Another week has passed and we must now share with you another new episode of the Xbox 360 Fancast. This week we talk a little too much about Halo 3 and its (possible) lack of online co-op. We also discuss Silicon Knights legal shenanigans with Epic, Bully on 360, our feelings about TimeShift, and so much more. The show may be acquired in various and sundry ways below.Get the podcast
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Music: Intro/Outro: "Electromooq" by Uma Floresta. Break: "melody day" by Caribou
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News:
Halo 3 Xbox 360
Halo Wars demo out before release
Halo 3 EGM leaks
COD4 on October 30?
Bully hitting 360 this November
Peter Moore is gone
OXM reports on MGS4 360
Halo DS never officially existed.
No X07, but a UK event planned
Silicon Knights sues Epic
Hi, I'm a Mac. And I'm a Gears of War
Thoughts on TimeShift
Break
Fantalk: Halo 3 online co-op is looking iffy. Thoughts?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-23-2007 @ 7:18PM
LtT LivinLegend said...
Cool, I always love your shows.
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7-23-2007 @ 7:48PM
Project Ekim said...
Great Show Guys!
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7-23-2007 @ 10:05PM
Project Ekim said...
For me online co-op is not as important as having giant battles in single player.However it would be a great edition but is understadable if bungie cant make it work.
I mean yes other games have done it but not when u can be miles away and doing vaild things, crackdown did it but the A.I i eman come on they were like humans with the brain of an ant and people just walked around waiting to die.
The problem halo 3 is having,in case people dont understand, is that Co-op can be in split screen because its the same box procesing the same thing and the internet is not involved and bandwidth is not an issue. It can also be done over system link whitch is good because we can go online using xbox connect. Now it could only be done over system link because its a direct connection with no varible.
System link is about 100 mb/s thats alot DSL the lowest internet connection you can have to be online is around 2 to 5 mb/s, compressing what bungie has said to be truly inteligent A.i that flank and plan and appear in different places each time you play along with miles and miles of draw distance and the ablity to have 2 players so far away from each other still performing tasks that is aiding in the fight, its just not that easy of a task.
I mean everyone can rag on bungie all they want saying Gears did it and so on but like what was said in the podcast in gears you were never as far away and the enviroment were much smaller however bungie could impliment the teliport system like dustin said but what if the game required you to go a far distance away?.
All in all its just not as easy as everyone thinks it is theres no add online co-op button (that would be cool though)compressing and sending complicated code threw a worse case senario of 5 mb per second, code that was meant to run smoothly at 100 mb is just challenging. But as bungie said
".... online co-op is a feature we’re wrestling with somewhere in a muddy and muggy Florida swamp against a ton-toothed Alligator, but, what we haven’t really talked about is how big the knife we brought to the wrasslin’ match is"
lets hope that knife is bigger than we think.
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7-23-2007 @ 10:15PM
Adam said...
"DSL the lowest internet connection you can have to be online is around 2 to 5 mb/s"
eh, im running a 1mb connection and im just fine. I know others with 256-512k connections also just fine
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7-24-2007 @ 6:21AM
Maxi said...
its 1am So i'll listen to this before I goto sleep, thanks guys! :D
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7-24-2007 @ 10:29AM
DjDATZ said...
Sweet...i get to be on the show!! LOL Super cool guests FTW!! ahahahhahahaha!
I dont call him Burgy...i call him Dusty...LOL
Awesome fancast again!
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7-24-2007 @ 4:38PM
COV3RT SN1P3R said...
lol at the Meese in buildings, I know your guys are joking but I'm sure there are some people out there who think that is true about Canada.
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