SW Battlefront xbox system link, yay or nay? Anyone know
 

The official Star Wars Battlefront site does not mention system link capabilities but Xbox.com says it will be 2-10 players via system link and 2-16 via Live. I am just wondering if anyone out there has the knowledge of if system link is a feature in this game. Lucas Arts (along with EA Games :mad: ) usually sucks when it comes to system link but they have done it before (Clone Wars).

what I have read in magazines is 16 Lan-wise and 32 on live. But magazines go to print early, that could have changed in the past month or so.

10 is an odd number.

you sir, are wrong!

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I doubt it would be 32 on live, they already have lag problems with 16 player games. The offical website says 16 for live anyway. I went to eb games tonight and they had an empty marketing box on display that said 2-10 system link, this doesn't mean that it is true however. I don't understand why the official website wouldn't list it though?

I knew someone would get a laugh. Odd for a link game.

How does that work out? 5 X-boxes? 10 x-boxes?

or

1 with 4 players and 3 with 2 each?

or

2 boxes with 4 and 1 with 2?

or

3 boxes with 3 and 1 with 1?

It just seems like an odd configuration no matter how you look at it.

I would say it would work out like counter strike with no split screen but it would be up to 10 xbox systems not 16. So 5 on 5 max could play. But if it can handle 16 on xbox live why not just make system link 16 also?

I need more info, because if that is the case, I'll drop my pre-order and wait til it hits $20. I have about 10 guys over to play about once a month and we were all planning on getting this. But if only 5 can play, then Lucasarts shot themselves in the foot. I mean Halo, the very first game on X-box can handle 16 and here we are 3 years later and only a handful of games can do it. What a waste.

10 is not so odd usually only 1 person per box such as Unreal 2.

fyi Counterstrike does support 16 players in a lan. To do this you need a Dedicated System be the server. The ones you see online that have 16 player slots are dedicated servers. For a lan to play more than 8 players of CS they need an xbox to be a dedicated server. Then you can have 9 - 16 players. So to do a 16 player lan of CS you need 17 xboxes and 17 copies of CS.
(16 players 1 server box)

Other games that have dedicated server option:
Unreal Championship
Unreal II
Splinter Cell: Pandora's tommorrow
Jedi Academy
Probably others I forgot.

Hope the info helps!

No offense, but it doesn't help because I was asking about SW Battlefront :) I already knew all that but it might help someone else.

All I was saying was that if the game is already set up and can handle 16 players on xbox live, why not go ahead and make the game 16 players system link also?

It says 2 to 10 system link so up to 10 players would be able to play. 5 on 5, 10 total players for deathmatch, team, etc.

I'm not sure what I was getting at in the previous post but I get that. What I am wanting to find out is a solid confirmation as to the number Xboxes(and copies of the game) that have to be linked to get 10 players.

Can you even play 4 player spit screen at all?

I emailed IGN, hopfully they will respond.

Yeah I agree I'm hoping it supports link too! Sorry for straying from the topic. Yeah lets hope its not like Burnout 3 Awesome
game NO LINK SUPPORT :(

You are totally right, great game with no link support, why???? Why do EA and Lucas Arts (besides a few exceptions) continue to not support system link?

xbox.com says that its 1-2 players local, so i would assume that it would most likely be one player per xbox for system link and only 2 split screen. I would like to know for sure though. Let us know what ign says if they do respond.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/starwarsba...nt/default.htm

IGN answered my email. 1 player per tv, per xbox. LAME.

I'm probably gonna cancel now, wait for it to drop to around $20. I can hold out a few more weeks for Halo 2 anyway.

I figured that would probably be their answer, which I guess is bad news for you but at least it is system link. At our LAN parties we use 10+ xboxes and tv's so it works out great for us. Thanks for letting me know what they said.

Sure. We all play in my basement, which is roomy, but not that roomy. We could come up with 10 boxes and games, it is the tvs that are an issue. I have 4, but damn that is a hassle for 4 player action. 13" or 19" would be perfect to lug around, but no one I know has one.