Multiplayer Lobby

[Martini]

Hey Epic Team!

The awesome 10-second multiplayer video I seen looked amazing as far as gameplay goes. How is the multiplayer lobby going to be? Getting kicked out after a match and having to back to the main menu or not being able to ready-up in the lobby can be very annoying. What options are going to be available?

[Zoso Fan]

Thats a good question!

[keno888]

What if they had a playable lobby like Mech Assault 2?

[Sebaz]

If i may make a suggestion. A great lobby system I had experience with is AOE3. ( age of empires 3). its very simple. they do need help with servers but epic is a master at that. Just look at it, i liked it at least.

[Martini]

I've always been a fan of the Xbox Rainbow Six lobby. Let's you pick your gun, ready up, and of course provide plently of time to trash talk before the game starts. :D

[PoweR StriPe]

Well, I'm sure it'll be cool. I hope it's simplisitic and quick. But, whatever Epic gives us...I'm down.

[Zoso Fan]

I wonder what the Skin of the menu will be like... Maybe choosable like in Tony Hawk Underground!

[Gear]

I've always been a fan of the Xbox Rainbow Six lobby. Let's you pick your gun, ready up, and of course provide plently of time to trash talk before the game starts. :D

Do you know there's new title: Rainbow Six: Vegas for 360?

[ban381]

If i may make a suggestion. A great lobby system I had experience with is AOE3. ( age of empires 3).

Im not familiar with AOE3 nor mech assault 2 lobbies. What makes them different?

[Martini]

Do you know there's new title: Rainbow Six: Vegas for 360?

Yes, but from the videos I've seen of it looks like all show! What happened to one shot, one kill? The franchise has gone down hill since Black Arrow in my opinion! Now I can't help but reminisce about all the free DLC for Rainbow Six when it came out which must have been about 6-7 maps.

[Sebaz]

Aoe 3 had a good design for lobby. in my opinon. they had clan options, rooms for chat ( an assumption I will make is you will be able to talk with the headset in the GOW chatrooms), the actual games can be found by either matching your preferences of ability or matching certin variables that are favorable to you as a player. News about tourtanments are very visible. The basic premise to Aoe3 lobby was the player will always be active doing something rather than gettin lost and disliking the online games.

[Cpt.Huyman]

I like the sound of that:o

[Sebaz]

I'll take a picture of it. and post it. I'll have it done by 5-23-06

[III VICIOUS III]

The best lobby I have ever used was Crimson Skies. Could see what the game varients were set to, who was talking, what plane=weapon they were using, what team you and the other people were going to be on choose what team you wanted. And you never got booted after the match wether it was ranked or not ranked. You didnt have to leave the lobbies to change the game settings....exp. map, kills to win, game type. Was and is still the best lobby I have ever used.

[bballs91]

I think at the bare minimum it should be something like BF2:MC for 360. Which was alright, but definately could have been better. I think something simplistic yet functional like Halo 2 would be great!

[SkateXer99]

The lobby should have small bodied-big headed characters from the game just running around and shooting eachother in the background, just because it'd be a small stress reliefer if you get kicked and your angrified.

But the server list should incluce - Name, #Players/Maximum, Ping, Gametype, Map, and Mutators (if there's even any in Gears)

[Koric101]

I think you should have online kind of like Halo 2. Having servers and open parties is fine for fun games but there needs to be matchmaking. I hate having to wait to search for a game, then when I join have them kick me cuz there sittin there waitin for friends or somen, then having to go through all of it again. There needs to be an option to have matches with random players like Halo 2.

[Whistlerman]

I hope it will be sweet

[Ma1agate]

I hope there will at the very least be a party system and matchmaking of some sort.

I don't like how in a lot of games you can set up a game and random people browsing for a game can jump in. The open or invite only settings should be on the party itself, and not on the specific game session, IMO.

I'm going to throw my chips in with the other people that like Halo 2's system. I don't necessarily want a carbon-copy of that, but at the very least I'd like a similar party system.

~Ma1

[JustinR]

I liked Halo 2 lobbies personally they were simple and it wasn't hard to link up with firends and shuffle around with them.

[walerah]

I'm going to go with the Halo 2 wave ...more game time less time searching, and being kicked cos the host is stacking or rigging or you are ranked too low (ala GRAW) ...in halo2 I never had such aggros just "jumped in" never tried AOE3 but whatever they do with gears I hope and pray it's nothing like GRAW where precious xboxlive hours can be spent "in-between" games ...proper frustrating I tell thee!

[Brute Luck]

From what ive hear its going to be what its like in UT (for those who play it.) where you have friends and you just join into a game or make your own. and if they do make it like UT then i bet it will be continues where at the end of the game you just vote for a new map, like in BF2.

[Zoso Fan]

Good, I love UT server settings! :)

[Numba1GearHead]

Lets not forget, Epic did release a series of games know as Unreal Tournament. They arent new to the whole multiplayer set up so i think they will do fine with the multiplyer setup.

[Koric101]

Lets not forget, Epic did release a series of games know as Unreal Tournament. They arent new to the whole multiplayer set up so i think they will do fine with the multiplyer setup.

I havent really played UT but I definitely think that there should at least be the option of Halo 2 style matchmaking.

[Mel]

Halo matchmaking sucks. The whole Halo game system sucks. I've heard people claim that it's revolutionary, but it's really more of a huge step backwards. Often times I want to play a game of capture the flag, but there is no option for that. There is a game choice in which ctf may show up but you might end up going 4 or 5 games before you get the one you want, and most of the time when you do get the one you want the other team will quit.

There are custom games but those games are only available to people on your friends list and that blows because you rarely meat anyone in halo 2 because you play one game and then you'll more than likely never see those players again, and 99% of the time none of them talk anyways.

Matchmaking is useful for ranked games because of it's randomness but that's it. I hope they have a lobby system where I can enter a gametype and a map name and it brings up a list of rooms.

[Koric101]

Halo matchmaking sucks. The whole Halo game system sucks. I've heard people claim that it's revolutionary, but it's really more of a huge step backwards. Often times I want to play a game of capture the flag, but there is no option for that. There is a game choice in which ctf may show up but you might end up going 4 or 5 games before you get the one you want, and most of the time when you do get the one you want the other team will quit.

There are custom games but those games are only available to people on your friends list and that blows because you rarely meat anyone in halo 2 because you play one game and then you'll more than likely never see those players again, and 99% of the time none of them talk anyways.

Matchmaking is useful for ranked games because of it's randomness but that's it. I hope they have a lobby system where I can enter a gametype and a map name and it brings up a list of rooms.

I agree and don't agree. I don't think Halo matchmaking sucks. I think that's the ONLY way to do ranked games, however I also definitely want to see open games, not like halo. I want to see open games where you can see rooms and select which one you want to go into. It would be the best of both worlds.

[Mel]

I can see how the matchmaking party aspect is useful for ranked games, but as a casual gamer I just want to get on and play what I want to play, not what Bungie randomly forces me to play.

[Koric101]

I can see how the matchmaking party aspect is useful for ranked games, but as a casual gamer I just want to get on and play what I want to play, not what Bungie randomly forces me to play.

I can definitely understand that.

[Hades2000]

Halo matchmaking sucks. The whole Halo game system sucks. I've heard people claim that it's revolutionary, but it's really more of a huge step backwards. Often times I want to play a game of capture the flag, but there is no option for that. There is a game choice in which ctf may show up but you might end up going 4 or 5 games before you get the one you want, and most of the time when you do get the one you want the other team will quit.

There are custom games but those games are only available to people on your friends list and that blows because you rarely meat anyone in halo 2 because you play one game and then you'll more than likely never see those players again, and 99% of the time none of them talk anyways.

Matchmaking is useful for ranked games because of it's randomness but that's it. I hope they have a lobby system where I can enter a gametype and a map name and it brings up a list of rooms.

The beautiful thing is that you can do a custom game. I feel that Halo's matchmaking is perfect and most games should adopt a very similar system, as it's very effective and it's the reason people are still playing the game online so much two years later.

However, I do see your point, and while searching would be nice..I hate searching xD. Bad, bad experiences with GRAW, lol!

[Koric101]

The beautiful thing is that you can do a custom game. I feel that Halo's matchmaking is perfect and most games should adopt a very similar system, as it's very effective and it's the reason people are still playing the game online so much two years later.

However, I do see your point, and while searching would be nice..I hate searching xD. Bad, bad experiences with GRAW, lol!

TELL ME ABOUT IT. That is why I don't play graw on live. I can't STAND searching for a game, then finding it's full and having to do it all over again. I think halo w/the addition of GRAW's open game style would make for a great MP lobby.

[Mel]

Custom games are only available to people on your friends list, and everyone I have on my friends list either hates halo 2 or only plays matchmaking. I haven't played a fun game of ctf since halo because of their stupid custom game system.

[Koric101]

Custom games are only available to people on your friends list, and everyone I have on my friends list either hates halo 2 or only plays matchmaking. I haven't played a fun game of ctf since halo because of their stupid custom game system.

U got me wrong. I know that custom only allows friend that's why I said they should include a server based open game system so you can see what games are up and choose one you want.

[Ech08]

An open game system sounds nice if I have the right thing in mind. If anyone knows was that simmilar to the system in socom 2. If so, sounds good :)

[Koric101]

An open game system sounds nice if I have the right thing in mind. If anyone knows was that simmilar to the system in socom 2. If so, sounds good :)

never played socom :(

[Ech08]

Well the one i'm thinking of pretty much has a list of servers to choose from, then once inside theres a list of games you could join.

[Jye'Delai]

Rainbow Six had the best options for finding ranked games IMO. Games sould follow what Ubi done with Rainbow.

[Rez1n]

Im going to pass marth in posts cuz Im booooored