WTF?!?!? Account needed for Head to Head?!

[Antix]

This is brilliant marketing, however a VERY CHEAP SHOT! Please tell me I messed something up.

[Pyro]

Why is it a cheap shot?  What's the big deal about signing up for it?  



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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations

Perfect plans, aren't.

[Hans]

Uh, do you need to pay $30 a month to sign up?

If you do, then the 'free 8 player head to head' isn't free.

Hans.

[Pyro]

>Uh, do you need to pay $30 a month to sign up?

No.  



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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations

Perfect plans, aren't.

[Daniko]

I can't seem to get h2h to work.  If i try and create a session nothing happens, if i try and join a session, it says disconnected from host.  Any ideas?

[Antix]

Ok, I don't mind signing up to play Head to Head, in fact thats not bad at all, and you did state you didnt have to start a pay account.

But how come I can't host, nor join after creating an account?

I'm having the same problem Daniko is having...


[This message has been edited by Antix (edited 04-08-2000).]

[AborT]

The CHEAP is that you have to be online (have an Internet connection) to play H2H, what means NO LAN play   I think we don't need that kind of H2H, it would better to have 2 player H2H, but LAN, than 8 player online      

[Antix]

I tend to agree with AborT's post... My friend came over to perhaps get in a little Lan play, I downloaded the new release in a couple minutes (DSL, dont'cha know) and fired it up, and it wants me to make an account, so I posted here, made the account, then tried to make a go of it, no response to making a host, joining causes dump to desktop.

Then I got bored and made the screenshots for my other thread...

Ol well

[Ping]

 I think its better than h2h lan play for 2.
 Most seem to be playing on the net anyway and it gives more of an idea as to what its like with multiple bogies.

 <S> HT & Co.
Thanx for the fine work.
Ping

[AborT]

The main pleasure of H2H is playing without spending money for connection. If 4 guys have connection at home and socks proxy, they can fly 2 weeks for free anyway, connect - sux, warps, but they play, and waiting for H2H. And now they've got same way of playing, but "for free". After 2 weeks of warps and disco's, i don't think they are gonna play this kind of "H2H". It's better to have 2 player H2H for LAN, than 8 multiplayer for online.

[FDAce]

WE  had 4 to 6 players on a cablemodem h2h server last night  no problems  other than it appeared that when someone was joining the arena the host screen would stop for a second or 2.. or 5.

Just a note I was unable to use the beta terrain which is listed first btw, so be sure to use the non beta terrain!

Also, for those that don't know, you get quite a bit of control over your h2h arena settings. I set ours up so that we burned 0 fuel (stay up for ever), I turned kill shooter OFF ( 0 setting) so same country can kill each other, I turned collisions ON, and
Gave us all 10X normal ammo load.

Only additions we need are, in order of priority:

1. ability for in flight level starts for H2h ladder duels and wingman tourament play.

2. Kill reporting so there is NO doubt as to who the dueling winner is.

3. Lan option

[Kieren]

Anyone else see the irony in HTC being accused of being "cheap" because they supposedly won't give something away?

And the guys complaining somewhat acidly that the Internet option isn't good enough, that it should be LAN?

I played WB H2H long before I could afford to go online and play. Sure, there were things I would have liked to have seen added, things that would have added a lot to play for me. OTOH I would never have had the nerve to berate ICI for their lack of inclusion. I was appreciative for what I had.

This seems to me to be like a father giving his son a blue corvette, and the son giving the keys back saying "I thought it was going to be red!"

Before anyone starts parsing the english, what has been promised is "free 8 player H2H". Anyone demanding LAN over Internet in effect is removing themselves as a potential customer of HTC, and tell me, why is HTC responsible to support that?

[Pyro]

Have you tried a H2H session again today.  We had some problems with the login server last night but that's fine now.



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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations

Perfect plans, aren't.

[Westy]

 Rgr that Kieren. Amazing the whining and drivel that pops up when something is implemented for the first time, has a bug or two but AND its freek'n FREE

-Westy

[FDAce]

Guys, I dont think he was whining. I think he just sincerely thought that a PAID account would be necessary. Which it is NOT.
requiring an account (unpaid that is) is a great way for HTC to get potentials on their mailing list, a small price to pay to play AH in an 8 man arena.