Be Excellent To Each Other

A new map called 'Boneyard' has been released on XBL. It supports up to 50 players, apparently, so if anyone's up for some Battlefield-esque squad-type action, I'll be giving it a go sometime this weekend.

Ill be up for that.

I downloaded it but suffered RRODage before I was able to try it.

Arse, forgot you were RRoDed.

Instead of releasing maps I'd rather they devote the time to making a proper lobby instead of the shambles that is the multiplayer at the moment. I might play it again then.

Also,proper voice chat.

I can't rmemebebebr any fault with the voice chat. What problems were you experiencing?

Not being able to do it unless I was in a squad, and then only with that small squad. Meh.

Oh yeah. That too.

That's the way the battlefield games usually do it - anyone know if it works like that in Bad Company?

Would you prefer 25 people all talking at once, or push-to-talk? I don't see it as a problem - just get all your Bezzies in the same squad and hilarity can ensue.

The problem with having chat be squad-based is that you don't all start off next to each other, not necessarily. And the maps are jolly big. I dunno, I just don't think it's quite right, especially since you're on a 'side' anyway. An army silent unless they're in squads? Eh.

Buggered if I can think what might appease me, though.

That would be fine.

If there was a proper lobby, where you could squad up before going into the game, so that you don't have to mess around with menus. And if half your mates weren't put on the opposing side.

FFoW's server thing is more or less average - it's only iwith newer stuff like Fish of Booty Fawr and Hello Tree that the whole 'take your entire cluster of cunty mates with you' thing has suddenly become available.

INDEED!

Do we agree that the more 'modern' method (considering that you could do it in Halo 2) is 83 billion times better than the shitty method imposed on Frontlines: Fuel of Shit?

I like the way CoD 4 leaves some of your party in the lobby.

Indeed, it's a shame that CoD4 has that bug as its system is otherwise superb.

That and the fact there's no way of playing games against people at a similar skill level. Halo's system, although quite slow at matching up sometimes, is probably the best.

Bandwidth wise, that probably doesn't work. Xbox Live uses a Speex codec which is probably at 4.8kbit/sec (1/2 GSM). That's 110kbit/sec for all chats, which with overhead etc amounts to 1/4 of the downstream of a lowend ADSL line just for chat. Which is quite a lot.

Yeah, my post was slightly tinged with sarcasm.

Which one, sorry?

The one with 25 people all talking at once and PTT in it. Obviously the latter isn't viable (not only because of bandwidth issues, but because of logistical ones, also) and push-to-talk has been universally reviled every time we've played Halo 3.

Ooo, that reminds me - Unreal Tournament fans - get ready for a surprise!!

Please tell me it doesn't have PTT.

Happy birthday Mr. Dave! PHEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

edit: I dunno exactly. But, D-Pad Right is 'Toggle Voice Chat'...

This is now a tenner in Comet Newport Road, Cardiff.

Seems reasonable.

It's definitely worth a tenner for the single player alone, despite ironically being a multiplayer game in the main.

The final DLC of the remaining 4 new maps is out... and costs 800 points. No.

Definitely not.