Eurogamer Previews Team Fortress 2

[CSN NewsBot]

Cranking out the string of previews this week, Eurogamer doesn't disappoint with their preview of Team Fortress 2, and their interview with Valve's Robin Walker.

Eurogamer: How trusting will your netcode be of the client player? Because in Counter-Strike there were times when lagged players achieved things that shouldn't be possible.



Robin Walker: We use the same networking system that we've used in the past. TF doesn't really have the same problems that you could have with CS because we're nowhere near as reliant on the scan weapons that CS has; we're more projectile-based. That said, it's sort of a fallacy - the lag thing is actually a fallacy, it's not true at all. The lagged player has no extra ability over...

This question leads directly into a follow up question, hence the ellipsis. There is a wealth of information in both the hands-on preview and the interview. Happy reading!

[milly9]

OH LORDY LORD THAT LAGGER IS ACHIEVING THINGS HE SHOULDN'T BE ACHIEVIN

[Diamond Dust]

milly9 wrote..

OH LORDY LORD THAT LAGGER IS ACHIEVING THINGS HE SHOULDN'T BE ACHIEVIN

Omg you can't say lagger it's now "the L word" because laggers can't defend themselves, they can't navigate the internet with all that packet loss. Have you no shame!

[MikeJ]

I played in CAL central for a bit despite living on the west coast and constantly had a ping that was almost twice as high as most everyone else. So if you think being laggy helps you more than it harms you, try playing CS through an evdo connection or something. I guarantee you'll be back to comcast pretty fast.

[DaRk-AnGeL]

I hate playing Russian and German teams since the links between them and the UK are so appalling....

[peagle]

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Eurogamer surely does produce a lot of Valve related articles.

[Diamond Dust]

MikeJ wrote..

I played in CAL central for a bit despite living on the west coast and constantly had a ping that was almost twice as high as most everyone else. So if you think being laggy helps you more than it harms you, try playing CS through an evdo connection or something. I guarantee you'll be back to comcast pretty fast.

I'll second that, when I had to go back to dial-up the amount of times I would die after getting behind cover (just on my screen apparently) was enraging. When I went back to cable it was like a whole new game.

[Zom-B]

You people don't realise how lucky you are with the speeds of the internet these days.