This is a big deal. Possibly? Server things and gizmos and clankertickers don't usually make that much of a difference to the general way we play games, but as something new this is a very interesting bit of information. Section 8, the upcoming FPS featuring skydiving from space, will be the first 360 game to feature user-created dedicated servers to the platform.
How will this be possible? Players can download a program onto their computer that will allow them create the servers for the game. While playing on the servers players will be able to compete with up to 32 others, which is evidently twice as many as usual on said servers. So I'm not sure how important this actually is, but it's a bit more interesting than the last news we did on the game.
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8:00 PM on 06.06.2009
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I think some games work better with dedicated servers from companies while others are better for p2p
It means that a server farm can host dedicated servers without using a 360 and without having to actually be in game. A player could of course run a dedicated server from his PC and use his 360 to play the game or host a normal server on his 360 where once he turns off his 360 game goes off as well.
Dedicated Servers minimize these issues. There is no 'host', everyone has to connect the server via their internet connection. And while some people will always have a worse connection to a server than others, you can choose your server to try and get the best connection possible. Also, a dedicated server has additional advantages, such as the larger number of players, since the server isnt actually running the game, just processing player movements and actions and sending them on. You can also use the server to fine-tune your game-types and such, or do more interesting things (low gravity etc). Finally, you can ban people from servers you control; this saves you from relying on MS or Sony to do it for you.
I get sick of games of Halo 3, where people are teleporting around because I'm in New Zealand and the host is American, and go play Tf2 on pc, which has many good dedicated servers. Its great that Section 8 will offer this, even though I'll play it on PC which would have had them anyway.
Although there are already games on the 360 with dedicated servers. Left 4 Dead being the most notably. Not user-created dedicated servers, but dedicated nonetheless.
A dedicated server, as the name implies, means that the machine hosting the game isn't used to play it, just to host it. Thus no one has 0 ping so no one has an advantage.