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Well, looks like it was pushed out.<br><br>
Well, honestly, I would rather wait until October, or November<br>
and see the release of a COD2 with a working Windows server<br>
and Linux server day 1. <br><br>
Of course I expect some issues, but not the BIG ones with COD:UO.<br>
Missing big ones is not unique to AV or IWN, look at BF2 Linux<br>
server by EA. (Nice Memory leak, and nice they are so
responsive<br>
to their own forums the put up for bug reports....)<br><br>
I don't know about the rest, but BF2 was no COD killer!<br>
They break away to play BF2 for change, but back to COD<br>
and UO. To some extent, I have seen that a large portion of<br>
the COD playership (A Bush word - defined as "made up" ;-)
)<br>
has migrated back to playing COD, or COD:UO with much of<br>
the big fire power items missing. Something to be said about<br>
skill with a rifle vs a tank.<br><br>
My busy servers are ironically my rifles only (Bolt), Snipers only,<br>
and maps that don't have PPSH, aka n00b weapons in them.<br>
I don't find that very strange, but I do find the return back to
COD<br>
somewhat odd, or using UO, but without the hardware and it does<br>
not all see to be driven by lag issues if you have tons of tanks a<br>
blazing in Cassino. It appears driven towards skills developed to
be<br>
a good infantry player. I suspect this training will not go wasted
in<br>
the upcoming COD2.<br><br>
When tanks are available, and a player keeps grabbing a tank, the<br>
guys that know their stuff, and have the skill, know where all the<br>
anti-tank weapons are, and the tank don't last long with a shot up<br>
the old "back bone". Eventually they get the hint and
move on.<br><br>
I thought perhaps a COD2 would look a lot like a BF2 with COD skins<br>
and engine. Perhaps hot for a while if it was, but I would suspect
it would<br>
somehow default back to basics and skill and tactics, especially if
the<br>
campaigns are more detailed and infantry based.<br><br>
Whatever it turns out to be, I am sure it will be great, and I will<br>
gladly wait until the Windows and Linux versions can be released at
the<br>
same time and actually work. And unlike what we just went
through<br>
with BF2 and EA, AV and IWN make them look sooooo bad.<br><br>
Anyone have any thoughts about this? Noticed it? Thoughts
about<br>
COD2 push-back? I would like to think it was because ALL was
not<br>
ready, and not the Windows was not ready and no one gives a lick<br>
about the Linux server at AV....<br><br>
Dr. D<br><br>
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Mark J.
DeFilippis
defilm@acm.org<br>
defilm@ieee.org<br><br>
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