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Frontlines Player Cap Now 50 on Xbox360

A member of the development team just confirmed the news from the Gamespot preview that the player cap on the xbox360 is now set to 50 p. There will be some servers dedicated too supporting up to 50 players. The previous limited was set at 32 players on the 360 while the PC had been and is still set at 64 players
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Published: 662 days 21 hours ago | News | Xbox 360
 
 

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Amagai Shuusuke - 662 days 21 hours ago
1 - Um...
Who cares.
This game blows.
Wait for Battlefield: Bad Company.
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skitzoid - 662 days 20 hours ago
1.1 - I didn't care for it.
I was bored after an hour and the lag on the demo was pretty bad. It was a hit and a miss. Sometimes it ran decent and sometimes it was real bad. I don't see how they are going to pull off 50 players if it lags with 16 to 24.

I am waiting for Bad Company too. That is what this game pretends to be but it doesn't pull it off.
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power of Green - 662 days 20 hours ago
1.2 - ^^^
Not deffending the game but challenging the blind attacks, the single play sucked to me, never played multi player. The devs have said the title will have dedicated servers.

Its been said in interviews you can find them from Xplay or XBL.
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sonarus - 662 days 20 hours ago
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The bottom line is addind 18 extra players to an already crappy game isnt gonna make it less crappy. I dnt want to discredit them to quickly and i knw there arent really that many games to play right now but rainbow 6 vegas is coming out and so is dark sector do you really want to be wasting money on this
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JsonHenry - 662 days 11 hours ago
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Personally, it was completely horrible experience. (the demo)

The game itself was ugly, the control scheme was okay I suppose, but the lag and environment was pathetic as well.
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i Shank u - 662 days 9 hours ago
1.5 - Guys and gals
Coming from someone who thought the single player demo was an utter piece of junk, consider my suprise when i downloaded the Multiplayer demo released a couple days ago and found its damn good. HUGE improvement over that crap single player demo. the game has been tightened and smoothed a good deal. check it out, i hated on the game but can no longer since the game is fun now, especially the things like the RC drones, airstrike class, and choppers. peace
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IntelligentAj - 662 days 9 hours ago
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This is great news for the Multi-player(which is vastly better than the single player campaign from what i've heard.
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drewdrakes - 662 days 8 hours ago
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skitzoid - you clearly didnt understand the article. If it lags for 16 to 24 then how can they do 50? They mentioned in the article that they were adding dedicated servers. You dont know much about networking do you...
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CrimsonReLLiK - 662 days 7 hours ago
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I bet you haven't even played it. The multiplayer demo was the funnest thing I have played in quite some time on a console. I could care less if there were 5 or 50 people playing. I am having a good time. Care to elaborate why this game blows?
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Kleptic - 662 days 4 hours ago
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they mention the 360 version will also have 'a few dedicated servers'...but if they are thinking a normal P2P connection like Halo or CoD 4 will support 50 players...not sure what planet they are on...

Resistance 1 would have 40 players on ONLY dedicated servers...and it had quite a bit more than 'a few'...same with Warhawk and others (I am only bringing these up because they are currently 2 of the biggest console multiplayer games)...It takes tons of dedicated servers for everyone to be able to play 32+ players...if they are thinking about having like 5 dedicated servers for 50 players, this is hardly something worth advertising...they would always be full, assuming they actually do get the code worked out...to get rid of the lag...
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undacovabrothe - 662 days 20 hours ago
2 - Seems to me..
Som1 trying to compete a little to much with res and battelfield...
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toughNAME - 662 days 20 hours ago
3 - When will developers learn?
We want quality...not quantity.

I have the occasional fun game with 16 players...but even thats rare. The option is nice, but keep it 6v6...thats the best # of people for FPS's

Some are fooled with huge numbers being able to play a game online (quite the feat for the online network) but as a result the gameplay suffers.

And lastly for social gamers, I find it very hard to actually have a conversation with my friends playing 4 on 4!
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Ri0tSquad - 662 days 20 hours ago
3.1 - Yeah, Gears of War gets the point across
4 vs 4 but still the best TPS I played.
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jaja1434 - 662 days 20 hours ago
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That just depends on the game. BF is perfect for large 32v32 players. COD4 could do with 20 players but 16/18 is about right. And Gears is perfect with 4v4. It just depends on the game.
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Martini - 662 days 16 hours ago
3.3 - @ tough
Have fun playing 6v6 on a map that is a mile long.
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Shankle - 662 days 16 hours ago
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It's all about the size of the maps and availability of vehicles. Gears and COD4 have relatively small maps and no vehicles, so they have 8 and 2-16 players. I have my most fun in COD4 when it's teeming with players so I like 16. However, if they put more than 20 players in then it might get too mad.
Games like Battlefield and Warhawk have massive maps with loads of vehicles so you definitely want a cap of at least 32.
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jaja1434 - 662 days 4 hours ago
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^^^ how do you get 4 agrees while, I said the same thing but got 3 disagrees. *boggle*
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LeonSKennedy4Life - 662 days 20 hours ago
4 - haha
Someone a little scared of Resistance 2???

Seriously though...

...why?

It's not even that good.
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jaja1434 - 662 days 20 hours ago
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Yes the demo was horrible... but does every game thats going to have 64ish players now have to be compared to RFOM2? I just ask because this will get very old, very annoying, very quickly if every time I see a game with said number of people, someone such as you will chime in with Resistance...
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power of Green - 662 days 20 hours ago
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Which game?.

4.1, its as simple as you put it, in every way and post #3.2..
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LeonSKennedy4Life - 662 days 19 hours ago
4.3 - oh...
Frontlines...isn't that good.

RFOM's online was PHENOMENAL and number 2 looks awesome. I can't wait!
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i Shank u - 662 days 9 hours ago
4.4 - leon s kennedy
have you played the frontlines MP demo? i probably know the answer. if youre judging on the early build SP demo that doesnt count since the recent MP demo is a much better representation of the final product. and i bet the 6 agrees you got havent played the MP demo either. HATERS
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CrimsonReLLiK - 662 days 7 hours ago
4.5 - Leon
This article has nothing to do with Resistance, isn't a comparison, and if you had actually played the MP demo, you would enjoy it. Ohterwise, if you want to make off thread posts, take it to the open zone.
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moparful99 - 662 days 7 hours ago
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Jaja its the same thing when every single mulitplayer game for years now has been compared to halo. As well, ever since gears launched its been a constant bechmark for comparisson. Fact of the matter is a great game will always be used to judge the3 value of another game......
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jaja1434 - 662 days 4 hours ago
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But it's not out yet! If the MP of Rest. turns out to be *insert happy words* then sure be my guest and compare it. But the game isn't even playable so how can you even compare it?
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LeonSKennedy4Life - 661 days 22 hours ago
4.8 - haha
But I HAVE played it. It's fun. I just don't think it's anything special. A game has to have a certain something to sell well. This did NOT!

Don't you DARE add Halo to this fight. Halo deserves to be shot. They took Tribes and gave it a storyline...and even THAT wasn't very good. Give me a break, kids...
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jaja1434 - 661 days 19 hours ago
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^^^
I'm just going to assume your mean Frontlines, in which case I would say reread the comments since your not grasping the fact that I referring to Resistance 2.
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Rattles - 662 days 20 hours ago
5 - wow if 4v4 lags
i cant wait for 25v25!!!
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CrimsonReLLiK - 662 days 7 hours ago
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I have had no trouble with lag on this game and so far I have have played it for 2 days straight.
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Daishi - 661 days 23 hours ago
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I guess that's what happens when you try to use your mobile phones internet conection as a modem... Not that I would know or anything...
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OC Shock Value - 662 days 20 hours ago
6 - dont matter
Gears of war had the greatest, most organized team based multiplayer battles so far this gen.. Followed closely by the most slept on multiplayer experience ever.. The Outfit..

Gears / The Outfit for multiplayer hands down
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00 - 662 days 20 hours ago
6.1 - I agree
Gears relays so heavily on team play that it's so much fun with just 4v4.
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Kigmal - 662 days 20 hours ago
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Proof that more players doesn't not equal better game.
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Sayai jin - 662 days 16 hours ago
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Well said! Bubbles...
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Sven Benoit - 662 days 20 hours ago
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i don't see what the big deal is with this many people playing in one game... i think that is too many people....no single person stands out when it is this many people in a game...it is just a bunch of people running around killing each other
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JVIDICAN - 662 days 18 hours ago
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and also once again its not an exclusive if its on a computer too...
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games4fun - 662 days 17 hours ago
9.3 - lol
clearly you cant listen well this game has a dedicated server setup so lo and behold it runs better the point we make is you pay 50 dollars and dont have dedicated servers this proves that dedicated servers are better.

Its quite funny also that this game is getting dedicated servers but the games gamers hold so dear do not and have crappy laggy time outs and cant support more than 32 player without lagging like crazy its because msoft doesnt have the openness that sony does to allow people to use their servers if they want to so they can have dedicated servers for thier game.

also my evidence that this game is crappy is how many people said it was before but now that they heard about the one game that has more players but it sucks anyways you think one game opposed to the multidude that have dedicated servers for sony makes you system as stable for actual play is quite funny.
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Martini - 662 days 16 hours ago
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Yeah the first demo (single player) wasn't very good, but this multiplayer demo is much better and improved.
Demo is very good but can use more polish. Link below has a gameplay from the demo - check it out http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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Daishi - 661 days 23 hours ago
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The bad thing about dedicated servers is what happens when a new game comes out or the company goes under, no more servers. There are two sides to everything and we need to keep that in mind.
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undacovabrothe - 662 days 19 hours ago
10 - More ppl online is always fun..
It just depends on the type of game. A game like gears you couldnt play a 16v16(32ppl) game it would just be so unorganized and chaotic. Not to mention serious lag. Games like Res its a fast pace game with huge maps with just great control. I play 40ppl games in Res lag free and thing is sometimes they feel like your playing in 6v6 due to the map size/layouts.

To get to the point More people doesnt make online play better byitself, it depends on game and how it is done. Games like Resistence/BF can pull it off easily this frontlines thing idk it seems pretty crappy just another fps on the market.

Edit:@Blade Who cares which has more players online the thing that matters is what game is actually better or good in the first place. Frontlines is shyt Res is not and the servers on cod4 or warhawk has nothing to do with the amount of players they can hold in a game but the quality of the system that was implemented. At first cod4 had a good start then got terrible matchmaking system due to the unexpected flux of people in europe that just destroyed the servers. They improved it a lot for the ps3 it runs great for me at least now.
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The Kingslayer - 662 days 18 hours ago
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I didn't think the demo was that bad...This is great. Yeah the "legion" said XBL couldn't do dedicated servers, or we wouldn't have 50 player, and stuff...Swallow a bag of wrong. Thanks
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Kyur4ThePain - 662 days 18 hours ago
12.1 - Selective Reading?
I think you might suffer from selective reading, or cutting and pasting.

True, XBL couldn't have 50 player MPs, UNLESS they used dedicated servers.
They gave in.
Nobody has to swallow a bag of anything.
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destroyah - 662 days 18 hours ago
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Resistance 2 is 60 players online with 8 player co-op. I played the demo for Frontlines and it's pretty boring. The graphics aren't too great either.
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jackdoe - 662 days 18 hours ago
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If MS had decided to go with dedicated servers for Halo 3, big team battles would actually be 32 to 50 players instead of 18.
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gambare - 662 days 16 hours ago
15 - but...
This will be reflected in the graphic performance?
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shanezx - 662 days 16 hours ago
16 - am i the only person who thought the multiplayer demo was fun
i actually thought the multiplayer demo was really fun, and far, far better than the singleplayer demo. And it has decent reviews up to now - 7/10 , 8.5/10.

Just because its not on a Sony console doesn't mean its a bad game ...
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Martini - 662 days 16 hours ago
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It's awesome, lot's of fun - nothing like landing a recon drone on top of a sniper and then detonating it :)
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