Gears of War 2 MP Game Arranging Thread
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Shame Virgin Media are a stinking pile of crap. Telewest/Blueyonder had an amazing cable service but Virgin have messed that all up
But is it still a better, faster, more reliable service than ADSL?
I cant say I've ever noticed that my ADSL performance has degraded due to bad weather. New ownership however has made a noticeable negative impact.
I miss my old Blue yonder connection from way back.... was just so flippin fast and reliable....
Now with BT Broadband and what I get for what I pay is shocking.... still, I go get BT Vision for next to nothing, and its actually a pretty good service.
Now with BT Broadband and what I get for what I pay is shocking.... still, I go get BT Vision for next to nothing, and its actually a pretty good service.
I meant very heavy rain/thunderstorms.
It is a fact with copper lines tbh, but quality of lines varies as does external exposure as well.
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Good god no! It's terrible once you hit your very restrictive daily limit and my latency is all over the place.
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I had a look at the Virgin T&Cs and it didn't look that restrictive. It could be worse. As long as you do the vast majority of your Downloading overnight your fine.
I cant see gaming causing you to hit your DL limits.
5 people in a house does. With iplayer, gaming patches, demo's, itunes and online videos the limit is easily hit.
I wouldn't mind so much but as well as lower downloads (1/4 speed iirc) the latency is tripled and all traffic is shaped in such a fashion that gaming and reliable packet delivery is noticeably hindered.
I wouldn't mind so much but as well as lower downloads (1/4 speed iirc) the latency is tripled and all traffic is shaped in such a fashion that gaming and reliable packet delivery is noticeably hindered.
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Ok I'll rephrase the question. In instances that you have not hit your DL limits is Virgin a good ISP?
Yeah I added you when we were playing last night im sure. I'll check on xbox.com the now
Yep, deffo added!
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Does your GF describe you the same way?
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Thats probably because you and Krono never STFU long enough for anybody else to get a word in
and to be fair you were hardly ever on my team either, since I always seem to get John on my team instead, but thats ok since he is so much better then you at the game and he doesn't make any noise 
I was absolutely wetting myself everytime Krono did something retarded like getting pwned by the avalanche, running into laser fences etc. He should really just get Callum up to play for him then he might actually get some kills for a change.
Yeah she does, also she does sign me out when she updates
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Thats probably because you and Krono never STFU long enough for anybody else to get a word in
I was absolutely wetting myself everytime Krono did something retarded like getting pwned by the avalanche, running into laser fences etc. He should really just get Callum up to play for him then he might actually get some kills for a change.
That wasn't as retarded as Kreeeee running into the avalanche.
Krono: Kreeeee watch out the avalanche is falling
Kreeeeee : What avalanche I don't know where it is I've never seen it yet
Krono : Its right in front of you, your walking straight into ... **Kreeeee dies**
Krono: Oh **** I'm all alone and there is 3 of them. Thanks a ****** bunch you blind **** I hope John is taking the **** out of you for that... Oh **** here they come... Come on trusty shotgun don't fail me now **Bang,Bang** Bugger. **Krono Dies***
My avalanche death was only comical because in the time it took me to get from my team side of the fight to Alrik's teams side. My whole team had been killed. So when I strolled up behind the Locusts they all turned round at once looked at me paused for a second whilst in realisation I was a COG and then opened fire. I naturally turned and ran, and realised I needed to make another turn to keep myself out of line of site (and therefore the bullets). In an unfortunate turn of events the avalanche decided to fall at that exact time and I really did not know where to run (due to it being the first time I'd played the map) or how far the avalanche would go So I ran in the direction of something that looked like an opening but as it turned out it wasn't. So in the end I turned into a Snowman.
The lasers was Cole's fault. Stupid meat head. What part of jump over the wall did he not understand. Forward+A=Over wall not spastic dive to the left into hot, burning, explosive, killer lasers. As soon as he started the move I started swearing at him for not doing as he was told.
I had one other spastic move in the last level we played on. I ran down one of the passages at the side. Hoping to get behind the Cogs. But as I was running I saw 3 of them so I thought **** time to go. I did a sideways roll (or pressed the sideways button and A) and my guy just had an epileptic fit or something. It looked like he was trying to do a Lara Croft roll or something. Well anyway during his fit I was shot to pieces.
Finally I think my last real bit of poor play (which Alrik shouted at me for doing at the time) was I got inked. I realised that I could not go backwards as that would put me through the entire ink and into line of sight of the person that threw it, so (in my view) my only hope was to go into the cubby hole I was near and hope that the corner was our of ink range, or that I'd have enough life to survive it. Unfortunately neither were the case.