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Title: FS1 online?
Post by: aldo_14 on August 18, 2002, 11:54:52 am
Just wondering.... FS2 doesn't seem to like my PXO account at the moment, actually :(, but FS1 logs in ok.  Unfortunately, there's nothing_and_nobody online.

But I'd like to give this MP stuff a shot, especially as i managed to get Serious Sam running ok last night over a 56k modem.  Relatively lagless in co-op, depending on the number of players, so it was decent fun.

So does anyone still play Fs1 online then?
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on August 18, 2002, 12:43:29 pm
i haven't played in a while but whenever you want to.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: Solatar on August 18, 2002, 12:48:56 pm
I've never played online, and I would, but I just reinstalled fs1, and the graphics are screwy.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: aldo_14 on August 18, 2002, 01:32:36 pm
Bit of a disaster, to be honest... kept on getting chucked out of games :( inlcuding just after I'd taken out a Vasudan cruiser (and been just about killed by the balst)

Bah.  Maybe Fs2 will be a bit better, the netcode miught be faster or summat.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: Alikchi on August 18, 2002, 01:55:55 pm
I've only played online a few times.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: killadonuts on August 18, 2002, 05:08:42 pm
Playing FS2 online is so much better than single play,in my opinion.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: Solatar on August 18, 2002, 05:11:40 pm
I like singeplayer. You can't MOD multi-player. That's why I don't like it much.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: Killfrenzy on August 18, 2002, 05:16:36 pm
I used to be on PXO every day for a short time - but I got my ass kicked, and lost my sign-up info, so I stopped. :)
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: RandomTiger on August 18, 2002, 05:19:32 pm
Given that FS1 (I think) was successful and FS2 wasnt. Which one has the biggest multiplayer community?

Hades, whats wrong with your graphics for FS1?
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: Solatar on August 18, 2002, 05:43:12 pm
The engines are screwy, and the Laser garphics suck. All of the Interface is perfect. The ML-16 Looks really weird, the nebulas are all blocky, and the engines are just scary. I tryed updating it. it doesn't matter. I use fs2 anyway.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: Anaz on August 18, 2002, 06:10:08 pm
thats...kinda...fs1...minus the engines...
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: DTP_1 on August 18, 2002, 06:30:47 pm
yeah, but try run FS1 on a Voodoo board, and you will note the difference. especially the "blockyness" dissapears.

FS1 was made when voodoo ruled. oh sweet memories.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: karajorma on August 18, 2002, 06:47:25 pm
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Originally posted by Hades
You can't MOD multi-player. That's why I don't like it much.


You can. You just need more friends and a LAN.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: Alikchi on August 18, 2002, 07:01:05 pm
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Originally posted by karajorma


You can. You just need more friends


oh don't we all :p
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: Nuclear1 on August 18, 2002, 07:47:59 pm
hmmm.... i play FS1 multi quite a bit
 im logged in under "Fsnuke" (I know Thorn's on there cause I just saw him today ;) )

the FS1 online community is quite active.... though it won't be once school starts up again
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: demon442 on August 18, 2002, 10:12:16 pm
I used to be an old FS1 Online player.  But then summer came and the community dried up.  Personally, I prefer FS1 over FS2 simply because hornets\tornz don't work right in FS2.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: Blue Lion on August 18, 2002, 10:25:09 pm
That's why you load out Rocks and Temps for TvT, harps and trebs for coop
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: Pegasus V on August 18, 2002, 10:42:09 pm
I've never played Freespace online. I've always wanted to. Before I had a firewall that wouldn't allow me to play online. Now I don't have the Internet. Such is fate.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: Mr. Vega on August 18, 2002, 10:49:36 pm
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Now I don't have the Internet.
:wtf:
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: demon442 on August 18, 2002, 11:21:06 pm
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
That's why you load out Rocks and Temps for TvT, harps and trebs for coop


Tried, but the other players tornz trear me to shreads before I can get off enough of them to do decient damage.  It's my comp, new HP's suck for gaming.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: Blue Lion on August 18, 2002, 11:38:07 pm
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Originally posted by Mr. Vega
:wtf:


He's mailing them in
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: LtNarol on August 18, 2002, 11:40:03 pm
just do what i do: take a loki, load it out with temps, and spiral in at them.  They'll never hit you, as long as you drop a countermeasure every now and then when you have like 30 missiles coming your way.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: CP5670 on August 18, 2002, 11:58:27 pm
I tried FS1 a few times years ago but I only had a 56k connection then and the game was not really playable with that. FS2 works much better with 56k's and I used to play that online something like 24/7 about a year ago; I might still be somewhere on that rank list. :D

In my opinion, dogfight and TvT games are not really worth playing on a 56k since the broadband players will get a significant advantage (their pings are only a little less but that makes a big difference in allowing missiles and especially primaries to hit the targets), but cooperative missions work great. If you have something faster than 56k, these games are quite fun to play, but try to avoid non-standalone servers (i.e. with a playing host), because the host otherwise gets an enormous advantage with primary weapons.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: demon442 on August 19, 2002, 12:20:07 am
Well, I officially retired from FS2 Online.  In fact I rarely ever play FS Online anymore...but im not gonna retire just yet.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: aldo_14 on August 19, 2002, 03:04:12 pm
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Originally posted by nuclear1
hmmm.... i play FS1 multi quite a bit
 im logged in under "Fsnuke" (I know Thorn's on there cause I just saw him today ;) )

the FS1 online community is quite active.... though it won't be once school starts up again


I played on thorn's server yesterday (I think)... some mission against the HoL... I gained me greatest ever 'victory' (taking down an Aten), and it crashed.  Sigh.

At least Serious Sam works fine for me. :nod:
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: Galemp on August 19, 2002, 08:51:57 pm
I keep two versions of FS2- one with full cbanims, fs2_open, and all my Port and Star Wars mods, and one bare-bones unmodified installation for multiplayer.

Personally I would like to see more multiplayer mods. Maybe the Source team can make a PXO alternative that lists what mods the host is running, or something.
Title: FS1 online?
Post by: Pegasus V on August 19, 2002, 09:22:19 pm
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
:wtf:

He's mailing them in


Hehe. Any of my messages you see on here over the past month or two have been made from my work. I'm a little naughty... ;)