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No one on Doom 3

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inveterate

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Is it just me, or is doom 3 one of those games that you buy hoping to play multi, but u get on, and no one is playing. There are servers with like 10 capacity, but no one in them, and most are only 4, why is this the case. y is no one playing...grrrr
 
I thought it had good MP, PC gamer even had a guide to doom3 MP. Once I tried hosting a game, and after a while a few people joined in. btw, doom3 is limited to 4 players but you can mod it to 16.
 
Originally posted by: inveterate
Is it just me, or is doom 3 one of those games that you buy hoping to play multi, but u get on, and no one is playing. There are servers with like 10 capacity, but no one in them, and most are only 4, why is this the case. y is no one playing...grrrr
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Maybe you didn't get the memo. Doom 3 sucks. Doom was made to be single player, and in the beginning they didn't even plan for Doom 3 to be multiplayer at all. The best they put in was 4 player deathmatch, which sucks in any game.
 
I had fun the handful of times I tried it, but it had meaningful performance hiccups, and it never really took off. Honestly I have always enjoyed plain old deathmatch, and D3 was the most technologically impressive DM I've seen.
 
Doom3 multiplayer could have been big. The implications of light based combat was a lot of fun. Having people hiding in shadows, turning off and on the lights, shutting down the power generator, etc. They made combat really crazy. But at the end of the day, I could not find a single server that I didn't lag to, which is a lot to say in these days (where I get 40 ping to most servers). And that is pretty much what killed it for me. I think it had something to do with the way the server has to send positions of random things like boxes and barrels, bullets, etc. Because of this, most servers that usually do well, simply can't handle the load.
 
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Originally posted by: inveterate
Is it just me, or is doom 3 one of those games that you buy hoping to play multi, but u get on, and no one is playing. There are servers with like 10 capacity, but no one in them, and most are only 4, why is this the case. y is no one playing...grrrr
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Maybe you didn't get the memo. Doom 3 sucks. Doom was made to be single player, and in the beginning they didn't even plan for Doom 3 to be multiplayer at all. The best they put in was 4 player deathmatch, which sucks in any game.
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ID themselves said from the _very_ beginning that they never intended Doom3 for multiplayer.

They said you can do it, but it'll suck. They learned with Quake2 that single player and multiplayer games are 2 entirely different things. It takes a lot of tweaking and performance tradeoffs to get the best performance in either case.

And for Doom3's defense. I liked it, I don't know why people were so dissapointed with it.

I built my family a gaming rig for my father day's present. (It's unfortunate that I almost never to get a chance to play on it. 😉 )

I bought three FPS games for them; Doom3, Farcry, and eventually Halflife2. Nobody touches anything but Doom3, except for my youngest brother who plays counterstrike source online. They played the other games a bit but Doom3 was the one that anybody actually put time into to beating.

Of course HL2 got overshadowed in a LARGE way for "Rome: Total War". One weekend I came over and sat down and beat HL, and I don't realy understand what the hooplah was about.

Keep in mind that Doom3 was designed for more then just your seasoned FPS fan, its designed for people that may haven't touched FPS for a few years.

Quake4 is going to be the multiplayer version.
 
mmm, i like the doom 3 online though, and i don't find the lag hard to cope with,, I play halo on 150 ping and it's still fun, cuz i've gotten lag play down, and there's still rockets, nades and vehis. Doom 3 not that laggy in my opinion, and i wish people'd just give it a chance. It Grew on me, no i can't stop playing.
 
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