Homefront Team Slaving to Expand Dedicated Servers for Demand

Jon Ireson: "The demand to play Homefront, which is one of the few games out there that plays host to dedicated servers, is massive. Many Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 players are still experiencing problems as the servers are overflowing with gamers. On top of this the lead platform PS3 seems to be handling some things better than the Xbox 360 counterpart is. For example Xbox 360 is suffering from some unique problems that will be patched soon including far away quick game joining on the dedicated servers and freezing problems."

[SpaceSquirrel]

The multiplayer is fun. I hope the developer works out the issue soon.

[Myst]

Agreed. Just got out of a match was kind of surprised I got in and got myself a bit addicted to it and the ones following lol.

[xAlmostPro]

I still havent been able to get into a game without it freezing :/ and the community manager said to me on twitter "the freezing issue sucks, working to fix it asap" but c'mon.. almost a full week without being able to play the game i paid aswell as causing harm to my ps3..

I'm not denying it's not a good game, it probably is.. but for me it's something i won't get to enjoy because im gonna trade it(or get a full refund if i can) aswell as trading black ops lol.. either get crysis 2 or wait for motorstorm

[egm_hiphopgamer]

Homefront is amazing, new article in the works regarding this title you'll see

[BX81]

That article needs the title of.... All shit fixed... enjoy!

[JackBNimble]

HHG... and if this article comes from you you'll only do more harm then good. No one takes your shit seriously and you lack the respect of the gaming community.

If you had any brains at all you would do a piece on Mario and leave homefront alone.

[Venomousfatman]

Homefront looks real good. From what I've seen so far it really brings something new in the form of an heavy emotional attachment to what is going on.

[Ravenor]

In the SP it goes for early shock factor but it's fairly standard from the bus ride on. A few piled corpses here and there but nothing spectacular.

MP is good though.

[WetN00dle69]

MP is amazing actually..........just wish it would stop freezing. And i hope the patch doesnt reset my Rank when they release it cause that would suck.

[Ravenor]

The SP really isn't anything spectacular, I would love for some explanation as to what makes it "Better" then something super boilerplate like CoD?

Is it when the guy with an anger problem starts yelling racial slurs and firing like a crazy person? Real emotional. Homefront is about as emotional as Heavy Rain and in my books thats not a good thing.

[Hitman0769]

Thanks to Homefront devs this game came out great, can't wait to see what they do with their next game.

[BX81]

The single player-graphics maybe. They handled the MP side wrong as far as servers. I saw it coming though considering the UFC games had the worst lag ever. It's brutal as hell to play UFC 2010 online. I just wish homefront had better graphics so I could see those roof campers better!

[bumnut]

Homefront came out great? it doesn't even work properly.

[Dart89]

What's the difference between dedicated servers and whatever servers cod uses??

Wow a disagree for asking a ? really??

[Criminal]

I'm no expert on this subject, but what I know is that on every COD multiplayer match, the game picks a host (the player with the best download and upload speeds). So, the host acts like a server for that particular match.

[Ducky]

It means reliability.

Dedicated servers are fixed geographically, so you don't have to play russian roulette with matchmaking and risk getting thrown in a match where the hosts sucks.

For example, I have a few servers favorited for TF2. Every time I launch the game, I check which servers have players and check who's playing and then join one of them. I know I'll be getting the same ping every time. With matchmaking, god knows what ping I'll end up with.

There's more advantages too such as admin tools and stuff, but I think that only applies to PC.

[annus]

Dedicated servers means just that. They are servers that are dedicated to hosting matches. They aren't some 14 year old who is playing CoD as well as hosting, blasting music from youtube while streaming porn. They are hosted by people (usually ISPs or paid servers) that are designed to ONLY have the server running on them. Think of it in CoD terms as if there was an extra person who was the host and you all connected to them, and they could not do anything else with their internet, including playing in that match.

[pr0digyZA]

Adding to what was said above, it also means that there wont be any hosts that quit right at the end, therefor making the entire map you played pointless.

[Lulabarbie]

Love me some homefront!

[missioncompleted]

I was hoping the issues with trying to join a game was related to server issues, and not lack of people online playing, Multiplayer for me is exciting and addicting, hope all the bad hype dont keep people away, and crysis 2 just been released may hurt the online community, That being said this game is greater than COD-BO and MOH and the fun factor beats kz3 thanks for reading

[Myst]

Agreed I really like it more so than I did BO. It just seems so much more...engaging in a way. Sad to see so many people leave the game [via forum posts and what not saying they traded it in], but can't really blame them as it locks up systems and what not. As for me though I will wait it out and see as I can see myself playing this for a few months. Least till Brink comes out.

[Kon]

Where's Patcher to say that this game is a Fail?

[Dart89]

Right here my friend.
http://n4g.com/news/727233/...

[BX81]

What he should've said is. Try harder with the graphics, also make sure if you have a MP component people can get on and play it!

[JackBNimble]

wow, just logged on to Homefront and found that all my stats and everything I unlocked was reset. I 'm not going to play this again until there is a REAL FIX for these issues.

piss me off....

[jrbeerman11]

It must be tough to have problems like this considering that the genre has never been this flooded. It also landed between two huge FPS's in Killzone 3 and Crysis 2.

We still have people who only buy the yearly COD, and battlefield 3 is going to be a beast.

considering that this game offers more for multi I hope they can works things out soon for their own sake, this game is not getting great praise right now.

[nightfallfilms]

Just traded this crap in at Best Buy for $37. Will have to wait for Battlefield 3 for a real shooter.