GOW Game Play Signup (Nothing hectic)

[SlappY]

K, we will be playing tomorrow at about 8-9.
Put your name down with whatever time suites you.
No obligations or anything hectic. This will just be clan members/friends, just to get to know each other.

"Yes Yes, pick me pick me!!! 8 sounds great" <--- Thats my signup.

[RotoRouterZA]

Count me in, though only from 9 onwards. I have my folks visiting...so dont want to offend them too much...

[SlappY]

Sold to the highest bidder... so far.. we start at 9

[Noodle]

Sounds like a plan to me, I have a couple 48hour trials lying aound I can use for now :D

8 or 9 is good with me I be playing before that so when you log on let me know. I will add all to my friends list and make it easy to invite.

Also please all mentio what connection you have so the person with the best can host to minimise lag.

I have a 512 connection but a shaped account for now. :cool:

[Ruslan74]

mmm... i will be on the lookout for you guys then, can only try to join up after 9PM though when wifey goes to bed. ;)

[Noodle]

Make her a cup of tea/coffe with extra "canderel" in it :cool:

[Ruslan74]

Make her a cup of tea/coffe with extra "canderel" in it :cool:

and my credit card instead of sugar? it might just work. :p

sorry for being off topic. :bow:

[sss]

so whos hosting?

i tried to play gow and bf2 at the same time on 384 connection... not good!

[Noodle]

Yeah that sounds bad.

All the guys must post there connections so we know who hosts.

So far seems like it's me on the 512 line?

[SlappY]

I am only 384

[RotoRouterZA]

Same, only on a 384 line, which is fine for 6 people, but any more then we need a 512 line.

[Noodle]

Quick question?

We going to play against local guys only or we gonna go take on the international guys?

[RotoRouterZA]

Local only. just a fun get together for now.

[Ruslan74]

Yeah, i think in GoW you can host a player match with private slots and simply invite the folk you see online. Should keep the foreign players away.

[Noodle]

Cool.

Useless - What connection you got going?

[Ruslan74]

its just a pimpy 384... hosting for more than 4 people lags in any game.

[doobiwan]

Cool, hopefully catch ya'll tonight, can't promise times but will make an effort to be there as close to 9 as possible.

[SlappY]

Well after tonight, I vote doobi as our undisputed king of GoW. (well in our little bowel of fish :) )
GG guys, I had fun.
I WILL work on my nade tags.

[Ruslan74]

Thanks for the games guys, it was great to play GoW multiplayer for a change. Off to download the new maps overnight. ;)

[Noodle]

Yeah was really sweet the short amount i did manage to play :cry:

Just gotta try sort out that bloody Nat issue I have! :angry: :banghead: :boom:

[Ruslan74]

I would like to make a suggestion in trying one day to play ranked matches, i know its a schlep since you cant issue an invite but narrowing down the game mode and round settings will allow for a quick browser find within the game's search engine.

Its just I am becoming an achievement whore thus my statement. :p

[doobiwan]

Heh heh, I feel for you dude,

Unfortunately I have tremendous issues connecting to Gears ranked matches, I just can't seem to do it.

[Noodle]

Hey psst....

How much you charge? :booty:

[doobiwan]

eeeeeuugh :barf:

touche!

[doobiwan]

Noodle, what router are you using?

This is for my billion, it may be of some help.
http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Billion/Bipac-7500g/Xbox_Live_360.htm

[Noodle]

Tx doobi.

I have 2 actually.
Got a Linksys wireless router and a billion modem/router (running in bridge just for the modem side)

Last night I tried turning off the bloody things firewalls still no luck will give the thread a bash and see what happens, let ya know later today :bow:

edit/ Checked the site they don't have my model on there 5200s. has the linksys though.

[doobiwan]

the admin interface for the billion modems are pretty much the same so the 9500 one should be sufficient, but if I'm not mistaken, it'll be the Linksys router that does the NAT, no you'd need to work on that one anyway.

[Ruslan74]

@Doobi - does your router support PPPoE by any chance? if so have you tried using an account from webafrica to see how your NAT performs?

[Noodle]

Hey doobi

I setup the linksys portforwading a while back with no luck even DMZ, the prob I reckon is the BIllion blocks the ports before it even gets to the linksys.

Useless - I have a webafrica account and use PPPoE.

[Ruslan74]

Weird... i have the Marconi router and with Telkom's ISP i get MODERATE NAT... with PPPoE on an unshaped Webafrica account i get OPEN. And i never fiddled with any ports or DMZ stuff.

Eish.

[RotoRouterZA]

Guys, sorry i was a bit late last night, my parents just wouldnt go to bed!

I had a blast though!!!!!!!

Oddly enough, i have the same Billion router as Doobi, and i have no issues.

[Noodle]

No worries, I was there early but still could not play much. Gonna attack my routers now and try sort out my Natting.

[doobiwan]

It's bizarre, I checked my network settings last night, and the 360 reckons my NAT is open on a shaped WA account, and I haven't configured a single thing! (NAT and UPnP are enabled though)

sigh, Maybe I'll get time to fiddle tonight.

[doobiwan]

Okay, go figure.

I didn't fo much. I used my unshaped account (also didn't work before) but I enabled RIP v1 & v2.

I played 2 GoW ranked matches! :D

Bizarre . . . .

[Ruslan74]

cool... so shall we do some ranked matches tonight if you guys dont mind? just let us know what the map settings are so we can browse for the server with ease. ;)

[RotoRouterZA]

They have changed it now, you cant see who is hosting anymore...

[Ruslan74]

the giveaway will be the host server's latency bar... if its green its local. ;)

[sss]

tonight?.. its friday.. its party time and empty bottles time and dead meat sizzling time!

[Ruslan74]

i will definetly try to put wife to sleep early to get some time if you guys are into gaming tonight! :)

[doobiwan]

Cool, I'm keen, or how about a bit of Burnout :D

[doobiwan]

tonight?.. . . . . dead meat sizzling time . . .

Dude you're making me hungry and it's only 10am!

[Ruslan74]

i will try to find the game this afternoon after work... hope Game has fresh stock in...

[Noodle]

Dang, Sorry guys wont be able to join you tonight.

Gonna see the SO tonight :bounce:

Also I think the trial card expires round 5ish today :hmmm:

[sss]

Noodle... i don't think you need a gold membership to play games with friends/ranked games and that, free(silver) should do you fine!

[Ruslan74]

i still have some 48hr trial keys if you need them...

EDIT : I think you need Gold to play any game online, i stand to be corrected though and will confirm this now now.

[rainy]

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Pay extra to play online... if that's not a rip-off, I dunno what is... :gno:

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[Ruslan74]

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Pay extra to play online... if that's not a rip-off, I dunno what is... :gno:

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Well, over 10 million PC users paying for WoW are being ripped off too? There you are paying for a monthly sub for ONE game. Here you pay to play ANY game PLUS download anything you want from LIVE.

Besides, watch EA implement the same for their future PC games in the near future. They had plans to implement a subscription for Hellgate:London until an outcry from the press and public made them change their minds. ;)

[rainy]

Well, Millions of PC users play UT, Quake, Battlefield etc. online, and they don't pay a Cent extra, apart from their online cost ;) And yes, I do think WoW is a bit of a rip-off :D But I can download whatever I want from half a million sources without paying extra as well :gyes:

[Ruslan74]

Well, needless to say i prefer to pay a yearly sub for excellent service that is always available, has quick accessible downloads, game demos and other services without the need for download managers, firewalls, IE exploits, hackers, cheaters, etc.

Its kinda like paying for DSTV and getting premium service. Besides, it all comes to around R50 per month. Hardly something to complain about as you spend more in paying for people who look after your car within the same time period. ;)

[rainy]

Erm, no I don't ;)

[doobiwan]

Rainy, I'm also no fan of apying per month, but if you consider what you get in terms of online matchmaking, integrated VoIP across all games, managed servers it's comparable to paying for something like access to the Gamespy network.

[Noodle]

If the trial cards are NTSC then yes please! :D

[doobiwan]

Just bite teh bullet and buy a months subs via Live Marketplace! From the UK it's only R70 a month, so the US must be about R50.

[Ruslan74]

lol... if its NTSC then its even cheaper to get LIVE Gold in U$ dollars! ;)

[Noodle]

Just not this month, even at that price :(