Red Faction Multiplayer Demo Doesn't Work

PS3Vault: 'If you downloaded the Multiplayer Demo of Red Faction when it released today, and then you proceeded to try and play the demo because, well, that's what you do with demos, you've probabl noticed that it doesn't work. It just continues to search for servers. Indefinitely...'

[solidsnakus]

i read in the forums its only for the ps3 version. 360 versions been runing fine all day.

[table]

heh. I downloaded the Infamous demo last night instead of this. Good choice ;)

[MiloGarret]

I downloaded both, red faction didn't work, and infamous bored me to death.

[GameGambits]

I'll save you all the time since I've had hands on with the multiplayer demo now...

It sucks. As in it's just not fun sucks. The SP demo was surprisingly great and fun, but the online is just frantic. The game type you play on the only map I played on(not sure if there's more than 1 on the demo), but the game type was less about kicking butt and more about being a repair man.

Seriously you can destroy bases so fast, but repairing them takes much longer. They need to even that out a bit as it flips which team has control so fast and easy you don't see the point slider go up much at all.(This happens when the teams KNOW what they are doing lol otherwise 1 team will storm the other due to the others lack of knowing how to play)

It all around felt clunkier than the SP did so I'm keeping this at a rental for sure. Too bad, because I was hoping for a summer fling. :(

[Kushan]

Some people LIKE a bit of "frantic" in their game. If a team REALLY knows what they're doing, that wont be an issue.

I tried the MP demo and had a blast! (lol)

[solidsnakus]

what r you talking about? ive been playing the 360 demo all day and its really good. you dont need to repair anything in the demo other than those 3 capture points which take 3 seconds. theres 2 levels in the demo... shows how much you played it. buildings dont need to be repaired unless you want to repair them.

[FragMnTagM]

I don't think you played enough of it or you are just hating for no reason. I have been playing this game since the MP Beta, and it is a damn fun game. It does not have the best graphics, but they are decent. The destruction makes up for any lacking in the graphics.

The back-pack super powers are well done, and add to the fun of the destruction. The weapons are new and interesting, instead of the same old machine guns and RPG's.

The destruction alone is why I'm buying this game, as I am huge fan of the first two Red Factions. It boggles my mind why this game is not more popular. It has a lot of cool things that take care of complaints gamers have had for ages. If you can't find a key, make a friggin hole with the hammer and walk through it. If you got a crappy gun and there is a sniper on a tower, you can take out the support for it, and watch it topple down killing that pesky sniper. If you don't like the game, fine, but don't come in here trolling to divert others from a great game.

[jBat17]

@ all crazy talkers below

i did a test before and posted the results here.. i found that the psn download speed is the same as your internet connection.. if it works fine for me but not yours, then it not psn it's your isp, your connection..

man, stop spreading misinformation about the psn. in fact, there was a test done and they found ps3 ethernet is the faster among all consoles...

[360isgreat]

Has to be related.

[II Necroplasm II]

That's why the 360 version is working lmao

[onijutsu]

*dramatic look*

ITS A CONSPIRACY

AAHHAHAHAHA

[Slime]

LOL

I'm just glad I downloaded the 360 version. It would have taken longer to download the PS3 version anyway.

[peeps]

Kill Crow, even without the install (which doesn't take v long at all), ps3 download are a lot slower than 360. I dunno why but always have been for me. It can't be my connection thought because obv using the same connection for both ps3/360. just the way it is

[bumnut]

that is one thing i hate about my ps3, you download the a demo and then it asks if you want to install it. what else would i want to do with it?

[peeps]

if you don't plan on using your ps3 while you download:

when you select to download, it asks you if you wish to download in the background. if you dont select download in background it will just download where it is (plus it gives u an estimated time left) + when it's finished downloading it will auto install

[Slime]

Installing demos and PSN games doesn't take long. It's downloading it in the first place that's the problem. Installing games like Bioshock etc is a whole different issue.

I'm willing to put some of this crap down to Sony's inferior European servers. The simple fact is, I download from Live at around 1.2MB/s. Downloading off the PSN seems to peak at 700KB/s.

[CrayzeeCarl]

For the last time, it has nothing to do with Sony's servers! I routinely download from PSN at > 15mbps. It is either something with your network configuration or your ISP may be throttling traffic on certain ports. This has been proven with Comcast.

[peeps]

wow what connection you got to download at 15mb a sec? or do you just mean you have a 15mb connection...

I have 10mb download speed but it probably only goes at around 1mb every 1-2 seconds

[Kill Crow]

My PSN is much much slower than Xbox live for download.

Peeps: if you don't do "download in backround" you can't do anything else while it downloads?

Seriously, what is the point of downloading a demo and then having to manually install it ... leaving the online store and go find your download and then install it ???

On the day I got my ps3 I went straight online and downloaded about 8 demo's, I chose in backround because I thought by the time I chose the last one, the first game would have been downloaded and I could start playing it ... but that wan't the case, because it was taking so long I thought stuff it and had to leave it to download overnight ... much to my surprise in the morning that couldn't play any of them because they all had to be installed, seperately, meaning, you can't just click "INSTALL ALL GAMES" and walk away and come back later ... you have to sit there and watch each one so you can start the next install. 8 games to an hour to install FFS!!!

It just doesn't compare to xbox live in that respect ... you download a bunch of demos and when they're there you can play them straight away and most of the time it will continue to download the rest in the backround while you play...

This is the worst part of PSN ... People say the installs are short, or the downloads speeds don't affect them, but I say it's just plain not good enough. PSN is not up to scratch and anyone who says so either hasn't used both or is just plain deluded.

Same internet connection, same router etc ... why is PSN so much slower? I have unlimited 16MB bandwidth and nothing else is throttled so I very much doubt it's to do with my ISP.

@Peeps, above post: He says he has a 15mbps line which is a 15 megaBITS per second line ... not a 15megaBYTES per second line. to work it out roughly you devide by 8 because there are 8 bits in a byte !

[peeps]

"Peeps: if you don't do "download in backround" you can't do anything else while it downloads? "

thats why i said "if you don't plan on using your ps3 while you download: "

[talltony]

Both xbox live and psn download at the same speed but on psn you cant have auto install on unless you dnt leave the psn store. I have both consoles. One stupid demo doesnt work properly on one system and all you wonderful people can do is talk smack about a service on a system you dnt have! jeeze!

[Ju]

What a bunch of cry babies ....

[marcindpol]

that is the greatest way to advertise multiplayer part of a game! lol

congrats to the developer of RF..

[cmacdonald]

It also has the problem of looking like a ps2 game.

[kratos123]

thank god i thought i was too stupid to start a game didnt really understand what the problem was

[Sir Ken_Kutaragi]

+ I really liked Red Faction 2, this 1 i don't like much really. Oh well...
+ RF2 had 4 player split-screen mode to. Well FUN that was ;-P

+ In RF2 you could re-name the Bots in it. Did i Laugh ;-D when i played it a few days ago and saw the Bots names i gave them!!! ;-D People who i hated in the past names were the Bots. But those people and that time has gone now, strange that. So now i'll put a few ChatBot names off this as my new Bots and Blow them away!!! ;-D
+ GOD it looked dated RF2(well i have been playing KZ2, so every FPS looks dated!!!) ;-P Still fun to play tho(RF2) ;)

[Dimitri]

I played it about 01:00 at night in UK and it was working finee..

[onijutsu]

this game has an overall problem of just plain sucking in my opinion

[dragonyght]

and i thought it was just me

[peeps]

ah so it wasn't me haha my internet was shocking last night though so i just presumed it was me :p will try again tonight and if not dl it for the 360 instead (although will i able to cus i'm back to being a Silver member now :()

[Dave2009]

Lol!!!! Well that's what you get for having a brokenstation 3 instead of a runs flawlessly 360 which is far superior in very category.

Hope every BS3 owners gets the YLOD that will show you all for Buying a Piece of crap console and not the 360.

[peeps]

"Hope every BS3 owners gets the YLOD that will show you all for Buying a Piece of crap console and not the 360. "

ironic

[Dimitri]

I dought that anything will happen to the PS3.

Whereas the 360 version will be smoking after you put in that game.. Microsoft might as well add a fire alarm to every Red Faction Guerilla copy which would require activation before allowing you to play that game.

Pathetic fool...

[Silly gameAr]

I wish I was still 12.

[Ninjamonkey82]

Ye its not working :( Played it on my xbox just yesterday and was settling down this morning to the ps3 version to have a blast and it dont go.

[shikwan]

I don't come here too often anymore cause of flame-bait articles and too much fanboyism so it strikes me to find PS3 owners actually complianing about PSN, etc. Usually their complaints are a much guarded secret!

But I do think the complainers here have both, if not, all systems so maybe that's why?

Or is fanboyism, finally dying?

[divideby0]

I was in the MP beta
The 360 version runs fine, but the game is still garbage compared to the original RF, which I was a die hard fan of.
If this game scores any higher than an 8.2, I would be shocked.

[dork0783]

What does it take a long time just to download an update on a game?

[ironcreed]

I got it off the euro PSN store yesterday so I could get it early and I got into a game. I thought it was fairly fun, personally. I am sure by the time the game is out, any issues will be resolved with no problem. Looking forward to the full game. It was Infamous that failed to live up to all of the hype surrounding it if you ask me.

[xg-ei8ht]

Works fine, just had quite a few goes, smooth fps. Nice.

Nothing wrong with PSN at all.

Runs really well.

Infamous is just another type of awesomeness.

[maxcer]

damn, sorry bout the PSN download(hope its fixed soon), i had an alright time with the MP demo. but i almost pissed myself laughing last night when i was repairing a node/tower and one of my teammates got stuck inside and was yelling that he couldn't get out.

[Enterprise-E]

The MP demo on PSN works fine for me. I got in a couple of matches real fast. I know there was a problem yesterday but its fine today. I was in the MP beta on the 360 and i quite enjoy it. Same way i feel about it now. Going to have to pick this up.

[bjornbear]

You people that have PS3 and just talk down on how bad the PSN is compared to Live and how much you don't play it and how much 360 takes up more of you time...

...can you js sell me the PS3? I'd gladly buy it from you and def. apreciate it far more, I'm patient and I am greatful for all my purchases, dispite it's shortcomings =)

[Hitman_15]

Mines works :P

[xg-ei8ht]

On the install type thing concerning demo's/.

You know when you have background downloading going.

I actually leave it going overnight sometimes.

But have auto shutdown after said downloads, and it installs them automatically as well.

That's if the demo's come out late at night or i've just spotted it etc.

But alot of the time during the day, it's pretty fast.

I'm not sure how good it is everywhere, but i'm in london, just 8mb unlimited and i don't really have a problem.

Play quite a few games of the demo tonight and i'm really enjoying it, and i may well be picking this game up.