New version: TEAMS! The time has come After much hard work, the following modes are now available for play: Team Marathon (This is exact the same as single player Marathon 3, but now in Multiplayer) LAG FREE! Which team will get the highest grade? Team Expert (Mimics Expert Ti). 20G multiplayer madness! Duo mode (The mode you guys all love WARNING, this mode is completely unplayable due to severe lag issues caused by letting pieces move in each others fieds. The reason I still include it is because most of you wanted it to play so bad... Sorry for the disappointment, but anyway Team Marathon is much more fun imho Team VS Team (Your team thinks it's good enough to take on another team? Battle it our in team VS team!) Some notes: - You must create a team with another player before you can play the above games - A team exists of 2 members - Your team will be remembered until both players decide to leave the team - If 1 player leaves a team, the team will still exist. So you can fill up the space left in the team with another player. - You can have up to 9 teams - Your team will have its own statistics and rating
Teething problems aside, doubles marathon is extremely fun and surprisingly challenging. Even without direct player interaction, it requires an immense amount of teamwork, especially to recover from mistakes. Definitely need players to be at about the same level though, because if one is stacking fast and the other isn't clearing any lines, then the fast stacker will just fill their well with pieces, as their completed lines won't clear.
For the people wondering how this mode plays and looks, heres a video of Blink & Digital playing and getting an S5 grade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Lj0xRW3Y4
teams is a lot of fun. it's still a little buggy (rows filled across both fields don't always clear, sometimes the game ends early) but it's definitely worth playing.
Is there any way a snooper's bad connection might affect a multiplayer game that's being snooped on? I was snooping on maserati and corrosive's rated multiplayer game and they started to complain about glitches. (Sorry guys, if I was the cause.) Even if you're not sure, I'm not going to snoop on any matches when I'm not plugged into my router to be safe.
Nope, snooping has 0 effect on the game being played. Also, the multiplayer games have been built so that syncing is kept at a bare minimum which means even high ping players can play. When playing, data is logged on the server. If players are snooping, the server sends out the (already outdated) data (log) to all snoopers and the client "translates this. So what you see is delayed by around 1 second and has absolutely no effect on the game being played, even if there were thousands of snoopers snooping one and the same game.
i'm having trouble adding more than 4 teams. when i add a team to my 5th slot, the 1st slot is erased. also, the team "jujublink" is on the team marathon leaders twice, probably because the team was recreated (although "digibe" was also recreated but only shows up once in the leaders).
Is it possible for players to tell if their game is being snooped? If not, would it be a good or bad idea to put Dr. Robotnik in the background? PINGAS
Jujube: Thanks, will look into it. Will be fixed this monday Tepples: You can tell if someone is snooping your game if you see a player in the playerlist having put on glasses: (of course, before you start a game, you can enable the options "No snoopers"
my wishlist: * BIG MODE ( 5 x 10 pit size) * 20 G mode (more beginner friendly speed curve.. that TI mode is killing me way too fast - cant reach more than 170, and in TA mode i am missing the floor kicks for the I-piece - very annoying..) another thing: in the "top games" list, maybe place blockbox always in the same place? i always need some seconds to find blockbox, because its position seems to change regularly. alternatively , maybe give it a better, clearer symbol / icon. currently it reminds me more of something to eat ( chips flying out of a box)
Version 8.9.5-Build20090401-1788 is now live! - (again ) New mode: Block Survival This mode is unique to BlockBox. See how long you can survive! Thanks to all the early testers, your bugs have been fixed - Team Marathon & Team Expert: Both players have the same preview window. Also, it's clearly to see which is your half and which is your teammates half. - You can now view Team replays by pressing Teams and then pressing the Score button - Fixed ARE in Marathon 1 (All Marathon and Expert types should now be "frame perfect" to the real thing) - Time now stops when you reach level 999 in any Marathon or Expert mode - New sub menu graphics (Teams "line clear" bug is not fixed yet, I have good hope it will be fixed this week though)
I second herc's request for a 20G mode. The same ARE, line clear delay, DAS etc. as TI Master, but fixed at 20G.
in a vs game, a player can wait for the piece to fall to the bottom, hold it, and do the same with the next piece. this usually gives enough time to finish in 2nd place. this was discovered by Guest_679733 who was idling during a game, not cheating could a player below a certain tpm (10?) be given last place in a match? or could there be some other method for disqualifying somebody? also, it would be nice if the match would end if there are 2 players remaining and one of them is stalling.
It's an interesting point, Jujube, gonna look in the minimum TPM for a game to be valid. Concerning the more forgiving 20G mode, I'll see what can be done
There are two solutions to this: Garbage. If someone is stalling, he's letting garbage build up under his field. B-Type. Tetris for Game Boy would make the first player to reach 30 lines the winner if no player tops out before that.
Version 8.9.6-Build20090402-1791 has been installed Changes: - Team Marathon & Team Expert glitch has been fixed! (well... it should be fixed ) - Leaderboard now supports rotation system sorting (Note, old replays did not have this data, so the used rotation scheme was not saved for those games)
