Also: You cannot expect 4 people to go out and buy this game, come home and be able to connect to each other. Really, pacov? Because you know, if I see a game advertising 5v5 Internet multiplayer, I DO ABSOLUTELY expect to be able to buy 10 copies and then play 5v5 games over the Internet. If what you mean is instead, "This game is broken and has too many problems to expect that to work," then I absolutely agree with
woppin: There are known solutions to the problem you are describing. QuakeWorld (John Carmack) invented the general solution more than a decade ago, which involves client-side prediction and correction. One of the problems is allowing the speed of the computer to dictate the speed of the game, instead of simply the framerate. When you design a multiplayer game around frames instead of around real time, then you end up with this problem. It's a result of developers being too id
Good job, Stardock. Good job. Chalk up another screw-up onto your scorecard.
I want to play Demigod with my friends. So badly. But nothing ever works . There are a million tiny problems. If they aren't fixed, then I will just have to give up the pipe dream of actually enjoying Demigod. We did a 5v5. One person's machine was slow, so everyone played the Demigod: The Slideshow for about 8 minutes until someone quit. THAT IS BAD DESIGN. A slow machine shouldn't ruin everyone else's game! I know you made Demigod lock-step on purpose as an attempt to keep l
Can we get some Stardock confirmation on this? Is this problem being worked on? It really affects gameplay for people who have these cards (seems to be Geforce 7 series--at least 7950 and 7800).
This occurred when attempting to make a Skirmish match--I had previously failed to connect two or three times (said I was kicked), and the last time the game crashed with this: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at address 0x0098e510 attempted to read memory at 0x00000018 Program : C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Demigod\bin\Demigod.exe Cmd line arguments : Callstack: Unknown symbol (address 0x0098e510)<b