Rate your MP experience

[tootee]

How do you rate your online experience so far?

[UglyandHasty]

I went with good. I had some funs battle. The number of disconnections is a bugger. Sure there is some flaw in balance, and we're just scrapping the surface. But the game are great fun with good players and around 10k. Maybe its my TW addiction kicking off after what seem ages, but i'm sure going to hang around the MTW2 foyer.

[Yun Dog]

Ok so last night I returned to TW MP for the first time since STW

I had a fun game with an honourable opponent

However - it was extremely laggy - 1v1

I dont know if it was the host or me - is there anyway to check if Im the lag monster

is anyone else experience very bad lag in 1v1 battles?

I just want to check - if I can improve my MP experience somehow

[tootee]

I have lag only in game beyond 1v1, but its probably due to my FX5900XT.

Since I dont play other games, I am also looking for the minimum spec to play MP 4v4 without lag.. so far I find nothing.. only minimum for SP which typically doesnt see as many units as a full 8x20 battle.

[Kronos]

Well to play a lag free 4v4 i've found that u need a processor with sse2 and somewhere above 2.8 ghz pentium 4 or AMD equivalent. 1gb ddr 400 ram ( u may be able to play perfectly fine with 512mb's of good ddr2 ram). As for vid card i'm using an X300se 128mb, so I presume u'll need any 128mb card from the x or x1k series+ for ATI or something from the Geforce 6 or 7 series 128mb card from Nvidia or better. Thats working perfectly fine on lowest settings in 4v4's for me and I could probly turn the graphics up a bit in 4v4's and can play on pretty high settings in 2v2's with shadows and reflections off.

[Kronos]

Also u need shader 1 support which all the series i've listed have although i'd recommend shader 2 support. But the GPU seems to be the only thing holiding ppl back when they have all the other requirements.

[RTKBarrett]

I voted good, theres lots of room for improvement but what more can u expect of a prepatch :-)

[YellowMelon]

I voted like my relations with the Papacy - abysmal.

[RTKBarrett]

Blasphemer!!!1!!11

[YellowMelon]

I couldnt help it, the nobles told me to do it I swear!

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Or you can Come me the Pope, Me, in Warman8's Death Filed, in the Orginial Castle with my Swiss 25K Army :-) :-)

[t1master]

went in with low expectations.

i am mildly surprised, and so far i rate it as good.

pretty much what hasty said....

[Marius Dynamite]

Too Laggy. Inconvienent Pre-battle Interface.

Did have a few good games with some of my clan though on great maps.

Overall = Bad. We deserve better.

[RTKBarrett]

lol @ "We deserve better".... gah its not even patched yet and ppl are throwing dummys out of prams :D

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

it's unpatched of course, what you expect Barett :) :)

[CeltiberoMordred]

Very bad. I can only play team battles if I'm the host. In addition, all non 1v1 battles are too laggy.

[Kronos]

So in short everyone's who voted for anything less than average reasons were lag which has nothing to do with the game, it's either ppl have a crap pc or that they're using an Athlonxp processor which the last was released in October 2003 3 whole years ago. Things move on, especially pc's.

As for the new interface i'm sure Pala can explain that as it was probly his idea, as iirc ppl didn't like the old one because ppl would keep changing factions, there would be fighting over who was which faction first, and ppl would not start for 30 mins especially in competitive games until lthe other did so they could see their army numbers and change to counter what they thought they had based on that.

[tootee]

Seems like quite a positive feedback.

I guess CA fixing the connection, hosting and lag issue will improve our gaming greatly.

I was wondering, since now every man has a unique action sequence (not sure if it was in RTW) during fighting, i guess it will consume lots of cpu, and zooming out probably won't help since each action must be recorded for replay to work?

Just hope they can at least optimised this part of code.. its kinda of heavy investment to get a new pc for M2TW