Sleep is for babies, gamers play all night! That's right, we here at Destructoid believe that videogames are a valid substitute for a good night's rest. As it turns out, the wonderful people at Valve share this belief with us (or maybe just Doug Lombardi?), because we just got word that the second update for The Orange Box (Xbox 360 version) is out right now.
The patch will primarily affect Team Fortress 2, as detailed below:
- Reduced network bandwidth usage in multiplayer.
- Improved overall game performance.
- Arranged search results to favor preferred host conditions.
- Improved searching for ranked games.
- Addressed a possible false report of too little storage space on larger hard drives.
If you talk to anyone who's played Team Fortress 2 in the last couple of weeks, you'll most likely get one of two responses. You will hear unrivaled amounts of praise for the game if the person you're speaking with is a PC gamer, but if he/she happens to have played TF2 on the 360, you are going to hear lots of shouting and words like "lag" and "unplayable" will be brought up constantly.
I can't say how much better Team Fortress 2 will perform after this update (I have The Orange Box for PC), so that's where you guys will have to come into play. Has anyone gotten a chance to try out the game with the new patch yet?
[Thanks, Doug!]
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2:33 AM on 10.27.2007
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Any improvements in the 360 version?
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Oh yeah, about the game: I hope there are none of these issues on the PS3 version...
Huzzah!
i feel bad for anyone who bought this for consoles...
I disagree with cjpkiller, why would you feel bad for people who bought this on a console? I've loved every minute I've spent with each game in The Orange Box. I'm not really into PC games, but I certainly don't feel bad for you because you buy them.
And the only part of this you can blame on microsoft is the fact that the patch took two weeks to hit because of their approval procedures. I don't like M$ anymore than the next guy, but blame for the now repaired lag issue falls squarely on Valve's shoulders.
I haven't lagged since I first got the game. Today I fire it up and sure enough, laggin' all over the place.
Maybe it was just the house.
I'm the man at that game anyway.
When the game works though, it's fun as hell!
The Pyro finally became what he should be: the dominant close range class.
The demoman now only has 4 grenades in his launcher, but the fuse is quite a bit shorter.
But...
Now level 1 turrets push you back too.
Seriously, turrets ruin this game. Why promote camping? The things are rediculously fast and lethal. And very easy to build once you have a dispenser set up.
that's lame. If anything, I thought the turrets needed to be nerfed a bit.
Sorry but I refuse to play games under 16 people. Valve fix this or buy dedicated servers.
I have the right to whine because i pay for xbox live and i paid for this game.
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