via Smed: Beta starts Monday at 2PM PDT - Page 4

Chefkoch · 2012-08-03, 02:55 AM

Sounds good. Keep it up SOE

Coreldan · 2012-08-03, 03:00 AM

Originally Posted by iburnmycd

You should probably put a phone call into your ISP and upgrade from 512kbps DSL before Monday. If you need a weekend to download any game chances are good that you'll be complaining about lag as well.

I got a 1mbit connection myself. To download any modern game, it pretty much takes me the whole day depending on the client size, whether the source I download from gives the file with full speed, etc

However, no game has ever capped my connection while playing it

julfo · 2012-08-03, 03:06 AM

Speed is not synonymous with latency (thank god :O)

Assuming the client is 8-9GB it'll take me 5ish hours to download. However, I normally get a ping of about 12ms to NA from the UK so I have high hopes.

CatandSpice · 2012-08-03, 03:18 AM

Considering there will be thousands of players on each map, I'm pretty confident with my chance of getting a key. As long as they have multiple maps/servers at once. Anyone know how many people applied for the beta?

cellinaire · 2012-08-03, 03:26 AM

Interesting. A Korean tester I know of said that this game seems to be well-optimized. He also said(on his computer), PS2 tech-test version runs a bit better than BF3 with both games on full-graphics setting. (with same resolution)

p0intman · 2012-08-03, 04:48 AM

Guys.

This will get pushed back until tuesday at 3:30 pm.

Chefkoch · 2012-08-03, 04:49 AM

Originally Posted by julfo

Speed is not synonymous with latency (thank god :O)

Assuming the client is 8-9GB it'll take me 5ish hours to download. However, I normally get a ping of about 12ms to NA from the UK so I have high hopes.

I think its more like 7GB if i take Smeds twitter correct ?

the amount of time it takes to deploy a build (7 gig copied to EU data center is NOT immediate despite some "experts" telling me otherwise

Well we will see soon enough.

andehh · 2012-08-03, 04:57 AM

Originally Posted by Fizzgig

Check your private messages. I had a spare key so sent you it.

Have fun!

nice one mate!

. Now only wish I had asked the question.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

Mox · 2012-08-03, 05:24 AM

Originally Posted by Smed

PS2 will launch in the second or third quarter of 2011..... The beta will start in July..... The beta will start on the 31of July or 1 of August... The beta will start next friday or monday.....

You see a pattern? Smed is good in announcing dates but not in delivering

We will see it on monday if he can deliver this time.

By the way
Do you have an active sub?
Are you a vet?
Do you have a 'priority' key?
Are you one of the not sold out US players?

Yes? OK, you can hoping further.
No? Forget the date next monday.

Magpie · 2012-08-03, 06:19 AM

zzzzzzz they been saying this for a year time to play xbox >.>

Platinumfish · 2012-08-03, 06:26 AM

If the Beta is coming out this monday when will those guys who used to play PS 1 be getting their keys?

Kaotc · 2012-08-03, 06:30 AM

Originally Posted by julfo

Speed is not synonymous with latency (thank god :O)

Assuming the client is 8-9GB it'll take me 5ish hours to download. However, I normally get a ping of about 12ms to NA from the UK so I have high hopes.

12ms to NA servers...? how.

igster · 2012-08-03, 06:44 AM

12ms from UK to NA - I highly doubt it.
I get approx 10ms to a UK site never mind a NA site.
It will be more like 70-90ms to a North American Server.

The extra 60ms or so will be for transmission times across the Atlantic. Pretty much impossible to get 12ms.

Use http://speedtest.net/ to confirm but 12ms is utter nonsense.

Ping does not depend on how much bandwidth you have. This is pretty much the same ping I had to US when I had ISDN....now I'm on 100Mb and it's almost exactly the same.

Coreldan · 2012-08-03, 06:49 AM

There are areas with almost direct lines to the NA. I believe 12ms is possible, but to very few.

Scotsh · 2012-08-03, 07:19 AM

Originally Posted by Coreldan

There are areas with almost direct lines to the NA. I believe 12ms is possible, but to very few.

No, simple physics.

[sheldon]
Distance between London and New York = 5576 km according to http://www.distancefromto.net/distan...on/to/New+York

The speed of light, being the fastet possible speed for the transmission of information is 299792 km/s.

Just for the sake of easier calculation and considering there are shorter distances between other points of the UK and the US:
use distance = 5000km
and
speed of light = 300000km/s.

Then light would travel the distance in 16,6667 ms.
Ergo a ping of 12ms is impossible without disproving the theory of relativity.
[/sheldon]