Possible Brawl Server Crash?

Taking bets on who thinks the Brawl server will crash on the release date.

[Shalteck]

Does it even work that way? >.>

[Azt3k]

I would most certainly lol if that happened.

[Shalteck]

I wouldn't be surprised if it happened, but I thought it would be like a direct-connect thing, and that doesn't require a server...
But maybe not, I don't have a clue about how this stuff works.
Unreal Tournament 1 did direct-connect, I think.

[Azt3k]

Shal, it does require a server.

[Shalteck]

Mkay. I guess it might happen if that's the case.
Unreal Tournament 1 was always laggy without a dedicated server anyway. I remember I'd randomly spawn in slime pits. It was awful, you couldn't play at ALL.
And that was LAN connection.

[Azt3k]

You could play if the thing was like.. direct Ip.

But matchmaking and stuff, so no.

[downphoenix]

Originally Posted by Shalteck

Mkay. I guess it might happen if that's the case.
Unreal Tournament 1 was always laggy without a dedicated server anyway. I remember I'd randomly spawn in slime pits. It was awful, you couldn't play at ALL.
And that was LAN connection.

They must have really improved the netcode for that game with patches and with the Dreamcast version, because even though Dreamcast used 56K, I still had good gaming games with that game on it online, mostly.

[Shalteck]

Maybe it was just a firewall or something, because we had trouble getting the two computers to connect at all.
It was always so irritating...
Then when we figured it out, we had to add a third computer to be a dedicated server.

[Dr Pepper 6pk]

it'll happen you can count on that