One of the nice things about hyperlobby was...

CaptainDoggles · #1 06-23-2011, 01:24 AM

That's literally the only thing I miss about HL. It was flawed on a fundamental level.

Orpheus · #2 06-23-2011, 01:40 AM

Joined up, not doing any MP yet but when I do I'll try the group chat thing.

Warhound · #3 06-23-2011, 01:54 AM

One of the nice things about hyperlobby was...saying goodbye to it.
No more inane "converstations" to read and no more having to launch an extra program to get online.

Thee_oddball · #4 06-23-2011, 01:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Warhound

One of the nice things about hyperlobby was...saying goodbye to it.
No more inane "converstations" to read and no more having to launch an extra program to get online.

im going to give you a chance to think that through...

Warhound · #5 06-23-2011, 02:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Thee_oddball

im going to give you a chance to think that through...

Well for me it's correct..Steam always loads as my PC boost and has done so for many many years(takes up a massive 9mb). So I can just click on CLOD and play without launching HL, waiting for it to display the servers, clicking the server I want to finally be able to launch the game.

Ze-Jamz · #6 06-23-2011, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Warhound

One of the nice things about hyperlobby was...saying goodbye to it.
No more inane "converstations" to read and no more having to launch an extra program to get online.

Insane conversations?

It was and still is a 'Community' and being able to chat when your not flying was great, i learnt loads from reading what others talked about back in the days..

makes me laugh, you come up with that view yet you visit these forums.

Launching another program?... Oh noes!

Thee_oddball · #7 06-23-2011, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by CaptainDoggles

That's literally the only thing I miss about HL. It was flawed on a fundamental level.

Flawed? i thought it kept the MP community alive for years...perhaps were using 2 different versions...ill get my magnifyne glass out and have a look..although i do seem to remember have no problems for the past few years...but i could have missed something....back in a minute

CaptainDoggles · #8 06-23-2011, 02:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Thee_oddball

Flawed? i thought it kept the MP community alive for years...perhaps were using 2 different versions...ill get my magnifyne glass out and have a look..although i do seem to remember have no problems for the past few years...but i could have missed something....back in a minute

Well for starters how about the fact that it can't count players who are ingame if they join via direct connect? I'd call that an underlying flaw in the design of the program.

I understand the rose-coloured glasses, and yes it was a great tool for the community when you consider the alternative was the ubi.com lobby (ugh).

You can keep rolling those eyes though, you're only fooling yourself.

ElAurens · #9 06-23-2011, 02:27 AM

Here we go again.

CaptainDoggles · #10 06-23-2011, 02:48 AM

Hey I'm just trying to buoy peoples' spirits, as there seems to be a lot of undue grumbling about steam.

It's not great, but it's what we've got and quite frankly no matter how much people like Oddball whine about it I don't see the developers going back to that sort of model.