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BenKenobi88 on 29 August 2008
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JaggedSac said:
thekitchensink said:
JaggedSac said:
Dammit, that means no party system. Oh well, I guess it is not really necessary in a game like this.

 

It means nothing of the sort00they've gone out of their way to let us know that there WILL be a detailed party system. This is just with regard to hosting the game itself.

 

How can this be implemented? A single server has a list of all parties that are looking for games, it groups up potential games, and sends them off to a seperate server for the game to start?

The dashboard update is for Live parties, not game specific parties.

I don't know how XBL works exactly, but Steam will be introducing their Matchmaking system when Left 4 Dead comes out. Games are still run on dedicated servers, but there will be options to join parties based on skill and experience, on top of the existing Friends system.

I'm sure L4D will work out similarly on XBL as well.



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