Might ruin another good game

[04soldier]

..oops my bad for double posting

[04soldier]

You'll be back, The socomfix always wins in the end, especially when u hear and see all the fun we're having.

[phreak]

i too got fed up with all the lag and glitchers so, after one year i got rid of it and i sold it to gamestop. three weeks ago i bought it again cause i got sick of halo 2 and th emonotoy of retarded immature kids. however the few problems in socom 2 are worth putting up with. socom 3 is gonna be well worth the wait.

[ToTaLDuDe]

Yeah no game is perfect, ive seen appaling lag on halo, glitchers cheaters and the hole lot if u can deal with HALO2 u can deal with socom 2

[c0mmand3r]

Let me just correct a few things for you. As your statement was full of errors.

Originally Posted by Nerve

I couldn't take it anymore with all the people using and promoting glitches, constantly using only the best weapons

Reality: Halo 2 has triple the amount of glitches and cheats. Something is also unique to Halo2 online; standby. People use the standby button on routers to stop the game for everyone but themselves. It is to the point where you cannot play a single ranked game without getting cheated against. All anyone uses (I, myself, was one of the original users of the combo and have no remorse or regret for using it) is the plasma pistol to battle rifle combo. Back in November and December only a handfull of players knew about it, but now it is the only thing anyone uses. Much like the IW for socom.

Originally Posted by Nerve

My friend has recently bought Halo 2. Looking at how well and organized Halo 2 online is compaired to SOCOM 2 just amazed me! Everyone had a green ping. Loading times were fast (I know this was because of the XBOX's HD) but also it was clean because there is no way for people to idle in servers.

Reality: Halo2 has great online options, yes. However, the inability to choose your own maps, guns, or anything for that matter in ranked matches makes socom2 the game of choice. Matchmaking is the most retarded piece of crap in any online game. You should have complete control (like socom gives us) over everything in game. The way socom setup their servers was fantastic. A little work needs to be done on the quality of the servers and the servers themselves for that matter. Xbox is always going to be faster. Unless you opporate your online for ps2 through the HDD xbox is going to be far more advanced 10/10 times. Unfortunatly the downside to this implication is that you have to pay monthly to play on Halo2 or any live game. There are ways to go idle, as in make your own game and sit in the lobby. However the game only takes up bandwidth while you are in an active game. Thus, this would never mess with servers. Those "BRB" rooms are annoying, but the same goes for socom. You don't really mess with each server unless you make 1000 rooms. The universe or other servers will not be affected even if that was the case.

Originally Posted by Nerve

Unfortunately in SOCOM 3 there will be glitches that will not be discovered until the game is already popular...

Reality: Day of release I was hopping around on the vigilance rooftops. Socom is popular and glitches will always be found. It is hard for them to get everything. Daily maintenence may be more than sony picking their arses this time round, and perhaps we will see more done to repair these glitches and server faults. Halo2 has far more glitches as stated prior to this comment, and compared with socom I would say this ratio is accurate: For everyone 1 socom glitch there are 10 halo glitches. Just because you know socom better does not mean there are less glitches in Halo. I can think of 20 right off the top of my head and I haven't played since january.

Originally Posted by Nerve

There will be people that make the game unpleasent and there will probably be server problems. I hope I am wrong and I hope to be proven wrong on this, but if SOCOM 3 could fix problems such as the ones I have stated a create a clean environment for online play, then this game along with the awesome single player campaign might just be one of the best games I will ever played

Reality: You are blind if you think Halo is a clean environment. There is more racism and cursing on that game than any other online game I have ever played. The typical Halo2 player is an 8yr old who thinks throwing racial slurs he just learned at school to anyone online is funny. Everyone cheats, and when I say everyone I really mean everyone. Have you looked at the ranks lately? If you think Halo2 is a clean environment you are poorly mistaken and utterly ignorant. Halo2 offline missions were great. Socom, in my opinion, has always been gimped in offline play. This time they are working hard on offline and it will prove to be excellent. I will get Halo3, but I doubt I will play online after my experiences with Halo2.

[phreak]

since i am very lazy when it comes to type, i dont express myself fully as commander just did. He hit it on the nose!! The biggest reason i dont play halo is the childish babble that transpires in each each session. Cursing, racist comments, and pure child like attitudes. i guess the older gen of vid players choose ps2 over the box. dont get me wrong, socom has them but, not nearly as bad as xb live. socom 3 will hopefully have some admin and like minded people who play the game frequently enough to keep an eye on that. nothing ruins the game more than hearing that crap, especially since there are alot of kids on there.

[Pimp Hand 47]

Let's dispel another myth, and that's the one where people believe that players idling in the lobby have an effect on lag in the games. They do not.

Once a game is started, all of the burden of bandwidth management for the game falls to the host. At this point, all players are connected to the host and NOT to the Socom servers. That means whoever else is hanging around in the Socom lobbies have no effect on your game. When you leave a game, you return to the Socom servers, but there is no active connection to them while joined to a game.

[Darken]

Originally Posted by MisFiT

Socom needs a brand new server, if people idle they will boot them like 10 mins after idle. Glitches will always be in all kinds of games and halo isnt as perfect as you think it is. I found a wall glitch in halo 2, I havnt told anybody about it because it would <font color="#FF0000">*censored*</font> up the fun on it.

I don't agree, what if somebody has to help his/her parent or go to the bathroom (some people take their time in the toilet). Then they come back to find that they have been disconnected from the server. I don't know about you but I would be pist big time. I don't understand why people just don't hang in the main online menu rather than make a stupid ZZZ Sleep room or a Be back later room. It's pathetic and a waste of space.

[arkard]

It doesnt have to be 10 minutes but half an hour to an hour is plenty of time.

[Magnum Force]

Originally Posted by Nerve

I was an owner of SOCOM 2 and played online quite frequently. I got rid of the game...

Then why are you on a SOCOM website??? Not to be rude or anything.