I put the cd in and started installing. Then it began to download a patch. This patch was roughly 40-60mb and it was downloading at 4kb/sec. I rebooted and tried again. Same speed. I checked my firewall/router and made sure it wasn't being blocked. Still 4kb/sec. I waited hours for it to finish and it finally did.
I made my cool Necromancer chick and then hit enter and now i'm trying to enter Ascalon City. But no.. I need to download a patch for that city as well. This ones much bigger and its going at 4kb/sec again. I minimized and started playing C&C 3 and it locked up my pc so I had to start the download all over again. I'm on high end DSL and this is insanely stupid..
I want to enjoy this game but i'm about to give it away because I don't have the patience to download at dial up speeds. Does anyone know of ANY website that has ALL available game patches on filefront or some kind of server that isn't on the moon giving me terrible speed?
/end frustrating rant. >.<
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One solution to skipping the download each time you enter a new area if takes a long time, is start the game with /image added to the command line. This will make sure you dowload every available file before the game starts, thus you can do that overnight or something.
USA 6am to 1am i think when this was posted on the board. so not many people from the states or even brazil are on, so where else? try far east, Japan, China and Korea etc... now this can all be a problem if everyone wants the same file.
Also remember that you connect to the internet through a local connection which means your neighbours use the same connection you do or the server side is soo busy that hardly anything can get through.
Do not let a terrible connection get you down, wait a while and try again -- or a different site.
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Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory crashed on my pc when ever i load into a multiplayer game. the same with BF2. so that is unfortunate. Anyway.
Try all the different servers, i'm sure there is a server capable of high speed connections.
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If /image doesn't work, then use -image on the command path instead.
It will depend on time of day as to download speed, but usually it should be much faster.
Hope this helps.
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and you should try it GW is an amazing game, but do not expect to grind or a social economy. its more of a Diablo 2 style game where outside of towns is instanced... but thats for PvE...
the game was designed for PvP.. the stuff in there is incredible...
there isnt a mass PVP yet but its on the way with GW2
but there are so many ways you can pvp 1v1 4v4random 4v4team GvG 8v8, tournaments ,ladder, hero, battles, aliance battles, faciton battles... challenges...
give it a try. but you will only get better if you unlock skills which you can do while you pvp or pve. and there are soo many. also any combination (in your case necromancer with anything else is never a bad combo...
and its not an equipment makes you god game either... its your skills at 100% and your team skills as well
when you have the whole game patched up you will have 2 second load screens (at least in my case) and the new patches that come in after you have all of it will download as you play (thats the key for GW)
He was talking about skill it takes to pvp, not if its consentual or not. GW pvp is top on my list, because it requires skill like Consensus said. Most mmorpgs on market that have pvp require grind more than actual player skill.
I argue that a game involving long term wars between player-run alliances where battles can occur at any time anywhere in the game also take skill, but in the form of politics, planning, strategy, and tactics.
I'm just sick and tired of these arguments towards open pvp games taking "no skills" because the side with the better plan is more likely to win, and the defeated side can't see past the "you only won because [xyz]" aspect. It's especially irritating when you throw in lines like "you just don't like it because you have no talent".
i know SWG pre-Cu had that (i was deep in SWG rebel v imperial politics and war against the rebels) but now thats useless since CU and NGE. so i am really interested to know what games have that
and if you are about to say WoW, dont bother, there is not politics in WoW since you cant even communicate with the opposing factions.
i would like to be able to sit with the leaders of oposite faction guilds for some politics and term agreement on teritory and wars with the risk of those discussions going bad and an all scale war erupts in the meeting chambers and heads start to roll... (ahh the good SWG -precu days....)
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Wow, sorry you are having that much trouble with the game. I have never had any problems with the patch speed but there are a million different computer configurations and networks. Good luck.
I am a little surprised at the amount of venom directed towards one of the best reviewed titles out there however. The GW world/expansions are rock solid. This group tends to condemn sunlight, ice cream and puppies.
Of course I'm not sure this is the place for GW technical support either.
Ah well. I hope you have better luck at another date.
when i say something i give the reasons of statement and if possible some proof of it
i can very easely say i hate WoW/. but that will just make me an idiot who just says that because others say that without backing up his statements. instead ill give out reasons like: infinte grind and only objective at endgame is raids. nothing else to do. i wont really get in details of that ive written other articles on why i do not enjoy x game and why i like better other games...
every one is entitled to their own opinion. so for the love of god and anything that is holly explain or give reasons/proof of your statements.
right now the only response i can give to your " its the worst game ever created in history" claim is "WHY?"
if you have an answer then lets hear it if not then shut up and go away.
good luck fixing that connection problem !
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All i see is cussing and if reported by both sides, there could be a potential problem.
Squal'zell: if everyone is entitled to their own opinion then you should let them express their opinion not to flame it otherwise your controlling their opinion.
Xstoration: you should of kept your mouth shut IMO, with that you could end up in serious trouble on these forums.
There is a common curtasy you both accepted to without seeing it; being here is a priviledge not a right. you probably already know this, but causing choas like this tells me that you just thrown that away. The admins are the ones who have the right to if you stay or leave, not some other guy who does not like what he/she hears/sees.
Enough of that. I just played Guildwars, a pvp cookie cutter... how disappointing. all i can say is good luck on your connection.
I moved the thread to the GW forums. Good luck with resolving your issues!
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Wow, so many terribad people dissing GW PvP. You must've been spanked real good by the Zaishen I guess... oh btw, the Zaishen are not real people. XD
2. All game reviews back the game as "brilliant."
3. It's ranked third on MMORPG.COM
So you're basically saying 1000+ members of MMOPRG.COM have no taste. I think mabye you were using a 2kb connection to play the game if you thought it was that bad.
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