PlanetSide Event [May 04, 2003, 2:59 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
HomeLan Fed's PlanetSide
Press Event Report is online, describing a bit of what went on at a recent
unveiling of SOE's upcoming MMOFPS. Included are bits on a couple of things that
have not been part of the game's beta testing to this point, for instance:
"One of the new additions has been VoiceIP support and we got a demo of
that at the PlanetSide press event. Anyone with a microphone will now be able to
give voice orders to his or her squad as well as listen to what other squad
members have to say. To have this system in place out of the box when the final
game is released should be a welcome addition for players who are tired of
punching keyboards for text chat."
Mr. Tolerance,
By itself, Voice over IP isn't going to kill your bandwith no. Then again, how many people are you listening to at any one time? 2,3? 5 Maybe?
Notice that I said that "if too many people start yapping" it kills bandwith SERVER side.
Because while your connection may only need to handle 1-5 VoIP streams, the server's bandwith has to handle all of them.
Still, I have to admit that Planetside does absolutely nothing for me, and I just also realised that this is the third MMO game Sony is currently working on. I DO hope that they aren't running all those servers on one single server / bandwith farm
Creston
By itself, Voice over IP isn't going to kill your bandwith no. Then again, how many people are you listening to at any one time? 2,3? 5 Maybe?
Notice that I said that "if too many people start yapping" it kills bandwith SERVER side.
Because while your connection may only need to handle 1-5 VoIP streams, the server's bandwith has to handle all of them.
Still, I have to admit that Planetside does absolutely nothing for me, and I just also realised that this is the third MMO game Sony is currently working on. I DO hope that they aren't running all those servers on one single server / bandwith farm
Creston
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