Mark_LP
03-27-2004, 12:45 PM
Anyone know if Ubi plans to add dedicated server support for the PC?
Their matchmaking service is awful and I'd rather use a third-party browser like All-Seeing Eye to find games.
Also, I don't see any practical reason that a host should need to be present on the PC to launch games. All it does is drastically decrease the number of available servers to play on while increasing the time you have to wait for a game to start. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've waited 10 minutes for a game to start only to discover the host forgot he was playing and went to eat dinner.
I run Quake3 and UT2k3 servers where I can simply set them up and leave, letting people play on them while I'm at work or sleeping or whatever.
I can understand not being able to do this on Xbox, since hardly anyone leaves their Xboxes on when they aren't using it, but I can't see any valid reason for not allowing dedicated servers on the PC.
Does anyone know if this is planned for a future patch?
Also, it's kind of silly that someone who joins a game that just started 20 seconds ago should have to wait 9.5 minutes to play when the teams are uneven.
Their matchmaking service is awful and I'd rather use a third-party browser like All-Seeing Eye to find games.
Also, I don't see any practical reason that a host should need to be present on the PC to launch games. All it does is drastically decrease the number of available servers to play on while increasing the time you have to wait for a game to start. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've waited 10 minutes for a game to start only to discover the host forgot he was playing and went to eat dinner.
I run Quake3 and UT2k3 servers where I can simply set them up and leave, letting people play on them while I'm at work or sleeping or whatever.
I can understand not being able to do this on Xbox, since hardly anyone leaves their Xboxes on when they aren't using it, but I can't see any valid reason for not allowing dedicated servers on the PC.
Does anyone know if this is planned for a future patch?
Also, it's kind of silly that someone who joins a game that just started 20 seconds ago should have to wait 9.5 minutes to play when the teams are uneven.