Quake3World

Ryoki wrote:Goddamnit, i had a momentary lapse of sanity, installed Origin and preordered it. Memph phant and 4days, you slags better get this as well or i will be most upset

PS Origin is not as bad as i feared... but it's pretty shit all the same. I'm still really worried i might not get to play this game on day one due to EA failure.

So, the hurdle to jump through before I could get to the point where I tried to hover a reticule over a man’s face was the new server browser/friend management/character system. This all works through your browser, and in my case wanted to download two plugins for Chrome so it could do whatever the hell it was doing. Initially, I thought my only option was to press the big QUICK MATCH button as everything else was apparently disabled for the beta. This didn’t go well, as it placed me in a 80-strong queue and then accused my client of being out of date and kicked me right out when I finally got to the head of the line some 20 minutes later.

In a bit of a mood by that point, I explored the web interface further and found the actual server browser, wherein I was able to track down a game with a few spaces free and join within a couple of minutes (though the game was still launched via a JOIN GAME button in my browser – trying to load the client myself only opened another browser window). In the human versus computer stakes, I was therefore winning – but I guess the match auto-finder might get a bit more reliable once the initial crush has died down.

scared? wrote:will this game be as shitty as all the previous battlefields?...

Foo wrote:The one appealing aspect of origin is the idea of account banning for hackers. BFBC2 is absolutely fucking rife with it at the moment, and you don't see that kinda shit on Valve games because of VAC banning.