so the PS3 can take 256 player online...

[Camping Squirrel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RURfyhkRplE

so the game is called MAG=Massive Action Game

it has 256 player online, squads of 8, and a chain of command in a "clan"

yes from the trailer it looks "hollywood action movie" so please do not turn this into that stupid debate

what i would really like to talk about is how they manage to achieve 256 players on one server, and if it is not hard then why has no one tried before(on a console)

EDIT: ok i posted this in the OFP2 forum for a reason.....since ofp has huge battles this relates to it in that aspect....i should have mention Ofp in the title i guess

[Victor47]

Hehe yea I was going to say there has been no mention of pvp battles stretching between 250+ people in OFP... There has been talk only so far up to 32 players per-game on consoles.

[RK Mara]

Some talk from a PR guy and a pre-rendered trailer don't really prove much.

[the GAMEGOBLIN]

Thing is it's all based in squads, so you'll only be talking to about 8 people, and enemy squads will most likely be distant so you'll only be able see 32 players at a time. 256 online is possible, yes. But FPS games require a lot of calculations and having 256 people firing at once wouldn't fare too well on the current hardware :P

This is pure speculation though, don't take this for fact.

[Race Driv3r]

Originally Posted by the GAMEGOBLIN

Thing is it's all based in squads, so you'll only be talking to about 8 people, and enemy squads will most likely be distant so you'll only be able see 32 players at a time. 256 online is possible, yes. But FPS games require a lot of calculations and having 256 people firing at once wouldn't fare too well on the current hardware :P

This is pure speculation though, don't take this for fact.

So, in effect, if the above is true, it gives me the impression that the 256 players are just players in a waiting lobby, whilst there are only 32 are playing against each other at any one given time in any given match.

I think this game will be one of those where I'll have to see it before I believe it...

[the GAMEGOBLIN]

I'm thinking everyone's playing in different maps so to speak, and what happens in their map affects the whole battle, like possibly gathering each team's kills from 10 rooms and tallying it up to see which side wins.

Again, pure speculation.

[Dentist Guba]

there have been many MMO games like this mentioned for consoles, none of them have come out or even had updated coverage.

[Sir. Polaris]

WW2OL had 1000's of people fighting at the same time, but you could only see 64 at any given time. However I'm told all 1000 people are there.