Firefall MMOFPS [2011]

wowo after 30 min queue I got into PVP!

anyone else noticed the high data transfer volume this produces?
 
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VeNT said:
wowo after 30 min queue I got into PVP!

anyone else noticed the high data transfer volume this produces?
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Right now the majority of textures in game are streamed and are not stored on your computer, so every time you load up the game it will re stream the data. One of the devs said they might release a texture pack download but suggest it would be big so they might not, which is odd because the reason you want it is so you don't stream it, he defended the stream system quite heavily. You can notice it very badly at the moment as it U.S server so it pretty slow.

Watched the new video and the new character system seems to be much better, it was just bog standard grind xp for levels before, a lot more in depth now hopefully.

Thinking of PvP they have said multiple times they want it to an esport contender, personally don't see it myself, it's fun, but with the current way the abilities etc work I don't see it getting anymore competitive than TF2 managed to be. It's also worrying I've read that when they're balancing PvP the changes also are for PvE, I have bad memory's from Guild Wars where that type of balancing was a nightmare, you couldn't have some skills to be decent in PvE without being broken in PvP and vice versa, they ended up splitting them at the end of its life.
 
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LokiS said:
Right now the majority of textures in game are streamed and are not stored on your computer, so every time you load up the game it will re stream the data.
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I don't know how much data is streamed in an hours play, but if it's something you need to do every time (which you do currently) and for everyone, I can't help but think it's needless resources being wasted. Just let me download the whole thing, I'm sure it'll save bandwidth for the player and the developer.

But yeah, currently it's very noticable.
 
exactly, it should just cache them!
if you do a session every day then every day you're downloading the SAME textures AGAIN and AGAIN!
 
From what I remember it's like that for beta so they can test it, but that was awhile ago and haven't heard anything on it since, hopefully they will make it cached in the future.
 
Is there any release date for the update from their last video? some of the stuff they are planning sounds rather awesome!
 
Was reading the forums and it sounds as if they will release some new keys if the servers hold up. If they give out keys for people already in the beta i will throw mine up on here :)
 
Jongo said:
Was reading the forums and it sounds as if they will release some new keys if the servers hold up. If they give out keys for people already in the beta i will throw mine up on here :)
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If you get some and I don't would you give one to Thundycat please as I promised him he could have my next one 3 months ago and I've not had anymore since and I really think he wanted to give it a go.
 
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