Played Halo online for the first time.

[1CCOSA]

Not enough money for an XBox right now (which I want badly along with Panzer Orta but I'm saving for an import PS2 and DDP DOJ right now) but luckily one of my best friends has one and a DSL connection. Been playing Halo at his house for over a year now with friends, love the multiplayer, especially the sidewinder/ice level and blood gulch. Sniper rifles and tanks rock. He recently got DSL and set up a network so Wednesday night I decided to go overand try to get Halo running on the Gamespy tunnel while he and another of my friends played C&C.

It just took about 30 minutes to get it all figured out and I was playing online, amazing. I did really well the first few rounds as a newbie. Did some sniping in the ice field. But then he and me took on 4 people on one system and we got aced by them pretty bad 3 rounds in a row.

Can't complain though, almost no lag. The only thing that's weird that we can't figure out though is that we could join games with no problem but we couldn't create a game, it would give a socket error/connection failed error. He has static and a firewall but that didn't prevent us from joining existing games. And we need to create some 2 on one system vs 2 on one system games.

Only thing that stunk was the last two people we played cheated by turning on the handicap to their favor, one shotgun and we were down.

[Changeling]

Why don't you just go and buy the PC version of the game?!?! It'd be alot easier to play online.
(goes back to playing BF secret weapons)

[Doug Branches]

Halo PC Online has surpassed all but TFC as my favorite online fps ever. I never got to play multi on the xbox version though so it's all new to me.

[1CCOSA]

No Halo PC for me because I don't have a DSL connection yet and my 4 1/2 year old system with 333 Amd, 3.2 gb hd AND voodoo banshee wouldn't allow it. Besides the novelty of playing on a team with a friend on the same XBox is too cool.

[napalm]

I was just wondering, is halo pc playable with 56k? I know cs is VERY easy to play with 56k *although worlds beyond broadband* but how is it with halo?

[SpeedRunnerJPF]

I doubt my crappy computer would even play Halo PC. Hey is a demo ever going to come out for it? Maybe I could give it a shot..

[Tracer]

You need a tough computer to run Halo well and still have it look nice (ie, better than or equal to the Xbox version) but as far as connection goes, find a dedicated server and you should be ok. Try not to play more than 8 people if you're on Dialup. 16 players sends my ping to about 60 on the better servers and I'm used to 20 - 30.

Even so, it's very playable with latency.

[Mfkzt]

If you want to play Halo PC at a consistent 30fps you'll need a 2GHz+ processor and a Radeon 9600 Pro/comparable Geforce. 60fps is only achievable (and barely so) with the best possible hardware. I've got an Athlon XP 1900+ and a Radeon 8500, and even at 640x480 it's not what I'd consider playable. I can see why people are still playing the Xbox version.

[Zerodash]

...we are now fast approaching the point at which you need a Ghz speed computer to run anything. *sigh*

Still, I actually like playing Halo through the tunnel rather than on the PC...there is that extra "novelty" factor that I think is cool...

[Rich]

You need a tough computer to run Halo well and still have it look nice (ie, better than or equal to the Xbox version) but as far as connection goes, find a dedicated server and you should be ok. Try not to play more than 8 people if you're on Dialup. 16 players sends my ping to about 60 on the better servers and I'm used to 20 - 30.

Even so, it's very playable with latency.

If you're noticing any difference between 30 and 60, you've got a pretty crappy pc.