that I was on the verge of giving up on XDC.
I don’t know how much interaction there is between XDC on the console side of things, but since there’s little I can do to fix that anyway, my focus will always be on the platform I have access to, PCs. No matter how lighthearted and laidback we try to be, if something needs done, it always takes someone to step up and get the ball rolling. With the OP, and the time spent over the last month, I’ve tried to do this for the PC gamers amongst us, and the improvement has been significant enough for me to be making plans for a new XDC server in the new year, assuming the current trend continues. If someone wants to do the same for the console gamers, work away, I’ve always hoped someone would, and never tried to discourage it.
The ideal scenario is to have both sides of XDC growing, as that will in turn keep the forums alive long term, and I’m sure it would be beneficial to have two active groups for those of us who drift between the two platforms. It also makes sense to do this since the divide between console and PC gamers is only a temporary situation. Eventually technology is going to bridge the divide and bring both groups together. Since I’ve no intention of getting a console, I can only work on keeping half of XDC functioning, until that time.
Haven’t lost my tking abilities either, nor my ability to get knifed in the face by Zulu on a regular basis 🙂
For Europe and Asia – Keep your eyes open for local opportunities!
Any heads up on this would be appreciated 🙂
http://www.battlefield1943.com/faq
According to that the PC release for 1943 is due this Autumn. Anyone have any further info on that?
McCandlish explained that an 18-player cap was related to “the number of players we focused on when we were balancing map size, perks, classes, challenges, etc
The result of no dedicated server support he means.
It could be that we’re blowing this all out of proportion though, and it could all work quite nicely. I’ll let you all know since I’m likely buying the game for the single player, regardless of the controversy.
Didn’t notice this thread first time around so this film really took me by surprise. Very entertaing watch, and Neeson’s voice didn’t annoy me once the whole way through!
Saw you on IRC Alun (after you left obviously) but we were actually playing bf2 all night tonight from about 6 until now. Don’t forget to check TS as well, or slap us about a wee bit in IRC which should draw our attention to you.
Paddy and me are about to have a game of the L4D2 demo, but afterwards I’ll probably be up for more BF2 since I’ve properly caught the bug again.
I’ll be around this afternoon and tonight. Last night’s not a problem, I got a tiny bit drunk and didn’t make it home until late anyway.
Someone may be able to suggest something better, or correct what I’m about to say, but try Winmrt. Run a trace to something like google, or indeed to the server you’re playing on. If you notice a spike in your ping or package loss to the router, then it’s probably your wireless, beyond that is probably internet. I’m not sure what results you would get from someone else downloading though, but I’m sure if you post the results here someone can interpret.
