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  slumpy monkey | July 16, 2008 | reply
  Whats with the potshot at halo? I play 16 player matches fine on it.
  
  I guess you have a crappy connection or something/
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  Auctoria | July 16, 2008 | reply
  this is going to be the biggest lagfest tbh.
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    tekmosis | July 16, 2008 | reply
    Lets be a bit realistic here. If it was going to be such a lagfest it would hurt the company / sales / profits.
    
    There was an article on this technology a couple of months back. Your client doesn't load all 256 players at once. You only load a certain threshold (say 25) within a certain visual range. When others come into your range your client will then render them. The AI "emulates" the other players in the background so while you're only rendering X other players you still get the sense that you're in a game with 256 others.
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  redneonfish | July 16, 2008 | reply
  Depends on connection, and what they do on their end. I hope it works personally. Although 256 players would bump up the liklihood of meeting people who are annoying, cheating, racist, homophobic etc.
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  RKRigney | July 16, 2008 | reply
  I'm willing to bet that voice chat will only be established with the other members of your squad, and if you're a squad leader you'll have voice chat connection with all the other squad leaders. Squad leaders could communicate effectively and the entire 256 man army could work as one using minimal voice chat interference.
  
  Just a theory. And I hope it works. I really do.
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    Armed Rebel | July 16, 2008 | reply
    The squads fight eachother.
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  lord of vice city | July 16, 2008 | reply
  this is what GTA4 should have done
  
  256 players in liberty city, would've worked well
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    Dance Floor Killah | July 17, 2008 | reply
    As much as it sounds like it'd be fun, I'd rather not be chased or gunned down repeatedly on my faggio by a crazed 13 year-old boy every three minutes.
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  Jaw Knee | July 17, 2008 | reply
  All I have to say is: "headache".
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  Storm | July 17, 2008 | reply
  Pretty curious about this one, let's just hope they dont' blow it. Quite a few disappointing 'hyped' games on the PS3 such as Haze and Lair.
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  Solid Snake 4Life | July 17, 2008 | reply
  God just the 266 player thing alone makes me think it'll lag worse then SSBB.
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  Deathsythe | July 17, 2008 | reply
  I believe they were working on something similar to this when Hellgate: London came out.
  
  I remember speaking with one of the professors at my school who was in the industry - and he told me of some new way to incorporate gratuitous amounts of players with ease. (Probably something similar to what tek said above ^^