ATAG Dedicated Server is up!

[whoarmongar]

Played last night on syndicate server for about 6 hrs, Very nice, very stable no crashes lotsa fun. For a while I forgot I couldnt climb above 20 000 ft, I forgave the mix bug and I didnt care about the poor sounds, I just lost myself in a fully enjoyable multiplayer experience.

There was about 20-25 people on the server continuously all through the session, but what I couldnt understand was only 3-5 people were on the vent server.

Whats wrong with you guys ? Being able to comunicate with other players adds so much to the game it doubles at least the fun you will get while on the server. Not to mention getting a heads up as to where the action is.

Even if you dont want to speak just listening in helps a lot.

So here what to do. DOWNLOAD VENTRILO.
Go to the syndicate homepage and just click the vent server on the right
enable push to talk
pick the suitable channel
Join in the fun,

Oh and finally thanks to all the players I have spoken to on vent, sorry for my noobish behavior and flying, just be gratefull I wasnt drunk.

[AnarchyZG]

Originally Posted by whoarmongar

Played last night on syndicate server for about 6 hrs, Very nice, very stable no crashes lotsa fun. For a while I forgot I couldnt climb above 20 000 ft, I forgave the mix bug and I didnt care about the poor sounds, I just lost myself in a fully enjoyable multiplayer experience.

There was about 20-25 people on the server continuously all through the session, but what I couldnt understand was only 3-5 people were on the vent server.

Whats wrong with you guys ? Being able to comunicate with other players adds so much to the game it doubles at least the fun you will get while on the server. Not to mention getting a heads up as to where the action is.

Even if you dont want to speak just listening in helps a lot.

So here what to do. DOWNLOAD VENTRILO.
Go to the syndicate homepage and just click the vent server on the right
enable push to talk
pick the suitable channel
Join in the fun,

Oh and finally thanks to all the players I have spoken to on vent, sorry for my noobish behavior and flying, just be gratefull I wasnt drunk.

I fly with my squaddies and we use our own comms, from my experience 4-5 people is maximum per channel, everything else will result in chaos unless pilots are disciplined.
I can't wait till real persistent online wars are created for CoD. The scripting gives us a lot of possibilities (too bad my time is limited, I used to be a C# dev ).

There is only one thing bothering me with SYN server - the $%&#!!#$% "head shake". We fly axis exclusively and the need (in 109) to constantly switch views between having no SA and having SA but no usable gun sight is hard enough, but the disorienting viewpoint changes on even modest G loads makes deflection shooting almost impossible.

I know It's supposed to simulate G load, but this is just silly.

[mcler002]

Had great fun earlier in my 109,

Even more fun flying as a JU88 and he111 with my escort !

The only problem was my bombs didn't go off

Ross <- on screen name

[Thee_oddball]

hey SYN next time the server crashes or you restart could you note the threads it is using at startup and at crash plz? thnc

If you want a fast, high scalable server, consider it doing in c++ with iocp (I/O completion port). Dont use .Net sockets because it assigns 1 thread per connection which consume system resources dramatically

S!

[Flashman]

Originally Posted by AnarchyZG

I fly with my squaddies and we use our own comms, from my experience 4-5 people is maximum per channel, everything else will result in chaos unless pilots are disciplined.
I can't wait till real persistent online wars are created for CoD. The scripting gives us a lot of possibilities (too bad my time is limited, I used to be a C# dev ).

There is only one thing bothering me with SYN server - the $%&#!!#$% "head shake". We fly axis exclusively and the need (in 109) to constantly switch views between having no SA and having SA but no usable gun sight is hard enough, but the disorienting viewpoint changes on even modest G loads makes deflection shooting almost impossible.

I know It's supposed to simulate G load, but this is just silly.

Headshake should be off, we certainly have it set off (but who knows with this game at times?!?!?). I think the G effects are different from headshake but please don't quote me on that!

[Thee_oddball]

I have to agree...the head shake is over modeled...if that were real u would have all kinds of neck and back problems after your first dog fight.... and just imagine what it would be like firing the 30mm or the 37mm on the hs129 (in the future of course)...you would feel like your sitting on a paint shaker

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by whoarmongar

Played last night on syndicate server for about 6 hrs, Very nice, very stable no crashes lotsa fun. For a while I forgot I couldnt climb above 20 000 ft, I forgave the mix bug and I didnt care about the poor sounds, I just lost myself in a fully enjoyable multiplayer experience.

There was about 20-25 people on the server continuously all through the session, but what I couldnt understand was only 3-5 people were on the vent server.

Whats wrong with you guys ? Being able to comunicate with other players adds so much to the game it doubles at least the fun you will get while on the server. Not to mention getting a heads up as to where the action is.

Even if you dont want to speak just listening in helps a lot.

So here what to do. DOWNLOAD VENTRILO.
Go to the syndicate homepage and just click the vent server on the right
enable push to talk
pick the suitable channel
Join in the fun,

Oh and finally thanks to all the players I have spoken to on vent, sorry for my noobish behavior and flying, just be gratefull I wasnt drunk.

Yeah I agree! Getting on vent is where the fun is

I even made a nice "how to" guide for ventrilo here: http://syndicatesquadron.com/forum/s...rs-setup-guide..

@oddball - what do you mean by that scripting lol? Do you have some further details. As far as the socket thing it looks like it's allowing 255 connections at 10000kb. I figured that was normal. All the cpu cores only sit at about 8-10% usage with 35-40 players on. Is it network resources? Sorry for all the questions

[15.Span_Valalo]

Please, How I could bomb in Syndicate Server with 109Emil/B???

thanks

[Bobb4]

Originally Posted by SYN_Bliss

Yeah I agree! Getting on vent is where the fun is

I even made a nice "how to" guide for ventrilo here: http://syndicatesquadron.com/forum/s...rs-setup-guide..

@oddball - what do you mean by that scripting lol? Do you have some further details. As far as the socket thing it looks like it's allowing 255 connections at 10000kb. I figured that was normal. All the cpu cores only sit at about 8-10% usage with 35-40 players on. Is it network resources? Sorry for all the questions

Teamspeak 3 is better, I find I have a lot more disconnects with bandwidth intensives games using ventrilo than I do using teamspeak 3.
Most of the il2 community are used to Teamspeak and teaching old dogs new tricks is hard.
Even flying RoF on the Syndicate server I stick to TS.
Not say ventrilo is bad just, I do not like it. Think your server is the onlyone offering ventrilo in the client list all the rest off TS3...

[ATAG_Bliss]

Vent is actually quite a bit better than TS3. That's why those FPS teams that play matches for $1000's use vent. The problem with vent is it's much more complex and less user friendly than TS. I agree it uses more bandwidth, it uses a better voice codec and has less latancy than TS3. That's probably again, why it's the standard for competitive teams in FPS type games. Not to mention a vent server is more expensive than a TS3 server. But there's a reason why, as I've explained above. As a 10 year old squad that started with FPS games, we've become accustomed to it, especially with all the features it has compared to TS3.

Once you sit in vent for a few weeks and go back to TS3, you'll know what I mean by just how much better the voices sound. That's one of the main reasons we won't be going back to TS anytime soon. But it only takes 5 minutes to setup. I actually can't stand how people sound in TS3 after using vent.