Some Ascension screenshots
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I've been playing TV a bit lately, and yes I suck at it, but some ideas weren't bad. The radar going down was kind of a newer strategic concept that added to the game. I still contend, however that the biggest mistake of all was choosing the Unreal engine. There are concepts in TV that arent bad, but that engine makes so much about the movement just suck especially when you are use to the darkstar or Torque engine. We all know about the newtwok glitches etc and Im sure some patches could have improved it, but damn. That engine is so damn jerky especially when the server fills up or your in an area with a lot of players and combat occuring at once. Of course the 3 guys with a 50 ping love it because its so damn easy too dominate. For everyone else you can barely move.
you've got to be fucking joking. I use my command screen all the time lding, watchign the sensor net for incoming cappers. It's a HUGE help and if your team has only a little D out you NEED your sensor. If I don't have my MPB out I try to make sure I have a sensor. The early warning it gives you of incoming hostiles is completely neccesary. T:V's all-seeing-eye sensor was a load of bs and I hated the fucking radar. CC ftw.Rev_Night said:
?B-MAN said:
I owned the most popular T:V server for a reason. It was hosted from The Planet in Houston Texas. It had a ridiculous amount of bandwith (unlimited) and was located centrally in the US. It cost a lot of cash a month to run, but the game played flawlessly with good hardware (before antics).
You need to blame the other servers that are trying to run the game, not the engine. We were able to run more players on our server than the engine was optimized for. T:V was never intended to be more than a 16 player game. Clan COBRA ran 22 players without lag. We played many matches with a loaded server and had no jerky perfomance what so ever. Your problem is you're playing on a server not capable of serving enough bandwith, your hardware is not up to snuff, or your connection speed is too slow.
Yeah, you needed a good broadband connection and a good machine with an updated video card to get the most out of T:V, but what do you expect? If you want perfect performance with a better looking game than T1/T2, you have to pay for it.
Amadeus said:
I'll choose not to stoop to your level with the childish remarks.
T:V's netcode obviously was not as good as T1 or T2's. But you could still play the game as it was intended on the correct hardware. Understand? And I'm not sucking T:V cock. I'm stating a fact.
I ran a low ping 22 man T:V server for over a year and it was full most of the time. Sorry you couldn't.
Too late on that one, pal.Zio said:
The fuck is this supposed to mean? Are you trying to say that the recommended specs of an Intel 2.5 GHz, a Radeon 9600 vid card and half a gig of RAM could allow you to play with high settings? Well guess what, I had a notably better system than that (A64 3000+, 9600XT, 1 gig of RAM) and couldn't afford to turn up the detail above medium on most everything (visible and fog distance being the exceptions, and that's after the .ini tweaks). That's pretty fucking weaksauce for a 2 year old game.Zio said:
Just because you could afford a rig good enough to handle the heap of technological crap that T:V was doesn't mean it wasn't utter junk. You're like NoFiX who keeps claiming that T2 worked fine from the day of release.
