TotalPSA
01-09-2004, 07:27 PM
<S> Chickens
Hey guys we are hoping you can help us with and annoying problem that has arisen from the patch in HW2.
You all are probably aware of the alteration to the kick feature that was introducted with the patch (everyone in the game gets the chance to kick if a player lags). This feature has resulted in alot of people getting booted out of games (particuarly when winning). There seemed to be some confusion over how people are kicked, some thought it was a voted feature. We labbed it to find out for certain;
Kick Feature Lab Results
In 3 trails we sucessfully found that it only takes one person to kick anyone out of the game.
I was the host therefore it was decided i not kick as being the host it may have a prioity kick function (who knows?)
Test 1
5 Players, Hater was the only one to kick me and i was kicked.
Test 2
4 Players, Had trouble producing lag for this one, it seems if the lag box appears for only a few seconds then goes real quik you can't be kicked. Wrath managed to create a longer pause of lag Hater kicked him and he was out
Test 3
6 Players, Cryptite on a 56k and running voice comms to increase the lag. Only Hater out of all of us kicked him and he was again kicked.
So there is no voting system involved in kicking a player from a game, this feature will have a nasty baring on some HW2 games as we are certainly already finding out. Further more in test 1 i got kicked out of my own game, WTF is that all about????
THIS SUX!
Uberjumper has stated that he thinks it unlikly that there will be a second patch but surly this is only a minor fix, if you can join us by emailing Sierra http://www.sierra.com/support.do and asking them to fix this issue (for all the good this may do us, but if we dont try we dont get)
Thanks Guys!
Hey guys we are hoping you can help us with and annoying problem that has arisen from the patch in HW2.
You all are probably aware of the alteration to the kick feature that was introducted with the patch (everyone in the game gets the chance to kick if a player lags). This feature has resulted in alot of people getting booted out of games (particuarly when winning). There seemed to be some confusion over how people are kicked, some thought it was a voted feature. We labbed it to find out for certain;
Kick Feature Lab Results
In 3 trails we sucessfully found that it only takes one person to kick anyone out of the game.
I was the host therefore it was decided i not kick as being the host it may have a prioity kick function (who knows?)
Test 1
5 Players, Hater was the only one to kick me and i was kicked.
Test 2
4 Players, Had trouble producing lag for this one, it seems if the lag box appears for only a few seconds then goes real quik you can't be kicked. Wrath managed to create a longer pause of lag Hater kicked him and he was out
Test 3
6 Players, Cryptite on a 56k and running voice comms to increase the lag. Only Hater out of all of us kicked him and he was again kicked.
So there is no voting system involved in kicking a player from a game, this feature will have a nasty baring on some HW2 games as we are certainly already finding out. Further more in test 1 i got kicked out of my own game, WTF is that all about????
THIS SUX!
Uberjumper has stated that he thinks it unlikly that there will be a second patch but surly this is only a minor fix, if you can join us by emailing Sierra http://www.sierra.com/support.do and asking them to fix this issue (for all the good this may do us, but if we dont try we dont get)
Thanks Guys!