- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: wortwortwort87
Jesus, do you know any game that allows 128 players, or even 64?
You're all talking about something world of warcraft esque. Let's say that the Xbox 360 is similarly powerful to a good computer. I don't remember the exact specs, but it's nothing that can support 64 players.
Take the game now: you have 8 players. Each player has a specific location in the game. Everything the player does has specific locations in memory. The xbox doesn't have enough memory to hold 8x the current memory usage. I don't believe that the memory usage increase is linear. There are too many things going on, too many collision detections, too many calculations of grenade/bullet paths, to have the xbox 360 keep track of it all. You know how you can shoot a wall and the bullets leave holes? Well if you shoot the wall enough, the bullets stop leaving holes, because it reached some unknown number and quit making bullet holes. Eventually the holes disappear and you can create new ones, but with all the bullets fired, and all the blackened grenade explosion areas that would come from 8x the number of players, I have a hard time believing 64 people could play. It wouldn't be the server's fault, I don't think that the 360 could keep up.
The maximum I could see playing is 32. I don't know how much memory it would take and what the display would be like, because I can't remember the exact specs. Think about it, playing 32 people on Lockout would be INSANE, not fun because by the time you spawned, you'd spawn with other people fighting around you, spawn on a grenade, etc.. So that means that new maps would have to be developed. Maps at least as big as Waterworks, and some even bigger. That's another chunk of memory that would have to be devoted to displaying the map as well as the chars in it. I just don't think that the 360 could support that many people without cutting down on some features.
As to the money issue, whatever. Find a good host and play customs. Stop worrying about what "rank" you are. Play people that are good and you'll see how you'd do. And you wouldn't have to worry about being cheated.
EDIT: And SW: Battlefront was crap. As far as graphics go, the game was NOWHERE near Halo 2. Hell, I think Halo CE was better graphically than SW: Battlefront. The polygon count was too low in Battlefront. It's not hard to make an almost completely flat Hoth and put a couple of AT-ATs down on it and say 'PRESTO! The Battle of Hoth!'. There was nothing that stood out in the game. It was flat. It was simple. It sucked.
Your technical knowledge astounds me. Oh, no it doesn't! Perhaps you should do some research before posting GARBAGE like that.
Here are the specifications for the Xbox and the Xbox360. When you consider that a PC has to run Windows and it's Services, AV software, Messenger, Firewall Software and any other applications the user has, you can see that the Xbox 360 is a ROLLS ROYCE in PC terms, with EVERY piece of hardware designed and dedicated to gaming!
Old Xbox/New Xbox360
CPU 733MHz to THREE 3.2GHz
Memory 64MB to 512MB
The old xbox can EASILY handle 16 players. EASILY.
Based on this, your "comments" above are garbage. Pure, utter RUBBISH. It took me 20 seconds to find the hardware specs. You are an idiot.