Graal voice

[RogueShatterblade]

This would actually be a huge step in the right direction for Graal to keep pace with less-prehistoric games.

[Demisis_P2P]

Originally Posted by RogueShatterblade

This would actually be a huge step in the right direction for Graal to keep pace with less-prehistoric games.

Also some decent content wouldn't hurt huh?

Era has turned into Habbo Hotel with guns.

[Fulg0reSama]

Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P

Also some decent content wouldn't hurt huh?

Era has turned into Habbo Hotel with guns.

+rep when I can, this made my day.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by RogueShatterblade

This would actually be a huge step in the right direction for Graal to keep pace with less-prehistoric games.

I disagree. I actually believe that voice chat related stuff shouldn't be in any game, except for console games, because there you can't use any third party software for it. On the PC, though, Ventrilo, Teamspeak and Mumble are far superior to what any game can offer in terms of voice chat.

[Hezzy002]

Originally Posted by Crow

I disagree. I actually believe that voice chat related stuff shouldn't be in any game, except for console games, because there you can't use any third party software for it. On the PC, though, Ventrilo, Teamspeak and Mumble are far superior to what any game can offer in terms of voice chat.

And what if you're just playing by yourself? Kindly ask everyone on your team to join your Vent server?

[Crow]

Originally Posted by WillaWonka

UDP screwed with the gameplay as well, as in you can not see certain people with their UDP on also, move around.

UDP is glorious. Could've been implemented in a better way.

Originally Posted by Hezzy002

And what if you're just playing by yourself? Kindly ask everyone on your team to join your Vent server?

You've got a point. I was just thinking about myself in this case, and I don't use voice chat to talk with strangers, ever.

[Hezzy002]

Originally Posted by Crow

UDP is glorious. Could've been implemented in a better way.

TCP should have never been used for a game like Graal. You download assets and receive player and other updates via TCP, which is a terrible idea. That means that the game will stall out in connection, as TCP is a single stream which, when a packet is dropped or a lot of information needs to be transferred over time, will halt the ENTIRE stream, with no ability for player position updates or anything else to slip through while this data is being transferred. The real solution would've been to implement a reliability layer with ACK packets or timeouts over UDP, or use a pre-built one like ENet. Would've had a much better experience this way, but oh well.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by Hezzy002

TCP should have never been used for a game like Graal. You download assets and receive player and other updates via TCP, which is a terrible idea. That means that the game will stall out in connection, as TCP is a single stream which, when a packet is dropped or a lot of information needs to be transferred over time, will halt the ENTIRE stream, with no ability for player position updates or anything else to slip through while this data is being transferred. The real solution would've been to implement a reliability layer with ACK packets or timeouts over UDP, or use a pre-built one like ENet. Would've had a much better experience this way, but oh well.

Sums up what I wanted to say, but I lack the in-depth knowledge to not mess up