Robot Monkey Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 Okay, I put together an Xbox Live faq for lcvg.com. Since there are rumblings about it going live in the near future, I'd like to make the current draft available for comments from the Peanut Gallery. I'm posting (actually moving) this in General, because I would like to know whether it provides useful info to users unfamiliar with Live. You can find it at a temporary location. I'm thinking about doing a Lonely Planet-style series of articles on many aspects of video games, from thr Xbox Live faq to hardware to videogame forums. This is all contingent upon what lcvg's owners want, as well as any laziness barriers. Feel free to post comments in this thread. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnemaEms Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 Nice job Asshat. You hit a lot of good points in the FAQ. The only thing I would correct is under your kings of trash talk you should add that "RingWraith is the Supreme Ruler of the Universe in Trash Talking". :twisted: -Dean- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bryan Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 edit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A CLAN OF ONE Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 Funny stuff, Jay. Very well done. For this part, though: (Wolfenstein) Can a lieutenant call an airstrike without throwing smoke?Yes, use your binoculars to target a spot for an airstrike. Then pull the right trigger. I'd add that your "Power bar" meter, on the lower right-hand corner, needs to be full. Also, technically, when you do it this way, you call in an artillery strike. When you throw the canister, you're calling in an air-strike. Also, instead of naming Dean "Supreme Ruler of the Universe in Trash Talking", I have quite a few more "titles" I'd like to bestow on him. I think I'll start another thread on that. :twisted: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoisonJam Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 Also, an airstrike is happens very quickly after throwing the smoke grenade (3-5 seconds?), and completely covers a swath of ground around the smoke. An artillery strike takes much longer to initiate (10 seconds?), and drops 4 consecutive explosions in random spots around the area you marked with the binocs. One more for you: Q: So who did win the Wolfenstein tourney, anyway? A: That would be those godlike Adonis warrior-poets, Simple Chat, long may they reign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 I still dont get the entire Team Men in Tights are trash talk champs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chatakinns Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 I must be blind. Where is this remarkable FAQ at ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 The link in Robot's first post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chatakinns Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 Thank you very much. I am now enlightened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainmaykr Posted July 12, 2003 Report Share Posted July 12, 2003 It needs to be noted that Jam's new sig rocks. Great job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoisonJam Posted July 12, 2003 Report Share Posted July 12, 2003 Thanks, Rain! My buddy, the magical mechanical monkey, hooked me up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted July 12, 2003 Report Share Posted July 12, 2003 You need a router in between your modem and your devices. This is certainly an option (and probably the best), but not the only way to go about it of course. What do I do about an annoying player? What about mute? That can work too. Unplugging the communicator completely can work wonders too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted July 12, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2003 Okay, thanks for all your comments (except for Dean ). The current version of the faq can be found here. You might need to do a shift-refresh as the document title is the same. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted July 13, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2003 Oh yeah, your information specifically used in the faq will usually earn a mention in the acknowledgments. And I spelled "acknowledgments" incorrectly, so that needs to be fixed. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 Thats great work - ta. I'd been trying the Midtown "short track" trick, but I'd had the empty space at the end, not the beginning. As such, Underworld's Moaner is getting right on my nerves now. You might want to actually add the details of how to do the trick; rather than downloading and burning his amazing three seconds of silence, you can just grab any short CD track - I used one of the 80-something ones that are used to hide the hidden track on the Stone Roses' Second Coming (the one good thing that can be said about that massive disappointment of an album). Nine Inch Nails' Broken has a similiar pile of 4-second silences, and there are a whole stack of very short music cues on the Half-Life game CD, you might want to use. Its worth a mention of all this, because not all Xboxes read CDRs (mine will, which is nice, but they have used a series of different drives over the course of its life, and only some cope). If there's one question that the FAQ doesn't answer I'd like to know the answer to, though, is some more on this 'guests on splitscreen' thing. I noticed that the MotoGP demo seems to allow up to fourplayer per machine; is that going to lag horribly, and more to the point do I need to pay for four Live accounts to do so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted July 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 Good stuff, Ian. I'll try to work both into the next update. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted July 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 Okay, the updated faq is available here. Remember that you might need to do a SHIFT-REFRESH to see the changes. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnemaEms Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 RingWraith is specifically excluded from my acknowledgments for challenging my trash talk title. But that line puts me right in the Acknowledgments. This is why Monkey's will never be the supreme species, because you are dumb. -Dean- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted July 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 At least I didn't get fooled by a couple of fat hobbitses. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 Quality work, sir, ta. You can't spell iainl, but hey, neither can my ISP whenever I phone them about anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnemaEms Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 Now now. PJ's RingWraiths and Tolkien's RingWraiths are a bit different. PJ made us look weak and like Gollum said during his MTV awards acceptance speech, "Peter Jackson is a f**king hack!" -Dean- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlot Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 Nice work Jay. I noticed you listed a divergance error under NFL2K3. The following may be similar. There was a problem with NHL2K3. Right after the faceoff, the game dissconneted the users. It's been reported the reason was the users having different game settings. I've heard this reported as a divergance error. I actually had this happen several times as well, but don't recall the error message. I created a new profile with default settings and never had a problem again (make sure your opponent does the same). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyVolpe Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 4.17 Every time I play MechAssault I get blown up 50 times, can't score to save my life, and can barely walk 10 paces without five Atlases using me as a shooting-gallery duck. What do I doooooooo? Your opponents are most likely 10-year-olds with no jobs who have nothing better to do except play XBox live 14 hours a day, learn every secret location of every power-up, and target you because you're a "n00b" (that's Dorkese for "inexperienced video game player"). My suggestion is to ride your XBox live account until it dies and go back to Tetris. It's a lost cause, trust me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted July 15, 2003 Report Share Posted July 15, 2003 If there's one question that the FAQ doesn't answer I'd like to know the answer to, though, is some more on this 'guests on splitscreen' thing. I noticed that the MotoGP demo seems to allow up to fourplayer per machine; is that going to lag horribly, and more to the point do I need to pay for four Live accounts to do so? Yes, you can play MotoGP with up to 4 players on an XBox, and while I've only done this once, there was absolutely no increased lag, and I know people who play split screen all the time. It may actually help with the lag since you've got up to 4 players in that same game who are receiving and sending their update packets all at the same time, and up to 4 players that should be completely in sync with no latency between them whatsoever. The additional players do not need their own account, they can login to the network as a guest of your account. Since they're a guest though, they do not get a gamertag (will usually appear as "DrunkOM/Guest", "DrunkOM/Guest2" etc, do not get any stat tracking or scoreboard entries, and cannot use their own voice communicator (even if you happened to have a 2nd headset and module). In the case of MotoGP, some of the game's regular features and UI features that are present in the single user game are changed or removed in the splitscreen mode. The track map is moved to the middle (possibly to the empty space in 3 player mode), you cannot tell who is behind or in front of you, etc. There are many games which allow guest accounts to play with you, some have 4 way split screen (MotoGP), Some just have 2 players splitscreen (MechAssault) and some don't split the screen at all (Sports games). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Monkey Posted July 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2003 1. Sorry about the spelling error, iain; it's been fixed. You may want to consider dropping that extra "i", however. As you know, we're looking at a vowel shortage in the near future and Britain continues to flout conservation efforts by using low vowel-efficiency words. And didn't Blair say he was going to do something about your heavy reliance upon foreign "u"'s? 2. Mike, if you can find a second reference to the NHL2k3 problem you mentioned I can include it in the faq. No, I'm not singling you out, but I don't have the game and this is the first I've heard of it. Waitaminnit, you don't hear my piteous cries in MM3, so f you. -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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