- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
At the very least I hope they have the same kind of set up Rainbow Six 3 had. When hosting a game on live you had two options for server type.
1. You could set your machine to allow you to play and host (this cut down the number of people that you could host based on your connection speed).
2. You could set your machine to host only. With this option the person allowing their machine to host didn't get to participate in the game (if I remember correctly you could watch), but the number of people you could host was dramatically increased. The great thing about this option was that you could set the server to do the work then leave and it would just keep serving games on a timed basis. So if you had a group of friends that wanted to play and you weren't going to be home or didn't have time to play, you just hook up with your buddy, set up your server and they can play on it as long as you leave your box on.
The only thing I would like to see added to that for Halo 2 (if they go this route...) is the option to set someone as the moderator. Basically they would be able to change the game type and everything else on the server if the host isn't there.