fatal1ty

Sweet, i will be when i get home :)

It sucks so bad. Worst MP game in a while actually.
And I don't think SP will be that much better.

Why don't you like it? You can only play FFA right now, so it's hard to even judge.

ye i don't think the point of avp multiplayer is ffa, poor choice for a demo tbh.

Why would the SP suck?

Consolified crap from the videos that have been released.

Disappointing that it's only MP in the demo, and it didn't find any servers anyway.

So far:

+ performance is great
+ graphics are nice, and the death animations are awesome
+ rock/paper/scissors gameplay is good, but might need balancing
+ netcode seems solid enough, despite running on local servers


- No dedicated servers, but apparently will be in retail
- FFA only so far, when this game really needs to be 3 team TDM
- SEARCHING FOR GAMES_
- alien wall mechanics and camera align need a little work
- mic is active at all times in lobby/loading, and 99% of players don't know it

FFA is interesting for a short while, but a good marine should never lose. Might not be the same way in TDM, as Aliens really work best in small groups.

Anyone find the download on steam extremely slow?

80 kb/s :/

Speeded up eventually and finished, then didnt work so had to "recheck cache" or something then it worked.

700-800 KB/s.. still lame.

And the original's only $5! \:D/

Can't fking connect and no campaign make this at present the most failed demo I have ever seen.

Been looking forward to this too.

*EDIT*
Apparently its running on a modified doom 3/Quake 4 engine.
It all makes sense now.

Err, no, it's an original engine.

Serves my right for glancing at destructoid (when searching for problem) and actually thinking someone knew what they were talking about.

I kinda wondered why they would use d3 engine for the tesselation stuff they had going on.

I still can't connect...

Youtube will have to do for now....


looks awfully "unrealish" to me.

It doesn't look Unreal-ish when you are in the game. The connection issue is probably because it's trying to find low/medium ping games (like the failure that was L4D's matchmaking) and there aren't enough people near you.

The steam forum for AVP3 has some matchmaking threads where people are posting their location/names so you can just add/invite them and start. You can't start a game with less than 8, I believe.

edit: Oh, and this demo does not have tessellation. It says at the start that it's running on DX9, and that you have to buy the full game for the full DX11 support. Hopefully, it doesn't hurt the performance much, since this one runs so smooth.

guy looks like a noob.

That shit in the lobby where everyone's idle headset-microphone is feeding back on itself is so retarded.

Couldn't get to grips with it when I played it. Apparently I was 2nd scorer whilst I spent most of the game trying to sort out sensitivities and the like. Felt too sluggish for me :(

Low specs? Vsync is on by default, and that's the only thing that was a problem, for me.

i turned it off, and it still had a shitload of input lag, not to mention the blur effect when turning around paired with the abysimal fps gave me a headache. i dont have a high end system, dual core amd with 7800gtx, but with everything set to low/off i still get like 15 fps. i wonder what fps ppl get with the bare mimimum specs aka single core cpu and a geforce 6600...

most failed demo ive seen in a long time, i mean come on, a console -> pc ported demo eventhough the pc version will be entirely different? l4d like matchmaking wich takes an hour to find a game? dumbed down gameplay completely focussed at retarded console fps players?

gg... ill prolly still buy it though for a good price :X

What kind of processor and what OS?

amd 4400+ x2. xp32 pro, 7800gtx oc'd, 2gb ram ^_^

Nah I saw all those things and turned vsync off. I only wish they let you set up a LAN lobby so you can set this shit up without having to get into a game and then essentially be afk throughout the most of it trying to get to grips with shit...

absolutely terrible. avp1 was the best game ever, this is just a disgrace. cod6 style fov60 zoomed in piece of shit combined with grandma pace gameplay. fucking consoles can die in a fire.