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Offline SkyRock

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help with a question..
« on: April 06, 2014, 05:55:41 PM »
when I'm over at my brothers and play AH on his internet... I'm worried about using too much data.. he is on limited data plan... I think 150gigs a month...  about how much data am I using an hour?  I know it depends, but does anyone have a guess at the ranges of data used while playin AH?

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Re: help with a question..
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2014, 06:18:55 PM »
While I play this very moment, the data rates through my network card are ranging between 0.7 and 1.8 KB/s, which woul translate to something like 2.5 to 6.5 MB/hour. As you still can play AH with a 56.6 modem, you will be very fine with a 150GB limit.
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Re: help with a question..
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2014, 02:22:53 PM »
Would filming/saving film not increase the data amount as well as saving screenshots doing the same?


Great question you've asked SkyRock...


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Re: help with a question..
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2014, 02:24:55 PM »
Would filming/saving film not increase the data amount as well as saving screenshots doing the same?


Great question you've asked SkyRock...


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Re: help with a question..
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2014, 02:26:17 PM »
Would filming/saving film not increase the data amount as well as saving screenshots doing the same?


Great question you've asked SkyRock...


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Since the game is run client-side, I doubt filming and/or screenshots does anything to your network data usage. All you do over the network is transmit/recieve positional data and damage values, although the more people in the area the more data must be passed around.
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